Daily Archives: April 16, 2018

Funny and fun to solve mystery in this great series

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Iiiireader

Farewell, My Cuckoo: A Birds of a Feather Mystery

By: Marty Wingate

Rating: 5 of 5

This is another fun entry in the A Birds of a Feather Mystery series. I’ve enjoyed all of the books in this series though I thought the last entry (prior to this one) was a little off course. With “Farewell My Cuckoo”, Marty Wingate has brought out, what I feel, is the best of the series thus far.

Julia Lanchester is the manager of the TIC, Tourist Information Center, at Fotheringham Estate. She and her boyfriend Michael have just attended a dear friend’s wedding. Julia has the distinct feeling that marriage (or at least a proposal) may be in her immediate future, too. However, when she and Michael return home from the wedding, Michael’s sister Pammy has shown up to stay overnight (camped out on the sofa.) When overnight turns to two days and then a week and then Pammy starts buying groceries and doing chores around the house, Julia is concerned that Pammy has moved in for good.

Then Willow, one of Julia’s dear friends, stumbles (literally) over a corpse. Julia is determined to stay out of the investigation of the murder of That Poor Man (what she calls him as no one knows who he is) but she is pulled in almost against her will.

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Great 1950’s style designs – printed on one side of the page

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Iiiireader

Fashionable 50s: The 1950s Coloring Book

By: LightBurst Media

Rating: 5 of 5

This is a fabulous coloring book inspired by the fashions and society of the 1950’s. I haven’t really seen anything like it before and was captured by the cover page and bought it sight unseen otherwise. It turns out that it is part of a series that (currently) includes the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s.

The book includes everything from a sock hop to a singer who is more than slightly reminiscent of Elvis. I love the design with the young woman and the typewriters as I learned to type on an old mechanical typewriter. The design with the young girl and the forty-fives reminded me of my older sister, though she listened to music on that style of record player in the 1960s.

The designs are definitely detailed but do not include tiny and intricate areas to color. The designs have full backgrounds. My only nit with the book is that the designs simply stop at a certain point. I wish that the artist/publisher had included a framing line at the outer edges for a more polished look.

I hope that they plan on doing a sixties version (from Jackie Kennedy to hippies and Sargent Pepper style psychedelic fashions.) How cool would that be. ETA – apparently the company has published a sixties issue which I will be picking up soon!

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