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Book Review: Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
For my second book of the new year I chose the beautiful yet painful Memorial Days: A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks, a book that details the death of her husband, the “love of her life,” in May of 2019. I remember reading about when Tony Horowitz died suddenly after collapsing on a sidewalk in Chevy…
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Book Review: All My Bones by P. J. Nelson
This is my second book by P. J. Nelson, also the second in the Old Juniper Bookshop mystery series. The first one, Booked for Murder (Minotaur Books, December 2024, 325 pages), was an enjoyable read, although I noted in my review a few things that I found odd, namely that it is a book about…
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Book Review: The Accidental Rewrite by Milly Johnson
First of all, since this was an offering on NetGalley I assumed this was a brand new, yet to be published book, perhaps by a debut author. Silly me, wrong on all accounts. The Accidental Rewrite was first published in February of 2024 in the UK under the title The Happiest Ever After. And, Milly…
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Book Review: Rainbow Fish and the Great Escape, written and illustrated by Marcus Pfister, translated by David Henry Wilson
NorthSouth Books, via NetGalley, graciously offered me an ARC of this children’s book, Rainbow Fish and the Great Escape by Marcus Pfister, translated from the German by David Henry Wilson. Seeing the cover of this book brought on a flood of memories for me. This is book #10 in the Rainbow Fish series, the first…
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Book Review: The Best Daddy of All
Thank you to NorthSouth Books, specifically Marian Hernandez, and to NetGalley for the ARC of The Best Daddy of All, this delightful picture book for young children. I must say that I read this book with a lump in my throat. Author Peter Horn and illustrator Jessica Meserve brought up so many wonderful memories of…
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