Book Review: Mercedes Lackey’s The Fire Rose
Tragedy forces Rosalind Hawkins to swap her treasured existence for one of servitude to a railroad baron halfway across the country into a situation fraught with mystery and perversity.
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Word Confusion: Zymic versus Zymite
Both words involve yeast, but zymic is about the process of fermentation while a zymite serves up leavened bread in a Mass in this Word Confusion.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Round Up the Usual Peacocks
I received this book for free from my own shelves in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: my own shelves Round Up the Usual Peacocksby Donna Andrews amateur sleuth, cozy mystery in a Kindle edition that was published by Minotaur Books on August 2, 2022 and has 304 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Real Macaw, Some Like It Hawk, The Hen of the Baskervilles, Duck the Halls, The Good, the Bad, and the Emus, Lord of the Wings, The Nightingale Before Christmas, Die Like an Eagle, Gone Gull, How the Finch Stole Christmas!, Toucan Keep a Secret, Lark! The Herald Angels Sing, The Falcon Always Wings Twice, The Gift of the Magpie, The Twelve Jays of Christmas, Murder with Peacocks, Murder with Puffins, Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos, Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon, We’ll Always Have Parrots, Owls Well That Ends Well, Terns of Endearment, Between a Flock and a Hard Place, No Nest for the Wicket, The Penguin Who Knew Too Much, Cockatiels at Seven, Six Geese A-Slaying, Stork Raving Mad, Owl Be […]
Word Confusion: Wabi-sabi versus Wasabi
Wabi-sabi is an aesthetic approach to life while wasabi is a hot condiment usually associated with sushi and sashini in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Murder Most Fowl
To enable Michael to direct a production of Macbeth, the actors are encamped all over the Langslow-Waterston farm with a revolving group of medieval re-enactors camping nearby. It’s that documentary filmmaker, however, who makes everything worse.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Owl Be Home for Christmas
A wonderfully merry and LYAO Christmas mystery during a meeting of scientific minds in an ornithology conference that Meg’s grandfather has planned — and that Meg Langslow keeps organized, especially when there’s murder.
Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Death at the Deep Dive
Ellery Page, Pirate’s Cove’s mystery bookstore owner, discovers a vintage diving bag full of antique gold coins in a closet at the Crow’s Nest. A discovery that sets off dangerous events, including murder.
Word Confusion: More Lakes: Pond vs Tarn
While both are lakes, a pond and a tarn do have location differences. A pond is both noun and verb and usually found “at home” while a tarn is a noun only and formed by a glacier in this Word Confusion.
Book Review: Donna Andrews’ Stork Raving Mad
Meg’s expecting twins — any minute! — and doesn’t hesitate to agree to yet another houseguest. After all the drama department is already camping out, rehearsing Soto’s play.
Then two prunes from the English department decide to cancel the play! It’ll be murder and even less peace in the house unless Meg helps solve it.
Word Confusion: Levy versus Lien
Levy and lien are quite similar, except that a levy actually takes something while a lien is the claim for that something in this Word Confusion from KD Did It.