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Please Come to Boston

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« A bar-hopping, disco-dancing, beer-swilling nostalgic tale outlining the terrors and tribulations of growing up, finding one’s authentic self, and claiming a sexuality problematic in the 1970’s of one’s youth. It’s 1975, and Nicky DeMarco, our third person POV narrator, is an eighteen-year-old freshman, away from his Long Island family…

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Moon Road

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« A haunting, undulating look at the ebbs and flows of love, of aging, of loss - of ordinary life, made extraordinary, then settling back (over time, and pain, and anger and grief) into what is, after all, a life-story maybe live-able after all. Kathleen, one of our two main…

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Hope

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸβž• Every now and then one of those books comes along that makes you stop, take a beat, and reset. This is just such a book - a heartbreaking, gorgeous compendium of interviews, journal entries, and notes concerning who must be (and still is) β€œthe greatest Canadian hero ever”. This,…

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Eat Happy Italian

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Written by an author, β€” a voice-over actress, food-blogger, and tomato-sauce entrepreneur β€” who has learned to manage her health (and her celiac disease) with a no-sugar-no-grains approach (NSNG), including elimination of processed foods, and a focus on real, low-carb, and metabolically-friendly foods. This is the third cookbook in…

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Death at the Sanatorium

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« An enthralling read by the Icelandic author Ragnar Jonasson, the first of his that this reader has experienced, but certainly not to be the last. This sequel to β€œThe Darkness” can be read and enjoyed successfully as a standalone novel, (as I did,) with the loss of some backstory…

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A Well-Trained Wife

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« Absolutely gripping and quite possibly the scariest book this reader has encountered this year, this real-life memoir, written by a first-person female former practicing member of Christian Fundamentalism (at its most devout) is a harrowing deep-dive into toxic patriarchal religious dogma and its stealthy indoctrination of the most horrifying…

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What Have You Done?

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Interesting and suspenseful, this is my third read from this author, and one I enjoyed equally. Diana Brewer, a beautiful seventeen year old, is dead. Murdered by an unknown assailant in a small close-knit community in Vermont. In a bit of an unusually supernatural twist, we meet Diana herself,…

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Medicine Wheel for the Planet

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« An ambitious, earnest, heart-felt treatise on the much-needed ecological redemption of our planet - not based on a restorative tunnel-visioned scientific dogma which is destined to fail (as it has been, repeatedly), but integrating a newly-integrated indigenous perspective in which we, the Humans, (caretakers of old), live out our…

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Death at the Sign of the Rook

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« Peppered with the author's signature dry (and often laugh-out-loud) humour, this is PI Jackson Brodie, former cop and always wise guy, at his most unflappable. Hired to track a stolen painting, lifted from a country estate by a mysterious woman who just may have many more crimes up her…

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There was an old woman

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸβž• For this reader, in a word, love, pure and simple, for this book of essays that tackles all the prickly, suffocating, isolating hard-edges that come with growing old, as a female, - unnoticed and unwelcome in a global culture that prizes patriarchy and youth. An aging experience that no…

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