tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90887027294609537182024-03-13T17:47:31.051-04:00an adventure in readingNo entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ~Mary Wortley Montaguraidergirl3http://www.blogger.com/profile/03629915042716259349noreply@blogger.comBlogger1722125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088702729460953718.post-37372700513721487762024-01-02T07:00:00.002-04:002024-01-02T07:00:00.239-04:00TOP TEN TUESDAY: Best of 2023 - Fiction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqlEkPF8HRo3Ne7iARZ-BQEfc03GNEyrkwSTTDnu7K510RedT8hOz-1haQ0RHOk0humkiKSYAfKadF9GUcr-YMqhWnFqA53d2ueerf98Ewp6mnBAZdjzB10n6ohkcjRx3a_CjO7aii90kEqKQTtKcOROYKtRGQSEV9hJEYACD1O8Di7HdqJNKuR10Sp8I/s768/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="768" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqlEkPF8HRo3Ne7iARZ-BQEfc03GNEyrkwSTTDnu7K510RedT8hOz-1haQ0RHOk0humkiKSYAfKadF9GUcr-YMqhWnFqA53d2ueerf98Ewp6mnBAZdjzB10n6ohkcjRx3a_CjO7aii90kEqKQTtKcOROYKtRGQSEV9hJEYACD1O8Di7HdqJNKuR10Sp8I/s320/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Yearly round up of books read last year. I read 124 books (27nonfiction) most audiobooks. I'm going to make a separate post for the nonfiction books and a few other notable books but here are ten really good reads I had this year. Heh, I just noticed, ten really good reads I had this year, by women.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B09S33RCG9.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B09S33RCG9.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Trespasses Louise Kennedy</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Such an Irish book! Set during the Troubles with a secret love, this broke my heart.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B0BPCZF1BM.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B0BPCZF1BM.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The Last Remains Elly Griffiths</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Elly Griffiths wrote 15 books in the Ruth Galloway series, the forensic archaeologist in Norfolk, England, who gets called in when bodies are discovered and ends up helping solve the murders. Her messy love affair with the police officer, her friendship with the local pagan Cathbad, her growing daughter - Griffiths kept the story going in real-ish time so that the books continued during the lockdown and pandemic. All the books are good, not necessarily excellent, but the familiar characters and suspense make the series as a whole excellent, and this last entry finished things up in a most satisfactory way.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51SOqMHqF8L._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51SOqMHqF8L._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Her Last Breath (#5 in the series) Linda Castillo </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I assumed most Amish books are romances, but I was recommended this police/mystery series set in Ohio in Amish country has been excellent. The Chief of Police, Kate Burkholder, was once Amish, giving her an insight into their world. I read six of the books in the series this past year and like Ruth Galloway, a lot of the time its the personal life that keeps you reading. I've already got the next one queued up to listen to.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61YPmcTccyL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61YPmcTccyL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div><b>Weyward Emilia Hart</b></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Three story strands - 1619 a woman awaiting murder trial (is she a witch?), 1942 a young woman strains against expectations and searches for information about her long dead mother, and 2019 a woman escapes domestic violence to her great-aunts abandoned cottage. Each story was interesting, but having them woven together was very well done.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519DWoK1IML._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519DWoK1IML._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div><b>The Evil Eye by Etaf Rum</b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Remember all those women in the 1970s who struggled to find their power and autonomy, working how to balance home and work with a patriarchial society that limited them? dealing with depression but it wasn't acknowledged as depression, like in The Yellow Wallpaper? This story is a modern take on it within some cultures, like the Palestinian-American main character in this book. So, it's a quiet, one woman story, but I liked Yara's growth and recovery.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41F8JcJ4KuL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41F8JcJ4KuL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Great story, coming to a streaming service soon, about a 1960s chemist who refuses to behave as a women of her day. Elizabeth Zott is finding love, and family and a career despite her inability to accomadate others. There is a reason this is on plenty of 'best of' lists. Loved this book.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/53/a4/53a477874e297bd5976752f3377433041414141_v5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/53/a4/53a477874e297bd5976752f3377433041414141_v5.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>Pineapple Street Jenny Jackson</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Maybe my history of watching soap operas and reading Susan Isaacs novels in my teens is catching up to me, but this story about rich siblings in New York kept my attention even as it is not related to my life. Sometimes popcorn, while just fluff, tastes really good.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kK9pBWtBL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kK9pBWtBL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby van Pelt</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A friendship between an all-knowing octopus and a widow working at an aquarium. Sometimes you don't really need to read the synopsis, you just need to read the heart-warming book.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/516FIp7RWaL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/516FIp7RWaL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Romantic Comedy Curtis Sittenfeld</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Very modern, set partially during the pandemic, and based on a fictional Saturday Night Live sketch show, Sittenfeld plays on the dorky guy with the gorgeous actress trope and then turns the gender tables. Can a famous hot guy and a plain unknown woman make it work?</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51SLZWFpikL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51SLZWFpikL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The Marriage Portrait Maggie O'Farrell</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">1550s Florence and the life of girls and women sucks. If you've ever read Robert Browning's poem 'My Last Duchess', then this books is for you. Part of the appeal to me was that I haven't read a lot of books set outside of historical UK, so the Italian view really interested me, and of course, Maggie O'Farrell can write a great tale!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>A Short List of Really Good Books by My Favourite Authors</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver<br />Tom Lake Ann Patchett<br />Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty (reread)</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">I have installed IntenseDebate commenting on my blog.
