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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.

Thursday, July 3, 2025

How To Catch A Killer by Katherine Ramsland

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  In this true crime book, the author categorizes the ways that killers are caught by the police and then gives a short overview of various ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

How To Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

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  Who could be against a community center?  Not the pregnant yoga group or the childcare center or any of the other groups that use the faci...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin

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  The town is like no other.  It is remote, hidden in the mountains, and everyone knows everyone else.  The food is local and redolent of th...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Locked In by Jussi Adler-Olsen

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  Detective Carl Morck has rubbed a lot of people the wrong way in his career.  That's how he came to head up Dept Q, which only looks a...
Friday, June 27, 2025

The Extraordinary Life Of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni

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  When Sam Hill is born, there is a hush in the delivery room.  He has ocular albinism which means his eyes are bright red.  Once assured th...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan

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  Detective Cormac Reilly has recently transferred from his Dublin assignment to Galway.  He has done so to follow his girlfriend who has go...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Playworld by Adam Ross

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  This is a coming of age novel that is getting tons of buzz.  Griffin Hurt lives in Manhattan and goes to private school which he pays for....
Monday, June 23, 2025

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

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  Now that Murderbot has managed to break free of the Company, he knows what his first step will be.  He is burdened with the story that he ...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

The Return Of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean

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  It's something no one saw coming.  A girl appears on a forest trail, filthy and wearing bloodstained clothes.  The father and son who ...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

Closer Than Blood by Gregg Olsen

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 Tori and Lainie are twins but haven't seen each other in years.  Lainie has had an average life but Tori refused to do so.  She has mar...
Friday, June 20, 2025

The Crossing Places by Elly Grffiths

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  Dr. Ruth Galloway is an archeologist, specializing in bones.  When a child's skeleton is found on the moors she lives near, the police...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Once Upon A Wardrobe by Patti Callahan Henry

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  1950.  England.  Margaret Devonshire is a math prodigy and has just started at Oxford University.  Although she is glad to be there, her h...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

James by Perceival Everett

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  James is a modern retelling of Mark Twain's classic, Huckleberry Finn.  In this one, James, known as Jim in the earlier book, runs awa...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

The Wager by David Grann

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  In 1740, Spain and England were once again at war.  An armada was brought together in England and The Wager was one of the warships.  In a...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Outside by Ragnar Jonasson

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 Four friends set off for a weekend of hunting, hiking and catching up.  There are three men and a woman.  One owns a touring company, one i...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

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  Cushla and her family live a little ways outside of the armed areas of Belfast in Northern Ireland.  She lives with her mother after her f...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

The Art Of Detection by Laurie R. King

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  Kate Martinelli and her police partner, Al Hawkins, have just been handed a new murder to cover.  The victim is Philip Gilbert who makes h...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

A Mirror Mended by Alix Harrow

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  I guess you think those 'happy endings' happen naturally.  Zinnia Gray is here to tell you that sometimes princesses need a little...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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  On a distant planet, a company is doing exploration for scientific purposes.  There are two locales for this exploration on different side...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Coram House by Bailey Seybolt

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  Alex Kelley has come north to Lake Champlain to try to revive her career.  Her first true crime book was a bestseller as she solved a long...
Monday, June 9, 2025

Head Cases by John McMahon

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  Someone is playing vigilante and killing serial killers.  The first one was a man about to be indicted for three murders when his house ca...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

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  This is the story of Ernest Hemingway's life in Paris in the 1920's.  This was a good time for him.  He was married to Hadley who ...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

The Burning Girl by Mark Billingham

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  A gang war has broken out in the town where Thorne works.  There are the old school English gang and the new Indian gang.  Can the police ...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Drunk On All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

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  Lydia is a translator.  The Logi came to Earth a while back but they can't communicate with most humans.  They only talk internally an...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Nona The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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  Nona lives with her family, Camilla, Palamedes and Pyrrha.  Of course, Camilla and Palamedes share a body but that's okay.  Both love ...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodriquez McRobbie

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  In this anthology, there are true stories about princesses throughout the ages.  Few of them are recent stories as princesses are not as i...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

The Ragpicker King by Cassandra Clare

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  After the massacre that killed Conor's princess fiancé, things have changed.  Conor has become serious, realizing that he will be taki...
Monday, June 2, 2025

Dead Lions by Mick Herron

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  In the second novel of the Slough House series, a man on the periphery of the intelligence network has been found dead on a bus.   Was it ...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

The Details by Ia Genberg

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  The Details is narrated by a woman who is lying in her bed, sick with a fever.  As she lies there, she idly pages through a book and sees ...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

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  In this novel set in the 1950's, Frank and April Wheeler are living in a commuter town, a suburbia where children can grow up safely a...
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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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