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Needle Lake

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 The second book I have read from this author, each of which I have loved. β€œNeedle Lake” is surprisingly tender, intensely atmospheric, and utterly compelling β€” with a main protagonist as heart-tuggingly authentic as an imagined character can possibly be. Based in a small town north of Seattle, Washington,…

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Young Fools

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Filled with passion and angst, this is a book tailor-made for anyone who has ever aspired to write - or rather, to be a β€œwriter” β€” a seemingly innocuous label that, for those in the literary β€œknow”, carries an inordinate amount of weight. A label that can invoke literary…

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Like a Wave We Break

A memoir and a somewhat complicated review β€” for a story beginning with horrific child abuse and leading to what will become a life-long adult search for healing β€” that could not help but raise all sorts of emotions in this reader. Empathy, pain and compassion. Curiosity and hope. Wonder,…

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Killer on the First Page

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A charming cozy mystery, the third in a series featuring Miranda Abbott, and the first experienced by this reader. Miranda Abbott is a former TV detective, a sort of everyone’s favorite Jessica Fletcher, who traded in her sophisticated acting chops to star in a blissfully cheesy, but highly popular,…

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How to Lose a Lord in Ten Days

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 An absolutely charming regency romp, hilarious in parts and thoughtful in others, that totally captured the heart of this reader. In an early nineteenth-century era when women are chattel (beholden to their male counterparts), when Lydia Hayworth, the low-born daughter of a now-wealthy gentleman, finds herself β€œaccidentally” betrothed to…

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The Safari

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« An engrossing and immersive trip to an exotic South African safari-compound, β€” Leopard Sands β€” second-home to an uber-wealthy family from Florida, that is teeming with things that creep, stalk, and kill (and I don’t mean the wildlife). Family matriarch Odelia Bach is in her sixties, undoubtedly a narcissist,…

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Life, and Death, and Giants

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A heart-tugging and thoughtful look at love, loneliness, and searching β€” for answers to the secrets that all humans yearn to untangle β€” What makes a life β€œgood”, and what, in the end, is it all β€œfor”? Told in the voices of multiple characters, between these pages we will…

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Dogs and Monsters

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 β€œThere was no longer any solid foundation to the world. It was all just stories.β€œ A beautifully rendered, challenging and often dark collection of eight short stories that somehow manage to balance the many avenues of man’s terrible brutality with the boundless tenderness of love β€” be it that…

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The Quiet

πŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸŒŸπŸ’« Welcome to The Quiet- a peek into a strange and darkly ominous world, part Orwellian but also, in some small way, strangely hopeful, as Science and Nature battle a fantastical oddity, with humanity’s future lying in the balance. Dr Hannah Newnham/Williams, our first person POV narrator, is a scientist…

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Forget Me Not

🌟🌟🌟🌟 β€œThe silence around me so heavy and charged it feels like a physical thing, thick and meaty” A darkly Southern thriller, fronted by an impulsive and somewhat unpredictable heroine, with more than a few surprises up its sleeve. Claire Campbell, a not-very-successful reporter, is thirty-three years old, and is…

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