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Book Review of Three Women

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ We would like to think that we are unique, one of a kind and that some experiences have only happened to us. Shockingly, not really, that belief is generally not true and chances are that there is someone experiencing the same feeling, emotion, thought or experience as you.Three Women by Lisa Taddeo explores the sex lives of three real women after years of research. The three women are…

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Heron’s Cry by Ann Cleeves is the second installment in the Two River series.Detective Matthew Venn is called to investigate the murder of Dr. Nigel Yeo in North Devon, a rural suburb of Barnstaple. Yeo was found stabbed to death by a a broken piece of glass from a vase blown by his own daughter, Eve, in her own studio.Dr. Yeo was a good man and an unlikely murder victim. He was the…

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Picture of the Week

Cal Ripken cat enjoying his Sunday mornings

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Just Finished….

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I just finished Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway, and I’m not sure if 5 stars is enough. A great read and another gem from the author of A Gentleman in Moscow. The Lincoln Highway is an encapsulation of the various moral shades of humanity that surround us. Towles allows to see into each of the characters lives, their relationships, their thoughts and feelings and by the end of the…

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Book Review of Cloud Cuckoo Land

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Anthony Doerr’s 640 page masterpiece, Cloud Cuckoo Land, comes seven years after his novel, All the Light We Cannot See, and it was worth the wait Three different story linesspanning three different centuries take place in three different locations. This is not the book for you if you like to read books in linear fashion. Cloud Cuckoo Land at times feels like three different stories…

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Book Review of The Golden Couple

3.5 ⭐️ Marissa and Matthew Bishop are the golden couple. They seem to have it all; good looks, great jobs, wealth and a perfect child. Everything on the surface is perfect and wonderful until Marissa cheats on Matthew and now are trying to save their perfect union. Avery Chambers is not your typical therapist. She uses unconventional methods and has a ten session approach to “fixing” people…

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Just Finished

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Just finished this book by John Nichols. Written in 2006, it is an interesting look at the concept of impeachment and how it applies to the United States. Nichols goes in-depth about the history of impeachment and when it has been used along with the impact.

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Book Review of Girl, Forgotten

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ April 17, 1982, prom night in Long Beach Delaware. This should be a significant occasion for graduating senior, Emily Vaughn, a George Washington University legacy enrollee. The Vaughn family was also awaiting another significant event. Esther Vaughn, Emily’s mother, was with her husband awaiting a phone call from President Ronald Reagan. The President would hopefully offer Esther a…

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Magazine Review

http://www.mysteryandsuspense.com My review featured in the Fall addition Always excited when one of my reviews makes the Magazine. I have more coming soon including Karin Slaughter’s latest, Girl, Forgotten. Have a great day and Happy reading!

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Book Review of Mother Daughter Traitor Spy

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Veronica Grace is a recent graduate of Hunter College Class of 1941. She is the pride and joy of her mother Vi, a Navy widow. With a job lined up at Mademoiselle magazine, Veronicas future looks bright and full of promise. If this was a movie, the director would have cued the screeching tires and a sudden about face would happen. Veronicas life is turned upside down when an affair that…

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Book Review of Wish You Were Here

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Motivated people have a plan for their day, their career and their life. There are even jobs now that teach one how to plan and stay on track for all aspects of life.Diana O’Toole is someone who has a life plan and so far she is hitting all the marks. She wants, no expects, to be married by age thirty to her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident at a NYC hospital.Diana, an associate at…

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Book Review of The Villa

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Houses Remember.” That statement can’t be true or can it. Rachel Hawkins upcoming gothic suspense novel, The Villa, puts that phrase to the test.Childhood BFFs, Emily and Chess, now in their thirties, are writers deciding to spend the summer at a villa in Italy. A chance to reconnect, reignite their writing and reminisce while basking in the Tuscan sun have the makings of a “perfect”…

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Book Review of Oh, William

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Oh, William is the third installment in the Lucy Barton series by Elizabeth Strout. Sixty-three year old Lucy Barton is now a widow after the death of her second husband, David Abramson. David was the perfect husband to Lucy and the antithesis of her first husband, William Gearhardt. Lucy and William will always have a connection as they share two adult daughters but William is a hard…

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Book Review of Damnation Spring

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 Damnation Spring is the debut novel by Ash Davidson set among the giant redwoods of Northern California in 1977.Rich Gunderson is a third generation logger and tree topper. Logging is a dangerous job and the industry is now constrained by rules that bring about continuing layoffs.Rich’s wife, Colleen, is an amateur midwife in town and mother to their young son, Chub. The couple want a…

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Book Review of Madness of the Crowds

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Adults and children are skating on the newly iced over ponds, stopping only briefly to warm themselves with hot chocolate and then rushing back to the ice. On the snowy slopes, the skis and toboggans that were so recently under Christmas trees are being tested. Over at the bistro, the tables are filled with local citizens enjoying a meal and conversation. The sweet life has returned…

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Book Review of The Goldenacre

Mystery and Suspense Magazine Edinburg is a very old, very Scottish city. Each city corner has a pub and each pub it’s own brew. Men in kilts walk the narrow stone walkways on their way to work. Edinburg is a calm peaceful place. Hopefully this is the exact workplace where a recently disgraced employee of the Civic Gallery of London can restore his reputation. Thomas Tallis left the Civic…

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Book Review of The Stowaway

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Professor Maria Fontana served as a juror on a murder trial. Not just any murder trial but the murder trial of alleged child serial killer, Wyatt Butler.It seemed like a slam dunk case but there were some inconsistencies and one juror can’t convict. Wyatt Butler goes free and public outcry ensues. People can’t believe that this man walks out a free man.Who could let this man walk free?…

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