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THE THIRTEENTH TALE by Diane Setterfield
I looked forward to reading Diane Setterfield’s novel THE THIRTEENTH TALE with some anticipation, because it sounded so intriguing. A reclusive author with a penchant for embroidering the truth, now...
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Websites to watch: A FEW MORE PAGES
I cannot say enough good things about this site. When I logged on, it was easy to find Katy’s most popular post, because she had it featured in a sidebar. Pretty soon, I was immersed in a Guest post...
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Websites to watch: RUNDPINNE
When Jennifer of Rundpinne tells you that she is an avid reader, you’d better believe it. She’s read 121 books this year, and it’s only April! Wow! I don’t think I’ve met anyone who got through so...
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Websites to watch: JR Tomlin on writing and more
I love the tagline of this blog: A Writer in the wild, wild days of publishing’s destructive construction. JR (Jeanne) Tomlin’s blog mixes excerpts from novels by other authors, book reviews and her...
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THE FICTION ENTHUSIAST
I just love the light-hearted quirkiness of THE FICTION ENTHUSIAST website run by Christie. She is a Mama, an avid book reader, and someone who also has to juggle other things that life throws our...
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Summertime approaches
Everyone, This blog will be taking its annual vacation until the end of August. This means that unless there is something pressing, there won’t be much activity here. Except for my book reviews,...
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Greetings from Northern California
The view from Lucia The view from Lucia Everyone, I hope that you and your loved ones had a safe & happy Holiday Season! I’m just back home from California where my husband and I spent Christmas...
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Friday’s Internet Goodies: Big Als Books and Pals
This Friday, I’m going to start a series called Internet Goodies, which is about various websites that I feel are useful to readers, writers and indie publishers alike. I chose to start with Big Al’s...
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Friday’s Internet Goodies: Paper Mustang
No, it’s not a car, but a website dedicated to Indie authors, which is why I’ve included it in my “internet goodies” category. Sue Owen, Sharon Nelson and possible other reviewers aim to help Indie...
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Happy Fall Everyone!
This Fall, I’m going to confine myself to book reviews of various books I’ve been reading over the spring and summer. Much though I’d like to, I can’t do more than that as I’m in my last year at...
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Lucinda Riley’s THE SEVEN SISTERS SERIES. Narrated by Lucinda Riley and others.
How I loved the concept of this book. The idea that an elusive billionaire (Pa Salt) adopted six baby girls and named them after the Pleiades, the seventh one, Merope, mysteriously absent. When Pa Salt...
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LADY OF AVALON (AVALON #3) by Marion Zimmer Bradley & Diana L. Paxson
This novel is three stories in one, and serves to bridge the time period between FOREST HOUSE which takes place from 86 to 96 CE, to 452 CE when Viviane takes over as Lady of Avalon at the age of 26....
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CLAIMED BY THE ENEMY by Shauna Roberts
Author Shauna Roberts knows how to tell a story. Within pages we meet the two protagonists (Princess Nindalla and farm-boy Ur-Sag-Enki) and know that these two strangers will become important to one...
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MAGPIE MURDERS, a novel by Anthony Horowitz, narrated by Samantha Bond &...
I love it when I experience a really clever piece of writing. That is why I am such a fan of Georgette Heyer’s THE MASQUERADERS, John Grisham’s THE RUNAWAY JURY and Agatha Christie’s THE MURDER OF...
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THE LION & THE ROSE by Kate Quinn, narrated by Leila Birch (Carmelina), Maria...
THE LION & THE ROSE really made this duology. I already loved THE SERPENT & THE PEARL, where Carmelina is making her crostata, marzipan & tortes, Giulia is running downstairs gossiping...
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Elly Griffiths’ THE HOUSE AT SEA’S END (RUTH GALLOWAY #3), narrated by Jane...
A house is crumbling into the sea on the north Norfolk coast, taking its secrets with it, when a visiting German archaeologist dies suddenly. He has been stabbed in the heart with a pair of scissors....
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THE ROSE CODE by Kate Quinn, narrated by Saskia Maarleveld
What a book! Usually when one reads a volume in which there are three main female characters, it gets very girly, very silly and very superficial very quickly. This does not. Osla Kendall, a socialite...
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THE TUSCAN SECRET by Angela Petch
Although this novel opens with a horrifying image, it is not filled with violence. Instead it is a braided narrative about two women, mother and daughter, and they ways in which they did (or didn’t)...
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A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN by Betty Smith
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN delineates the life of a young girl between the ages of 11 and 17, who grew up in an impoverished family in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn NY 100 years ago. Although much...
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Elly Griffith’s THE DARK ANGEL (RUTH GALLOWAY #10), narrated by Jane McDowell
Frank is back! At least that is how a cliffhanger of an ending brings THE DARK ANGEL to its close. If anything, this volume is even more dramatic than Elly Griffith’s usual standard. It is written in a...
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