I get a little click-happy on Amazon whenever I go away, particularly when there’s a long flight in the offing. And this purchase I blame partly on the pre-flight click-fever, and partly on the fact that I was looking for good back cover copy examples. It turns out that Oddjobs by Heide Goody and Iain…
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Travel Essentials for Bookworms (& Introverts), plus Talking Tonga
Travel can be both wonderful and uncomfortable – and the least comfortable part tends to be the getting places. However, I’ve put in some good practise at this, and I’m happy to offer you my very incomplete guide to travel essentials for bookworms, introverts, and anyone else who really just wants to be left to…
Baking Bad – A Cozy Mystery with Dragons, Chapter One
Baking Bad, a cozy mystery (with dragons) is almost upon us! And because it is, I thought that for the next two weeks I might share a little of the story with you, lovely people. I’m so, so excited to have come this far with Beaufort, and it’s even more exciting because so many of…
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: a Universe of Possibilities, Beauty, & Optimism
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos is one of those books that’s been on my TBR for more years than I care to mention. I’ve had the book that accompanied the original TV series since I was ten or eleven, so it’s not like I haven’t had plenty of opportunity to read it. I’ve even read his The…
Reading Across Genres & Beautiful Discoveries
Do you like reading across genres, lovely people? Do you read whatever catches your fancy, or do you stick to certain genres only? For years I was very firm about what I did and didn’t read. I had very clear opinions on it. These softened somewhat as I got out of my teens and twenties…
