L. D. Christianson

A note before I get into the meat of the post: Several of my subscribers reported not receiving a notification about last week's post,...

Hello everyone. It's been a while since I've posted and I wanted to get one more post in before Christmas. It won't be a long one, but I...

My favorite vintage girls' series.

As you may have noticed if you get my notifications, this post was not published at my usual time. As an online college student, my...

I had never wondered what would happen if you put Dr. John Watson and Lord Peter Wimsey together in a book, and you probably haven’t...

I suppose, technically, watching Star Wars with my dad was my first experience with sci-fi. Or maybe it was my Dora and the Purple Planet...

Well, this is ironic. In last week’s post, I defended Deep Space Nine  as “real” Star Trek  when many other reviewers didn’t see it that...

The large photo book is The Heart of Australia by Peter Jarver. When I was a kid, I had a video game called “Ty the Tasmanian Tiger.”...

This week’s topic grew out of my most recent read, Margery Allingham’s The Late Pig . It’s a short book, my copy is just shy of 140...

Intro & Recap In last week’s post, I spent a good bit of time looking at what an American hero is and why they have faded in recent...

Introduction I’ve had this idea for a while, but always shied away as I don’t want this blog to be seen as political in any way, and I...

A man at my church once shared a story that went like this: a Sunday school teacher asked “what is grey, has a fluffy tail, and eats...

This blog might not exist if my mom hadn’t read to me every night from birth to teenagerhood. Maybe I would have still fallen in love...

The last review in the series & an update about technical difficulties.

We have made it to our penultimate Queen, Margery Allingham. I had not heard of Allingham, at least not that I remember, until watching...

This is the third post in my Queens of Crime series. Reading Dorothy Sayers was a bit of an adventure for me, so I hope this review will...

I must begin my reviews of the Queens of Crime with the Queen herself, Agatha Christie. I’ve read and loved so many of her books, so I...

The first post in a series on my favorite mystery authors.