SHORTS, NOVELS, AND OTHER THINGS

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SHORTS, NOVELS, AND OTHER THINGS

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Book Review: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (@shelbyvanpelt)

Remarkably Bright Creatures was a book chosen by my book club a few months past. The Chicago Tribune named it one of the best books of summer. While I haven’t found that books recommended by various newspapers are generally good reads, this one is so charming, so well-conceived and written, and so deceptively sensitive that …

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Book Review: The Rat in the Python by Alex Craigie #growing up in the 1950s # Baby Boomers

I was very intrigued by the title of this book and didn’t hesitate to purchase it because the author is a great writer. It begins, “If you haven’t heard of a liberty bodice, believe that a half crown is something to do with impoverished royalty and never had the experience of slapping a television to …

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Book review: Penelope – Tudor Baroness (The Elizabethan Series Book 4) by Tony Riches(@tonyriches) #RBRT #historical fiction #Tudor era

As a result of my interest in Tudor history, I’ve read many of Tony Riches’ books – among them his Tudor Trilogy, about the founding and growth of the Tudor family, Drake — Tudor Corsair, and Essex — Tudor rebel. The author then began to explore the era from a woman’s point of view with …

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I Did It! I Did It! A review of The Rose Shield Tetrology by D. Wallace Peach (@Dwallacepeach) #fantasy

But not a challenge, like Professor Higgins’ but a pleasure from start to finish. I read all five books of the Rose Shield series in three weeks, beginning during my week at the beach, and they took my breath away with the gorgeous descriptions, the beautifully detailed world, and the amazing characters, with all their …

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