Catching up. . . with Six Titles for the Price of One Post . . .

Wow! Not sure how those five weeks got away from me, but I’m back, with a sextet of titles to share. 1. Lee Child’s Blue Moon, the latest Jack Reacher. Not sure why I enjoy…

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Nurse Nana Begs Your Patience, Offers Sketch. . .

 Blogging this week will be light. We’re babysitting a Nearly Two and his big sister, Almost Five, over at our son and daughter-in-law’s.  I’d imagined that while the kids were at daycare, I’d finish the…

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Two Memoirs and a Thriller . . .

I know, two travel memoirs and a thriller might not seem to fit together sensibly in one post, but truly, it’s often the way I read. I regularly throw a mystery or thriller into my…

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Bourgeois Marriage to Serial Murder — My Reading Has Range!

I’ve been doing very well with Holds I’ve placed on books from the Vancouver Public Library. A bit too well, really, and I’m currently reading madly through a Pico Iyer travel memoir (five reading days…

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A January Trio — Mystery and Literary Fiction Mixing It Up .. .

The third book I read this year was Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister the Serial Killer. Braithwaite is a Nigerian writer who has spent considerable time in England (primary school, boarding school, and then her degrees…

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