#BLOGANUARY – What Colleges Did You Attend? day 3

By Jackie Houchin #Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year.    3. What colleges did you attend? Colleges? Plural?  Seriously? Well, I did attend the “College of Medical and Dental Assistants” right out of high school.  I did the…

BOOK REVIEW – Up On The Woof Top

By Spencer Quinn (Author), Jim Frangione (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin All of the Chet & Bernie books by Spencer Quinn are “top dog” and this one was no different. UP ON THE ROOF TOP of course has a Christmas theme, so in some ways is “softer” than Quinn’s usual mysteries, kind of cozy, if…

BOOK REVIEW – The Book of Hours

by Davis Bunn (Author), Rose Robinson (Narrator), Thomas Nelson (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin When a grieving and very ill Brian Blackstone finally makes it to the inherited mansion his wife left him, he is confronted with bad news and ill will from every side. Castle Priory – the crumbling house and the rented outbuildings – is up…

BOOK REVIEW – A Nose For Trouble, Riverbend K-9s, book #1

by K.T. Lee (Author), Ann Richardson (Narrator), Vertical Line Publishing, LLC (Publisher) An Audiobook review by Jackie Houchin  I enjoyed A NOSE FOR MISCHIEF(and the narration) featuring dogs, intrigue, suspense and a growing romance. Zoey Butler looses her research job in a high-ranking Energy company when the FBI raids the company for fraud. Suddenly no one in the industry wants…

BOOK REVIEW – Playing It Safe: Electra McDonnell, Book 3

by Ashley Weaver (Author), Alison Larkin (Narrator), Dreamscape Media (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin   I like the unusual characters in this series – a family of safecrackers, forgers, and pick pockets. But in wartime (WWII) the British secret service can’t be choosy. In this third book by Ashley Weaver, Electra is asked to do a dangerous bit…