Alchemical Fantasy–The Amber Garden

The second post in a week, and I’m going to sneak in one more before the year (the decade!) is done. This post has been far too long in the making. Back in mid-October, I…

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Six Titles Near the End of the Year. . . .

Before I left for Paris earlier this month, I had caught up my Reading Journal and meant to share photos of those pages with you. Didn’t happen, so now I’m going to post two or…

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Armchair Travel: Reading About Sicily . . .

The second page in my new Watercolour Sketchbook — the first boasts my hand-drawn (and hence, more suggestive than accurate 😉 of Sicily.  . . We’re planning a family meet-up week there next spring, and…

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Reading Fireside? A Dozen Titles for You. . .

 Only 70 more pages to go in Alice Zeniter’s L’Art de Perdre which I borrowed from the library. A wonderful novel following three generations of a family from pre-Independence Algeria to present-day France. I’ll share more…

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Mystery, Travel, Romance, Engaging Literary Fiction, and a KidLit title — A Mixed Bag for you

 Back again, to share a few more messy pages from my year’s Reading Journal — I see now that for next year’s journal (this one was the first handwritten record after years of tracking my…

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