This was a surprisingly deep read. I borrowed this book thinking that it was going to be about murders and haunted dollhouses (which it is), but I didn’t expect the touching depiction of life with a mentally challenged sister that was also inside. In The Dollhouse Murders, Amy temporarily moves to her Aunt Clare’s home… Read More The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
This turned out to be a surprisingly hard read. Not because it was bad (quite the opposite, I was on the edge of my seat the whole time) but because I got too excited about the ending. Even reading the last few chapters didn’t help, the tension was just that high. In Glass Houses, Armand… Read More Glass Houses by Louise Penny
Warning: Spoilers for the previous books in this review. Please skip if you hate spoilers and are going to start this series. Do you think that spending too long away from a series can make you fall out of love with it? Because while I enjoyed this instalment of the Flavia de Luce series, I… Read More The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley
I saw this in the Heathrow bookstore, but since I was running low on pounds, I decided to just note it down and read it later. Well, it’s later and I’ve read the book. The Stranger Diaries is a crime novel set in the English countryside. Clare Cassidy lives a fairly uneventful life as a… Read More The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
After struggling through Soul Mountain, I was more than ready for a slightly easier Chinese novel to read. So when Warren suggested Qiu Xiaolong (thanks again, Warren!), I immediately went to the library and borrowed one of the books that sounded interesting. Enigma of China isn’t the first book in the series, so I’m probably… Read More Enigma of China by Qiu Xiaolong
Since the library is having a reading competition, I’ve been visiting every week to borrow a book or two. And in the interest of being able to finish books fast enough (while making progress on my book haul), I’ve been trying to borrow mostly books that I know I’ll enjoy – like the next book… Read More A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
I think I’m warming up to Lord Peter Wimsey. According to Goodreads, I gave three stars to the first Lord Peter Wimsey book I read, four stars to the next, and I think this is either a four or five star read (it’d be 4.5 if Goodreads let me give half stars, but they don’t… Read More Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
Although I’m trying to read more Marple, I normally don’t read the non-Poirot mysteries because I generally don’t enjoy them (case in point: Tommy and Tuppence). But, I heard that The Seven Dials Mystery is good and an unconventional Christie, which convinced me to give it a go. The Seven Dials Mystery starts with a… Read More The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
Looking through my past reviews of the Inspector Gamache series (the ones I have written – I have a large chunk missing that I will reread someday), I realised that there was a book in the series that I actually rated four stars. Which is surprising to me now, because every new book I read… Read More The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
So lately, I’ve been pretty pleased at myself for being able to stop a book if I didn’t really like it (my current reading model is “life’s too short to waste it on books I don’t like). Which makes Playing Dead a bit of an outlier; there’s plenty of things in the book I don’t… Read More Playing Dead by Julia Heaberlin