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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.

Monday, August 3, 2026

The Things We Never Day by Elizabeth Strout

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  This is the story of Artie Dam.  To most people, Artie is an average man.  He is a high school history teacher.  He's been married to ...
Sunday, August 2, 2026

A Red Dotted Line by Simon Gervais

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  Mike Watson and his wife Lisa are both operatives of the IMSI, International Market Stabilization Institute, which is a private organizati...
Saturday, August 1, 2026

A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz

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  One of Horowitz's books about a case he worked on with Hawthorne has been optioned to be made into a film.  Horowitz is less than exci...
Friday, July 31, 2026

Amy Among The Serial Killers by Jincy Willett

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  Amy was a creative writing teacher and one of her favorite students over the years had been Carla Karolak.  Carla had been a child star wi...
Thursday, July 30, 2026

Universality by Natasha Brown

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  A gold bar is missing from a remote English farm.  The man who owns the farm doesn't live there as he prefers his London apartment.  B...
Wednesday, July 29, 2026

The Chelsea Girls by Fiona Davis

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  During the last days of World War II, two women meet while entertaining the troops in a USO troupe.  Hazel Riley is known as the girl who ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

The Disappearance Of Adele Bedeau by Graeme McCrae Burnet

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  In a small town in France, a waitress in the local bistro has gone missing.  The police, led by Inspector Gorski, investigate.  They talk ...
Monday, July 27, 2026

The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis

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  There are five Mansfield girls and they have come to live with their grandfather in Little Nettlebed now that their parents have died.  Mr...
Sunday, July 26, 2026

It Could Have Been Her by Lisa Jewell

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  Jane Trevally is at loose ends at this point in her life.  She is living in the country in the massive pile of her family's old house ...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

Love In The New Milennium by Can Xue

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  In this novel of China, women seem to have limited choices.  Work is either in a factory or a brothel run from the community baths.  Men a...
Friday, July 24, 2026

Boxer Handsome by Anna Whitwham

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  Bobby was raised to box.  His grandfather on his mother's side and his father were both boxers and Bobby has been in the gym since he ...
Thursday, July 23, 2026

The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

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  Briarwood House is an all female boarding house in Washington D.C. in the 1950's.  It's pretty run down as the landlady doesn'...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

The Undertaking Of Hart And Mercy by Megan Bannen

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  Two lonely people unfortunately can't stand each other.  Mercy is the person holding up Birdsall & Son Undertakers as her father a...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

To Kill And Kill Again by John Coston

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 From 1974 to 1986, Missoula, Montana, had a serial killer.  The victims were divergent.  One was a preacher's wife, another a teenage r...
Monday, July 20, 2026

Love Like Blood by Mark Billingham

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  DI Tom Thorne is approached by someone he never expected.  DI Nicola Tanner is known in the force as a perfectionist rule performer.  A fr...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

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  In the small coastal town of Longferry, Thomas Flett is a shanker, a gatherer of shrimp at low tide in nets.  He has a cart and horse and ...
Saturday, July 18, 2026

Hotel Lucky Seven by Kotaro Isaka

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  Assassin Ladybug can't catch a break.  In his last outing, he only had to retrieve a suitcase from a bullet train and it definitely we...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

Angel Down by Daniel Krauss

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  World War I is known for it's brutal trench warfare.  Men from either side hunkered down in rat-infested trenches, firing at each othe...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

John Of John by Douglas Stuart

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  John-Calum Macleod has finished his university degree in art design but doesn't find work right away.  He stays in Glasgow where he ca...
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

When We Were Brilliant by Lynn Cullen

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  In 1952, a momentous meeting occurred.  Woman photographer Eve Arnold met Norma Jean Baker, better known as Marilyn Monroe, in the bathroo...
Monday, July 13, 2026

A Rock And A Hard Place by JD Kirk

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  Scottish detective Jack Logan is taking a break from police work.  His last case had left him with injuries, both physical and psychologic...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

The End Of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylvainen

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  The time is 1851, the location a remote Scandinavian village.  Only two types of people live here.  The Sami tribes have lived here foreve...
Saturday, July 11, 2026

The Last Great Road Bum by Hector Tobar

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  Joe Sanderson seemed like he would live an ordinary life.  He was born and raised in Illinois in a middle class family.  As he was finishi...
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.  ...
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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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