Tag: books
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River Walking…
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Thoughts of my new book woke me up this morning, which is a great way to start the day. Those thoughts must have been triggered by memories of the rivers I have ever walked along, or maybe I dreamed of one? As I lay there, cocooned in my duvet (it was a bit chilly last…
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Review for The White Road by Sarah Lotz #Horror Suspense
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*****From the author of The Three, coming soon to your screen as a major BBC adaptation by Golden Globe winner Peter Straughan***** Adrenaline-junky Simon Newman sneaks onto private land to explore a dangerous cave in Wales with a strange man he’s met online. But Simon gets more than he bargained for when the expedition goes horribly wrong.…
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Review for Captive Hope by Rachel Ritchey #Christian Fantasy @RachaelRitchey
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Lady Idra, reserved as she is, cannot seem to adjust to life at High Castle where making friends among the courtiers proves nearly impossible, and she longs for the familiarity of Taisce. The only bright spot is the kindhearted and chivalrous Sir Ahmad, the high prince’s most trusted guardsmen. Yet, just as she begins to…
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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…