Tag: Amazon

• Book Review: The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell

  NetGalley is a digital platform that provides book people with FREE advance reading copies (ARCs) of books yet to be released in exchange for a review written and posted on their site, on Goodreads, on Amazon, on your own social media. Sometimes you are offered a book, but more often you request a book that…

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  July 9, 2025

  books

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• 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

  books, Essay

  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

• My Top Ten of 2024

  With only two days of 2024 left, I think my reading stats are pretty set in stone, unless I finish off one more book before the ball drops on New Year’s Eve so I can end on an even number. I had a good reading year but my total number of books is a bit…

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  December 29, 2024

  books

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