Category: #reading
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A Lesson Learned
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I love to read… everything… I have the compulsion to read. It can be a short story I come across, a news item, or the words on that packet of cornflakes that someone forgot to put back in the cupboard. I am also addicted to all those “How to be a Better Writer” books, and…
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Inspiration Day…
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I read this quote yesterday and it quite literally sent an electric charge through my brain, waking up so many long dormant feelings and ideas. I have also been reading John Truby’s amazing The Anatomy of Story. I haven’t read much of it yet, but enough to know that it will reintroduce me to the…
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Review for The Forever House by Linda Acaster #Women Sleuths #Bone Chilling
A chilling discovery. A sense of foreboding. They say I’m obsessing. I’m not. Resisting family pressure to sell the too-big house Carrie and her late husband began to renovate, she is determined to carry through their shared project to prove she can manage alone. And she can, until a discovery beneath old wallpaper chills her…
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Review for Close to Home by Alex Craigie #Family Life Fiction
“The book is brilliant. It reads like a memoir and grips like great fiction should – beautiful characterization”Viga Boland – Author – No Tears For My Father Talented pianist Megan Youngblood has it all – fame, fortune and Gideon. But Gideon isn’t good enough for Megan’s ambitious, manipulative mother, whose meddling has devastating repercussions for Megan…
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My Latest Review… BEELITZ-HEILSTÄTTEN: Where Ghosts Never Die
What if rediscovering your birthplace unearthed a secret so powerful it could rewrite history—and your own identity? A Russian-American writer obsessed with her birthplace – a ghostly derelict German military hospital near BerlinHer Austrian husband, who pines for the father he never metA passionate young doctor destined for darknessA demonic figure who changed the course…
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Winter Journeys.. a novel of music and memory #Fiction
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I have been reading a most unusual story, written by our good friend, Audrey Driscoll. The book description caught my interest, but didn’t prepare me for such an amazing roller coaster of a story… Winter Journeys is a story about the power of music and imagination. In 1827, a year before his death, composer Franz Schubert…
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Book Review for Detour on the Eternal Road #Fiction #Inspirational Religious Fiction @HowellWave
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The third book in the Eternal Road series. Sam and James are dragged into another strange assignment when a couple of souls on The Eternal Road drop off the radar. Archangel Michael gives them specific orders to resolve the issue and get Billy Ray Chitwood, the national race car champion, and Dale Earnhardt, his guide,…
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Silent (and thoughtful) Sunday…
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Image by bohacekmarek from Pixabay I never know if Sunday is the end of the week, or the beginning of a new one. Today, it’s the end of waiting and worrying for me, but it’s not as easy as that sounds. I have news, but it’s ongoing and hardly conclusive yet. But it has given me such a…