Jul 11 2025
Hey, I’m on Jeopardy! today. I had a really great time (as you can probably tell if you watch what is, in my entirely biased opinion, one of the best regular season episodes you’ll ever see) but it’s super cut into my reading time, unsurprisingly. So I wanted to make sure in this round-up column …
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Jul 07 2025
The midpoint of the year has come and gone, and here we are, looking forward and back on a specially scheduled day to showcase what’s just come out and what we’re looking forward to next! Top of the pile is Martha Grimes’ latest Richard Jury novel, The Red Queen. This twenty-sixth novel in a series …
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Jun 27 2025
Wow, this has been my first month with four Tantalizing Tales columns, which should give you a good idea of all the very cool books that get pitched to me, dear readers! Leading the pack is Mike Bockoven’s Come Knocking, a book that I desperately want to find time to fit into my bursting-at-the-seams schedule. …
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Jun 20 2025
I feel like every one of these columns recently starts with me marveling over how fast time is passing but for real, readers, how is it almost the end of June already? On the plus side, we have several great books publishing soon, to close out our featured titles this month before turning to July …
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Jun 13 2025
Hello, dear readers! Has your June been as busy as mine has? It’s probably because my kids are finishing the last years of their respective schools before they launch into their new ones, but I’ve been run ragged keeping up with all their activities (and let’s not even get started on MY activities.) Fortunately, there …
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Jun 06 2025
Hello, dear readers! I hope you’re having a Happy Pride Month, even as we in America watch our politicians regress in a myriad of appalling ways. Luckily, there is plenty of good reading to keep us company and comforted — if not outright inspired — starting with Elena Malisova & Katerina Silvanova’s swoony, star-crossed gay …
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May 23 2025
Hello, readers! We’re doing a third roundup column of Most Anticipated Titles this May because there are so many good books still pouring in here at the end of the month and in the first weeks of June. Gosh, how is it almost June already? It feels like we were just slogging through the five …
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May 16 2025
Hello, dear readers! This week, we’re looking at books coming out in the back half of May, starting with a terrific series debut! Tori Eldridge’s Kaua’i Storm was a long time in the writing. Despite being a native Hawaiian who can trace her ancestry back to 1783, Ms Eldridge felt far less confident about setting …
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May 02 2025
Happy May, dear readers! I’m in the hard middle of Performance Season, but at least I have a whole bunch of terrific upcoming reads to keep me company as I gallivant around the country. First on my list is the latest book from local-to-me author Nick Brooks, which I’m super looking forward to bingeing with …
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Apr 25 2025
In which we check out some of the most interesting books to be released here at the tail end of the month before turning our attention to May! First up, we have a newly published memoir, Ana Hebra Flaster’s Property Of The Revolution. A family of Cuban revolutionaries found themselves growing increasingly disillusioned by Fidel …
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Professor X
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