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Welcome to Booksie's Blog! I write reviews of what I've read, some of which were books sent by publishers or authors. If you would like for me to read and review your book, please contact me. I'd love to have the chance to review for you although I don't usually read to deadlines. My email address is skirkland@triad.rr.com I can't accept everything but I do read and review everything I accept. I average about 10-12 reviews a month. I tend to favor physical books over ebooks for review.

Friday, July 10, 2026

The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave

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  Five years ago, Hannah Hall's world fell apart.  Her husband, Owen, had to disappear when he ran afoul of a criminal organization, one...
Thursday, July 9, 2026

Taiwan Travelogue by Shuang-Zi Yang

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  The year is 1938 and a young Japanese writer, Aoyama Chizuko, has been approached by the government to go to Taiwan, which the Japanese ha...
Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Broken Ground by Val McDermid

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  Alice Sommerville and her husband can't believe they are finally here.  Alice was raised with the story of the Indian motorcycles her ...
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel

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  When the call comes, Leigh Welles has not been home to the island since she left it.  Now her father, the last of the family on the island...
Monday, July 6, 2026

Kunstlers In Paradise by Cathleen Schine

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  Julian is lost, aimless in his twenties and unsure what his next step in life will be.  His roommate has just moved out, his girlfriend ha...
Sunday, July 5, 2026

Perspectives by Laurent Binet

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  The year is 1557, the place Florence.  The artist Jacopo de Pontormo has been found dead near the mural he has been working on for seven y...
Saturday, July 4, 2026

Mrs. S by K. Patrick

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  The setting is rural England at the kind of English boarding school that worships the past and 'girls' who have come through it.  ...
Friday, July 3, 2026

29 Seconds by T.M. Logan

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  Sarah's life has been hard for a while but things are about to change.  She is lecturing at the university, supporting her two small c...
Thursday, July 2, 2026

The City Changes Its Face by Eimear McBride

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  This novel is set in London in the mid-nineties.  Eily and Stephen have started a relationship and have just moved in together into a flat...
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Brotherless Night by V.V. Guneshananthan

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  Sashi lives with her family in Sri Lanka.  Her father works away from home so it is her mother, her four brothers and Sashi.  They are Tam...
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

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  Eilis Lacey lives in a small Irish village with her mother and sister.  Her brothers have left to find work and her father died.  Although...
Monday, June 29, 2026

Bronze Drum by Phong Nguyen

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  This is the retelling of the Vietnamese story of the Trung sisters in the Au Lac region in 40 AD.  Trung Trac is the elder sister, always ...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

The Reckoning by John Grisham

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  The Banning family was known and respected in Clanton, Mississippi as they had been landowners for over a hundred years, growing cotton as...
Friday, June 26, 2026

The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt

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  Callie Machedo is the Captain of the White Raven, a ship that does salvage work when they aren't chasing down miscreants for the TSN. ...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

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  It's the second year of training for those who wish to serve as dragonriders for the government.  Violet was expected to die in the fi...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth

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  Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is 81, six feet tall and the epitome of a curmudgeon.  She lives on a small street where she has lived for over si...
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Transcription by Kate Atkinson

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  The story starts in England in 1940.  England has declared war on Germany after it marches into Poland and takes it over.  Everyone is wor...
Monday, June 22, 2026

California's Deadliest Women by David Kulczyk

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  In this anthology, David Kulczyk tells the stories of the women who killed in California over the past decades.  There are twenty-eight st...
Sunday, June 21, 2026

Long Gone by Joanna Schaffhausen

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  The call comes at night as calls tend to do when you're a homicide detective in Chicago.  Officer Leo Hammond was shot and killed in h...
Saturday, June 20, 2026

The Director by Daniel Kehlman

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  This is a fictionalized account of the life of famous director G.W. Pabst, a German living during the time of World War II.  Pabst was a f...
Friday, June 19, 2026

The Jackdaw by Luke Delaney

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  DI Sean Corrigan is known for his ability to get inside the head of the most depraved killers.  He has recently been promoted to head up a...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

Time Of Death by Mark Billingham

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  DI Tom Thorne is on a well-deserved vacation with his girlfriend, DS Helen Weeks.  But they have hardly gotten to their destination when t...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Song Of Susannah by Stephen King

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 In this sixth and next to last book in the Dark Tower series, all of the group have gone through the door from their world into the present...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Don't Go to Sleep by Bryce Moore

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  This is a retelling of the New Orleans Axe Murderer.  In this version, it is 1918 and seven years ago, Gianna's family was attacked at...
Sunday, June 14, 2026

Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett

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  This book is told in first person narrative, the everyday life of a young author.  We hear about her childhood and what inspired her to st...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

Behold The Bird In Flight by Terri Lewis

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  The year is 1198.  King Philip of France and King John of England are in constant battle over Normandy which both have claims to and where...
Friday, June 12, 2026

The Counting Game by Sinead Nolan

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  The Kellough family is the talk of the village, which is a small Irish group people who live between the forest and the sea.  The father l...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Salute The Dark by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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  The war marches on.  The Wasps have the advantage in numbers with an overwhelming army and new, deathdealing weapons.  The Emperor and his...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

American Demon by Daniel Stashower

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  This is the story of Eliot Ness' career and the serial killer of Cleveland.  Eliot Ness became famous when he and his group of law men...
Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride by Will Leitch

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 Lloyd McNeil is a policeman in Atlanta and has been for years.  He's not sure he was ever all that interested but he does like helping ...
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I'm the former CIO of a large community college, and an avid reader. I've reviewed here and for Curled Up With A Good Book, Amazon's Vine Reviews program and on Netgalley and Edelweiss. I also work with several publishers. The majority of books reviewed on this page were sent to me free of charge.
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