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Book Review: The Woman In White: Part 1
Author: Wilkie Collins Book Blurb: One of the greatest mystery thrillers ever written, Wilkie Collins‘ The Woman in White was a phenomenal bestseller in the 1860s, achieving even greater success than works by Dickens, Collins’s friend and mentor. Full of surprise, intrigue, and suspense, this vastly entertaining novel continues to enthrall readers today. The story begins with an […]
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Life Update: 11/29/22
I have not posted and will not be posting for a bit due to a sudden death in the family. I took a break a bit ago due to caretaking and our dear loved one, after gaining her independence back, took a sudden turn for the worse and passed away last week. I will be […]
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Nonfiction November Book Review: American Sherlock
Author: Kate Winkler Dawson Rating: 3/5 stars Book Blurb: Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities–beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books–sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the “American Sherlock Holmes,” Edward Oscar Heinrich was one […]
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Nonfiction November Book Review: Stolen Focus
Author: Johann Hari Rating: 4/5 stars Book Blurb: In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and […]
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Book Review: Murder on Astor Place: A Gaslight Mystery
Author: Victoria Thompson Series: A Gaslight Mystery #1 Rating: 4/5 stars Book Blurb: After a routine delivery, Sarah visits her patient in a rooming house–and discovers that another boarder, a young girl, has been killed. At the request of Sergeant Frank Malloy, she searches the girl’s room. She discovers that the victim is from one […]
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British Library Crime Classics Project: Book Review: The Cornish Coast Murder
Author: John Bude Publication Date: 1935 Rating: 3/5 stars Book Blurb: “Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualized a scene of this nature—himself in one arm-chair, a police officer in another, and between them . . . a mystery.” So thinks the Reverend Dodd—vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen and […]
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Book Haul!!!!!!
I’ve gotten quite a few books lately, I’m on a bit of a classics kick. I thought I would share… These I purchased within the past month. My NetGalley Aquisitions: And Free from the Guttenberg Project: Looking forward to reading these in the upcoming months!
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Friday Reads 8/26/22
Happy Friday! These are the books I will be working on over the weekend and into next week. My mother- in- law is on the mend. She is doing much better, thank goodness. I only read one book this past week but it was a good one, and provided a nice escape. I put down […]
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Book Review: Anna and Her Daughters
Author: D. E. Stevenson Publication Date: 1958 Rating: 4/5 stars Book Blurb: For Anna Harcourt and her three daughters—lovely Helen, who always gets what she wants, young Jane, who makes the best of what she has, and Rosalie, the middle daughter who wavers somewhere in between—the world is turned upside down by their father’s death […]
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DNF- BABEL
Yep, you read that right. Made it about 200 pages in. I can’t do 560 pages of this, this will send me spiraling into a depression. For what Kuang is doing, speaking as an African- American female who studied Mandarin for over 10 years, this is amazing. The takes on racism and translation are accurate, […]
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