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March Treasures in My Closet
First, a little business. If you're looking for this week's giveaway, check the previous post. Fortunately, Friday giveaways and Treasures in My Closet seldom end up on the same day. March means a pile of books. It would also signal the calendar end of winter. Yay!...
Winners and Far East Murder Mysteries
Congratulations to the winners of the last contest. Caitlin M. from Hawthorne, CA will receive A Treacherous Curse. The Word is Murder will go to Laura R. of Kiel, WI. Just a note up front that this week's contest will be a day shorter. It needs to end on...
What Are You Reading?
For those of you in the parts of the country that were in the freezing temperatures yesterday, I hope you were snuggled in with a good book. What are you reading? I'm reading a debut cozy mystery. It's not a debut. The author wrote novels under another pseudonym,...
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
Think carefully before you spit into that test tube for Ancestry.com or any of the other genealogy sites. Dani Shapiro took it all lightly, but she was traumatized by the results. She writes of it inInheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love. I'm...
Agatha Award Nominees
To all of you who haven't read this year's Edgar nominees, the 2019 Agatha Award nominations have been announced by Malice Domestic. The awards will be given out May 4 during Malice Domestic 31. Congratulations to all of the nominees. Best Contemporary Novel Mardi...
Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher
Even the subtitle of Mary Pipher's latest bestseller, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing as We Age, doesn't really do an adequate job describing how fascinating this book is. If you're a woman over sixty, you might want to read this. If...