There is just enough time today to make my favorite Christmas cookie -- Candied Ginger Cardamom Bars. This is the one I love to eat Chri...

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Iris Murdoch ’s 1987 novel, The Book and the Brotherhood , is subtitled “A Story about Love and Friendship and Marxism,” which pretty m...

Brunetti and Cataldo, as often happened in the city, had never been introduced to one another, although Brunetti knew the general outline ...

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  Audrey Braun’s first thriller, A Small Fortune , was an unputdownable race through the jungles of Mexico to the the high-finance world ...

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COMPLETED! I am signing up for three TBR challenges for 2013 that I am going to tackle with a personal twist.  I hope to chew through a b...

Most of the people I had seen were black, everywhere I went. In reading the Sunday comics, I was not bothered by the fact that the ch...

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COMPLETED! Margot from Joyfully Retired started the Foodies Read Challenge a couple of years ago. For 2013, Margot has passed the tor...

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This is my sign up page for the 2013 European Reading Challenge! TO SIGN UP OR SEE DETAILS, GO TO THE MAIN CHALLENGE PAGE , OR C...

The European Reading Challenge January 1, 2013 to January 31, 2014 TAKE THE GRAND TOUR  Please join me for the 2013 Europ...

The European Reading Challenge January 1, 2013 to January 31, 2014 TAKE THE GRAND TOUR THIS IS THE PAGE TO LIST YOUR REVIEWS. ...

Within the Circus itself, as Craw had correctly called the seat of British intelligence, reactions to Craw's [newspaper] piece...