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I didn't have as many terrific reads this year, but I managed to find some really good books.</p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B06XKD597Q.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B06XKD597Q.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><b>Best Book</b><br />Scarborough - Catherine Hernandez</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This was a gritty look at poverty in a housing development in Scarborough, Ontario. It was so positive, even with all the sadness that it caught me off guard, but in a good way. <br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Best Homage</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">My Plain Jane - Cynthia Hand</div><div style="text-align: left;">My Lady Jane - Cynthia Hand</div><div style="text-align: left;">These were my best find of the year, and there is another in The Janies series, and there is a whole Mary series. Each is a rewrite of a famous book or person, Jane Eyre and Lady Jane Grey, but then there is a fantasy aspect (ghost-hunting, animal shape-shifting) that make then absurd and hilarious.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Best Book I Was Looking Forward To</b><br />When We Lost Our Head - Heather O'Neill</div><div style="text-align: left;">Take the French Revolution, but make it with women and set in early 1900s Montreal. Bravo!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Best Science Fiction/Thriller</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Apollo Murders - Chris Hadfield</div><div style="text-align: left;">Wild ride in space from the Canadian who can do anything and everything!<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/612LwiJHr6L._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/612LwiJHr6L._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div>Best Nonfiction</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century - Kirk Wallace Johnson</div><div style="text-align: left;">Narrative fiction with natural history, a mystery, and just fascinating story about fly-fishing ties.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Best Short Novel</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Swimmers - Julie Otsuka</div><div style="text-align: left;">I don't know how Otsuka does it with so little, but her books are so powerful and inventive. This one was about a crack which develops in a community swimming pool, and then turns into a beautiful tribute to Alzehimers</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Best Historical Fiction</b><br />Haven - Emma Donoghue</div><div style="text-align: left;">I wasn't sure about this one, set in 7th century Ireland about monks who go live on an isolated island, but I was very invested by the end, and loved how it all came together. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51oY5VLaEzL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51oY5VLaEzL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Best Quiet Character Study</b></div></b>Small Pleasures - Clare Chambers</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm sure I would never have read this book without the Women's Prize Longlist but what a sweet treasure. I saw this listed somewhere on a book list of books which took you pleasantly by surprise and this fits perfectly. A single lady in 1950s London gets caught up with an unusual family and her life becomes more interesting.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Best Translated</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury - Marc Levy</div><div style="text-align: left;">Alice, orphaned after WW2 in London, takes a trip with a neighbour to Turkey after a reading from a fortune teller. Finding your place in the world.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Best Start to a Series</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Windsor Knot - CJ Bennett</div><div style="text-align: left;">I read one of these quiet mysteries starring Queen Elizabeth before she died, and then the second one after she died. Much respect for the queen and her marriage, it is mostly about her assistants who carry out her requests for information. Delightful.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Best Re-read</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng</div><div style="text-align: left;">My book club read this book so I listened to it for a re-read and it was just as good the second time as it was the first time. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Best Author - Ann Patchett</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">These Precious Days(NF), The Magician's Assistant, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage (NF)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Patchett's books have always been reliable and good but I think I mixed her up with Barbara Kingsolver and didn't really have a solid impression of her. But recently I put it all together, and especially reading her two nonfiction memoir/essay collections and now I am trying to get all her books read! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A few honourable mentions:</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tevye the Milkman -Sholem Aleicheim (Fiddler on the Roof inspiration)</div><div style="text-align: left;">The Bullet That Missed - Richard Osman (Thursday Murder Club #3)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Matrix - Lauren Groff (historical nuns)</div><div style="text-align: left;">The Woman in the Attic - Emily Hepditch (Newfoundland mystery)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Eligible - Curtis Sittenfeld (retelling of Pride and Prejudice)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I have installed IntenseDebate commenting on my blog.
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I do what I feel like, when I feel like it. I did like keeping track of the historical fiction books I read this year, and I plan to join Marg's Historical Fiction challenge again next year. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is a type of book that is kind of historical but more parallel or looking back. Do you consider these Historical Fictioin? The last few I read that were good were <b>Carrie Soto is Back</b> by Taylor Jenkins Reid about a tennis player who comes out of retirement, so the book follows her present day attempts to get back into competition alternating with the story of how she was champion fifteen years before. <b>Now is Not the Time to Panic</b> by Kevin Wilson was another of these parallel stories where the present day story is integral to the past story, and the narrative flips back and forth. This one kept my attention a lot and I couldn't stop listening to it as secret prank from two misfit teenagers comes back to life after twenty years. </span></div><div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><b>October</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51CzXbe6NZL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51CzXbe6NZL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Bowlaway - Elizabeth McCracken</b> 🎧</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;">20th century Massachusetts</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;">One of those sprawling, generational family stories, set in a bowling alley. Covers the history of bowling as well as the family which owns it. There is some magical realism stuff and mysteries. I know I liked it at the time, but I can't really remember too much.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61+ge+c+3nL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61+ge+c+3nL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><b>Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel </b> 🎧</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;">16th century England</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;">More in the Thomas Cromwell story, the second in Mantel's trilogy. Here Anne Boleyn is the queen, but not for long as Henry is already looking around. It's the story of Cromwell and the machinations at court. Makes stuff today look pretty tame actually. Mantel writes a good story, but if you've read any Tudor stuff, you know the story. I read this one soon after Hilary Mantel died, and I'll go for the third eventually. One of the rare trilogies where the books get shorter.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><b>November</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/d5/fa/d5faef0b32df13b596b76727451433041414141_v5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="180" height="274" src="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/d5/fa/d5faef0b32df13b596b76727451433041414141_v5.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><b>The King's Justice - Susan Elia MacNeal</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;">WW2 England</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;">My library finally got this book #9 well after I read book #10, The Hollywood Spy. This was probably one of Maggie Hope's better books, as Miss Pollyanna has finally been worn out by the evil of the war, and the deception of the spying. Maggie is still viewing her world with a modern sensibility towards homosexuality, PTSD. She's working as a bomb diffuser since she just doesn't care anymore, lol. Maybe I liked it more because the war was more of a background in this book, as Maggie is drawn into helping find a serial killer in London, as if the blitz wasn't enough to deal with.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>December</b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Uj6AcckWL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Uj6AcckWL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><b>Shrines of Gaiety - Kate Atkinson</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;">1920s England</span></div><div><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;">Atkinson went through a spell with some, I'd call, experimental books. There were a few, Life After Life, and A God in Ruins, that I tried as audiobook, but just couldn't follow. Then I read the paper book and loved. Transcription was a more straightforward novel, but still relied on the research she had done for WW2. Shrines of Gaiety reminded me more of her Jackson Brodie books, with a large cast of characters gradually being pulled in the center by the plot. Set in roaring twenties of London, life is fun and returning to 'normal' after the war, Nellie Croker, fresh out of prison, is controlling her large family of adult children as well as a series of nightclubs. There are missing girls, spunky girls who can't live a quiet life after the war, and police, both on the take and not. Really, there was a lot of fun in this book, just what I look for in a good historical fiction book.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41QXhVDkNnL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41QXhVDkNnL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><b>Haven - Emma Donoghue</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;">7th century Ireland</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;">Oh, Emma Donoghue, what can't you write about? Her most famous book, Room, is present day, but all her other books are fantastic historical fiction and while I don't love all her books, she always writes great characters that draw you in, as well as setting the time and place so well. It's a small book here, as three monks take off, with one definite leader and two who will obey, to an isolated island off the coast of Ireland. (you will want to look up Skellig Michael, a real place that this story is based on. Add it to your bucket list). This type of devotion is frustrating to read with the fervent faith of the leader versus the practical thought of his underlings. Could have been very annoying, but Donoghue keeps her characters real and the reader very early hopes for the best for the likeable guys and that they can actually survive on more than God's love.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51a+s+m3wKL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51a+s+m3wKL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><b>An Irish Yuletide - Patrick Taylor</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;">1960s Northern Ireland</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;">It's good to read a seasonal book and this novella in the Irish Country series fit the bill. While the most recent release, Taylor goes back a few years for the Christmas story. The medical issue throughout is chicken pox, the relationship issue is a prodigal brother returns, and all the characters of Ballybucklebo are present. Just delightful and a great series if you like a gentle book with fun stories. We are at the middle to late sixties, and there is very little of 'the troubles' mentioned.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I have installed IntenseDebate commenting on my blog.
