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.
This is surly a classic one – and an excellent photo as well.
See other entry for comment. I got confused. lol.
I worry too when hubby or kids are on the road, or out. So that makes at least two of us. :o) I can rest when all my chicks are in the nest.
This looks remarkably like a sponsored post, payperpost perhaps? I could have sworn part of the Terms and Conditions in payperpost is that you declare openly which are sponsored posts and which are not.
Steph didn’t provide a legitimate email address, but I’m responding anyway, because it pisses me off when people decided to police other people’s blogs, rather than worrying about their own writing.
It especially pisses me off when they don’t get their facts right.
For the record, while there is a text link ad in this post, the post itself is not a sponsored review. Those are clearly marked, tagged as “sponsored.”
In addition, there is NO PAID BLOGGING SErVICE that requires every post be labeled. Some require certain posts include a badge, which is generally provided. All suggest, and some require, a site-wide disclosure, which I have, which I’ve had for months, in fact.
For future reference, any comment I receive that doesn’t have legitimate contact info will be left in the spam queue.
I own my words. So should you.
Just saying.