Tag: A Happy Catastrophe

• My Top Ten of 2025 (and some honorable mentions)

  Last year, I documented my favorite reads of the year in an essay, My Top Ten of 2024, and it was difficult narrowing my list of 60 books read down to 10 favorites. This year, I had an equally tough time because I had a great reading year with a total of 70 books, and…

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  December 30, 2025

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  A Happy Catastrophe, Atmosphere, book-review, books, Dear Miss Lake, Every Tom Dick and Harry, fiction, literature, Murder on the Marlow Belle, My Friends, novel, reading, The Christie Affair, The Correspondent, The Homemade God, The Impossible Fortune, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris, The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer, The Wedding People, The White Octopus Hotel, This is Not About Us, Through an Open Window, top ten, Virginia Evans, writer, writing

• Book Review: A Happy Catastrophe by Maddie Dawson

  Happy. Hopeful. Depressing. Sad. Melancholy. Engaging. Frenetic. Anxious. Tedious. Mad. Bored. Chaotic. These are all things I felt while reading Maddie Dawson’s 2020 novel A Happy Catastrophe, published by Lake Union Publishing. (Disclosure: I purchased this book on Amazon for my Kindle.) As is sometimes the case, I found out after I had finished it…

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  January 5, 2025

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  A Happy Catastrophe, Amazon, book-review, books, chick lit, depression, family, fiction, Fritzie, grief, Kindle, Lake Union Publishing, literary fiction, literature, Maddie Dawson, magic, Marnie, Matchmaking for Beginners, mental health, novel, pain, Patrick Delaney, reading, survivor’s guilt, therapist, trauma