Reading and Roaming
FUN WITH GRANDDAUGHTERS Eating at Home Coming to Maine is a summer tradition for our granddaughters, and they eagerly anticipate the visit. This year was no exception. Certain activities are a given for the week. One is making blueberry pancakes with Grandma. Each year, they are more adept in the kitchen, and my role is now more that of …
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For a change of pace this week, I’m profiling three works, a mystery novel by the clever and creative Anthony Horowitz, and two TV crime series in which the Chief Penguin and I have been immersed. One set in coastal Denmark and the other in the remote Shetland Islands DEATH BY WINE BOTTLE The Sentence …
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READING I have several recent novels set in Maine in my book stack and will be reading and commenting on them in the next few blogs. Below is the first one I’ve just finished which, after a slow start for me, I enjoyed quite a lot. I received a link to a blog post recommending 12 …
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This week’s post features two novels I recently read. One is definitely summertime fare, an absorbing love story set in and near Philadelphia. The other is yet another World War II related historical novel, but from a slightly different perspective than the recent rash of female spy novels. I found that the momentum built the …
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