Book Review The Potting Shed Murder by Paula SuttonCozy Mystery When it comes to cozy mysteries, there is no setting better suited than that of an English village in the country. In the first of a new series by Paula Sutton, The Potting Shed Murder gives us all the quintessential elements of the genre with […]
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Book Review Detective Aunty by Uzma JalaluddinMystery | Cozy When Kausar Khan’s daughter Sana calls to say she’s been arrested for murder, Kausar packs her bags and heads to Toronto for the first time in twenty years. A widow with a keen eye for observation and sharp intuition skills, Kausar is determined to help her
2021 Challenge Journal This post contains affiliate links; as an Amazon associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. When we first released The 52 Book Club 2021 Challenge, I had no idea that I’d be sitting on my couch four years later, finally drafting up a journal accompaniment to go with it. For a long time,
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Book Review The Love Haters by Katherine CenterRomance | Fiction | Contemporary If you ask me to recommend a romance, chances are I’ll pass you a Katherine Center novel. Contemporary romance is never a go-to genre for me but Center is the one author whose new releases I will eagerly keep an eye out for.
Book Review All the Perfect Days by Michael ThompsonAdult Fiction | Magical Realism It’s been a long time since I’ve devoured a book in a single sitting, but this magical realism novel was just the read to break that streak! Charlie Knight is a small-town doctor with a plan to escape. He dreams of something
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April 2025 Mini-Challenge It’s time for our annual APRIL FOOL’S DAY mini-challenge. (Don’t worry, we promise not to rickroll you all this year!) Instead, these April 2025 prompts were inspired by a popular running joke in The 52 Book Club Facebook group. Can you guess what it might be? How do mini-challenges work? Mini-challenges are
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Book Review The Mother Next Door by Andrea Dunlop and Mike WeberNonfiction | True Crime | Memoir No bond is more sacred than that between a mother and child. And no one is more sympathetic than a mother whose child faces a life-threatening illness. But what if the mother is the cause of the illness?
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Book Review The Queens of Crime by Marie BenedictMystery | Historical Fiction Agatha Christie has long been one of my favourite authors. Her work evokes memories of my teen years, borrowing paperbacks from my mom’s Christie collection and trying to piece together “whodunnit” before Poirot or Miss Marple do. So, when I heard about Marie
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Book Review The Dark Library by Mary Anna EvansMystery | Historical Fiction | Gothic Secrets are rampant in the small town of Bentham-on-Hudson, but perhaps nowhere more so than Estella Ecker’s childhood home, Rockfall House. Returning home and taking up a teaching position at the local college, Estella searches for answers to her mother’s mysterious
Book Review The Resistance Painter by Kath JonathanHistorical Fiction | Dual Timeline Last year, two of my top historical reads for the year just happened to feature the Polish Resistance during WWII. The Warsaw Sisters by Amanda Barratt and The Keeper of the Hidden Books by Madeline Martin were both breathtaking and poignant, and opened
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