In her book, Wendy McNaughton, a former Artist-in-Residence at a San Francisco hospice, has written and illustrated a beautiful book offering insight based on personal experience and the “the five things” she learned from a professional caregiver. The result is a very easy to read book on the many ways to say goodbye when a loved one is dying.
4.41 stars on Goodreads, 4.4 on Amazon
Who doesn't love a cozy mystery? Brooklyn
Wainwright is a bookbinder and restorer and has a habit of stumbling across
dead bodies in libraries or library adjacent buildings. In this installment Brooklyn
is presenting at the National Library Association’s annual conference in her
hometown. San Francisco. And she’s getting married that Saturday to the handsome
British security officer introduced in the first book of the series.
At the conference Brooklyn reconnects with her two best friends from
college whom she hasn’t seen or spoken to in 20 years, since Brooklyn was
caught in the middle of Heather and Sara’s competition for the same man. At a
surprise wedding shower during the conference, both Heather and Sara present
Brooklyn with rare first editions of The Three Musketeers and The
Blue Fairy Book.
The mystery in this story doesn’t
come into play until more than a third of the way through the book. One of the two
friends is found dead under a pile of books in the basement of the conference hotel
and Brooklyn discovers that one of the books she received is a forgery. Was her
murdered friend involved in the forgery scheme? How about the boyfriend, now
husband, whom Heather never trusted? And just who is trying to take the book
from Brooklyn?
If I had one criticism for this
book, it would be the overuse of terms of endearment. It got a little repetitive.
Recipes for the food served at
the wedding appear at the back of the book.
The 17th book in the
series, The Twelve Books of Christmas, is scheduled to be released later
this year. All the books are available
within the library cooperative. Ask a
Reference Librarian for help in getting the titles not in the EPL collection.
4.11 stars on Goodreads, 4.6 on
Amazon
