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The Master of Mysteries by Gelett Burgess
"I never saw a Purple Cow,I never hope to see one;But I can tell you, anyhow,I'd rather see than be one." By Gelett Burgess, who also wrote, "Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow"—I'm Sorry, now, I wrote it;But I can tell you AnyhowI'll Kill you if you Quote it!"...
February Treasures in My Closet
As I put this together on December 31, I read 180 books during 2022, including ten of them that are February 2023 releases. We have some good books ahead of us in the new year. Anticipation! Tell me what you're looking forward to reading in February, or even the...
Happy New Year!
Every New Year's Eve, I take a little time for reflection, to look back at the previous year. While I know 2022 wasn't easy for many, the pandemic did loosen up some, and it allowed more travel and more time to see family. I took advantage of both. Yes, I did get...
Favorite Books of 2022
Although I sent my friend Kaye Wilkinson Barley a list of my favorite books of 2022 for her Meanderings and Muses post, "What Did Women Like in 2022?", I said even then that it wouldn't be a final list. I changed my mind, added a book or two, took some off the...
What Are You Reading?
Today is my last day of work in 2022. I'm lucky to be off then until Tuesday, January 3. I need that time off to put together my list of favorite books of 2022, and to compose the February Treasures in My Closet post. Even with time off, I don't have enough reading...
Hide by Tracy Clark
Tracy Clark's Cass Raines series won the Sue Grafton Award twice, and was nominated for a number of other awards. Hide, the first Detective Harriet Foster thriller, is even better with a well-developed, broken protagonist struggling to keep her life together one...