#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon A Palm, a Balm, or a Bomb? My #bookreview for "A Palm for Mrs Pollifax" by Dorothy Gilman (Mrs Pollifax Mystery #4) on my #bookblog here. Our #goldenyears spy gets into a potentially explosive situation! #BeatTheBacklist #CloakDaggerChal #TheClassicsClub
http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/03/23/a-palm-a-balm-or-a-bomb/

A Palm, a Balm, or a Bomb?
Book Review for “A Palm for Mrs Pollifax” by Dorothy Gilman (Mrs Pollifax #4). Summary: “”What we are looking for – aside from the stolen plutonium, Mrs. Pollifax – is evil …
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #CCSpin 43 #BookReview - Scout-ing for Justice. My #bookreview for "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, on my #bookblog now. Thanks to #TheClassicsClub for getting me to finally read this Pulitzer Prize winning, debut novel from 1960! #BeatTheBacklist
http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/03/13/tcls-ccspin-43-bookreview-scout-ing-for-justice/

TCL’s #CCSpin 43 #BookReview – Scout-ing for Justice.
Book Review for “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. Summary: “‘Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ A lawyer’s advice …
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The Last Battle Mystery!
Book Review for “Towards Zero” by Agatha Christie. Summary: “What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life …
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog#BookThreads #booksky 📚💙 #bookstodon Verbal and Literal Bombs. My #bookreview for "Table Two" by Marjorie Wilenski, on my #bookblog now. Thanks @DeanStPress for giving me a copy of this fascinating, and surprisingly insightful #WWII era novel. #TheClassicsClub #BeatTheBacklist #DeanStreetDecember
http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2025/12/28/verbal-and-literal-bombs/

Verbal and Literal Bombs.
Book Review for “Table Two” by Marjorie Wilenski. Summary: “Marjorie Wilenski’s only novel, as biting and funny as Barbara Pym at her crankiest, follows an office of women translators at the …
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Cruising on Denial.
Book Review for “Death on the Nile” by Agatha Christie. Summary: “The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the hea…
The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Do You Believe in Magic? My #bookreview for "Miss Carter and the Ifrit" by Susan Alice Kirby, on my #bookblog now. Thanks to @DeanStreetPress for this lovely #novella in time for #NovNov #TheClassicsClub #BeatTheBacklist.
http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2025/11/15/do-you-believe-in-magic/

Do You Believe in Magic?
Book Review for “Miss Carter and the Ifrit” by Susan Alice Kirby. Summary: “It’s the final months of World War II and Georgina Carter, a single woman in her late forties with a drab job in th…
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TCL’s #CCSpin #42 Book Review – From Lovers to… ?
Book Review for “My Mortal Enemy” by Willa Cather. Summary: “Willa Cather’s protagonist in My Mortal Enemy is Myra Henshawe, who as a young woman gave up a fortune to marry for love—a b…
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Village Missives.
Book Review for “Dear Hugo” by Molly Clavering. Summary: “Sara Monteith makes an ideal correspondent for Hugo Jamieson, brother of her lost love Ivo, killed in the war before they could marry…
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Mum(my)s The Word!
Book Review for “The Golden Child” by Penelope Fitzgerald. Summary: “Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel, The Golden Child, combines a deft comedy of manners with a classic mystery set in Londo…
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#ShortStorySunday – You Bet Your Future Life!
Review for “The Veldt” a Short Story by Ray Bradbury. Summary: “The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants.” Age: Adult; Genres: Genre &#…
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