Tax Day the First

A brief reminder: Today is tax day in the United States! (Canada’s day comes later to extend the fun.)

If you’ve finished your taxes, bravo. And if you have a little time for reading and relaxation, let me once again recommend David Hankins’ very funny book, Death and the Taxman!

After sharing an ill-advised cup of tea with IRS auditor Frank Totmann, Grim finds himself trapped in Frank’s life amid a world of dangers: love, betrayal, reckless cabbies, implacable demon hunters, and the incessant needs that keep his body ticking . . . for now.

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Recommended Reading List: March 2026

Technically, the first thing I finished reading was Anton Chekov’s The Seagull for my theatre history class. I’d read both the play and the short story the first time I was in college 100,000 years ago, and didn’t like them then. I decided to give the dang thing a chance again. Still didn’t like it, […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/04/04/recommended-reading-list-march-2026/

#freenonfiction #OnWriting #Plays #RecommendedReading #AllyCarter

#WhatWereReading : Ivana loved The Brides, by Charlotte Cross, a fantastic prequel to Dracula, with a feminist twist & plenty of Gothic atmosphere. Out now from Tor Nightfire.

#books #livres #CharlotteCross
#TheBrides #Gothic #Dracula #fiction #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #RecommendedReading

#WhatWereReading : Joe's favourite read of last year has just come out in paperback - Robert MacFarlane's wonderful Is a River Alive? from Penguin Books

Highly recommend and inspired reading.

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Recommended Reading List: February, 2026

I had a lovely February of reading. Lots more time than I expected, which is fun. As regular readers of this feature know, I don’t recommend everything nor should I, considering I’ve also been reading 300-year-old plays for my Theatre History class. But there’s lots of good here, including a nonfiction book that everyone in […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/03/01/recommended-reading-list-february-2026/

#freenonfiction #Mysteries #RecommendedReading #Thriller #CaseyStegman

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I just finished and really enjoyed this book. It's very readable and has more to do with grieving than science. #recommendedreading

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-smallest-lights-in-the-universe-a-memoir_sara-seager/21060502/#isbn=0525576266

The other day, at an Under The Volcano event in #Tepoztlán, I was asked this question.
I cheated a little and said that I would have liked to have the imagination of an entire #ShortStory anthology.
What's the #book by another #author that YOU wish you had written?

#UnderTheVolcano2026 #Books #RecommendedReading #bookstodon

Recommended Reading List (Belated Edition): July 2025

Not as much to recommend in July, primarily because I didn’t like what I read enough to recommend it. So one novel and a nonfiction book, as well as some articles. In case you’re wondering why this post is for July, I got behind on posting my lists and…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/12/30/recommended-reading-list-belated-edition-july-2025/

#freenonfiction #RecommendedReading #DanielSilva #EvgeniaPerez #GabrielAllon

#WhatWereReading : Fiona loved Salina Yoon's Penguin and Pinecone from Bloomsbury.

It's an older book, but just such a warm, charming story of love & friendship we wanted to share it.

#books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #PenguinAndPinecone #RecommendedReading #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #SalinaYoon #PictureBooks

#WhatWereReading : Joe enjoyed Yasuhiko Nishizawa's The Man Who Died Seven Times (pub Pushkin Press), translated by Jesse Kirkwood (who also translated Matsumoto's Tokyo Express, which we loved).

A family murder mystery with a dash of time-loop; think Knives Out meets Groundhog Day!

#books #livres #bookshops #librairies #CrimeFiction #RomanPolicier #JapaneseFiction #FictionInTranslation #bookstodon #YasuhikoNishisawa #TheManWhoDiedSevenTimes #RecommendedReading