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Nomenclature
April showers bring may flowers. Except in Texas where the weather does whatever it wants and all the maxims in the world won’t change it. Around where I live, flower season sometimes starts…
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10 Favorite Picture Books
This blog might not exist if my mom hadn’t read to me every night from birth to teenagerhood. Maybe I would have still fallen in love with books and writing—they seem to be…
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How to Time Travel
Have you ever wished you could travel back in time? Not because there was some grave error you wanted to warn your past self to avoid—paradoxes that way lie—but because you are bored…
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Where’s Leap Day When You Need it Most?
I know Leap Day isn’t an official holiday or anything. Despite having done online college for so long, I am still aware of what actual holidays are. However, it’s still a special day,…
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Book Review: A Man Lay Dead
We have reached our fourth and final “Queen of Crime,” the New Zealander Ngaio (Ny-oh) Marsh. She stands out as the only one of the four whose first book was the first I…
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Overheard in Hobby Lobby
I heard it in a Hobby Lobby, as all good stories start. I was on the sticker aisle, where glossy sheets line every inch on either side, dangling in their cellophane wrapping like…
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Book Review: The Crime at Black Dudley
We have made it to our penultimate Queen, Margery Allingham. I had not heard of Allingham, at least not that I remember, until watching the TV adaptation of her Campion series. Obviously, I…
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Sci-Fi Subgenres
If you follow me on social media, you’ve seen “sci-fi and mystery fan” in my bios. However, I’ve yet to make a science fiction related post on the blog. I have a few…
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Book Review: The Nine Tailors
This is the third post in my Queens of Crime series. Reading Dorothy Sayers was a bit of an adventure for me, so I hope this review will be an interesting read. The…
