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Biblios–Part 3

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Biblios = Books about Books Part 1: Books about Books–Better Known as Biblios Part 2  Biblios Focusing on Booksellers/Collectors Part 3  Biblios Focusing on Writers Part 4  Bibilos Focusing on Writers Part 5  Bibilos Focusing on Publishing Writers love killing off other writers, especially those who are more successful than they are, I would guess. I … Read more

No Tricks! Halloween Crime and Mystery Books

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For a person who had a Halloween themed wedding reception complete with a huge haunted house wedding cake, intricately carved Jack O’Lanterns as centerpieces, handmade masks, wax lips, candy corn, candied apples and cobwebs dangling, you’d think I would have read every mystery that has wisps of the dark day, right? Well until I decided … Read more

Biblios–Part 2

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Biblios = Books about Books Part 1: Books about Books–Better Known as Biblios Part 2  Biblios Focusing on Booksellers/Collectors Part 3  Bibilos Focusing on Writers Part 4  Bibilos Focusing on  Writers Part 5  Biblios Focusing on Publishing Ah, so many more bookshop mysteries have come to light since I wrote the first article about biblios. And … Read more

Books about Books–Better Known as Biblios–Part 1

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Biblios = Books about Books Part 1: Books about Books–Better Known as Biblios Part 2  Bibilos Focusing on Booksellers/Collectors Part 3  Bibilos Focusing on Writers Part 4  Bibilos Focusing on Writers Part 5  Bibilos Focusing on Publishers Biblio–def.: ‘the Greek root for a variety of words referring to the book, such as bibliography, bibliomania, etc.’ I’ve often … Read more

The Black Paw. Best 100 Mysteries of All Time

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The Black Paw—Constance and Gwyneth Little-1941  Doubleday Crime Club-IP The sisters Little make this list not once, but twice. Why, because their books are that funny, that convoluted, and that smart–that makes them mandatory. LOL. If you’ve read my article on the screwball comedy novels the two sisters produced between the late 1930s to the … Read more

I Never Read a Book Twice!

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Do you? Life is too damn short! I need to move on to the next book, then the next, and on and on. To go back and reread something is almost against my religion, or  life force. Unfortunately, since creating my Best Mysteries of All Time list, I’ve had to re-read bits and pieces, and … Read more

Where Do The Books You've Read Go?

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I’m asking, because I need new creative places to take them! I have long ago left behind the notion that I could keep all the books I’d read. As a teenager, it didn’t seem so difficult–stack them in a corner of the room, and let them be. By college, I didn’t want to lug them … Read more