Peter Grainger
My Favorite Books with Music as a Plot Element
24 Festive Tasks: Door 21 – Kwanzaa, Task 2: Music is an important part of a Kwanzaa celebration. Which is / are your favorite book(s) where music plays an important role in the plot? In no particular order, books (of all genres, except for artist biographies)* that I love where music plays an important […]
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2019: The Books I’ve Been Most Thankful For
24 Festive Tasks: Door 11 – Thanksgiving: Task 2 Tell us: Of the books that you read this year, which are you most thankful for, OR was there one that turned out to be full of “stuffing”? Alternatively, which (one) book that you read anytime at all changed your life for the better?”) With another […]
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Halloween Bingo 2019 PreParty — Question for 08/09 (Day 9): Book Suggestions for the New Squares? Part 1: “Paint It Black”
Today’s prompt is for favorite horror reads; that not being much of my thing (outside, perhaps, the gothic classics and anything more edifying or funny rather than scary), I think I’m going to leave that prompt to Char, Bark’s Books (aka Bark at the Ghouls), and the site’s other horror fans. Instead, I’m going to […]
Read MoreBooks With a Difference
Responding to Moonlight Reader’s “call for papers (= titles / authors)” — there are quite a number of excellent lists out there already; anyway, here’s my contribution … or a first draft, at least. Links go to my reviews (or status updates / summary blog posts / author pages) to the extent I’ve posted any. […]
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Peter Grainger: An Accidental Death
The British Police Procedural Is Alive and Well … and I have found yet another favorite new series! Never let it be said that there are no great new voices in British crime writing, and on top of that, two of my most recent discoveries — Joy Ellis’s Jackman & Evans series and Peter Grainger’s […]
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Peter Grainger: An Accidental Death – Reading Progress Update: 4 of 412 Minutes
Hah. Serendipity! I just finished a book from Ngaio Marsh’s Inspector Alleyn series … and guess what the name of the superior officer of this book’s protagonist (DS Smith) is? Detective Superintendent Allen! Reading this for square no. 48 of Snakes and Ladders (“a book you acquired in February 2019). So much for clearing Mt. […]
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