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#27 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

2025-07-05T22:12:47Z

This is a sweet warm hug of a story about a boy and the animals he meets around his home. The audio is read by the author so I missed all the drawing in the print version but the audio was absolutely lovely.

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#68 The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, Jesse Kirkwood (Translator)

2024-12-20T02:17:01Z

A tiny restaurant that doesn’t advertise offers a big service, to recreate a dish from your past. This father and daughter duo get the story about the dish and then track down exactly how to recreate the dish for someone who wants to eat it again. Some of these deal with loss and the dish they want is something made by someone that ha died. It is a bit of a cozy mystery but with no death and a lot of great food descriptions.

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#61 What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

2024-02-05T21:39:16Z

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama, Hanako Footman (Narrator), Susan Momoko Hingley (Narrator), Kenichiro Thomson (Narrator), Winson Ting (Narrator), Shirō Kawai (Narrator), Alison Watts (Translator)

I had the audio of this title and it worked beautifully with each section having a different narrator and in the end parts of the stories blended together. Each section has a person going to their local library for help on a certain practical subject and the helpful librarian gives them a list that also has one book that doesn’t fit the theme. But each person checks it out along with the others and that one book sparks a change in their lives. I swear I could read more books about Sayuri Komachi wielding book recommendations and small handmade felt items she gives to each person seeking book help.

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#70 Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich, Lorelei King (Narrator)

2022-10-23T16:03:21Z

Diesel has been a side character in the Stephanie Plum series, dropping in and causing extra chaos to her life. He pops into Lizzy’s life and lets her know that she is a magical finder of what he needs to find. He is on a mission to find magical stones that personify the Seven Deadly Sins. Madcap things happen and it is a fun light read.

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#17 The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich

2022-03-31T14:53:16Z

Gabriela is a recovery agent for insurance companies, she had a minor role in the Stephanie Plum books and now is stepping into her own series. She is divorced from her childhood sweetheart and lives in New York far from her hometown in SC. When her hometown is struggling on the edge of collapse from a hurricane her grandmother tells her she needs to get a treasure out of a family home in the Caribbean. The only problem is she gave the place to her ex-husband as part of the divorce settlement. Rafer comes home to find her pulling up floorboards but soon joins in the quest when she explains why she needs the cash since it is also his hometown. The two of them quickly follow a trail to South America to find the Ring of Solomon. The crazy adventures they have are even more over the top than what happens to Stephanie and surprisingly enough only the bad guys seem to suffer permanent damage. This is an entertaining read and completely nothing but brain candy for a few hours. Need a beach read or an airplane book then this will fit the bill.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss

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#50 Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events by Brent Spiner, Jeanne Darst

2021-09-28T16:21:59Z

This is a humorous take inspired by real events in Brent Spiner’s life while he was shooting Star Trek: TNG. I wasn’t going to bother with grabbing the ARC but someone I follow on social media said it was really funny, so I decided to give it a shot. Brent is being stalked by a fan obsessed with him and calling herself Lal after an episode that data creates a daughter for himself by that name. Everyone you meet in the book seems to be over the top, his costars, staff on the set, and law enforcement. Brent is not spared this either with his reactions to the letters and the constant bad dream flashbacks he has that combine the current events with his troubled childhood. The mystery is solved in the end and over the top as the rest of the book. For me personally the humor was way over the top and I got a bit tired of it by the end of the book. Maybe if I hadn’t read most of it in one sitting it wouldn’t have felt that way to me. But each to their own and I can see where lots of people would enjoy this more than I did.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss

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#69 Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich

2019-12-09T17:21:10Z

This book starts off right after the previous book. Grandma Mazur ran off and got married and was a widow 45 minutes after the wedding. Turns out her latest husband was connected to the Mob and some keys are missing and his partners want them back. Grandma Mazur doesn’t have them and has never seen them. Stephanie is trying to protect Grandma from hateful former in-laws that see her as a gold digger and Jimmy’s business associates that want the keys to the loot. Stephanie is having a bit of a crisis of what to do with her life during all this and is wondering why she is still catching bounties. I have to admit I enjoyed this one more than the last few books and will be looking for the next one.

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#77 Look Alive Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich

2018-12-31T17:29:47Z

The story line in this one deals with Stephanie and Lula working in a deli that Vinnie got as backing on a bond that someone skipped out on. Due to their hijinks and a crazy thing like managers disappearing the deli goes viral on social media. It doesn’t last long, and Stephanie does end up finding out what happened to the missing managers. At some point this series just needs to be shelved in either humor or fantasy since it bears almost no relation to the real world.

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