Mysteries and History and France and French. . .

The light reading continues. . . I very much enjoyed both of Susie Steiner’s Manon Bradshaw’s mysteries, recommended by Sue at High Heels in the Wilderness. Don’t you love her bookposts?! (and if you don’t…

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Serious Summer Reading. . . and some Not So Serious

I’ve just finished reading Philippe Sands’ East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes against Humanity.” I’d come across a recommendation to this winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction prize and added…

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Three More Mysteries

First, the three mystery novels whose titles I promised you last post. I haven’t only been reading from this genre, recently, but it makes sense to group them this way, before moving on to books from…

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Two Juicy Big Mysteries

Not bad, not bad at all. . . only three weeks have elapsed since my last post, the one which I closed by promising to name the two fat mysteries I borrowed from the library’s…

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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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