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Unfortunately, they best get used to their plans being upended, with the arrival of two lads who self-released themselves and tag along with the brothers. It sounds like a light-hearted romp, but no. It wasn't as good as A Gentleman in Moscow, but it got better as it went on.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61khBbTpixL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61khBbTpixL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><b>My Lady Jane</b>, by Cynthia Hand</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1500s England, sort of</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I am loving these irreverent remakes of Jane stories by Cynthia Hand. This one is Lady Jane Gray who was Queen of England for a few days. Most of the basic story is here, but Hand has so much fun going in different directions, and these are definitely light-hearted. In this book, the 'extra' is that some people can shape-shift into their animal, and there is a continual issue of losing clothes as they become animals, and turning back to human naked. Pure foolishness!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51drH3H28NL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51drH3H28NL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>An Irish Country Cottage</b>, by Patrick Taylor</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1968 Northern Ireland</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Late 1960s Ireland and contraception and pregnancy are issues for Dr Barry Laverty and Dr Fingal O'Reilly. The local issue is a fire burns down a cottage and the village must get a new house for the family. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1782642455.01._SX180_SCRM_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1782642455.01._SX180_SCRM_.jpg" width="131" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The Deeds of Darkness</b> by Mel Starr</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1300s England </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The tenth in the Hugh de Singleton Chronicles follows the medieval life of a surgeon and bailiff near Oxford in England. These books follow a certain formula, and I enjoy them. If you've read all the Brother Cadfael books, this series might be for you.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">August</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51B9w8UY6nL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51B9w8UY6nL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /> <b>Mississippi Trial, 1955 - Chris Crowe</b> 🎧</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;">1955 Mississippi</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;">Pretty good historical fiction account of the Emmett Till murder told from the point of view of a teenage boy, having issues with his family at the same time. The boy is dealing with his developing awareness of life around him, and the conflicts with the tradition and culture of Mississippi, which hasn't probably changed much but is pretty horrific looking in from the outside.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <b style="color: #474b4e;">September</b></span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B07FSMWL5N.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="180" height="270" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B07FSMWL5N.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><b> The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury</b> (ebook) - Mark Levy</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;">1950s England, Turkey</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: georgia;">I quite liked this story of a girl who lost everyone in WW2 making a journey to Turkey after hearing a message from a fortune teller. This was one of those Amazon Free World books. There was a friendship started in a rooming house, secrets, and life in Turkey for a while. I am particularly fond of Turkey having visited there while on a cruise years and years ago. It made an impression. It was a gentle, poignant story and worth my time.</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I have installed IntenseDebate commenting on my blog.
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As I was thinking about what to write for the Virtual Advent Tour, hosted most wonferfully by <a href="https://www.spritewrites.net/">spritewrites</a> since 2015, I was reflecting on how Christmas has changed in our house over the last 25 years. </p><p>We had the crazy years when our three children were young and Christmas morning was a chaos scene. So much so that my father-in-law would drive in the thirty minutes to be at our house early (6 am) to see the children attack the presents. He was a little disappointed at how my husband and I contained the chaos - me writing down everything as it was opened, him staying on top and removing the paper and boxes immediately. But it was still fun!</p><p>Now as we have practically no teenagers, Christmas is a lot calmer. We do a lot of the same things still, but they have friends and social lives and we have to fit it all together. One thing that has not changed is we have my parents over on Christmas Eve for a nice supper and visit. </p><p>In 2020, we re-enacted a picture from when everyone was much younger - my parents and my children.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNnAcqgYSXGte4DKweTyurI5UpE-IO2ydVAM5TlIhKWpgtCKbXqla_bqggIxkHtCcRZqWfwd1ZQno-UR7HyqlC5Wmh33dzkrGfuOinP3s2-aMfXLCzbCpeAeBwCfXpLYYpH-e8yvZ8oPhBnKT0_OtyCJDZszm14Pe9QMKZm3-R0uHF-0FSXF2AoWPr/s1440/4FC06214-954A-4327-A187-2324732661DB.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1433" data-original-width="1440" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNnAcqgYSXGte4DKweTyurI5UpE-IO2ydVAM5TlIhKWpgtCKbXqla_bqggIxkHtCcRZqWfwd1ZQno-UR7HyqlC5Wmh33dzkrGfuOinP3s2-aMfXLCzbCpeAeBwCfXpLYYpH-e8yvZ8oPhBnKT0_OtyCJDZszm14Pe9QMKZm3-R0uHF-0FSXF2AoWPr/s320/4FC06214-954A-4327-A187-2324732661DB.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christmas Eve 2003</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUnx5Ega7VSfNmRRWGe2NY10FITWOkCyOy0NtJWXpN36-CCmqmOx_Xs8H_EscHWhGBHI9k0eeoDE4xac2h-FkN7fztdn5hAuKFh02NbhuhD5Fvt8PT9xwGh6FG2L9Xqmx_BWn8v12nCHW03s_iWCsAFqypBJmgTHlmmH0EJxosIkLV_ZXoBGMJ75hM/s1440/329590D6-B38A-40F3-903C-77F31533F4B9.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1436" data-original-width="1440" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUnx5Ega7VSfNmRRWGe2NY10FITWOkCyOy0NtJWXpN36-CCmqmOx_Xs8H_EscHWhGBHI9k0eeoDE4xac2h-FkN7fztdn5hAuKFh02NbhuhD5Fvt8PT9xwGh6FG2L9Xqmx_BWn8v12nCHW03s_iWCsAFqypBJmgTHlmmH0EJxosIkLV_ZXoBGMJ75hM/s320/329590D6-B38A-40F3-903C-77F31533F4B9.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christmas Eve 2020</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We are so lucky to have been able to recreate this after seventeen years.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thanks for stopping by for my stop on the Advent Tour. If you would like to contribute a post, visit <a href="https://www.spritewrites.net/">spritewrites</a> and let her know you'd like to be a part of this. We'd love to have you!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm pretty sure I am having comment problems and I have no idea how to fix it, so if you can't comment, I'm sorry. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 2021, I shared my <a href="https://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2021/12/virtual-advent-tour-gumdrops.html">gumdrop woes, and cake recipe</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 2020, I rambled a bit about <a href="https://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2020/12/virtual-advent-tour-2020-edition.html">Christmas in a pandemic</a>, and an Adam Sandler song</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2019, I shared the extra things that<b><a href="https://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2019/12/virtual-advent-tour-little-sparkly.html" style="color: #93db04; text-decoration-line: none;"> make Christmas sparkly</a></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> - I shared my <b><a href="https://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2019/12/virtual-advent-tour-nans-frying-pan.html" style="color: #93db04; text-decoration-line: none;">Nan's recipe for Frying Pan Cookies</a></b><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2018, I shared several posts:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> - a look at some <a href="https://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2018/12/virtual-advent-tour-on-this-day.html" style="color: #93db04; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>Canadian history on December 6th</b></a> that I always remember<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> - a look at <a href="https://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2018/12/virtual-advent-tour-advent-calendars.html" style="color: #93db04; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>advent calendars </b></a>through my years<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> - a look at <b><a href="https://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2018/12/virtual-advent-tour-christmas-breakfast.html" style="color: #93db04; text-decoration-line: none;">my favourite Christmas breakfast</a></b><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2017, I shared a<b> </b><a href="https://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2017/12/virtual-advent-calendar-o-holy-night-by.html" style="color: #93db04; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>song by local sister singers</b> </a>on a charity album</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> - in a second post, I shared how I<b><a href="https://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2017/12/virtual-advent-tour-decking-halls-with.html" style="color: #93db04; text-decoration-line: none;"> decked the halls with physics haikus</a></b> with my class<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2016, I shared <a href="https://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.ca/2016/12/virtual-advent-tour-lights-of-my-town.html" style="color: #839d07; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">the lights of my town</a>, and a recipe for <a href="https://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.ca/2016/12/virtual-advent-tour-italian-spumoni.html" style="color: #839d07; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">Spumoni shortbreads</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2015, I shared <a href="http://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.ca/2015/12/virtual-advent-tour-2015-amonthoffaves.html" style="color: #839d07; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">my Christmas decorations</a> in our new home</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2014, there was no tour</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2013, I shared a Christmas series of <a href="http://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.ca/2013/12/event-advent-tour-2013.html" style="color: #839d07; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">novellas by Anne Perry</a> that I listened in audio</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2012, I posted some favourite <a href="http://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.ca/2012/12/event-2012-advent-tour.html" style="color: #839d07; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">Christmas mystery books</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2011, I posted a<a href="http://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.ca/2011/12/event-2011-advent-tour.html" style="color: #839d07; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;"> 'recipe' for fruitcake</a> that my grandmother had given me.</span></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2010, I took a humorous look at some<a href="http://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2010/12/event-virtual-advent-tour-2010.html" style="color: #839d07; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;"> local events</a> on Prince Edward Island.<br />In 2009, we played <a href="http://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2009/12/blogging-event-virtual-advent-tour.html" style="color: #839d07; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">'guess the carol'</a><br />In 2008, I played a game of <a href="http://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-tour-advent-tour-dec-9th.html" style="color: #839d07; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">'guess the movie'</a>, and my favorite Christmas picture ever.<br />In 2007, it was the original <a href="http://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2007/12/blogging-advent-blog-tour-welcome.html" style="color: #839d07; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;">'guess the carol'</a> game, with your vocabulary tested, and my whipped shortbread cookie recipe.</span></div></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">I have installed IntenseDebate commenting on my blog.
