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Book Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget. France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he…
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Goodbye April, and hello May!
Another month is on its way out, my friends. It always feels a bit bittersweet to me. I simultaneously feel like I did as much as I could, and that I didn’t use my time as well as I could have. The closer that it gets to the end of the year, the more apparent that feeling is. This year though, I’ve given myself a lot more grace. My last rambling post was on finding small bits of happiness, and that extends into the way I feel about the passage of time now. The more you see the small wins,…
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Can’t Wait Wednesday (4/28/21)
Once again it is almost the end of the month. This time though, I was prepared for it! Time seems to have gotten back to semi-normal. Although I still often have to remind myself of what day of the week it is. That hasn’t changed. Perhaps it’s my excitement at my eventual road trip across the U.S. that has the calendar feeling standard again, but I like it! I really missed traveling. Anyway, on to the pick for this week, shall we? Twitter has been my best friend lately when it comes to discovering new books. I kind of fell…
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Small bits of happiness.
Time for another rambling post, because I’m doing my daily work under a blanket in my big and cozy chair. I woke up feeling poorly, and it hasn’t improved much since then. It’s days like today that I’m actually so thankful to be working from home. This is the kind of day that I would normally have had to call in sick, because I wouldn’t have been able to make the 1 1/2 hour commute to work. Since I’m at home though, and able to take care of myself as needed while still doing my work, I’m able to just…
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Book Review: The Toll by Cherie Priest
State Road 177 runs along the Suwannee River, between Fargo, Georgia, and the Okefenokee Swamp. Drive that route from east to west, and you’ll cross six bridges. Take it from west to east, and you might find seven. But you’d better hope not. Titus and Melanie Bell leave their hotel in Fargo for a second honeymoon canoeing the Okefenokee Swamp. But shortly before they reach their destination, they draw up to a halt at the edge of a rickety bridge with old stone pilings, with room for only one car . . . When, much later, a tow-truck arrives, the…
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Spring Book Bingo!
Hi friends! Long time no randomly post :). Since the last time I rambled at you I had my second vaccine shot! I felt awful for just about 2 1/2 days, but I’d do it again in a heartbeat. Being able to go out and do errands without feeling brain melting anxiety has been wonderful. I don’t think I actually realized how tense I’ve been the last year, until it felt like a whole elephant had been lifted off of my chest. Obviously I am still being very safe, and don’t intend to go into a large group of unmasked…
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Book Review: The Judas Robe by Larry Rodness
During the height of the Spanish Inquisition a ruthless inquisitor by the name of Bishop Roberto Promane tortures a fellow priest, Father Sanchez, for information about the whereabouts of a relic known as The Judas Robe. The robe holds the key to some highly sensitive secrets about Jesus that Pope Sixtus does not want revealed. Promane succeeds in uncovering the robe only to lose it to Sanchez’s rescuers, the knights of The Order Of Christ. Present Day Joel Gardiner, a pre-med student, is attacked one night by thugs after leaving a campus pub. A young woman named Sophia rescues him…
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Book Review: Moon Child by Gaby Triana
The Craft meets The Shining in this slow-burn Florida gothic horror. 18-year-old Valentina Callejas was raised to do what her Catholic grandparents say to do. But Valentina feels a different pull--an affinity with nature, a desire to read tarot cards and study the occult. After ditching her church retreat, Valentina flees home and ends up five hours away at Macy’s house, a half-sister she’s never met until now. When a mysterious wolf leads Valentina to the abandoned Sunlake Springs Resort, she meets the “clairs,” young psychics drawn to the hotel’s haunted history. They’ve been waiting for her, they say, to…
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Time Warp
I swear to you, I blinked and it had already been 8 days since either Tina or I wrote in here. I’m still trying to figure out how time can be so fluid while we’re all awaiting a return to some kind of normalcy. Some weeks seem like ages, and some fly by like its nothing. In an effort to try to bring you content at least twice a week, I’ve been pretty good about checking in regularly! But apparently I lost track of the relentless passage of time, as one of my friends so aptly put it the other…
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Book Review: The Concrete Vineyard by Cam Lang
Packing an intellectual punch, this smart murder/mystery will have you guessing and gripped! Why would anyone want to murder one of the most respected senior citizens, Niagara-on-the-Lake has ever had? Retired history professor Edward Mitchell was surely not long for the grave, so why would someone risk life in prison to kill him? Picking up the clues is the reluctant Homicide Chief Detective, Bryan Dee. Thinking he might be out of his depth he is happy to enlist the aid of his friend, Kris Gage. But when Dee reads the deceased's last entry in his diary, 'time to take care…
