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Showing posts with label Where Are You Reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Where Are You Reading. Show all posts
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Challenge Complete: Where Are You Reading?

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Where Are You Reading?  Hosted at Book Dragon's Lair This one was all about places. There's one about states...
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Publish & Perish: Review

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Publish & Perish (1997) is the first book in Sally Wright's series starring Ben Reese. Reese is a World War II veteran, former inte...
Friday, June 16, 2017

The Ghost & the Dead Deb: Review

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Penelope Thornton-McClure, co-owener of the Buy the Book bookstore, has a ghost. Not just any ghost. Hers is a P.I. by the name of Jack Shep...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Alfred & Emily: Review

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Alfred & Emily by Doris Lessing is two stories in one. She combines a fictional tale of what the lives of her parents, Alfred and Emily...

Death Finds a Foothold: Review

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Death Finds a Foothold (1961) is the 14th mystery in Glyn Carr's [Frank Stowell Styes] Sir Abercrombie Lewker series. Lewker is a forme...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

The Little Red Guard: Review

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The Little Red Guard (2012) by Wenguang Huang recounts the the author's life in Communist China from 1973 on. The story is held togethe...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O: Review

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Sharyn McCrumb's If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O (1990) is set in the small Appalachian town of Hamelin, Tennessee where Spencer Arrow...
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Monday, May 29, 2017

Decision at Delphi: Review

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Decision at Delphi (1960) by Helen MacInnes Innocents Abroad...Kenneth Strang, architectural illustrator, is off another routine assignment-...
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Friday, May 19, 2017

Petty Theft: Mini Review

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Petty Theft (2014) by Pascal Girard  Awkward. If I had to sum this book up in one word, that's what I'd go with. Pascal (the char...

The Golden Bird: Review

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The Golden Bird: Folk Tales from Slovenia (1969) by Vladimir Kavčič contains eighteen folktales from the heart of Slovenia/Yugoslavia. Thos...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Blind Man with a Pistol: Review

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Blind Man with a Pistol (1969) is the first Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson novel I've read and the last in the series publish...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Murder at Teatime: Review

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Murder at Teatime (1991) by Stefanie Matteson is a cozy mystery series starring Charlotte Graham, Oscar-award winning actress and belle of ...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Trixie Belden & the Gatehouse Mystery: Review

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Trixie Belden is one of the many young detectives who adventures I followed when I was young. My first taste of "girl detectives" ...
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Sunday, March 19, 2017

Murder at Government House

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Murder at Government House (1937) by Elspeth Huxley is the first of her Inspector Vachell stories set in the fictional colony of Chania (co...
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Monday, March 6, 2017

The Body Missed the Boat: Review

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In 1947, when The Body Missed the Boat  by Jack Iams was published, the story was set in Brazzaville in French Equatorial Africa [now the R...
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Monday, February 27, 2017

Zadok's Treasure: Review

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When Sir Toby Glendower's long-time colleague and friend disappears from his archaeological dig near Jerusalem, Toby is persuaded by Bil...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Episode of the Wandering Knife

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Episode of the Wandering Knife (1950) contains three stories--two novellas and a short story--by Mary Roberts Rinehart--the titular "E...
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