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click too quickly, the previous comments get lost:(</div>raidergirl3http://www.blogger.com/profile/03629915042716259349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088702729460953718.post-87420672789265633312022-11-03T23:16:00.000-04:002022-11-03T23:16:05.274-04:00NONFICTION NOVEMBER: Summary of 2022 Reads<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0bvyCAEbdzPK_8iBKyJ5tL5XvH41qpSO2gYYNp9bLj1VZBrq8XFCcGXQg9t8Q7BhZKrJL4CW9dzV3Umruqv51wLwhx4IhkayjJ8i46aE2e7qBS3DSWdjfQRfQ6dYZEte4oTgYAbrUvXst4wafu174Xd9oh13153N4_2SuY1wNmzCQjt4uZA/s400/Announcement-NFNOV-22-1600x900-1.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="400" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0bvyCAEbdzPK_8iBKyJ5tL5XvH41qpSO2gYYNp9bLj1VZBrq8XFCcGXQg9t8Q7BhZKrJL4CW9dzV3Umruqv51wLwhx4IhkayjJ8i46aE2e7qBS3DSWdjfQRfQ6dYZEte4oTgYAbrUvXst4wafu174Xd9oh13153N4_2SuY1wNmzCQjt4uZA/s320/Announcement-NFNOV-22-1600x900-1.webp" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Nonfiction November gives me a chance to look back on the nonfiction reads since last November. Including December 2021, I've read 16 nonfiction books since last year. The most common type of NF would be memoir and true crime. Here with a short summary of the books I liked best:<div><br /><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41M0IAL0xKL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41M0IAL0xKL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></b></div><b><br />Blood in the Water - Silver Donald Cameron </b>🎧<a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stevenrskelton/flag-icon/master/png/16/country-4x3/ca.png" style="background-color: white; color: #93db04; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="11" data-original-width="16" height="11" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stevenrskelton/flag-icon/master/png/16/country-4x3/ca.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 228, 228); margin: 0px; padding: 2px;" width="16" /></a><p></p><p>True Canadian crime, this was a crazy read of small town murder in a fairly local community, within the Maritimes. I was engrossed, and looked up some podcasts related to the incident, and found a documentary as well. How do you deal with a a*hole in the community when he never quites goes too far for the law, but he goes too far for people to put up with him? (one of the last books I read in 2021)</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/612LwiJHr6L._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/612LwiJHr6L._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></b></div><b><br />The Feather Thief </b>- Kirk Wallace Johnson 🎧<p></p><p><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">Another great true crime book, which combined some historical accounts of some scientists besides Darwin who looked at evolution. This was quite a crazy tale and I would recommend this one as a good nonfiction book with a great story.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0063092832.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="180" height="197" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0063092832.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></b></div><b><br />These Precious Days - Ann Patchett</b> 🎧<p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">I am having an Ann Patchett year, and this book of essays was varied and very readable. Nothing controversial, just a good author writing about writing and her life. Memoir-ish.</span></p><p><b style="color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51lQdE+PopL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51lQdE+PopL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></b></div><b style="color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />Freezing Order - Bill Browder</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"> 🎧</span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">I've seen Browder on CNN talking about the Magnitsky Act, a way for other countries to deal with the rogue state of Russia and Putin as they launder money and deal with their political opponents. Browder is a pretty brave guy and is working hard to bring awareness to Russia. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b> </b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B0872KBQ2H.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="180" height="262" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B0872KBQ2H.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></b></div><b><br />One Good Reason - Sean McCann</b> 🎧<p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">I've a huge Great Big Sea fan and Sean McCann was a big part of their history until he left the band. His memoir of what lead to him leaving, mostly due to heavy drinking brought on by some youth trauma certainly has two sides about the actual leaving, which didn't go well as you'd like from a bunch of lads that you like. But he did what he had to for his family. His wife plays a big part of the story, as how they dealt with life was based on both of their life experiences. Good read, good people.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B09BCMY88V.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="180" height="276" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B09BCMY88V.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br />The Vanishing Triangle: The Murdered Women Ireland Forgot</b> (ebook)- Clare McGowen</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">True crime in Ireland, looking at how the death of young women is not looked at seriously enough for a myriad of reasons. There may have been a serial killer or two, many domestic violence situations, and nobody looking very hard in the nineties. There were a lot of names to keep track of, it's real life so it doesn't wrap up easily or neatly, but there is no doubt the author did her research, and made some pointed comments on how Irish society dealt with the crimes.</div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And a summary of the rest of them: </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Vanderbilt - Anderson Cooper</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">🎧</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">Historical account of Cooper's famous family. I've enjoyed other books by Anderson Cooper more, but the Vanderbilts lived a wild life.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Before My Time - Ami McKay</b> 🎧</span><a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stevenrskelton/flag-icon/master/png/16/country-4x3/ca.png" style="background-color: white; color: #93db04; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="11" data-original-width="16" height="11" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stevenrskelton/flag-icon/master/png/16/country-4x3/ca.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 228, 228); margin: 0px; padding: 2px;" width="16" /></a></p><p>Memoir of a Canadian author and her family's dangerous cancer marker and how they have been studied. </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times - Katherine May</b> 🎧</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">Self-help type book, I liked it at the time, but can't remember a lot of it now as I read it in January. I shouldn't really read self-help books. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Untamed - Glennon Doyle</b> 🎧</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">Self-help books can sometimes get me angry as I argue with the author in my head all the time. Doyle got a brainful from me. But there were sections I did like, when she focused more on the feminism stuff, but her enlightenment reminded me of the motivational speakers who live their life a certain way, then see the light and feel the need to let everyone know this new way of living. More infuriating, Doyle wrote previous self-help books on her past life, and then writes new ones on her new life. How do I know you won't find another new life philosophy and this one will be passe? </span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Taste: My Life Through Food - Stanley Tucci </b>🎧</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">I've been super enjoying Tucci's CNN series Italy and this memoir is kind of related, but not quite as good. He's a nice guy, into food a lot, perhaps a bit snobbish about it (I've stopped cutting my spaghetti, lol after a comment in the book that adults should not be cutting their spaghetti!). He has had some rough times in his life as his first wife died, but he keeps a good attitude.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>The Wake: The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami - Linden MacIntyre</b> 🎧<a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stevenrskelton/flag-icon/master/png/16/country-4x3/ca.png" style="color: #93db04; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="11" data-original-width="16" height="11" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stevenrskelton/flag-icon/master/png/16/country-4x3/ca.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 228, 228); margin: 0px; padding: 2px;" width="16" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">MacIntryre wrote one of my favourite books, Causeway, his memoir/historical book about Cape Breton, so I had high expectations. Maybe too high? This was still good and but more on the historical and very little memoir. It was an interesting premise to explain how Newfoundland has had to struggle in so many ways as a 'have-not' province, and he traces it back to a tsuanmi in the early 1900s.