Category: books
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Driven by Annoyance…(and Deceit) #Review #Fiction
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MS Word upset me again yesterday. Actually, it made me really angry. (this new angry stuff will need addressing soon, but not today) I know, I know, I swore I would never use Word again, but a new copy has recently been downloaded to the desktop, so I took a chance. (Google Docs can get…
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Beyond Dark: Belladona Review #Mystery #Fiction
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Something sinister dwells in the shadows of Ottawa. Grief and fear grip the city as one by one, women within the local entertainment industry end up dead on the streets, posed with a bizarre signature. Someone is slipping a deadly poison into the drinks of musicians, models, and actresses. Confounded and convinced a woman is…
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I forgot ‘Why’…
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I was pulled up twice yesterday in quick succession. I had just spent the afternoon re reading the first 8 chapters of my new story, Swan Song and was feeling just a little smug that everything seemed to be on track. Then I decided to finish reading Beyond Dark: Belladonna, a new detective mystery, by…
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A Touch of Magic: reviewing the Secret Library. #fiction #review #Magic
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‘The perfect book to curl up with, whether beach or fireside. I absolutely loved it!’ Celia Anderson Book editor Lucy Thomas has just inherited her grandmother’s windswept Cornish home, and with it, a library bathed in sunlight, a spiral staircase that leads to secrets, and a battered box filled with unfinished stories… To honour her…
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Surviving the heat…
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this bonsai is made from beads! The heat is unrelenting, and my brain has almost given up all rational thought. I say almost, so I am very grateful for being able to think at all, everything considered. So I am making the most of what remains. Some of my bonsai are in full sun all…
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A New beginning and a Review…
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I was busy going about all the daily jobs this morning, not a care in the world. Happy to be able to do anything, really. It was a when I stopped for a quick rest, that my mind had other ideas. First, it supplied me with a long list of things I should be doing…
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The End of a Brilliant Week…
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This week has been full of ups and downs, and some of the downs have been spectacularly bad. After everything I have had to put up with the past year, I thought I had beaten the miseries, but it turns out I am human after all. But enough about that… I have been doing some…
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The Shattered Bauble, by Rachel Mclean #fiction #Mystery #Review
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It’s Christmas in Lyme Regis, and DC Tina Abbott is looking forward to some well-earned time with her family. But then her mum Annie, true to form, reports a crime. The pottery shop has been broken into and the owner Peg, Annie’s friend, attacked. The evidence is scant. A solitary fingerprint in blood, but nothing…
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No Man’s Land…
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Although I have been making good headway with my latest mystery thriller, it has come to my attention that I may not be around to actually finish it. A morbid thought, and I have no real idea where it came from, as I intend to finish it, one way or another. Ever since I was…