A few years ago, prior to blogging, I read a couple of Sandra Balzo’s cozies. Both were in her Maggy Thorsen Coffee Shop Mystery series. I remember them as being lighthearted and a little funny. When the author asked me if I’d like to read the first book in her new series, I said yes. [...]
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Author: A.B. Guthrie Publisher: William Sloane Associates, 1947 Genre: Western My Rating: A Two years ago I read The Way West by A.B. Guthrie. It was a moving historical fiction about one of the first treks of settlers over the Oregon Trail. (My review is HERE.) That book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in [...] Author: Anna Quindlen Publisher: My Rating: A I wanted to read this book because of the author. I read her newspaper and magazine columns for years and I feel as if I know her. I also think she knows me. Her writing tells me that she has either been inside my head or has had [...] Agatha Christie Makes a Mistake Agatha Christie is well known for her “locked door” mysteries. Death In the Air is a version of the locked door. Passengers are in the air flying from France to England. During that flight a woman is murdered and everyone on the plane is a suspect, includine Hercule Poirot. The [...] People of my generation ask each other this question: “Where were you when JFK was killed?” That’s because, for us, it was a pivotal moment. After that day many things changed in both our country and in how we saw the world. For those of us born during or right after World War II, our [...] |
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