Wednesday, March 26, 2025

A MAP TO PARADISE ~ SUSAN MEISSNER ~ REVIEW

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Book for review courtesy of NetGalley ~  Berkley Publishing Group |  In Susan Meissner's new novel A Map to Paradise , three women hide ...
Monday, December 23, 2024

'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS

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When you are told as a child that a chubby benevolent old man is going to bring you presents for free, you don't question it. You go to ...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

GIVING THANKS FOR FASHION AND TURKEY

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Imagine Anna Wintour campaigning President Biden to make the Met Gala a national holiday and you basically have Sarah Josepha Hale. A widowe...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

10 WAYS TO BREAK A READING SLUMP

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  As readers we all want nothing more than an uninterrupted few hours and a good book. But sometimes life takes us away from our shelves, or...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

NEVER WERE THERE SUCH DEVOTED SISTERS : THE BOND BETWEEN MERRICAT AND CONSTANCE BLACKWOOD

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  "My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am 18 years old and I live with my sister Constance." (421) So begins Shirley Jackson...

DON'T BUY A TICKET TO HER LOTTERY

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  "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality." So wrote author Shirley Jackson i...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

"WELL THIS IS JUST A LITTLE PEYTON PLACE..."

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Every author has the same dream : they sit at a typewriter and the words pour out of them. The story is cohesive without a struggle. They ma...