Daddy’s Girl by Lisa Scottoline

Daddy’s Girl isn’t the first book I’ve read by Lisa Scottoline. I saw her book, The Vendetta Defense on the bargain shelf at Barnes and Noble about five thousand years ago, and so I bought it. Since then, I’ve read all of her books. It kills me that I have one hardcover [...]

Beach Books

There’s nothing like laying out on the sand and reading a book on the beach. However, I’m much more likely to be the person splashing around in the water (riptides? undertows? who cares!) than reading on the beach. But on my recent vacation, I found myself doing just that.
I brought three [...]

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

I never expected that Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible would help me win trivia night at the bar. But sure enough, one of the last questions involved naming one of the many official languages of South Africa, one that was inherited by the Dutch, etc., etc. I wasn’t sure of the answer, but [...]