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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.

Sunday, May 3, 2026

The Executor by Jesse Kellerman

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  Joseph Geist is at loose ends when he sees the ad.  He has been kicked out of his graduate program after years of not producing his disser...
Saturday, May 2, 2026

The Suitcase Clone by Robin Sloan

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  James Bascule has always lived in Northern California except for one trip to Europe where he fell in love and got his heart broken.  Now h...
Friday, May 1, 2026

One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  This is the story of the Buendia family who settled and founded the mythical city of Macondo.  It follows the lives and loves of the men a...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

The Visitors by Miranda Rijks

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  Most would say that Hannah has it all.  She lives in a large house in the English countryside with her husband, Daniel, and her two childr...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Sons Of Cain by Peter Vronsky

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  Peter Vronsky is a filmmaker and historian.  He became interested in serial killers when he actually encountered two of them.  The first w...
Monday, April 27, 2026

The Sideways Life Of Denny Voss by Holly Kennedy

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  Denny has a good life.  He lives with his Nana-Jo, his elderly mother with his cousin, Angus, next door in the duplex.  He has George, his...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

The Book Of Doors by Gareth Brown

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  Cassie Andrews is living in New York City with her friend, Izzy.  She works in a bookstore and she's not sure if that's what she w...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley

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  This is the story of Bridget and Helen Grant, daughter and mother.  Bridget's parents divorced when she was young and she and her sist...
Friday, April 24, 2026

When We Were Real by Daryl Gregory

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  No one was the same after the Great Reveal.  That's when the Creators told everyone that they were just a simulation, a computer progr...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

The In-Between Bookstore by Edward Underhill

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  Darby hasn't been home to Oak Falls for a decade.  Not since that disastrous senior year in high school when suddenly his best friend,...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Trouble In The Brasses by Alisa Craig

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  Detective Inspector Madoc Rhys of the Canadian Mounties is visiting his parents.  His father is the conductor of an orchestra and the rest...
Monday, April 20, 2026

The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

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  The Thursday Murder Club is worried about Elizabeth.  She is still grieving the loss of her husband and they aren't sure what to do fo...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey

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  Birdie isn't living the life she envisioned for herself as a child.  She's stuck in a cabin next to the diner where she works and ...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

The Bones Beneath by Mark Billingham

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  DI Tom Thorne can't believe what those above him want him to do now.  Years ago, he put away a psychotic killer named Stuart Nicklin. ...
Friday, April 17, 2026

Venetian Vespers by John Banville

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  Evelyn Dolman is a journalist but not a top-flight one.  His talent has taken him only to a job on a middling newspaper  When he meets Lau...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

The Tumbling Girl by Bridget Walsh

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  The time is Victorian London.  The Variety Palace Music Hall is one place people can go for entertainment, trapeze artists, animal acts, s...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Rednecks by Taylor Brown

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  This is the story of the battle to unionize the coal industry of West Virginia. Miners were little better than indentured servants.  They ...
Monday, April 13, 2026

Behindlings by Nicola Barker

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  Wesley has a following, although most people aren't sure why.  There are groups of people that attempt to locate where he is at all ti...
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbo

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  A new serial killer is working the streets in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  To all accounts, it seems to be a man called Tomas Gomez, who is an...
Saturday, April 11, 2026

The Net Beneath Us by Carol Dunbar

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  Silas and Eva are living deep in the country, off the grid as much as they can.  Silas works as a logger, using the techniques used by the...
Friday, April 10, 2026

Days At The Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa

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  At twenty-five, Takako finds herself at loose ends after her boyfriend announces that instead of them getting married, he is marrying anot...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Solar by Ian McEwan

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  Dr. Michael Beard won a Nobel Prize when he was a young man.  These days, as a middle-aged one, he has skated on his reputation for years....
Monday, April 6, 2026

The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie

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  In this anthology, Salman Rushdie has given his readers five stories about the end of life.  In the first, 'In The South', two men...
Saturday, April 4, 2026

Blood Of The Mantis by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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  This is the third novel in the Shadows Of The Apt series by Tchaikovsky.  Most of the action in this series is centered around the shadow ...
Friday, April 3, 2026

House Of Day, House Of Night by Olga Tokarczuk

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  An unnamed woman and her partner, named only by R., move into a small Polish village far into the country and right on the border with Cze...
Thursday, April 2, 2026

Before I Forget by Tory Henwood Hoen

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  Cricket Campbell hasn't been to the lake and the cabin for over a decade.  She left after a tragedy rocked her world and set her on a ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

The Boston Girl by Anita Diamante

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  This novel is set in Boston in the early 1900's and tells the story of the life of Addie Baum.  It is told by Addie now that she is ei...
Monday, March 30, 2026

The Truth And Other Lies by Sascha Arango

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  Henry Hayden is a famous author and doing quite well.  He lives with his wife in a large house and drives a luxury car.  He also has a mis...
Sunday, March 29, 2026

8 Lives Of A Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee

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  This novel tells the story of Korea, both North and South through the life of a woman who would do whatever it took to survive.  Through t...
Saturday, March 28, 2026

The Book Club For Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick

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  The time is the 1960's and the place is a Virginia suburb of Washington, DC.  The suburb is full of stay-at-home moms, men who worked ...
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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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