Trudi's eyes seemed older than those of other infants, as if they held the experiences of someone who'd already lived a long time...

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It is rare anyone gets to breeze through life not ever having to worry about how situations in their life have kept them from growing. T...

A good alternate history novel is about as close as I get to enjoying sci-fi or fantasy fiction. Five of my favorites, in alphabetical ...

Seven years seems like quite an accomplishment in blog years. I should have baked myself a cake!

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Louise Penny writes a mystery series set in the Provence of Quebec, featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. I...

"I swore I'd stay with you through thick and thin, Isabel, thick and thin ! Well, all I can say is, things have got pretty blood...

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Every year, the Fred Toppler Foundation on the Greek isle of Skios hosts the Great European House Party where guests come to study Europea...

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THIS IS THE WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT POST FOR 2014 (horribly late -- my apologies!) TO FIND THE 2014 REVIEWS, GO TO THIS PAGE TO F...

Young lovers are torn apart when Lili Rosenswig flees Paris with her family as the Nazis invade and her husband-to-be stays to defend his ...

As the director of the foundation has become more eccentric and reclusive, so had his choices of lecturer become more idiosyncratic. The...

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We have forgotten that the heart of communion is the gathering of souls, not the filling of stomachs. Food gives us a reason to be toge...

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Not My Secret to Keep: A Memoir of Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse by Digene Farrar Digene Farrar was in New York City to re-laun...

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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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