Tag: Canada

• Book Review: Looking for You by Alexander McCall Smith

  Before there was Match.com, eHarmony.com, or Tinder.com, there were individuals or agencies that “made introductions,” much like the matchmakers of the old days, like Yenta in the famous Fiddler on the Roof. The underlying theme of Fiddler is one of the key words of the musical: tradition. In Alexander McCall Smith’s series A Perfect Passion…

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  February 2, 2025

  books, Essay

  A Laborer in the Vineyard of Love, A Perfect Passion Company, Alexander McCall Smith, ARC, Australia, book-review, books, Canada, Cook for You, Edinburgh, fiction, gap year, Goodreads, literature, Looking for You, NetGalley, novel, reading, Scotland, series, writer

• Book Review: Murder in a Teacup by Vicki Delany

  Guilty as charged: I judged this book entirely by its cover. I had not heard of Vicki Delany before I saw this book on the “librarian’s picks” shelf at my local library, but a cover with a table set for afternoon tea in the foreground, a cat sleeping on a windowsill, and sailboats in the…

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  July 10, 2022

  books

  afternoon tea, bed and breakfast, Canada, Cape Cod, cozy mystery, Murder in a Teacup, Murder Spills the Tea, Tea and Treachery, Tea by the Sea mystery series, Vicki Delany, Victorian inn