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What I Read in December, 2022: Rounding out the Year. . .

What I Read in December, 2022: Rounding out the Year. . .

Books, books, books! So many to be read, several in progress, and some of I finished in December. The stack above comprises all three, but it’s my December reading I’ll tell you about in this latest post. In fact, I read SO much in December that I’m going to split this post in two. Four titles in this, Part One, and four more in Part Two, coming your way soon. I hope you enjoy both and we can have our usual lively book chat. Click through to read on!

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And there was reading in December. . . .

And there was reading in December. . . .

First of all, Happy New Year to all of you! I am so grateful to you for reading and commenting here, and I’m looking forward to another year of sharing booktalk with you. But I’m…

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Three Titles in Search of a (Belated) Blogpost. . .

Three Titles in Search of a (Belated) Blogpost. . .

An entire month has slipped away since I last posted here — although I did write about my friend Carol Matthews’ book Minerva’s Owl: The Bereavement Phase of My Marriage over on my main blog. In case…

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An Unlikely Road Trip: Sara Baume’s Literary Debut

An Unlikely Road Trip: Sara Baume’s Literary Debut

I’d make my apologies for the lapse since last posting, but by now, this is what you’ve come to expect here. My mother used to insist that an apology was only as good as the…

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Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz

Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz

I have some tidying up today, given that I try to stack books I’ve finished to the left of my computer until I’ve at least mentioned them here, before I put them away. Pile’s getting…

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