A Handful of NOT Reviews, Sorry!

I’d hoped to do another post or two before my trip, but that’s obviously not going to happen, given the list I’m still working my way down. However, it’s important to me to at least…

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Another trio: Two Mysteries and an Epic!

Some light reading: Clyde Ford’s Precious Cargo, set on the West Coast just below the border — I’ve been collecting representations of boats in West Coast literature, and this nicely-written mystery has them in spades.…

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Two Female Sleuths and a Cello Suite!

I’ve made the most of no-marking weekends lately — that’s the end of them for a while, so I’m glad I did. Some good escape reading: Alan Bradley’s Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.…

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Richards, Wagamese, and Rankin

Just time to record a few titles. First, David Adams Richards’ The Lost Highway — the man can write! His novels are always dense and always verging on the grotesque, either through particular characters or…

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Starting the New Year off with Atwood and mystery and memoir . . .

First novel of 2010? Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood, about which I think Puttermeister has pretty much articulated what I would say about the book(and she adds some interesting commentary about her longstanding…

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