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About meI began my Library career as Director of a Public Library on the shores of Lake Erie at the age of 22. My husband & I lived in Florida for 18 years, where I was a Librarian/Administrator, before moving to beautiful Glendale, AZ. I am presently a Library Manager and a contributing Book Reviewer for Library Journal and various websites. I have a book blog at www.lesasbookcritiques.blogspot.com where I run weekly contests to give away free ARCs or books.

About my libraryMy library will consist of the books I finish, with an emphasis on mysteries. I read a little of everything, but my favorite genre is crime fiction.

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Lesa,

Just wanted you to know I haven't forgotten your interview questions. I'm just back from tour, and I didn't have a minute to breathe while traveling. But I'll try to get to them in the next couple days.

Meg

posted by megwaiteclayton at 10:47 am (EST) on Jul 26, 2008

Hi Lesa - I read your review of I Shall Not Want on your blog, and I just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed it - and my compliments to you also for not including any spoilers! I'm so glad the book has been published now and I'll be able to talk to other readers about it. I guess it goes without saying that you liked the book, too?
Best regards,
Maggie

posted by MaggieO at 10:15 am (EST) on Jun 11, 2008

Hi Lesa,

My pleasure. Thanks for YOUR friendship! I look forward to exploring your books as well. Where did you live in Florida?

All the best,
Lisa Unger

posted by lisaunger at 1:46 pm (EST) on Nov 26, 2007

Hi, Lesa. My husband and I are on vacation this week and I'm really enjoying a good, fun, fast vacation type mystery, Sudden Mischief by Robert Parker (the 25th in the Spenser series). It came out in paperback in 1998 or 1999. I remember reading and enjoying some of the earlier Spensers, but I don't want to go back before Sudden Mischief...I'd like to read 26, 27 or whatever in the series. I know you read a lot of mysteries and are very knowledgable about them, so I was wondering if you could tell me what Spenser mysteries have come out since Sudden Mischief, or where I could find that out. I tried Amazon, but they were in all kinds of order, and same with Google. I'm counting on Lesa! Thanks, Martha Huntley (mwhuntley@aol.com)

posted by MarthaHuntley at 3:17 pm (EST) on Oct 17, 2007

I'm jealous you got to meet and visit with Brinkley and have him speak at your book festival. I was really impressed with his book. Do please read Tin Roof Blowdown. A number of reviewers say it is Burke's best, and its fiction and spiritual parallels to Brinkley's nonfiction, historical ones are enriching to both books. Blessings, Martha Huntley

posted by MarthaHuntley at 7:20 pm (EST) on Oct 15, 2007

I notice we've read several of the same off beat books -- The Dead Beat; Bill Geist's Way Off the Road (Do you see his bits on CBS Sunday Morning?); Leave Me Along, I'm Reading. I also just finished The Great Deluge. It impressed me mightily. I thought the guy did a tremendous amount of research, plus his living there and was floored by a couple of the comments that said he just used "anectdotal material" and hadn't really researched! Good grief. They must not have liked his conclusions, but I felt after reading it that he really laid out who did what, and who didn't do what. I followed it up with James Lee Burke's Tin Roof Blowdown which is a mystery of course that very much paralleled The Great Deluge. A very violent book but with a strong undercurrent of spirituality. If you've read it, I'd like to know what you thought of it; if you haven't read it yet, you probably would want to. Blessings, Martha Huntley

posted by MarthaHuntley at 9:47 pm (EST) on Oct 12, 2007

Hi, Lesa. I see you recently read Too Darn Hot by Sandra Scoppettone. I just finished it tonight -- started it a couple of days ago. I really like her series for a good, quick read. Faye Quick is a neat character, and I love the WWII NYC (movie) slang and names and places! Have you read anything beside the two Faye Quick books? Apparently she's written quite a few other mysteries. One series seems to be built around songs of the 40's, at least going by the titles. Blessings, Martha Huntley

posted by MarthaHuntley at 9:42 pm (EST) on Oct 12, 2007

Hi Lesa,

I bought the Anne Cleeves book you recommended today. Can't wait to get started on it. I also bought the new Reginald Hill--Death Comes to the Fat Man--that I'd put off buying until I could find to someone tell me if the fat man died or survived. We had to go out of town yesterday, so we listened to the Jim Dale reading of the unabridged last Harry Potter book. I read that he had more than 200 voices in that series. Think of the crank calls he could make! It's time for bed. If you lived in Illinois, you'd be asleep by now!

Hugs,

Jan

posted by janiswatson at 12:21 am (EST) on Jul 28, 2007

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