This Year’s Plans – What have you got planned for 2018? Show us some pictures of your planner! I have one big event planned and one goal I hope to complete in 2018. The big event is a trip to Norway with my sister. We won’t be taking a typical tour package. My sister hasContinue reading “Buttontapper Challenge: Day 3”
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Book Review: Sumerland
In Sumerland, M. Lee Buompensiero tells a fascinating tale that makes the case that family secrets are best uncovered and allowed to breathe. When secrets are stifled, the results are often worse for those the secret-keepers imagine they are protecting than would be the truth. This is the case for Kate Post, Sumerland‘s protagonist. TheContinue reading “Book Review: Sumerland”
Book Review: The Ivory Caribou
Recently widowed Anne O’Malley undertakes genealogical research into her father-in-law’s past as a way to remain connected to her deceased husband, but she discovers instead an extended Inuit family eager for her to join them for a future that connects her with the past at the same time as it beckons her forward into a new life.Continue reading “Book Review: The Ivory Caribou”
Book Review: The Emigrants
Eight adults, each for their own reasons, reach the point they feel abandoning their homes in Sweden in favor of enduring a treacherous sea voyage to New York is the only way to find a dignified life for themselves and their eight children. The sixteen featured emigrants joined more than sixty other courageous souls onContinue reading “Book Review: The Emigrants”
Book Review: A Paris Apartment
A mystery inside a mystery. April Vogt, Continental furniture specialist with Sotheby’s, gets the opportunity of a lifetime when the Paris office requests her assistance to assess the contents of a Paris apartment that had been closed for 70 years. Full of incredible furniture finds, as well as an unknown painting by Giovanni Boldini, theContinue reading “Book Review: A Paris Apartment”
Book Review: Deadly Little Secrets
In Loren Zahn’s second Theo Hunter mystery, Deadly Little Secrets, her protagonist, sometimes freelance journalist Theodosia Hunter, agrees to help out an old flame, now a Catholic chaplain, Tony Machado. Father John Fairbanks, a priest, teacher, and coach years ago at St. Augustine’s, a private Catholic high school when Tony attended, was found murdered, with theContinue reading “Book Review: Deadly Little Secrets”
Book Review: Imperfect Birds
It’s summer in Marin County. Seventeen-year-old Rosie is getting ready for her senior year, making horrible choices which lead to lies and manipulation. But her mother and step-father have their own problems. Both recovering alcoholics–or worse–Elizabeth doesn’t want to see Rosie’s drug use and promiscuity, and James sees it but doesn’t want to upset hisContinue reading “Book Review: Imperfect Birds”
Book Review: The Execution of Noa P. Singleton
An unforgettable and unpredictable debut novel of guilt, punishment, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive. Those words are part of the marketing package for the novel. I couldn’t have said it better myself. But I didn’t realize it would be unforgettable until I finished it. And its unpredictability explains why it took me a long time toContinue reading “Book Review: The Execution of Noa P. Singleton”
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