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Do You Mind if I Cancel? - Gary Janetti</b> 🎧</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">Snarky, funny, and unmemorable comments by the Hollywood writer. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for her American Dream - Julissa Arce</b> 🎧</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">This was a YA Sync free audiobook and was a good story of one young girl and the challenges she faced. Nothing new here, perfectly fine, but unmemorable.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Secret Soldiers: How the US Twenty-third Troops Fooled the Nazis - Paul B Janeczko</b> 🎧</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">Another YA Sync read which was an interesting part of the United States part in WW2 in Europe. However, the prologue really gave me enough of the story that the rest of the book was just filling in details about what the prologue completely explained! Listen to the prologue to get the main idea, unless you love all the details, but I felt I got the gist of the story.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>As Fast As Her - Kendall Coyne</b> 🎧</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">YA Sync memoir from the US women's hockey team, I liked Coyne's story of her life growing up and loving hockey. This Canadian reader loved the hockey stuff, but hearing the US-Canadian women's hockey rivalry from the American point of view was a little hard for me, lol. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">And since November would be a great month to read some nonfiction, here are some books I have on hand that I hope to get through, including finishing up some YA Sync audiobook reads.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">This is the Story of a Happy Marriage - Ann Patchett</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">Black Lion: Teachings from the Wilderness</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">Crescendo: The True Story of a Musical Genius Who Forever Changed a Small Town</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">The Real Herge: The Inspiration behind Tintin</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">Singled Out: The True Story of Glen Burke</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">A Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I have installed IntenseDebate commenting on my blog.
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I found books from a 2013 list! Eek.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've loved making these lists over the years and I have actually been pretty good, although I noticed a few books that I read this year that almost made this list.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For more lists and future topics, visit <a href="http://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/top-ten-tuesday/">That Artsy Reader Girl</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B004DEPH6Q.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="278" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B004DEPH6Q.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="129" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Cop Killer by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">spring 2022, spring 2021</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/72/0d/720dedd02841f4c59686c6a7741433041414141_v5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/72/0d/720dedd02841f4c59686c6a7741433041414141_v5.jpg" width="132" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Spring 2021</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/blogger_img_proxy/ABLy4EwbJx8uKJXnfQE2gb1sbwLkYMt7ZPX5akQpqR9Ule7o1SO0JkhEPsY0jfET09tDWlE8aWq9NH7n7PRwrzES0mrTG6YeVAMdRLuZGaIeGjn62ycIatmSFxXx8SbFeFWAJ_ZbpqwTz_FWg3AxjzYnbE3PWmxD=s212-d" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="142" height="212" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/blogger_img_proxy/ABLy4EwbJx8uKJXnfQE2gb1sbwLkYMt7ZPX5akQpqR9Ule7o1SO0JkhEPsY0jfET09tDWlE8aWq9NH7n7PRwrzES0mrTG6YeVAMdRLuZGaIeGjn62ycIatmSFxXx8SbFeFWAJ_ZbpqwTz_FWg3AxjzYnbE3PWmxD=s0-d" width="142" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>This is Not My Life by Diane Schoemperlen</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Fall 2017</b></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">Canadian nonfiction, a Charles Taylor Prize finalist, </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/blogger_img_proxy/ABLy4EwF_31ieKJe5TR4L-AcMEvXufTXbtlyRXB576Nmd8-wYrOEUpuCGlOzkL4M_iQ28XJ0lCVfbG2f2vaAau5FZrVMiNYCBB9Zd0vd3s63OZbSU8Pnlq5TSOP5QvoIkr6f6YJKL4O0ndcCxNuKzM6eyH5BcBq6=s213-d" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="142" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/blogger_img_proxy/ABLy4EwF_31ieKJe5TR4L-AcMEvXufTXbtlyRXB576Nmd8-wYrOEUpuCGlOzkL4M_iQ28XJ0lCVfbG2f2vaAau5FZrVMiNYCBB9Zd0vd3s63OZbSU8Pnlq5TSOP5QvoIkr6f6YJKL4O0ndcCxNuKzM6eyH5BcBq6=s0-d" width="142" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Death by Black Hole and other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Fall 2017</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;">I've got this one on my desk at school and I am trying to read one essay a day. I bet the title essay has the word 'spaghettification' in it</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/blogger_img_proxy/ABLy4EzT3pDJSBBO0Jxiy-wTAc9FiYjZEO8l7wcrBJI2BVTQ0xikTwcuHaF-blgZEHMmS4Og9mpHCv7V9JnxmdIM6ulAcyg6sUGby4cyAmUICstNgxpd0Jgo2E00p1IUOsWabHt3Y07H_4xoiSIz0zYyGHiZLW0=s220-d" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="142" height="220" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/blogger_img_proxy/ABLy4EzT3pDJSBBO0Jxiy-wTAc9FiYjZEO8l7wcrBJI2BVTQ0xikTwcuHaF-blgZEHMmS4Og9mpHCv7V9JnxmdIM6ulAcyg6sUGby4cyAmUICstNgxpd0Jgo2E00p1IUOsWabHt3Y07H_4xoiSIz0zYyGHiZLW0=s0-d" width="142" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Sovereign by C.J. Sansom</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Summer 2019</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">book 3 in the Shardlake series</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">I like to try one big ole book in the summer and this series is always top-notch</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/blogger_img_proxy/ABLy4EwitVdLpslSk_N6TWN6RmZyroet-S3HSXTCRNhW4uEEN6ZceOcMTIJbk72LbnWEL1jogN_rkp4HbiB69APSW40F2RpXB3mVTmE6TKnDwfSkPSqkKhWwQ7dV8LyUV5fe02n1BQD9joCOrJ0ta3G5MbozWfY=s215-d" style="margin-left: 1em; 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It should be a quick read, not too long, there should be no terrible things happen and it should feel like there will be a happy ending (spoiler- there will be a happy ending). Here's my list of books, several of which I've read more than once, that as I read the title, I get a happy feeling of remembrance.</p><p>For more posts, and future topics for Top Ten Tuesday, visit <a href="http://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com">That Artsy Reader Girl</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0735265232.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0735265232.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="135" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Blue Castle by LM Montgomery</div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/190646202X.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/190646202X.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="143" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winnifred Watson</div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0385668643.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0385668643.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="134" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson</div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0670917583.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0670917583.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="125" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A Guide to Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson</div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0330375253.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0330375253.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="121" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding</div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1552780112.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1552780112.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="123" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Evening Class by Maeve Binchy</div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/1d/28/1d283f3cda5c3a3593432315541433041414141_v5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="278" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/1d/28/1d283f3cda5c3a3593432315541433041414141_v5.jpg" width="129" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver</div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400034779.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400034779.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="129" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith</div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0440420474.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0440420474.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="136" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Penderwick: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall</div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51VhsuRm7SL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51VhsuRm7SL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune</div><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">I have installed IntenseDebate commenting on my blog.
