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GREAT VALENTINE GIFT IDEA! Magical realism and baseball are two things I steer clear of in novels, but Things Invisible to See by Nanc...

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8. Names I am most often called by telemarketers: Simone, Slain, Siobhon, Flo, Stacey, Susan, Slater, Leanne, and Slow. (Yes, my parents ...

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Looking over the list of books I read last year, a main theme seems to be secondary works by favorite authors.  It was not a year for lig...

Our ride back was like some harebrained rum run. Colonel Spanner drove hard and fast, shouldering the steering wheel one way, then the o...

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James Beard was the "Dean of American Cuisine." Before Alice Waters was even born, he was championing regional, seasonal cooki...

Started Early, Took My Dog is the fourth and latest in Kate Atkinson's series of super smart mysteries featuring Jackson Brodie. Like...

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The Oregon Book Awards and Fellowships honor the state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction...

Like people, bears were unpredictable.  I couldn't tell the shy ones from the killers, so my reaction was to assume the worst about t...

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This is the list of the 104 books I read in 2014, in the order that I read them. I started the Dumas Law Group in 2014, my own law firm...

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS IN 2105 FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! Please join me every Friday to share the first sen...

"Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a ...

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HAPPY BOXING DAY! I hope that everyone who celebrated Christmas got wonderful books for presents! THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS ...