Marcy G’s Reviews

Marcy G.
of the South Branch Library

reviewing for BookGuide since 2014; presenting Book Talks for much longer than that

Marcy has also contributed many, many reviews while appearing on episodes of KFOR’s Book Chat — browse past years of the Book Chat review archives (sadly not indexed by reviewer).

Marcy’s most recent reviews…

Sit, Stay, Heal: What Dogs Can Teach Us About Living Well
by Renee Alsarraf (Biography Alsarraf)
reviewed in May 2023

A Streetcar Named Murder
by T.G. Herren (Herren)
reviewed in April 2023

Water’s End
by Paige Shelton (Shelton)
reviewed in April 2023

Dashing Through the Snowbirds
by Donna Andrews (Andrews)
reviewed in January 2023

A Deadly Bone to Pick
by Peggy Rothschild (Rothschild)
reviewed in January 2023

The Wedding Plot
by Paula Munier (Munier)
reviewed in August 2022

The Diva Says Cheesecake
by Krista Davis (Davis)
reviewed in July 2022

Arsenic and Adobo
by Mia P. Manansala (Manansala)
reviewed in May 2022

For Batter or Worse
by Jenn McKinlay (McKinlay)
reviewed in May 2022

The Secret Staircase: A Victorian Village Mystery
by Sheila Connolly (Connolly)
reviewed in August 2021

Carville’s Cure: Leprosy, Stigma and the Fight for Justice
by Pam Fessler (362.196 Fes)
reviewed in June 2021

Save Me From Dangerous Men
by S.A. Lelchuk (Lelchuk)
reviewed in April 2021

One Night Gone
by Tara Laskowski (Laskowski)
reviewed in February 2021

H is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald (Biography Macdonald)
reviewed in February 2021

The Finders
by Jeffrey Burton (Burton)
reviewed in October 2020

Game of Dog Bones
by Ruth Ward (Ward)
reviewed in October 2020

Game of Dog Bones
by Laurien Berenson (Berenson)
reviewed in August 2020

The Diva Spices it Up
by Krista Davis (Davis)
reviewed in June 2020

Thin Ice
by Paige Shelton (Shelton)
reviewed in May 2020

Brewed Awakening
by Cleo Coyle (Coyle)
reviewed in March 2020

Invitation Only Murder
by Leslie Meier (Meier)
reviewed in February 2020

The Woman Who Smashed Codes
by Jason Fagone (Biography Friedman)
reviewed in September 2018

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Request to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
by Lindsey Fitzharris (Biography Lister)
reviewed in March 2018

Glass Houses
by Louise Penny (Penny)
reviewed in January 2018

The Snacking Dead: A Parody in a Cookbook
by D.B. Walker (641.55 Wal)
reviewed in May 2014

Posted to the BookGuide site in April 2018 | Last updated in May 2023