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I'm not a reader who underlines, or takes note of interesting quotes. There is one character, however, whose quotes have stayed quite familiar to me. Partially because they are really good, and partially because I see them all the time on touristy things. But really, these are wonderfully postive quotes and could easily be a set of life mottos. Yes, our favourite red head, Anne of Green Gables has enough quotes for a complete Top Ten Tuesday. For more varied quotes, check out <a href="http://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com">That Artsy Reader Girl</a>.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #192c49;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/lm-montgomery-quotes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="600" height="168" src="https://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/lm-montgomery-quotes.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet.” </span><p></p><p><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://bukrate.com/set_images/images?id=1026612&author=26980&type=31&list=7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="660" height="174" src="https://bukrate.com/set_images/images?id=1026612&author=26980&type=31&list=7.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />“It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.” </span><p></p><p><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRBaAQltpv0vmqwvycfht-fwyH6np0dl4oFahsLM0HEwWECL4doCCt-v-_drcGKkF20dmk&usqp=CAU" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="200" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRBaAQltpv0vmqwvycfht-fwyH6np0dl4oFahsLM0HEwWECL4doCCt-v-_drcGKkF20dmk&usqp=CAU" width="200" /></a></span></div><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”</span><p></p><p><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/1600x900/3500183-L-M-Montgomery-Quote-Do-you-think-amethysts-can-be-the-souls-of.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="181" src="https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/1600x900/3500183-L-M-Montgomery-Quote-Do-you-think-amethysts-can-be-the-souls-of.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />“Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?” </span><p></p><p><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840x2160/2936171-L-M-Montgomery-Quote-But-really-Marilla-one-can-t-stay-sad-very.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="180" src="https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840x2160/2936171-L-M-Montgomery-Quote-But-really-Marilla-one-can-t-stay-sad-very.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />“But </span><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;">really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”</span><p></p><p><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840x2160/2550843-L-M-Montgomery-Quote-Red-hair-is-my-life-long-sorrow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="180" src="https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840x2160/2550843-L-M-Montgomery-Quote-Red-hair-is-my-life-long-sorrow.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />“I know it is just plain red, and it breaks my heart. It will be my life long sorrow.” </span><p></p><p><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7e/5e/08/7e5e0809135c4ccb9b519a936ae52b23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="533" height="320" src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7e/5e/08/7e5e0809135c4ccb9b519a936ae52b23.jpg" width="213" /></a></span></div><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />“It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?” </span><p></p><p><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840x2160/2182361-L-M-Montgomery-Quote-Which-would-you-rather-be-if-you-had-the.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="180" src="https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840x2160/2182361-L-M-Montgomery-Quote-Which-would-you-rather-be-if-you-had-the.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />“Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”</span><p></p><p><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/60/2d/5a/602d5aa96ec89d4eaf124083acc07fc8.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/60/2d/5a/602d5aa96ec89d4eaf124083acc07fc8.png" width="150" /></a></span></div><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”</span><p></p><p><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-it-s-been-my-experience-that-you-can-nearly-always-enjoy-things-if-you-make-up-your-lucy-maud-montgomery-37-15-76.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="800" height="150" src="https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-it-s-been-my-experience-that-you-can-nearly-always-enjoy-things-if-you-make-up-your-lucy-maud-montgomery-37-15-76.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />and my all time favourite quote:</span><p></p><p><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”</span></p><p><span face="Poppins, system-ui, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(145, 86, 173); color: #192c49; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">I have installed IntenseDebate commenting on my blog.
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I've gone through books I've read and enjoyed a lot and highly recommend! And found extra reasons to read each book. And maybe listed eleven, lol, because I liked the topic.</span><p></p><p><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">For more posts and future topics, visit <a href="http://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/">That Artsy Reader Girl</a> who hosts.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0679311793.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0679311793.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Unless - Carol Shields (author)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">The main character, an author, is struggling as her daughter has dropped out of life and is sitting on a street corner, with a sign around her neck, 'goodness'</div><div style="text-align: center;">Bonus: feminist slant to all the naval gazing</div></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0451169522.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="303" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0451169522.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="119" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><b>Misery - Stephen King (author)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">What happens to an author who stops writing a series, and a crazy fan is not impressed? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">Bonus: you can watch the excellent movie as well</span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1443452564.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1443452564.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="132" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><b>The Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz (author/agent)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">The manuscript has been passed in and then the author disappears. The author's agent must figure out what happened, based on the unpublished manuscript. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">Bonus: you get two books in one because you also read the manuscript.</span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1594200106.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1594200106.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="132" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><b>The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (librarian, book seller)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">A young boy finds an old book and while looking for more books by the author, discovers all the author's books are being destroyed. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">Bonus: the setting is a gothic Barcelona</span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com//picsizes/b1/38/b13888b0624c41e59334f4b52514141414d6741_v5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="121" height="200" src="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com//picsizes/b1/38/b13888b0624c41e59334f4b52514141414d6741_v5.jpg" width="121" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><b>Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (reader/writer)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">Poor orphan Anne has always escaped into books and writing to offset her miserable life, before she comes to Green Gables</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">Bonus: later book, Anne of Windy Poplar, is all letters written by Anne to Gilbert</span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/33/bf/33bf359c04cd17d593961435051433041414141_v5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/33/bf/33bf359c04cd17d593961435051433041414141_v5.jpg" width="128" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><b>The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde (just all about books!)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">A whole world within books, with book detectives trying to keep the endings the way they should be without rouge characters trying to change things.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">Bonus: all your favourite books/characters are here, and there are sequels</span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/bb/48/bb48d1bc42481af5931794c5351433041414141_v5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/bb/48/bb48d1bc42481af5931794c5351433041414141_v5.jpg" width="126" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><b>The Book Thief - Markus Zuzak (reader)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">A little girl sneaks into a home library and reads books. In Berlin, during the war, and she is Jewish. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">Bonus: Death is the narrator</span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51biOSzmhvL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51biOSzmhvL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><b>The Giver of Stars - Jojo Moyes (mobile librarians)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">Women librarians taking books on horseback to isolated farms</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">Bonus: try Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey for the same version of story, but in a future America</span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61o759x27JL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61o759x27JL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><b>Eight Perfect Murders - Peter Swanson (bookseller)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">A bookseller who wrote a list of the most unsolvable murders from literature gets caught up in a murder investigation when someone begins using his list to actually kill</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">Bonus: You get a list of 8 great murder mysteries to read afterward</span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/f3/5f/f35f0d3bfdbe6a15969782b7a41433041414141_v5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/f3/5f/f35f0d3bfdbe6a15969782b7a41433041414141_v5.jpg" width="132" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><b>The Sentence - Louise Erdrich (bookstore worker)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">I wanted a book I've read recently on the list and this one was good, and topical, set in Minnesota during 2020 so expect Covid lockdowns and George Floyd murder. Much of the book is set in a bookstore where the main character is being haunted by a dead patron.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;">Bonus: books list at the back, of books the main character referenced</span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">I have installed IntenseDebate commenting on my blog.
