Annual Book List — 2024

My Annual Book List, What I Read in 2024 — have a peek and maybe you’ll want to tell us about your reading highs and lows for last year. . . I always love our book chats!

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Monday Morning Greetings!

Apparently, there are big events elsewhere today, but I hope you have time for me to share a few happy photos of a sweet small event here recently — and to share an excerpt from my latest Substack post

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Bunnies for Birthdays, Among Other Activities

A few new activities here this January — I guess you could we’re hopping! Bunnies and new posts — hop by and I’ll tell you more!

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Books Read in December, 2024

Back from my travels, and I’m almost back on track with my book posts. For December, a French novel and an Italian “giallo” (crime novel); in English, some literary fiction, a couple of mysteries, and a British-French journalist’s about his 20 years in Paris. And, of course, the comments will soon be filled with reader’s generous suggestions about books they’ve discovered. Click through to read (and maybe add your own contributions, thank you!)

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Something for the New Year: Materfamilias meets Substack

Sometimes we need a pop of something different — in a rainy grey city, a row of cheerily painted planters might do the trick. For a 17-year-old blog (and its 71-year-old writer) sometimes a temporary change of venue, an exploration of other platforms. . . Click through to see what I have been playing at, please.

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