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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.

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 ...
Monday, June 8, 2026

No Friend To This House by Natalie Haynes

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  This is a retelling of the Jason and The Argonauts myth.  Jason volunteers for the task of hunting down and bringing home the golden fleec...
Sunday, June 7, 2026

If I Run by Terri Blackstock

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  When Casey Cox finds the body of her friend, Brent, she knows two things.  He's been killed because he was helping her and the police ...
Saturday, June 6, 2026

How To Be Both by Ali Smith

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  This is a stunning novel, full of surprises.  It starts with the structure.  The book contains two books.  One book starts with the story ...
Thursday, June 4, 2026

The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

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  Olivia Dumont has carved out a successful career as a ghostwriter, staying in the shadows as she helps celebrities share their life storie...
Wednesday, June 3, 2026

The Magician by Colm Toibin

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  This is Colm Toibin's novelization of the life of Thomas Mann, one of Germany's foremost authors.  He came from a conservative fam...
Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

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  Six astronauts are on one of the last space station missions, circling the Earth and studying it.  There are women and men and they come f...
Monday, June 1, 2026

Coyote Hills by Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman

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  Clay Edison has left the coroner's office after years of working there.  As his last years had been full of investigations into suspic...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

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  The Salt family are the caretakers of Shearwater, a remote island not far from Antarctica.  Dominic Salt is the father, a widower who came...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

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  This is the story of Rosemary Cooke's life.  She grew up with a psychologist father, a mother, a brother Lowell and Fern.  Fern was a ...
Friday, May 29, 2026

Hold Tight by Harlan Corben

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  Mike and Tia Baye are horrified when their sixteen-year-old son, Adam, disappears.  They have noticed that he is getting more remote since...
Thursday, May 28, 2026

The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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  Evelyn Hugo was born in poverty in Hells Kitchen, the daughter of  Cuban immigrants.  Her mother died young and her father was an alcoholi...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

A Descent Into Hell by Kathryn Casey

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  When Jennifer Cave's family couldn't get in touch with her in Austin, Texas, they started to worry.  Jennifer had had some tough t...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Discipline by Larissa Pham

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  Christine always thought she would be an artist.  She went to college to study art and when a professor encouraged her to apply to a maste...
Monday, May 25, 2026

Women Of A Promiscuous Nature by Donna Everhart

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  This historical fiction novel is set in Kinston, North Carolina, right before World War II.  During World War I, the leaders of the milita...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

Lanny by Max Porter

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  This novel is set in a small village in England.  Most of the inhabitants have lived there forever as have their families for generations ...
Saturday, May 23, 2026

Her Daughter by Fran Hawthorne

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  Alice Wilson hasn't seen her daughter, Esme, for six long years.  She and Dan had had a vicious divorce and Dan remarried and had two ...
Friday, May 22, 2026

10:04 by Ben Lerner

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  This novel is written as a look into the author's life in New York City in his early thirties.  Is it autobiographical or totally imag...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

All The Living And The Dead by Hayley Campbell

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  In this nonfiction book, author Kayley Campbell set out to interview individuals in the death industry to better understand death and its ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

The Dead Lie Down by Sophie Hannah

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  Ruth Bussey and Aidan See are a new couple, maybe six months into their relationship.  But they are both keeping secrets and those secrets...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman

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  Jake Bergamont is a good kid.  He is a teenager, attending a private school in New York City where his father works at a university.  He h...
Monday, May 18, 2026

The Last Karankawas by Kimberly Garza

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  Galveston, Texas, is an island and port city of around fifty thousand.  While many of those there are tourists, the residents tend to be F...
Saturday, May 16, 2026

Savage Lands by Clare Clark

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  In 1704, Elisabeth Savaret is one of the original twenty-three French girls sent to the Louisiana colony to provide wives for the around t...
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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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