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Summer Reading Mini-Review

June 21, 2024

summer reading

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

April Reading Recap

May 2, 2024

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Is it the year? The authors? Me? Or some depressing combination of all three? I don’t know, but my April reading was as hit or miss as the Seattle weather.   Just when you think you’ve read every horror story about the opioid epidemic there’s more. Prescription for Pain is an investigative look into the life of Paul Volkman, a doctor turned pharmacist who at the peak ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: history, mini-reviews, thriller, true crime

March Reading Recap

April 1, 2024

march reading

My March reading is a wrap, but I have a question: would you rather have highs and lows in your reading or a steady diet of good? You can probably guess where I’m going with this. I ended the month on a streak of 3.5 star books, most of which I can hardly remember reading. I want need more amazing reading.   I guess I’m naïve, but there are certain institutions that ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: mini-reviews, mystery, thriller, true crime

January Reading Wrap-Up

February 1, 2024

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Anyone else have a tough reading month in January? Who knows whether it was because I had so much amazing backlist reading over the holidays or the fact that none of the new January books panned out for me. Either way, I’m not sorry to say goodbye to this first month of 2024. Let’s go February!   Tricia joins her husband in Saigon as the Vietnam War begins and has to ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: historical, Ireland, literary, mini-reviews

November Reading Wrap-Up

December 1, 2023

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  It’s odd to say, but for the most part November felt like a normal month. So, either I’m acclimating to chaos or my memory has blanked out the month. What I do know is that it was a Wild West rodeo for my reading. There was the fun of getting to read whatever I felt like and the not-so-fun inability to settle down into books I’d expected to love. Instead I was ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: fantasy, horror, mini-reviews

October Reading

October 31, 2023

October

October, what a month. So much chaos in the world and the U.S. and none of it is positive. For your sakes, I’ll stick with books here. Suffice it to say, all the madness in the world in the last two weeks of the month left me with the attention span of a gnat  so I have fewer low rated books and more I didn’t finish. But even with that, there were some real standouts this ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: fantasy, literary, mini-reviews

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