#book 15: PROMISE BOYS by Nick Brooks -- a YA #mystery that addresses deeper contemporary issues facing young men of color. Thanks to the publishers for the review #audiobook copy.
Lucy's taking you back to the stories of Katherine Mansfield tonight! Head on over to https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy to take your seat, and we'll see you there in about 20 minutes!
I #read as #audiobook The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman (#book 2/His Dark Materials). I did enjoy the HBO Max series but I think I will always love the #books best. Lyra meets Will and they continue a quest to understand Dust. Or, you know, their fathers, the Holy Spirit, the Authority, and themselves. #reading@bookstodon https://amzn.to/3OlSEpL
Five stars: Night of the Living Deed by E.J. Copperman and Amanda Ronconi (Narrator) (2010) is the start of the Haunted Guesthouse mystery series. Newly divorced Alison Kerby and her nine year old daughter have moved into the last remaining Victorian era house on the Jersey Shore; the others slated for razing and redevelopment. After an accident involving a bucket of plaster to the head, Alison has the ability to talk to the ghosts of the home's former owner and her P.I. They want her to solve their murder.
Remembering the time I played a friend a little clip from the audiobook I was working on and they asked if I was wearing a velvet choker while recording it.
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Okay, this hot weather is way too hot, so I'm highlighting one of my snowiest mountain man romances! 🥵❄
In Saved by the Mountain, a runaway bride crashes her car on an icy mountain road & is rescued by a sexy recluse. It was a blast to narrate, & it has an incredibly steamy shower scene. It's fun, light & spicy.
We're back to Blackwood! The long, hot summer days are the perfect weather for some chilling, weird, and spooky tales from one of the greats, so why not head over to https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy and listen in!
Starting soon
#BookReview Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers
Read on audio
Narrator: Stephen Jack for RNIB
Pub. 1932, 499pp
Victor Gollancz
I picked up this novel for the continuation of the relationship between private detective Lord Peter and novelist Harriet Vane that started in Strong Poison, and I’m looking forward to going on to her famous novel Gaudy Night after this one as they appear together again there.
This novel has a grisly murder (or was it suicide?) centred around a seaside town that Harriet’s visiting. She discovers the body on the beach and Lord Peter hot foots it down to help her try to figure out the details and ensure she’s not considered a suspect. Throughout the mystery Lord Peter and Harriet seem to have more creative ideas than the local police and Harriet even moves into the victim’s old lodgings!
The victim, Alexis, was a dancer at a large hotel and had been engaged to be married to one of the wealthy guests, and the mystery concerns the question of why would he have contemplated suicide when he had a secure life ahead of him?
There are so many quirky little moments to lighten the mood as things progress, such as this description of a policeman taking notes during an interview:
“The pencil happened to be an indelible one and had left an unpleasant taste in the mouth.he passed a pink tongue along his purple stained lips, looking to Mr Perkins’s goblin-haunted imagination like a very large dog savouring a juicy bone .”
Lord Peter continues to try to romance Harriet and she is still not having any of it, resulting in some amusing exchanges between them and this book is strongest when they’re interacting.
I also enjoyed the description of Harriet reading through the books on the victim’s shelves as she tried to jog her subconscious for her detective novel, then turning to crosswords to try to get her writing going again.
The eventual solution was rather long winded with an overlong description of solving a cipher (which was tedious on audio), but otherwise entertaining. It took me a long time to read and the ending was rather abrupt, with Lord Peter and Harriet solving the mystery then speeding off to London to go out to lunch! A good read but not my favourite of hers so far. #bookstodon#audiobook#AmReading@bookstodon
It's true! You can get the brand-new audiobook edition of "Shards" for just $4. That's over seven hours of spine-tingling speculative fiction for way less than a dollar per-hour. Grab it now before I come to my senses and start charging what it's actually worth! 🎧🙂👍
Starting very soon, Lucy's got more of Jane Austen's classic 'Pride and Prejudice'! Make yourself cosy, then come on over to https://www.twitch.tv/Chilliteracy and listen in!