Tag: books
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Book Review: Janie Writes a Play by Heidi E. Y. Stemple and illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight
For those of you who have been following my book reviews, this will be a bit different for you. Today I read a book to be published on February 11, 2025, a children’s picture book with only 40 pages, short paragraphs on each page, and bright, colorful illustrations on every page. This is a bit…
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Book Review: Something Better by Diane Parrish
Reading a debut novel is always exciting for me. Maybe it will be great and I will anxiously await the sophomore novel, and on and on, being a completist from the start! Maybe it will be very good and I can watch the author’s craft strengthen and develop from one book to the next. Maybe…
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Book Review: The Examiner by Janice Hallett
The Examiner is my second book by Janice Hallett, having read The Appeal in March of 2023, and I must say I was very pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. I requested it from NetGalley, compliments of Atria Books, because of the description. NetGalley’s description tells of a university professor teaching a…
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Book Review: Elizabeth Sails by Kristin Owens
My husband and I are freshly retired and we are making up for lost time planning vacations since we haven’t been able to travel much over the years. One of the things we are currently debating is whether or not we want to go on a cruise. I’ve been on two, albeit both a very…
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Book Review: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
Although I just returned from a week in Ireland, and two weeks in France, we were nowhere near Paris, due to the Olympics taking over the city. While the southwest of France where we exclusively traveled on this trip was beautiful, I do wish I could get to Paris for two things: more French food…
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Book Review – Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson by Paul French
First, thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC of this work of nonfiction, a history of sorts of Wallis Simpson, the late Duchess of Windsor, and the time she spent in China in the mid-1920s. I have long been drawn to nonfiction works about the Royal Family of Great Britain and…
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Book Review: Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan Rieger
Everyone knows the saying, “Like mother, like daughter,” or “Like father, like son.” We all inherit certain traits and characteristics from our parents and pass on some of them to our own children. In my case, though, it is more like, “Like father, like daughter.” My father was a first-class storyteller. Sometimes they started out…
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Book Review: Sandwich by Catherine Newman
Have you ever read a book where you loved it with all your heart but you didn’t love the protagonist who is also the narrator telling her own story in first person? In this instance there is no escape from this person that you aren’t really fond of. This is the case of the novel…
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Book Review: The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
While considerable thought goes into packing clothing for an overseas vacation, especially when visiting multiple countries with differing climates, I give equally as much thought into what I will read on the trip. My Kindle is always fully loaded and downloaded and ready to go. For my recent trip to Ireland and France, I had…
Michelle Blanchard Ardillo 