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BOOK REVIEW: White Mulberry by Rosa Kwon Easton

BOOK REVIEW: White Mulberry by Rosa Kwon Easton

I chose to read White Mulberry because the author told her grandmother’s story, as I did in one of my own novels, and I wanted to know how she treated her family history.  Miyoung, a poor Korean country girl living during the Japanese occupation of Korea just prior to...

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BOOK REVIEW: Tooth and Claw by Craig Johnson

BOOK REVIEW: Tooth and Claw by Craig Johnson

Tooth and Claw is the twenty-fifth volume in the Sheriff Walter Longmire series—and like the Hillermans' Leaphorn/Chee novels, I've read and enjoyed every volume. Tooth and Claw doesn’t disappoint. Though it is quite short at 208 pages, it packs a whallop of non-stop...

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BOOK REVIEW:  A Thousand Times Before by Asha Thanki

BOOK REVIEW:  A Thousand Times Before by Asha Thanki

A Thousand Times Before is a sapphic love and marriage between two women, Ayukta and her wife Nadya. They are pulled apart by one issue: Nadya wants a child, but Ayukta doesn’t. Aykuta has a secret she doesn’t tell her wife until she is about to lose her over the...

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BOOK REVIEW: The Bastard Brigade by Sam Kean

BOOK REVIEW: The Bastard Brigade by Sam Kean

The Bastard Brigade is nonfiction that reads like a thriller. It is the gripping story of the development of nuclear bombs during the 1930s and 1940s and the scientists and spies who are determined to keep the Third Reich from developing the bomb. In scope it is...

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BOOK REVIEW: Bandit Heaven by Tom Clavin

BOOK REVIEW: Bandit Heaven by Tom Clavin

As the child of an intolerant oil field worker, I grew up all across the western United States. Little did I know that when I read Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West I would recounter many of the places I’d lived. Bandit...

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BOOK REVIEW: Zeke and Ned by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana

BOOK REVIEW: Zeke and Ned by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana

Zeke and Ned is a western in which Larry McMurtry works his magic, as he did in his magnificent, Pulitzer-Prize-winning Lonesome Dove series, in capturing the essence of life during America's more rustic years. In this case, he and his co-author fictionalize true...

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New Artsy Bookish Giveaway – With $10 Amazon Gift Card

New Artsy Bookish Giveaway – With $10 Amazon Gift Card

I had so much fun doing a big, beautiful, artsy bookish giveaway haul last month, I've decided to do it again! This time, I'm upping the ante by including a $10 Amazon gift card in one of the prize combos. It's only on for eight days, so enter while you can... Good...

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BOOK REVIEW: White Mulberry by Rosa Kwon Easton

BOOK REVIEW: White Mulberry by Rosa Kwon Easton

I chose to read White Mulberry because the author told her grandmother’s story, as I did in one of my own novels, and I wanted to know how she treated her family history.  Miyoung, a poor Korean country girl living during the Japanese occupation of Korea just prior to...

read more
BOOK REVIEW: Tooth and Claw by Craig Johnson

BOOK REVIEW: Tooth and Claw by Craig Johnson

Tooth and Claw is the twenty-fifth volume in the Sheriff Walter Longmire series—and like the Hillermans' Leaphorn/Chee novels, I've read and enjoyed every volume. Tooth and Claw doesn’t disappoint. Though it is quite short at 208 pages, it packs a whallop of non-stop...

read more
BOOK REVIEW:  A Thousand Times Before by Asha Thanki

BOOK REVIEW:  A Thousand Times Before by Asha Thanki

A Thousand Times Before is a sapphic love and marriage between two women, Ayukta and her wife Nadya. They are pulled apart by one issue: Nadya wants a child, but Ayukta doesn’t. Aykuta has a secret she doesn’t tell her wife until she is about to lose her over the...

read more
BOOK REVIEW: The Bastard Brigade by Sam Kean

BOOK REVIEW: The Bastard Brigade by Sam Kean

The Bastard Brigade is nonfiction that reads like a thriller. It is the gripping story of the development of nuclear bombs during the 1930s and 1940s and the scientists and spies who are determined to keep the Third Reich from developing the bomb. In scope it is...

read more
BOOK REVIEW: Bandit Heaven by Tom Clavin

BOOK REVIEW: Bandit Heaven by Tom Clavin

As the child of an intolerant oil field worker, I grew up all across the western United States. Little did I know that when I read Bandit Heaven: The Hole-in-the-Wall Gangs and the Final Chapter of the Wild West I would recounter many of the places I’d lived. Bandit...

read more
BOOK REVIEW: Zeke and Ned by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana

BOOK REVIEW: Zeke and Ned by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana

Zeke and Ned is a western in which Larry McMurtry works his magic, as he did in his magnificent, Pulitzer-Prize-winning Lonesome Dove series, in capturing the essence of life during America's more rustic years. In this case, he and his co-author fictionalize true...

read more

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