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Book Bites 1
Footsteps in the Dark Georgette Heyer was a British writer in my favorite era and this copy of one of her mysteries caught my eye at the second hand bookstore. The story stars…
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Book Review: The Thirteen Problems
This month’s Read Christie 2025 selection was The Thirteen Problems, a collection of Miss Marple short stories. I enjoyed the book, but I typically don’t like to read short story collections from beginning…
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Book Review: A Shadow in Moscow
I was flipping through a book distributor’s catalog a while back and ran across a book with the tantalizing subtitle “a cold war novel.” As I said in my review of the original…
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Book Review: Third Girl
Third Girl was written in the 1960s, and it has a lot of great elements from that era. Poirot and his friend, the writer Ariadne Oliver, are faced with a case involving modern young…
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Book Review: The Valley of Fear
When it comes to my favorite fiction, I’m something of a purist. Most newer adaptations are met with skepticism and rarely approval from me. I am the pickiest by far about Sherlock Holmes.…
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Nancy Drew and Co.
Since I have never been a huge fan of fantasy, I didn’t have many modern reading options as a teen. Middle-grade and young adult books these days seem very dragon-forward. Fortunately, I was…
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Book Review: The Man in the Brown Suit
Between school, writing, and the time I waste sitting around feeling overwhelmed and avoiding laundry, I don’t read as much in a day as I used to. So, it’s been a while since…
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Vintage Voyages
(Ok, “journey” would probably be a better word, but that’s cliché in the blog-o-sphere, not alliterative, and cannot be interpreted as a sneaky Star Trek reference.) I’ve wanted to do a post like…
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Book Series Review: Firmament
I suppose, technically, watching Star Wars with my dad was my first experience with sci-fi. Or maybe it was my Dora and the Purple Planet video game, although I feel like that doesn’t…
