The next Mrs. Murphy Mystery, Cat’s Eyewitness by Rita Mae and Sneaky Pie Brown, is a delight. The continuing adventures of now-ex-postmistress Harry and her cats and dogs in Crozet, Virginia never fail to entertain. This time around Harry and her curiosity get her mixed up in the murder of a monk and a statue [...]

…longer than I did this morning. I woke up this morning and felt like crap: scratchy throat and digestive tract unpleasantness. I opted to take the day off. I’ve got a trip next week, I need to be well! I stayed in bed for about half the morning, sleeping off and on. Finished another book [...]

As we’re now closer to this weekend than to last weekend, time to update what I did last weekend. My mom’s birthday was last Thursday and what she wanted for her gift was my help with her next home renovation project. Namely turning my old bedroom into her new office/sewing room. So I took Friday [...]

The latest thriller by James Patterson (and some random extra writer in small letters at the bottom of the cover) is typical Patterson rollercoaster; it goes really fast, its really fun and a little scary, and after 15 minutes you can’t really remember what exactly happened. His standard formula: crazy psycho twisted serial killer pursued [...]

Always looking for the next great mystery series to add to my reading repertoire, I took TracyA’s recommendation and started the Kay Scarpetta mysteries by Patricia Cornwell with Postmortem. It was an enjoyable first book. I will admit I put it down and read two other books before I finished this one. Mostly because they [...]

I’m officially completely over basketball. Let the pre-season football hype begin! CBS Sportsline has Iowa ranked Number 2. The begining of the article is enough to make any Hawks fan beam with pre-season excitement: OK, OK, I believe. After underestimating Iowa all these years, it’s time for some love. Lose Robert Gallery? No problem. No [...]