An Evergreen Tree of Diabolical Knowledge

"Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last." - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Friday, March 27, 2026

“The Historian”, by Elizabeth Kostova

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  642 pages, Little, Brown and Company, ISBN-13: 978-0316011778 Lots of new authors get loads of attention and praise when their first b...
Monday, March 23, 2026

“Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait”, by Carola Hicks

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  256 pages, Vintage Books, ISBN-13: 978-0099526896 Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait was the las...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

“The Woman in the Window”, by A. J. Finn

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    448 pages, HarperCollins, ISBN-13: 978-0062678416 Another book I assigned for the Fraser Public Library’s Mysteries & Munchies b...
Friday, March 13, 2026

“Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” by Patrick Süskind

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  272 Pages, Knopf Doubleday, ISBN-13: 978-0375725845 I read Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind for a history course o...
Monday, March 9, 2026

“Byzantium”, by Stephen Lawhead

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  645 pages, Zondervan, ISBN-13: 978-0061092961 Stephen Lawhead’s Byzantium tells the tale of Aidan, a 10 th Century Irish monk sent ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

“The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes”, by Arthur Conan Doyle, illustrated by Sidney Edward Paget

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  636 pages, Castle Books, ISBN-13: 978-0890090572 I got the omnibus The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes from…hell, I don’t remembe...
Friday, January 30, 2026

“American Gods”, by Neil Gaiman

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  750 pages, William Morrow, ISBN-13: 978-0062472106 Ostensibly, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods is a blend of Americana, fantasy and strand...
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