What makes this book especially satisfying is its sensory richness. The attention to detail is so precise you can practically smell the bread cooling on the racks, the sharpness of cheese, the damp stone after rain. It is comfort reading with substance: sunshine and laughter paired with the everyday complications life throws at us, and the quiet resilience required to meet them.
This is not a book about capital-H heroes. Instead, it centers on people who engage in small acts of service, kindness, and yes, heroism—not for recognition or glory, but because it was the right thing to do in the moment. These are stories of people showing up when it would have been easier not to.
The Locked Room is clever, cozy without being complacent, and deeply satisfying for puzzle-lovers. If you adore classic detective fiction but crave a fresh perspective, Harriet White deserves a place on your shelf—and very likely, in your reading rotation for a long while to come.
About the Book: A Treatise on Martian Chiropractic Manipulation and Other Satirical Tales Human beings are flawed creatures, and humor is the perfect means to exploit the endless fodder of our shortcomings. This multi-genre collection of twenty-one short satirical stories will leave you smirking, chuckling, scratching your head, and maybe even muttering to yourself […]
There is also something deeply comforting about the cultural shorthand Spencer-Fleming uses. References to PBS, public radio–adjacent sensibilities, and a certain late-20th-century, educated-Northeast worldview made me feel instantly at home. It is clear the author lives in or very near my cultural zeitgeist, and those small, knowing touches add a layer of authenticity that is easy to underestimate and hard to fake.There is also something deeply comforting about the cultural shorthand Spencer-Fleming uses. References to PBS, public radio–adjacent sensibilities, and a certain late-20th-century, educated-Northeast worldview made me feel instantly at home. It is clear the author lives in or very near my cultural zeitgeist, and those small, knowing touches add a layer of authenticity that is easy to underestimate and hard to fake.
you chose a long nut :) Great answers. LOve the Emma Thompson answer too.
Everyone is choosing such great narrators. How fun!!
Well cooked!! It’s interesting that everyone so far has chosen a different narrator… I wonder how long it will take to see a repeat of one, lol.
I love your choice for Main Course.
Whoooff! Thanks for joining my feasting. “Hi” to Zorro! I liked your yummie treats here today. Happy Feasting. AfF, BarK!
Like your appetizer and main course. Great choices.
Joy to the World is a favorite song of mine.
Great feast and really great job on the soup!
Love your salad and soup. Happy Friday.
Wow–I chose Emma Thompson too!
Your soup was so cleverly made. :x)
And I would love to have a large sized salad!
Great Feasting!
I love Patrick Stewart’s voice too!
Loved your soup!!! and I have to listen to that song now…(main course)
Michele sent me your way today!
Love you salad. I bet that was a grand time too. Have a great FF and weekend. :)
Captain Piccard? Why not alternate chapters between Piccard and Captain Kirk?!
I love your salad – I’d take Paris in this decade as well! Happy Friday!
Ooh, we share a similar appetizer! ^_^ I love your feast, esp your soup and salad!
Have a great weekend!
Same dessert, even though I didn’t write down about holding wrist under cold water, I do too.