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Back After This

April 15, 2025

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In Back After This Cecily is a podcast producer at a small media company. When she learns the company is struggling and many on her team could be laid off  she agrees to be the subject of a series about using a dating coach to find love. Not just any coach but an Instagram lifestyle influencer who potentially brings much needed advertising in the form of big sponsors. What is ... Read More...

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Victorian Psycho

April 10, 2025

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Apparently, this is Victorian era week at the blog. On Monday it was a novel about Oscar Wilde’s family. Today I’m going with a female serial killer. I’m not sure which is more disturbing, the novel, Victorian Psycho, or the fact that I read it in an afternoon and delighted in its gruesome darkness. Written in the style and format of Victorian times, much like Jane Eyre by ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: historical, horror, literary

The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts

April 7, 2025

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Coming from a family where wit (largely sarcasm, but still) is a love language I’ve always been intrigued by Oscar Wilde. I’ve read his works, seen movie adaptations of his plays, and even read about his tumultuous and ultimately tragic life. Now comes The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts by Louis Bayard, an inventive take on the impact on his family of Wilde’s personal life. In ... Read More...

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Count My Lies

April 4, 2025

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Sloane can’t help herself—she’s a compulsive liar. When she sees a handsome man at the park helping his hurt daughter she immediately offers her services as a nurse. She’s actually a manicurist, but in Count My Lies this is just the first strand of a web she spins to get the life of her dreams. From this seemingly unplanned meeting Sloane slowly insinuates herself in the ... Read More...

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Heartwood

April 2, 2025

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  …the act of walking while carrying the weight of my pack had wrung all the sadness out of me, the sadness for myself and for the world, and that in that moment, I was totally without stress, confusion, or agitation, and that I was perfectly, blamelessly, whole. The trail transformed me. The Appalachian Trail is known as one of the greatest hiking experiences. For many ... Read More...

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March Reading Recap

March 31, 2025

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Hello, fellow readers! I’m not sure I’ll get to say this again, but despite a completely miserable and toxic month in the news, my March reading was calmly solid. I only had one book I didn't finish, am fully immersed in a fabulous fantasy series, and read six books that were successful (3.5 stars or above).   I have a bit of an unusual situation with this book. ... Read More...

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