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Incoming! The Memoirs Edition

October 7, 2009 Incoming!

Incoming! is a regular feature at Ms. Bookish that chronicles some of the recent new book arrivals at the Ms. Bookish household. This edition: memoirs!

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Book Review: The Private Patient, by P.D. James

March 9, 2009 Books and Reading

The Snapshot Review
What I Liked: Commander Adam Dalgliesh and all the much-loved regulars are back; the suspects and victim are well-characterized as usual; the mystery is complex and intelligent.
First Line: On November the 21st, the day of her forty-seventh birthday, and three weeks and two days before she was murdered, Rhoda Gradwyn went to Harley [...]

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Library Loot: Mostly Mysteries – and BBC Audio

February 4, 2009 Books and Reading

It’s time for Library Loot, where book bloggers share what they brought home from the library this past week.
I love going to the library, although these days, because I’ve been very efficiently using the library’s request holds system, I normally just pop in, grab my on hold books off the hold shelf, take a quick [...]

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TSS – Currently Reading: Fowler, Springer & Berry

January 25, 2009 Books and Reading

Time for The Sunday Salon again! Here’s what I’ve been reading this week:
Ten Second Staircase, by Christopher Fowler. I finished Full Dark House, the first book in the Bryant and May Peculiar Crimes Unit series, a few days ago (review coming soon), and I loved it so much I picked up the next Peculiar Crimes [...]

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