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Playing Catch-up

Here are some short summaries of books I have read recently. With one exception, all of these have been audiobooks. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir This is a great […]

April 28, 2022 6 Comments
The Unknown Beloved
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The Unknown Beloved

The Unknown Beloved is an imaginative telling of the criminal investigation into the Torso Murders committed in Cleveland, Ohio during the 1930s. The “unknown beloved” were the nameless victims, with […]

April 26, 2022 11 Comments
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The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare

The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare by Kimberly Brock is about the mother-daughter relationship between Alice Young, a World War II widow, and 13-year-old Penn. The story begins in 1945, […]

April 10, 2022 8 Comments
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Bluebird

Bluebird is the latest historical fiction novel by one of my favorite Canadian authors, Genevieve Graham. “Bluebirds” was the nickname given by soldiers to the World War I Canadian nurses […]

April 1, 2022 10 Comments
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Lessons In Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus has done a wonderful job in presenting an unorthodox protagonist with her debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry. Meet Elizabeth Zott, a 1960s woman who loves being a chemist […]

March 7, 2022 11 Comments
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Contest to Win A Signed Copy of Batten Down The Belfry

Susan, Peggy, and Valeri are the winners as selected by my granddaughter, Sophie. Please email kerrin@booksandrecipes.com with your mailing address. Congratulations to Diane Kelly on the publication of her newest […]

February 28, 2022 22 Comments
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The Light Through The Leaves

The Light Through The Leaves by Glendy Vanderah is a contemporary fiction story about an infant (Viola/Raven) who is kidnapped when her mother (Ellis) accidentally leaves her car seat in […]

February 18, 2022 6 Comments
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One Italian Summer

I knew within the first three or four pages of Rebecca Serle’s One Italian Summer that I wasn’t going to like the protagonist and when I don’t like the protagonist, […]

February 7, 2022 2 Comments
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The World Played Chess

The title phrase in Robert Dugoni’s The World Played Chess is a take-off on the old saying “You are playing checkers while they are playing chess”. In other words, you […]

February 3, 2022 10 Comments
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The Unsinkable Greta James

The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith is a lovely story about a daughter trying to make peace with her father after her mother’s unexpected death. The daughter just […]

January 31, 2022 8 Comments

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