Month: September 2017
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THE DARK LAKE BY SARAH BAILEY
Rose was lit by the sun, her beautiful face giving nothing away. Even back then, she was a mystery that I wanted to solve. The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when a high school classmate is found strangled, her body floating in a lake. And […]
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WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY BY TA-NEHISI COATES
This was a difficult book to review. It was also difficult to read and to know that what I was reading was truth. If you don’t know it as truth, you need to go way back and look at how we became America and who the people were that made up the rules that some […]
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Forgive. Sounds Good. Forget. I don’t think I could.
Pour yourself a cup and let’s chat! Today I’m thinking of forgiveness. Something easier said than done. If you really have forgiven someone you also should have let that go. Not being a saint my own self I can hardly pass judgement on other people’s behavior. A long time ago I was in confession with […]
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Reading, Movies and Strip Clubs!
Sharing a few of the books I’m reading this week. The Fiction ones. It’s still raining here. Second day in a row and we can definitely use the rain and it makes for good reading and sipping hot tea weather. For those of you paying attention to the loss of my beloved bed and the […]
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Reading, but not much Writing
It’s been raining all day. I didn’t wake up until almost noon and while I wish I could say it was the rain, it was more of me being totally wiped out from yesterday. The allergy season here in Oklahoma has been intense this Fall. According to the weather experts it won’t get any better […]
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It’s Sunday! What are you reading this week?
Happy Sunday! Here it is going to be a hot one again. I am reading Christmas books today and just couldn’t get into it. So I lit a Pine candle and now the house smells like a Christmas Tree and the reading is rolling along just fine. Today is also my little munchkin Corbins fifth […]
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SLEEP LIKE A BABY By Charlaine Harris
#10 in the Aurora Teagarden Mystery Series In the latest installment of the #1 New York Times Bestselling Charlaine Harris’s Aurora Teagarden series, Robin and Aurora have finally begun their adventure in parenting. With newborn Sophie proving to be quite a handful, Roe’s mother pays for a partially trained nurse, Virginia Mitchell, to come help the new […]
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HANNA WHO FELL FROM THE SKY BY CHRISTOPHER MEADES (Park Row Books)
From highly acclaimed, award-winning author Christopher Meades comes a magical, provocative tale of forbidden love and one girl’s struggle for liberation Hanna has never been outside her secluded community of Clearhaven. She has never questioned why her father has four wives or why she has fourteen brothers and sisters. And in only one week, on […]
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Strange Practice: A Greta Helsing Novel by Vivian Shaw
Meet Greta Helsing, fast-talking doctor to the undead. Keeping the supernatural community not-alive and well in London has been her family’s specialty for generations. Greta Helsing inherited the family’s highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills – vocal strain in banshees, […]
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Life, Miracles and an Eye Update!
The saying above is so very true. Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles. And we should be noticing them. Being mindful, being engaged with the moment you are in and not thinking ahead to what’s next. June 28 was a year since I woke up with a corneal ulcer and totally blind […]
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