Deep Valley Confidential

Here are my top 5 children's and middle grade books of 2021. Spoiler - they are all middle grade. Usually I find a lot of children's...

Last year I listened to two audiobooks. This year I listened to 28. Clearly, that is an uptick due to being able to leave my home. I have to...

I have done a disservice to Buff and Bobo. If you don't recognize the names, that is because I only gave them the most cursory of introd...

  Hey, it's a new family - the Campbells! And they are weird. Seriously weird for Janet. The Dad is a former professor, an intellectual ...

  Goodness, Susan really does have the beauty of Gwenn with the nice demeanor of Alcie. She is the best of both worlds and Bobby Parrish mus...

 Tippy is back! And she's knocked up! Ken Prescott is the father, of course.  Just kidding, it's our stalwart Peter. There is some h...

  It has been ages since I read this, but one thing sticks in my mind - the awful way the Hollisters respond to a possible Filipino housegue...

 There is much to find icky in this book and it can all be laid at the feet of that decrepit old man on the hipper cover above - Bobby Parri...

  During the Covid times I had the hardest time reading new fiction. I just didn't want real life or anything remotely sad. Super-editor...

  Well, you can't tell from the look of terror on Dria's face, or the look of profound sadness on Tom's, but at the start of HIG...

If I had just read Alexi Grishin's THE LEGENDS OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR instead of only claiming to have read it, I might be sitting in m...

  I honestly can't tell which of these covers is most horrifying! Just kidding, the one in the center definitely is. But it's too ba...

  Oh the Jordans! What a lovely family! Except for Gwenn, of course. Our heroine for this tome is Susan. She was little in the previous book...