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This is a great idea, and one I should incorporate every month to give a quick recap of the books I've read. For more topics and posts see <a href="http://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/">That Artsy Reader Girl.</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51xvb0Np7qL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51xvb0Np7qL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br />The Raven's Tale - Cat Winters 🎧 - gothic</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 228, 228); margin: 0px; padding: 2px;" width="16" /></a> - refugees</div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B085TR1GVB.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="180" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/B085TR1GVB.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="130" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #474b4e; 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font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Out of Line Short Story Collection : This Telling - Cheryl Strayed; Halfway to Free - Emma Donaghue; Shine, Pamela! Shine - Kate Atkinson (ebook) - pregnancy</div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kSyRfSzKL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kSyRfSzKL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: center;">The Final Revival of Opal & Nev - Dawnie Walton - 🎧 - seventies</div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51oY5VLaEzL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51oY5VLaEzL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Small Pleasures - Clare Chambers - 🎧 - delightful</div></span></div><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">I have installed IntenseDebate commenting on my blog.
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Set in the 1300s of England near Oxford, Hugh has studied as a surgeon, and is now the bailiff for a local lord, charged with investigating crimes that occur under his region. Time passes in the series, so we see Hugh court, marry, have children. It's plague times, so there is lots of death, and lots of medieval deaths due to, well, anything. Life is tough.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This wasn't my favourite in the series as Lord Gilbert has packed up the men in his employ to head to France to support Prince Edward in his fight in Aquatine, and Hugh has to go along to look after injuries. So it's all the lords and upper class men 'fighting' and getting into trouble, and no random village people or Hugh's family to watch. I'll keep reading though - I've got the next two books out from the library (because the library is closing, to move in June, so not due til July)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kSyRfSzKL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51kSyRfSzKL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><b>The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1970s America</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I guess the 1970s are now historical fiction as 1972 is now fifty years ago, sheesh! Opal and Nev reminds me a lot of Daisy Jones and the Six. Both are told as a bio-pic type story, with interviews from all the relevent characters. It took me a while to get into the book, and keep all the characteres straight which considering it was an audio with full cast, shouldn't have. But I did eventually get involved in the story, and enjoyed the look at race relations, and music history. The idea is that the editor of a magazine is looking into the concert/turned riot that killed her drummer father just before her birth. The musical duo Opal and Nev, a young black girl and a white man, played their last show at the riot. The editor looks into what exactly happened that night, and interviews all the players, and of course has her own vested interest in it all, as Opal and Nev begin plans for a reunion tour. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51oY5VLaEzL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51oY5VLaEzL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">1950s England</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Sweet find of the month which hit my literary sweet spots - a quiet look at a 'spinster' woman in late 1950s England. Jean works at a local paper, looking after her widowed, cranky mother. Her boring life takes a turn to the interesting when she receives a letter from a woman who claims that her daughter was born of a virgin birth. Jean investigates for the paper but gets entangled in the family, befriending the mother, becoming an aunt-like friend to the ten year old daughter, and especially attached to the doting husband. Quiet but insightful, looking at balance between duty and self-interest. Delightful!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Turns out this is based on two stories that Chambers read in an old newpaper and turned into one story. I like getting to hear about the inspiration that may have been behind a story. This is also described as for fans of Kazou Ishiguro, Ann Patchett, and Tessa Hadley.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">I have installed IntenseDebate commenting on my blog.
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Spring is in the air (although there is definitely still a risk of frost, and a skiff of snow wouldn't be unheard of). One of the signs of spring for me is that it is time to buy my National Park pass for the summer, allowing me to go to the North Shore beaches of Prince Edward Island from July to September. And July to September are the best months on PEI. Now, most Islanders know how to get into the National Park without having a pass, or can easily find a non-National Park Beach like Lakeside or Panmure Island, or like at my cottage, Locke Shore which are all free, but Brackley and Cavendish and Stanhope are where all the action is, and are great beaches that are easy to get to, about 25 minutes from my home.</p><p>Beaches = ocean, tides, and beautiful sand. I also just ordered myself a new beach chair to take to the beach. I am getting a peaceful feeling just imagining sitting at the beach with a book, looking out on the ocean horizon forever. Sigh. </p><p>For future topics and links to everyone else's posts, visit <a href="http://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/">That Artsy Reader Girl</a>.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpgxFh6ZVV76T-K4A8GwwlBVILTB8U3TwXIxamdVv9y6VroYmQNeZ-buVdmp3OhrHFFD41qS7lXtIltUdLXaVPYAYFDkaB1f4-mxp2bow7I89yirb-A_E2tMRwxNeDbW1FIGIUx30FToc08lSkoapZu-sQu9P0t86XkeclL-8J4RlJ89MQ3N877Vz2/s1440/50EFE2CC-1702-40BA-9CDD-4DFB8F6EBD64.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpgxFh6ZVV76T-K4A8GwwlBVILTB8U3TwXIxamdVv9y6VroYmQNeZ-buVdmp3OhrHFFD41qS7lXtIltUdLXaVPYAYFDkaB1f4-mxp2bow7I89yirb-A_E2tMRwxNeDbW1FIGIUx30FToc08lSkoapZu-sQu9P0t86XkeclL-8J4RlJ89MQ3N877Vz2/s320/50EFE2CC-1702-40BA-9CDD-4DFB8F6EBD64.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">my view from Stanhope beach last summer </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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It's a Freebie Week for Top Ten Tuesday hosted at <a href="http://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/">That Artsy Reader Girl,</a> and I found this draft post from a few years ago that highlighted a few of the YA Sync audiobooks that were offered in summer of 2019. Pretty good deal for free books, and the fact that some of them were so good is really just a bonus. <div><br /><div>I started walking a lot that summer, and audiobooks were a big part of my fitness routine. I could always tell when I really liked a book, because I would just keep walking, or I couldn't wait to bet back out and listen to more of the book.</div><div><br /><div>As this program is still going on, and is starting up the<a href="https://audiofilemagazine.com/sync/"> end of April 2022</a>, keep an eye out or sign up for email or text reminders to get your 2 free audiobooks each week. <br />
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<b>The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson</b></div>
Modern day story of a teen girl who chooses to go to a boarding school in London, and then a copy-cat Jack the Ripper starts up, and the school is in the neighbourhood of these murders. There was a paranormal level to the story, that gradually appeared, which made it acceptable to me as I'm not really a paranormal activity reader.<br />
I've read previous books by Johnson, like Let it Snow, and 13 Little Blue Envelopes, so I knew she was a quality writer. There are more books in this series, called Shades of London, and while I really enjoyed The Name of the Star, I'm not sure I'll go out of my way to find the next three books.<br />
I will however, look for that nonfiction book about the victims of Jack the Ripper.<br />
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<b>Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach</b></div>
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Nonfiction science book by amazing author (Packing for Mars, and Stiff) made this a book I knew I would enjoy, and humorous and nosy author Roach did not disappoint. Here's short synopsis from Librarything:<br />
