Tag: book review
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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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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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Tale of the Seasons’ Weaver #Review #Epic Fantasy #Fiction
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The dust is finally beginning to settle after the last few weeks of chaos, and I have been taking stock and checking that everything is as it should be. Imagine my dismay to find our review for one of my favourite books this year had been missed. Huge apologies to Diana! “Already the animals starve.…
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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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Miracles and Ghosts… #Review #Fiction #ShortStories
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Hi Folks! I am trying to appear normal today, probably in the vain hope that it could be true! Beginning with a catch-up of things unfinished. This review has been on the back burner since Christmas, so it was a great place to begin… Miracles and Ghosts: A Christmas Collection’s eight tales bring light in the…
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Our New Year wants to start here…
Image by 👀 Mabel Amber, who will one day from Pixabay A quick glance out of my window this morning confirmed what I was already feeling. The sun was shining, the sky was a lovely shade of blue, and the bird station in the garden was alive with small birds, all trying for the best spot. I spotted…