Thursday, August 20, 2015

Embedded: How Many Re-reads Before a Book Becomes a Part of Your Psyche?

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On the banks of Plum Creek, in Walnut Grove, Minnesota This summer I had the chance to travel to South Dakota for the Laura Ingalls Wild...
Saturday, May 02, 2015

Format, Format - Who's got the format?

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While I've been in non-blogging mode, I have noticed that among the readers I know - it has become more a question of not what they are ...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

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I think this may be the first graphic novel I've written about here. I'm not a graphic novel fanatic. I like what I like. And I find...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Deadly Sisterhood - Ladies of the Renaissance

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Have I been in a Renaissance mode lately? Yep. (Just ask me about the different Italian city/states.) While reading Blood and Beauty , I ...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Blood and Beauty

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I'm not one to read huge novels lately - I'm still in grad school for goodness sake - but I guess I have made an exception for Sar...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

The Anatomist’s Apprentice by Tessa Harris

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Lord Crick has died. While convulsing. And turning yellow. And providing his family with a gruesome corpse. Although young Lord Crick had s...
Friday, July 12, 2013

The Astronaut Wives Club: The Story of the Ladies Behind the Spacemen.

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I'm not sure what it is about July, but I always think July = the Moon Landing. It was on July 20, 1969 to be precise.  Such an adventu...
Friday, September 07, 2012

The Shakespeare Thefts : In Search of the First Folios

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I'm a bit of a Shakespeare geek really, and so when I saw this title I had to add it to my 'to read' list.  The Shakespeare Th...

I've Been Roaming Around...

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Grad school sometimes does not leave much time for other things. I'm back again after a rather long break. And hopefully I will have mor...
Monday, October 24, 2011

A Bit of Scandinavian Crime Fiction: The Ice Princess and Sun Storm

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Earlier this fall I dived deeply into Scandinavian crime fiction. We are talking a bit beyond the Steig Larsson Millennium series. (Although...
Monday, October 17, 2011

Yep - Fallen Behind Again

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I've been reading a great deal. Kinda surprising since I have posted nothing! Yikes. Gotta get back into the saddle again. Meanwhile -...
Tuesday, July 05, 2011

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda

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Meet the gang at McQuarrie Middle School. There's Tommy our narrator, who has a crush on Sara.  Kellen is his best bud and there is Harv...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Organize Your Corpses : Murder and More

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Mary Jane Maffini does it again! Another great mystery series! This series is set in upstate New York, with a fun group of characters and s...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Mama Does Time

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Florida native, Deborah Sharp does her home state proud with her book Mama Does Time.  Mama's home town of Himmarshee is not necessary ...