For the Armchair Detective Society this month, we chose The Huntress by Kate Quinn. We had loved The Alice Network so much that given the choice between The Huntress and branching out into some Dorothy Sayer books, we chose The Huntress. I would like to say that we all loved this one, but we ran into a hiccup. This month’s meeting had to be postponed due to COVID-19. So, in liu of my own review peppered with thoughts from the rest of the group, I present my lone review, while lifting a glass in solidarity […]
Book Review: The Collector’s Apprentice
I’ll admit, this is one of those books where I can’t tell if it started dragging because I was getting slogged down in all the technical art study and theory, or if it started dragging because I had half a dozen other books I wanted to pick up. (That half a dozen other books always seems more tempting when the book you’re reading has a deadline…) Disregarding those moments where I really felt like I was slogging (and I admit, I started skimming through those sections just to keep pace), the book was pretty good. […]
Book Review: The Alice Network
I’m spending some time this month going over the books I read in 2019 and thinking about whether I ought to fix the fact that I never wrote out a proper review for them. (If you looked at my post 2019 in Books: The Full Rundown, you’ll get a picture of everything that I read this year.) A fair number of those books were read for book club (better known as the CH Armchair Detective Society). The purpose of this book club was mostly for work – better team bonding, but doing so in the […]