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Category Archives: What I’m Reading

The Unseen

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Why are some books so good? And, conversely, why are some so lame? Like The Unseen by Heather Graham. Kelsey O’Brien, US Marshall, and Logan Raintree, Ranger, can both talk to ghosts. Yes, that’s right. They solve a murder at the Alamo. I am putting this book here as a reminder NOT to read another […]

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Killing The Blues

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

I was desperate for juicy reading material and at the library with Ben. I whipped through Robert B. Parker’s Killing the Blues (A Jesse Stone Novel) like I was watching a television show. Police Chief Jesse Stone protects his town of Paradise, MA from a car theft ring and a psycho bent of revenge. And […]

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Read this on my ipad. In some ways, it is the ideal reading vehicle. But I still HATE not having that cover art in my hands. Look at that cover! A thing of beauty. Anyhow, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery (Flavia de Luce Mysteries) is a mystery […]

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Left Neglected

Monday, June 18, 2012

Lisa Genova wrote the book Still Alice, which had me and my neighbors self-examining for early-onset Alzheimers for months. Now she’s used her degree in neurology to write Left Neglected, another novel about brain injury, this time the syndrome of “left-neglect,” which refers to right-hemisphere brain damage that results in a total unawareness of one’s […]

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Espresso Tales

Monday, June 18, 2012

The second and so far last in Alexander McCall Smith’s newspaper serial stories about a group of neighbors at 44 Scotland Street. I’m bitterly sad that I won’t know what happens to all of my Scottish friends, but at least Smith gave us a hint about 6-year old Bertie, saved from his domineering mother Irene […]

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44 Scotland Street

Monday, June 18, 2012

44 Scotland Street: A 44 Scotland Street Novel is a compilation of Alexander McCall Smith’s serial stories in The Scotsman, a Scottish newspaper. This creates arcs and tension in each chapter and offers a whole host of characters. I can imagine being quite addicted to it as a serial, in the same way we waiting […]

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