Author: John Steinbeck Publisher: Covici Friede, 1937 Genre: Classic Fiction My Rating: A Summary: Four different stories, centered around a young boy named Jody, make up this book. The stories are set on a ranch in Salinas Valley, California during the early twentieth-century. Jody is an only child and the ranch is isolated, so it’s [...]
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Agatha Christie created a challenge for both herself and her readers in writing this, her first “nursery rhyme” mystery. Ten strangers (eight guests and two servants) are lured in various ways to a remote island off the coast of Devon by a Mr. and Mrs. U.N. Owen. There seems to be no one else on [...] I belong to two book clubs and, between the two of them, last month turned out to be a Jeannette Walls month. There was no consultation; it just happened that each club picked one of her books. The first pick was The Glass Castle, published in 2005. This is the author’s memoir outlining her erratic [...] It is my pleasure to welcome a guest blogger to Joyfully Retired. Our guest today is Q, my very talented eldest granddaughter. (I was going to introduce her as brilliant but, I’m trying to be modest.) Q loves to read, so she was born into the right family. During the summer Q volunteers weekly at [...] Author: Jane Myers Perrine Publisher: Hachette Book Group / Faithwords, April 3, 2012 Genre: Christian Fiction My Rating: A Adam Jordan has just graduated from seminary. He’s on his way to his first job as the minister of the Christian Church in Butternut Creek, Texas. He drove his worn-out car just fine all the way [...] |
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