Recent Reviews
Come and Find Me – The BOLO Books Review (UK Edition)
Come and Find Me is the fifth book in Sarah Hilary’s excellent and vastly under-rated mystery series. Like the others that precede it, this new novel puts DI Marnie Rome and her partner, Noah Jake, through the ringer – both emotionally and physically. However, as...
If I Die Tonight – The BOLO Books Review
The women of crime fiction have already made quite a mark on 2018 and we are only a few months into the year. The trend is going to continue next week when Alison Gaylin releases her latest impressive stand-alone suspense novel, If I Die Tonight. Crime fiction...
Dodging and Burning – The BOLO Books Review
There are few things as exciting to a reader as discovering an author at the beginning of their career. That sense of the unknown in palpable and once it is clear that the writer has the skills to captivate and entertain, the wonder at the magic of it all is...
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2014 Statistics
From the Booking Desk: I am often asked how I decide what to review. This is far too complicated a process for me to distill into one blog post, but I did think it would be interesting to do an analysis of how I obtained the books I reviewed for 2014. Total Number of...
Serial – The Podcast Phenomenon
From The Booking Desk: The success of the "Serial" podcast can only be described as a phenomenon. One of those times when something in the ether gels and a piece of pop culture goes from relative obscurity to fanaticism (or more accurately in "Serial’s" case: from...
Azar Nafisi @ The Ivy Bookshop
Last night, humanities dynamo Azar Nafisi spoke at The Ivy Bookshop in Mt. Washington, Maryland. Nafisi, the celebrated author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, is on a book tour for her latest non-fiction gem, The Republic of Imagination. Azar Nafisi’s remarks for the...
