Friday, November 28, 2025

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey by Karen S. Wiesner     Beware potential spoile...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Thanksgiving

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Happy American Thanksgiving! On this holiday, many families tend to cling to their traditions. Although my husband, in general, is an adve...
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Saturday, November 22, 2025

Samizdat -- Say What?

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What is a "right"? From whence do rights come? A Briton might look back to the enduring clauses from the Magna Carta that promise:...
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Friday, November 21, 2025

Review for The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner Combined with an Original Article: Unique by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Review for The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner Combined with an Original Article: Unique by Karen S. Wiesner     Beware spoiler...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Shattered Glass

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Elaine Bergstrom's richly detailed "vampire as alien" series begins with SHATTERED GLASS (1989), first published although no...
Friday, November 14, 2025

{Put This One on Your TBR List} Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins by Karen S. Wiesner

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  {Put This One on Your TBR List} Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins by Karen S. Wiesner     Beware spoilers!...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Human Hibernation

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The November issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC has a long article about a NASA project at the University of Pittsburgh, with the goal of making i...
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Sunday, November 09, 2025

Sell Me, Sell Me Lies

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In the Middle Ages in Britain, if a baker sold underweight bread, he was punished, which is why we have the saying "a baker's dozen...
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Friday, November 07, 2025

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review Subseries 3: The Tawny Man Trilogy (The Realm of the Elderlings) by Robin Hobb by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review Subseries 3: The Tawny Man Trilogy (The Realm of the Elderlings) by R...
Thursday, November 06, 2025

Peace Is Relative

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My husband and I are in the process of reading the Richard Bolitho series, by Alexander Kent, starring an officer in the British Navy from t...
Sunday, November 02, 2025

I'm In Love With My Car.... ?

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I'm not in love with my car in the way that Queen was in love with a car. It's not about the speed, the gears, the grease guns and s...
Friday, October 31, 2025

{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling by Karen S. Wiesner

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  {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling by Karen S. Wiesner       Beware spoilers!   Caitl...