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Feel Good Reading: Mini-Reviews

August 15, 2024

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Photo by Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash   My subject line today is a weak attempt on my part to make light of why I haven’t written a review in so long. I mentioned having COVID in my July recap, but that was two weeks ago. I’ve had little to do but read so reviews should have been flowing like water. Instead, the only thing flowing is my nose when I’m not sleeping or ... Read More...

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Summer Reading Mini-Review

June 21, 2024

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I've had such good reading recently that I feel bit a bit bad ending this week on a negative note. At the same time, I'm not one to mince my words so while I love light-hearted, fun reading, especially in the summer, these two books fell far short of success for me.   Patrick, the witty, gay uncle in Steven Rowley’s novel The Guncle has returned for an encore ... Read More...

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Christa Comes Out of Her Shell

May 24, 2024

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Christa is a scientist who studies snails on a small isolated island. She’s perfectly happy with a life free from people thanks to a childhood spent in the spotlight. Her father was a world-famous naturalist with his own wildly popular TV show, but his plane crashed in the Alaskan wilderness when she was 2-years-old. Her mother carried on his work by creating a wildlife ... Read More...

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Pineapple Street

March 15, 2024

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The Stocktons are a family of inherited wealth, the kind whose trust funds have trust funds. Cord works with their father at the family’s real estate investment firm, but beyond that jobs are not anything his sisters Georgina and Darley have ever given thought to. Money or more importantly the lack of money is not a concept understood in Jenny Jackson’s debut, Pineapple ... Read More...

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The Sweet Spot

October 18, 2023

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When Phillip gets an amazing job in Berlin he offers his rundown, but much-loved brownstone in Greenwich Village to his son and his family. What he doesn’t know is that the house will become the host for a wide array of characters and outrageous situations, including his daughter-in-law’s mother, who shows up unannounced to help out and the young woman they hire because they do ... Read More...

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September Reading Wrap-Up

October 2, 2023

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September has come and gone and with it, the last weak bits of Seattle summer. Shorts and tees have been packed away and I’m back to layering clothes and wearing fuzzy socks. No complaints, I love all things soft and warm—in my clothes. In my books, not so much. Still, September was a month of reading as steady and stable as our weather which is a welcome state of affairs. ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: chick lit, historical fiction, memoir, mini-reviews

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