MRS. GRANT AND MADAM JULE by Jennifer Chiaverini

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When a young Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant first began courting Julia Dent everyone agreed that they made an unlikely match.  He was a northern abolitionist and she was a southern Missouri belle who…

FINDERS, KEEPERS by Stephen King.

From an interview for Rolling Stone Magazine:

When asked why he started out in the horror genre when it was widely considered “less than respectable” …

“And I have to say this: To a degree, I have elevated…

THE PUFFIN OF DEATH by Betty Webb. 

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Zookeeper Theodora (Teddy) Bentley finds herself, with very short notice, on a plane traveling to Iceland.  The eccentric owner of the Gunn Zoo, who also happens to be Teddy’s aunt, has asked her to go and pick up a…

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA by Philip J. Riley

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The popularity of the stage production of “The Phantom of the Opera” has definitely introduced the classic story to many people who may otherwise not have bothered with Gaston Leroux and his “little book”.  I…

ALMOST PERFECT by Diane Daniels Manning.

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In the spirit of full disclosure I picked this book solely based on the fact that it had a picture of a really cute puppy on the cover.  The puppy’s name is Breaker and he turns out to be, no…

MASTER THIEVES (The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist) by Stephen Kurkjian.

In March of 1990 two men dressed as police officers knocked on the door of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.  An inexperienced security guard allowed them through the door.  The two guards on duty were…

THE GREAT MOLASSES FLOOD by Deborah Kops.

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January 15^th, 1919 was an unseasonably warm day in Boston’s North End.  Everyone was going about his or her day-to-day lives when the unthinkable happened.  Amidst screeching steel and…

So … two gods walk into a bar … sounds like the beginning of some really bad joke.  This book is no joke.  I can honestly say that when I turned the final page my first thought was that this book has easily made it onto my personal list of 5 Best Books EVER!  I realize that may have been a knee-jerk reaction because I could never really compose a list of FIVE BEST EVER, but…

Interesting reading statistics.

If they are accurate ... NO WORRIES ... I'm picking up the slack!

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What would a couple agree to in order to have a biological child?  Is anything too much?  Carly and Gabe Berk face that question when all conventional attempts have failed.  Gabe has a daughter from his first marriage but Carly is determined to have the whole experience of giving birth to a child herself.  When they hear about “The Baby Maker”, Dr. Isadore Teplitsky, Carly is…

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Arthur Benjamin lives on the coast of South Africa in a house he paid too much money for, but it was worth it, because Arthur is a self professed loner and his little corner of the world gives him solitude.  Arthur is also trying to write a book about History … not History as…

Have you ever come across a book on a website or in a bookstore or on GoodReads and thought to yourself “Hmm – that sounds really good” and then forget to put it on your “Want to Read” shelf or scan it into your phone?



That’s exactly what happened to me with “A Secondhand Life”.  Needless to say I was quite thrilled when I happened upon it again…

A picture truly can tell 1000 words and each of these quilts told a story within its frame.

I was awestruck!  More HERE…