Reviewed by L.D.Y. Trade, 340 pages, 2006 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: It’s that weakness for chick-lit. Synopsis: Thirty-three-year-old Iris Hedge has left California for a dream job in New York City, only to lose it to ‘restructuring’ before she’s even settled in. Now she’s broke and stranded in a city where she barely knows […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover, 304 pages, 2006 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: A few guest spots on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report and a few episodes of Strangers With Candy have resulted in much love for Amy Sedaris (and an impulse buy of the complete dvd boxset of Strangers With Candy). Synopsis: Why […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in trade), 382 pages, 2006 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: Bet you can’t read just one. Synopsis: Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, along with the other members of the Nursery Crime Division, is hot on the trail of a fresh crime, this time involving a missing journalist nicknamed ‘Goldy,’ some bears, […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover, 108 pages, 2006 Rating: 8/10 Reason for Reading: We’ll call this a tribute to the mid-term elections of our southern neighbours. Synopsis: George and Laura Bush take their daughters to visit George Sr and Barbara for their birthdays, and are also joined by George’s charming assortment of brothers…but they’re doing it […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Trade, 342 pages, 2006 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: I loved She’s Got Issues, and after having the opportunity to interview Stephanie Lessing last year it was a sure thing that I’d be reading her next book as soon as it came out. Synopsis: Renegade Zoe Rose is hardly the target audience […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover, 310 pages, 2006 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: Why stop now? Synopsis: Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter, of the klutzy, mistake-prone sort. When the daughter of the oh-so-hot Ranger, one of her colleagues (if someone a thousand times more talented can still be referred to as a colleague), goes missing, […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in trade), 386 pages, 2005 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: I’ve loved all of Fforde’s books. Synopsis: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall…or did he? Detective Inspector Jack Spratt is looking into the possibility that the hard-living, womanizing egg was actually murdered, with possible […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in mass market June 2007), 279 pages, 2006 Rating: 8/10 Reason for Reading: How could I resist something this wacky? Even the cover made me giggle. Synopsis: Oh, what’s a lonely serial killer to do? Find a social club, of course. But what if, like ‘Douglas Fairbanks Jr.’ – a […]

Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in trade), 272 pages, 2006 Rating: 8/10 Reason for Reading: A portable, fictional blog? Sounded intriguing. Synopsis: Anonymous Lawyer is a hiring partner at a huge law firm, and he didn’t get where he is playing nice. He decides to start up a blog, where he chronicles life as a […]