Bitter Tea and Mystery
Floating Hotel: Grace Curtis
Spin #45 for the Classics Club, August 2026
Short Story Wednesday: Stories from Midsummer Mysteries
Ten Books I was Reading on this Day (August 11) over the Past 10 Years
A Graveyard for Lunatics: Ray Bradbury
Short Story Wednesday: Feuille D'Album by Katherine Mansfield
Murder on the Yellow Brick Road: Stuart M. Kaminsky
Short Story Wednesday: "Kill Now—Pay Later" by Rex Stout
Short Story Wednesday: The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
Books Read in May 2026
The City in the Middle of the Night: Charlie Jane Anders
The Ivy Tree: Mary Stewart
Six Degrees of Separation: From The Post-Office Girl to Going Postal
Short Story Wednesday: Stories from Murder and Other Acts of Literature
Short Story Wednesday: "A Touch of Petulance" by Ray Bradbury
Signing up for 20 Books of Summer 2026
Books Read in April 2026
Spin #44 for the Classics Club, May 2026
Short Story Wednesday: More Stories from Three for the Chair
Tatiana: Martin Cruz Smith
Six Degrees of Separation: From Wild Dark Shore to Where'd You Go, Bernadette?
Short Story Wednesday: Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Books Read in March 2026
Short Story Wednesday: "Lucky Dip" by Liza Cody
Short Story Wednesday: More Hercule Poirot Short Stories
A Wrinkle in Time: Madeleine L'Engle
Spell the Month in Books — March 2026
Short Story Wednesday: Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night
A Brush with Death: Sheila Pim
Books Read in February 2026
Six Degrees of Separation: from Wuthering Heights to Dancing in the Dark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Muriel Spark
Going to Beautiful: Anthony Bidulka
Murder of a Lady: Anthony Wynne
Short Story Wednesday: More Short Stories by the Lockridges
Spin #43 for the Classics Club, February 2026
Books Read in January 2026
Short Story Wednesday: USA Noir
Old Filth: Jane Gardam
Books Read in November and December 2025
My Results for the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge 2025
Short Story Wednesday: Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death by James Runcie
Short Story Wednesday: Christmas Stalkings, ed. Charlotte MacLeod
Books Read in September and October 2025
Oh William!: Elizabeth Strout
Short Story Wednesday: More Stories from Christmas Stalkings
The Satan Sampler: Victor Canning
Short Story Wednesday: Short Stories from Christmas Stalkings
Six Degrees of Separation: From Seascraper to Tokyo Express
Short Story Wednesday: Two Christmas Stories by Lorrie Moore
At the Table of Wolves: Kay Kenyon
Short Story Wednesday: Thrilling Tales
My Books from the 2025 Book Sale
Short Story Wednesday: The Grantchester Mysteries
Books Read in August 2025
Perplexing Plots: David Bordwell
Short Story Wednesday: Two Hercule Poirot Short Stories
Annual Book Sale 2025: My Husband's Books
Spin #42 for the Classics Club, October 2025
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea: Rebecca Thorne
Short Story Wednesday: The Literary Ghost, ed. Larry Dark
Short Story Wednesday: "The Portobello Road" by Muriel Spark
#HYH25: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Annual Book Sale 2025: My Son's Books
Pesticide: Kim Hays
Short Story Wednesday: Get in Trouble by Kelly Link
Short Story Wednesday: Collections from the Book Sale
Spell the Month in Books — September 2025
Short Story Wednesday: Jewel Box by E. Lily Yu
Introducing London: Our New Cat
Spell the Month in Books — August 2025
Short Story Wednesday: "The Summer People" by Kelly Link
Books Read in July 2025
At Bertram's Hotel: Agatha Christie
Short Story Wednesday: Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Ninefox Gambit: Yoon Ha Lee
Six Degrees of Separation: From The Safekeep to Tales of the South Pacific
Short Story Wednesday: "I Am Not Fluffy" by Liza Cody
Books Read in June 2025
Spell the Month in Books — July 2025
Short Story Wednesday: More Stories from Five Tuesdays in Winter
Oona Out of Order: Margarita Montimore
The Burgess Boys: Elizabeth Strout
Short Story Wednesday: "Immune to Murder" by Rex Stout
Six Degrees of Separation: From Theory & Practice to The Paris Diversion
Death by Accident: Bill Crider
Short Story Wednesday: "One Morning They'll Hang Him" by Margery Allingham