Category: books
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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…
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Moving around the Changes…
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My mind was a blank when I woke up yesterday morning. It seemed to stay that way, despite my trying to think of something to write. My brain has been doing this a lot lately, too much going on in there, and I suppose it had switched off for a while. They will be having…
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Thursday Catch-up… #Reviews
While double-checking the work I’d done recently, I discovered not one but two reviews I’d written and somehow never posted. This showed me how far I have fallen off the efficiency wagon, and I cannot apologize enough to the writers concerned. Woven in Time Trilogy Book 1 by Jessica Ann Across centuries, three women are bound…