A January Trio — Mystery and Literary Fiction Mixing It Up .. .

The third book I read this year was Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister the Serial Killer. Braithwaite is a Nigerian writer who has spent considerable time in England (primary school, boarding school, and then her degrees…

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More of my Travel Reading

Back in June (I know!) I shared some of the titles I’d read during my three weeks’ travel, and I promised to share the rest later. Well, this is definitely later. . . . And…

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Flitting with the Finches — Back to My Reading Blog with a Book About Birds

Yes, I have trouble keeping this blog going — I’d say that it’s an example of a lifelong trend to,  as I’ve often been warned from adolescence onward, “spread myself too thin.” But I’m going…

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 — Playing Catch-Up Here with a Grab-Bag of Books for you

I’ve been reading, yes, but I’ve also been packing and trying to get the house organized to leave it for almost two months and visiting the kids before we leave and meeting with the housesitter…

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H is for Hello Again. . . and also for Helen Macdonald’s Hawk book. . .

Very near the top of my What Will I Do Now That I’m Retiring list is “Resurrect My Reading Blog” with perhaps ten or twenty exclamation marks following that commitment. This is a teeny, tiny…

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