<span face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #111111;"><blockquote>This novel focuses on the alimentary canal, which is basically, what happens from your mouth to your colon. You will learn all sorts of things about saliva, taste, the stomach and how food is digested and what science has done to experiment with people to learn these things, why the colon doesn't explode when one is unable to expel excrement, and why pooping is so important.</blockquote></span><br />
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<b>Olivia Twist by Lorie Langdon</b></div>
Great retelling of Oliver Twist that made me wish I had read Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens before. Alas, I won't, and I often enjoy retellings more than the original. Even without the parallels, this was a great story - orphans, poor kids, Victorian London streets, a touch of romance, and a murder mystery. Great setting, good plot, and well-written characters. It was just a rollicking good time, and the Oliver Twist connection just added to it.<br />
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<b>The Golden Day by Ursula Dubosarsky</b></div>
Well, this was a creepy little story. Set in Ausralia in the 1960s at a girls' school, there is a lot of vague things happening that builds up the creepiness. One day, a teacher and eleven students go on an unplanned outing, and the teacher ends up disappeared. I'm not even completely sure what happened, but it certainly had my attention while I read it.<br />
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<b>Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones</b></div>
This was another fast-paced adventure with two run away teens. I really liked the Toronto setting, as I felt like I could picture everything happening. The social issue of homelessness, coupled with the adventure - Blink observes a kidnapping and then meets up with Caution, both running from abusive situations.<br />
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Vincent & Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heligman</b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">The boys were crazy but talented. They spent their whole life fighting with each other in how they would life their lives. Vincent worked hard at his art, and then dealt with mental illness. </div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanan</b></div></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">I didn't remember what this book was about, but when I looked it up, I did remember. A young girl is taken to a Outward Bound type situation to deal with her drug abuse. She is very angry at the start, but it ends up being heart-warming and a good read.</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court by Kareem Abdul-Jabaar</b></div></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">How could you not be a fan of Kareem Abdul-Jabaar after reading this book? He is the intellectual, thoughtful, progressive thinker that he appears to be, and also a fantastic athlete. He always knew that there were more important things than sports thought. </div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This was a short book, and again, my memory is vague. I see 'second person' perspective in reviews, and my memory is that he was a disturbed teenager, making poor choices. </div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I have installed IntenseDebate commenting on my blog.
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After the war he goes back to England and hangs </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">out with an odd assortment of </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">characters at a bar. Circumstances take </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">him, and a few characters, back to Florence where</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">they make a life. The </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">art historian hovers around and it takes years for them to reconnect.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The author narrated, which was okay, but I thought a professional </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">narrator might have made</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">a difference, for the better, for me.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I liked it; other readers at LT have loved it a lot. <br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-DIywlVSL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-DIywlVSL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Matrix by Lauren Groff</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">review can be found <a href="https://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2022/03/review-matrix-by-lauren-groff.html">here</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">1200s England, convent</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><section class="not_boxed" id="msgs" style="--grad-width: 80px; background-color: white; border-top: 1px solid var(--lt-tint-dark-1); box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.14px; margin: 0 var(--lt-padding-neg); padding-bottom: var(--lt-padding);"><div class="fp" id="fp7786966" style="background-position: 0% 28px; background-repeat: repeat-x; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both;"><div class="mT" id="mg7786966" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 7px 0px 14px; padding: 3px; transition: background-color 500ms ease 0s;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51w6M0p4NvL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51w6M0p4NvL._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><b>When We Lost Our Heads - Heather O'Neill</b></span></div><div class="mT" id="mg7786966" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 7px 0px 14px; padding: 3px; transition: background-color 500ms ease 0s;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.14px;">late 19th century Montreal</span></div><div class="mT" id="mg7786966" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 7px 0px 14px; padding: 3px; transition: background-color 500ms ease 0s;"><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.14px;">This one needed its own </span><a href="https://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2022/03/review-when-we-lost-our-heads-by.html" style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.14px;">review post</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> as I really loved it.</span></div><div class="mT" id="mg7786966" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 7px 0px 14px; padding: 3px; transition: background-color 500ms ease 0s;"><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: grey; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: grey; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/b8/97/b8972ef8497dfcc596956667951433041414141_v5.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/b8/97/b8972ef8497dfcc596956667951433041414141_v5.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><b style="letter-spacing: -0.14px;">Circle by Maggie Shipstead</b></span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">early 1900s to 1950s America, plus present day </span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">looking back</span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">review has been <a href="https://raidergirl3-anadventureinreading.blogspot.com/2022/03/review-great-circle-by-maggie-shipstead.html">posted here</a></span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The Raven's Tale by Cat Winters</b></span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">late 1820s, Virginia and Richmond</span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Are you a fan of Edgar Allan Poe? This historical fiction is for you. </span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Picture tormented</span><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.14px;">Edgar at seventeen, heading off to university with </span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.14px;">his muse, Lenore, tagging along. </span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The writing is lovely and many parts try to match 'The Raven' as that is</span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">obviously going </span><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.14px;">to be a big part of the story. I've read a few of Poe's short</span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.14px;">stories, and the Simpsons' </span><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.14px;">Halloween episode 'The Raven' is one of my </span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.14px;">favourites. I've been inspired to buy a kindle </span><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.14px;">book of Poe's work to enjoy. </span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.14px;">It's very fantastical (a raven-type women is following him and </span><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.14px;">can be seen </span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: var(--lt-padding-half); margin-top: 0px; padding: var(--lt-padding) 0 0; user-select: none; width: 853px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.14px;">by others, and then </span><i style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.14px;">another</i><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.14px;"> muse shows up who wants Edgar to focus on </span></div><div class="ed" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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