Materfamilias Writes

Books to Get the Year Launched

Books to Get the Year Launched

With January already over, time to record a few titles. For train and plane travel at the beginning of the year, I downloaded Sara Blaedel’s Only One Life from the Vancouver Public Library. It’s the second…

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2017 Reading List

2017 Reading List

Three weeks into 2018, it’s past time to publish my 2017 Reading List, incomplete and unsatisfactory as it may be. As you’ve surely noticed, I grumble regularly about my poor performance in these posts, frustrated…

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Reading while Flying. . .

Reading while Flying. . .

I’m waiting until I’m home from my trip to post my 2017 Reading List, but given that I wrote a few words about reading over on my main blog, I thought I’d copy them here,…

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Alchemists and Rebels and Bees, Oh-My! Cynthea Masson’s The Flaw in the Stone

Alchemists and Rebels and Bees, Oh-My! Cynthea Masson’s The Flaw in the Stone

I’m running behind, obviously, on posting about books read this year, and now I’m running for the airport. But I have been so fortunate in reading books written by friends lately (read this post to…

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The Halifax Explosion — Alison Watt’s fictional rendering, 100 years later

The Halifax Explosion — Alison Watt’s fictional rendering, 100 years later

Currently pretty distracted with trying to get ready for Friday’s flight, but today is the 100th anniversary of the Halifax explosion, and I can’t bear to let the day go by without telling you about…

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