Things I Did Before I Got Cancer moved overseas alone – twice came back saw the pyramids got married was featured in a major magazine and local newspaper lived through a revolution – the Arab Spring traveled through Europe became a teacher made cheese at home had 40 staples removed […]
I read this book by accident. I wasn’t looking for it, but it found me. I saw someone mention it on Facebook. It’s free if you have Amazon Prime. I don’t, but I got the beginning for free and then was so hooked I had to buy the whole thing. […]
Everything is different about this cozy mystery. From the protagonist to the structure. The protagonist is Turing Hopper, an artificial intelligence personality or AIP. She works for the Universal Library or UL as a researcher. She has achieved sentience. She becomes worried when her programmer and friend, Zack goes missing. […]
Recently, I have had to get some tests run at the hospital. I have never done these tests before and I didn’t know what to expect, so I decided to write about them in case other people are in the same boat. Chest CT I didn’t have to do anything […]
Gordon Cloade is at the center of this mystery, but he is dead before the action begins. He has been the central support for his extended family. Always telling them not to worry about money; that he would provide for them. However, he dies unexpectedly in the Blitz and is […]
Agatha Raisin is dreaming of Christmas and keeping her detective agency running. This isn’t really a Christmas book, though. Agatha wants the perfect Christmas she never had growing up and this theme runs in the background of the mystery. She receives a letter from Mrs. Tamworthy, a wealthy widow in […]
Most cozy mysteries are series or have recurring characters. We come to identify with these protagonists and grow with them over the course of a series. These sleuths are my favorite and I always look forward to books featuring these memorable characters. Miss Marple created by Agatha Christie Miss Marple […]
The Mixing Bowl 10 Turntable Junction Flemington, NJ 08822 http://themixingbowlnj.com/ The Mixing Bowl is a new bakery that has just opened up across from Liberty Village. It’s small, but has a nice array of sweets. It looks like everything is baked in small batches, so everything there is very fresh. […]
This is the tenth book in the Sarah Booth Delaney series. It is only the second one I’ve read. This book starts with the after effects of the last case weighing heavily on Sarah Booth and her partner, Tinkie. She is trying to recover after a miscarriage and Tinkie decides […]
Agatha Raisin returns to her cottage in Carsley after a PR job in London. She soon meets her new neighbor, Paul Chatterton, who is the talk of all the ladies in the village, and gets wind of a haunted house nearby. Together, they start to investigate. Their investigation starts out […]
These days you just don’t know your neighbors anymore. On Friday, my cat, Lulu, went missing. She went out for her morning stroll and then disappeared. She is always around when we are outside working or with the dogs. But Friday was different; she wasn’t around when my mom was […]
The Mad Chef 32 Fulper Road Flemington, NJ 08822 Today, my husband and I treated ourselves to a nice lunch out at The Mad Chef. It didn’t hurt that we had a $10 certificate from restaurant.com. Regrettably, I forgot my camera. This restaurant was really something special. To start with, […]
