Tag: Book Review

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Book Review: ‘Shivers & Signposts: The Journey Continues’, by Len Richman

February 22, 2016
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About the author Len Richman has a long history with the Thomas More Institute of Montreal: student, course designer/ leader, Board of Directors member, and Chair of the Accreditation Committee. Travel, work and field background continue in parts of Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, South Pacific, and Canada’s northern communities. An educator in… Read More Book Review: ‘Shivers & Signposts: The Journey Continues’, by Len Richman

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Book Review: ‘Multiple Listings’, by Tracy McMillan

February 18, 2016
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About the author: From the author’s website: “I’m from Minneapolis. I had a really dramatic childhood involving foster care, prison visits and multiple moms that gave me lots of opportunity to interface with some of the darker aspects of human nature. People ask me how I survived and I think it comes down to 1)… Read More Book Review: ‘Multiple Listings’, by Tracy McMillan

— Book Review, Fiction, Mystery, Review, Thriller —

Book Review: ‘Cancelled Vows: A Mac Faraday Mystery’, by Lauren Carr

February 15, 2016
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About the author: Lauren Carr is the international best-selling author of the Mac Faraday and Lovers in Crime Mysteries and the Thorny Rose Mysteries. Lauren is a popular speaker who has made appearances at schools, youth groups, and on author panels at conventions. She also passes on what she has learned in her years of… Read More Book Review: ‘Cancelled Vows: A Mac Faraday Mystery’, by Lauren Carr

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Book Review: ‘Isolation: A Faye Longchamp Mystery’, by Mary Anna Evans

February 11, 2016
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About the author Mary Anna Evans has degrees in physics and engineering, but her heart is in the past. Her series character, Faye Longchamp, lives the exciting life of an archaeologist, and Mary Anna envies her a little. Mary Anna’s Faye Longchamp archaeological mysteries have earned recognition that includes the Mississippi Library Association’s Mississippi Author… Read More Book Review: ‘Isolation: A Faye Longchamp Mystery’, by Mary Anna Evans

— Book Review, Drama, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance, Women's Fiction —

Book Review: ‘Imaginary Things’ by Andrea Lochen

February 9, 2016

Remember that one thing that fascinated you when you were a child? Dinosaurs, fairies, angels, princesses? How awesome would it be to seen something like that? Twenty-two year old single mother Anna Jennings didn’t have a fascination with dinosaurs, but her four year-old son David does. But his powerful imagination envelops his mother in a… Read More Book Review: ‘Imaginary Things’ by Andrea Lochen

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Book Review: ‘Right or Almost Right’, by John Haremza

February 3, 2016
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About the author After he graduated high school, John got a job as a machine operator at the potato chip plant. When he was promoted to maintenance manager he thought that this $22,000 a year job was the best job he could ever hope for. Then he was introduced to Network Marketing and his life… Read More Book Review: ‘Right or Almost Right’, by John Haremza

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Winter Reading: Book Review Round-Up

January 30, 2016
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Each Saturday of the month, this space is given to someone else whose content overlaps mine, be it Borna’s Monthly Book Review, Maeve’s Monthly Movie Review, or a X-Files review courtesy of The M0vie Blog or Apt. 42. But once in awhile a month comes by featuring a fifth Saturday, leaving me wondering what in… Read More Winter Reading: Book Review Round-Up

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Book Review: ‘The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend’, by Katarina Bivald

January 28, 2016
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About the author: Katarina Bivald grew up working part-time in a bookshop. Today she lives outside of Stockholm, Sweden, with her sister and as many bookshelves she can get by her. She’s currently trying to persuade her sister that having a shelf for winter jackets and shoes is completely unnecessary. There should be enough space… Read More Book Review: ‘The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend’, by Katarina Bivald

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Book Review: ‘At the Sharp End of Lightning’, by N. R. Bates

January 25, 2016
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About the author: NR Bates was born in London, grew up in Wales, and lived in Canada and Bermuda. He shares his life with his wife and his house with seven cats, one dog and the subtropical wildlife of lizards, wolf spiders and ant colonies that seek out a better life indoors. He is an… Read More Book Review: ‘At the Sharp End of Lightning’, by N. R. Bates

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Book Review: Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert

January 21, 2016

While I love chick-flicks, they are not the only books that I read (the proof is in the pudding – or rather, in my bookshelf). I read everything and anything, except a certain couple of genres. There is one in particular that I have always been very wary of: self-help books. The few I perused… Read More Book Review: Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert