What better way to embrace the encroaching darkness than to curl up with Lol Tolhurst’s Goth: A History. That’s right. One of the founding members of The Cure has written a book about the genre of Goth. It’s one of those weird moments that illuminate the entire structure of the Universe. If this thing is, …
Here is Mercury Stardust’s Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair. We’re happy advocates for self-reliance and Stardust’s book offers solutions to more than 50 simple home maintenance projects. Plumbing secrets! Electrical wizardry! Showerhead flow management! Take control of your life with Mercury Stardust! –A Good Book, Sumner, WA Celebrate DIY success stories and …
Here is Spencer Quinn’s Mrs. Plansky’s Revenge, which is the story of a 70-ish year old widow who gets caught up in a phone scam. The villains drain all of her bank accounts, like phone scammers do, and think they have hit the jackpot. Unfortunately (for them), Mrs. Plansky has recently had a hip replaced, and …
We thought we should take a moment to figure out who this “B. Dylan Hollis” fellow is (because his book is our lead-off title this week), and well, it’s an hour later now and we’re still watching YouTube videos. We blame Hollis’s infectious enthusiasm for margarine, wooden spoons, and recipes from the ‘70s. So, yeah, …
And for all of you Regency fans out there, here is the latest in Ian Mortimer’s guides to time traveling through history. The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain is a handbook for folks who find themselves swept up in a temporal rift and deposited somewhere between 1789 and 1830. We’ll note here that if you end …
Harini Nagendra’s The Bangalore Detectives Club is out in paperback. It’s the first in a charming cozy series set in 1920’s Bangalore. It’s more Alexander McCall Smith than Jo Nesbø, if you were wondering where we’re going to shelve it in the mystery section. Book club peeps, take note. –A Good Book, Sumner, WA Treat yourself …
Here is Oliva Matthews’s Against the Currant, a Spice Island Bakery Mystery. It’s got a West Indian bakery, an earnest baker who has everything she’s ever wanted, and a disgruntled rival who seems likely end up in some sort of romantic entanglement—except he turns up dead before any smooching can happen. Well, that’s awkward. We …
And speaking of life among the lichens, here is Peter McCoy’s The Mycocultural Revolution: Transforming Our World with Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi. Published by the PNW’s own Microcosm Publishing, McCoy’s book covers more than just how not to eat the caps that’ll kill you. There’s a section on mycoremediation, which is treating contaminated areas of our …
Rebecca Serle’s One Italian Summer has family deaths, reincarnation, Italian villas, reconciliation, and the joy that is found friendship. This isn’t a morality tale set in a harsh and unforgiving climate. This is a love story about your own damn heart and about everyone needs a change of scenery now and again to shake off the …
Alice Feeney returns with Daisy Darker, a locked-room mystery about a family reunion that gets all atmospheric and twisty. Daisy’s family has gathered for Nana’s 80th birthday. Where? Oh, just Nana’s old gothic place out on the island. You know, the island that routinely gets cut off from the mainland when a storm rolls in. The …
