Katherine's Book Backyard

 I love book fairs. Always a chance to grab books from writers new to me, often free or at a discount. Sure, I have to sign up for their new...

  Mystery books are my first love. My parents were big readers. My father favoried non-fiction--biographies, books about the Civil War, popu...

  A man whose brain has been altered creates his own reality for an afterlife. This work by Japanese author Haruki Murakami is a wonderful i...

 This is Emi Yagi's first novel--translated from the Japanese by David Boyd and Lucy North. It's a fast read with an intriguing pres...

 If you're a fan of Only Murders in the Building , as I am, you know there's a dark side to living in those beautiful old buildings ...

  I love fairy tales, way beyond the ten or so that are in heavy rotation. (You know the ones I mean--Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Rapu...

  One of the things that makes my day job so interesting is that in addition to reading scripts, I also read books. Even a bad book is often...