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Reviewed: “The Guncle” by Stephen Rowley
This book soothed me. It made me laugh and it made me cry, happy tears and sad. As a single, childless aunt to kids not that much different in age from the kids in this book… I think I even learned to just be myself with them even more reading this. They can be themselves… Continue reading
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Reviewed: “The Dogs of Littlefield” by Suzanne Berne
I don’t know quite what to make of Suzanne Berne’s The Dogs of Littlefield. I don’t know what I expect when I started the book but… it was not what I found in the book. The cover, obviously, makes it seem as thought terrible things happen to the dogs of Littlefield, Littlefield being an upper… Continue reading
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Reviewed: “Reunion” by Hannah Pittard
I am not a one-book-at-a-time reader. I read more than one book at a time. I do that unless one book that I’m reading grabs hold of me and suddenly nothing else interests me. That’s when I become a one-book-at-a-time reader. Hannah Pittard’s Reunion is a one-book-at-a-time book. I was hooked from the first paragraph… Continue reading
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Reviewed: “Dark Places” by Gillian Flynn
Full disclosure: I have not read “Gone Girl.” I realize I may be the only woman in America who has not read that book but these things happen. Knowing that everyone has read that book, I decided to play it coy and read a different Gillian Flynn book first. Enter “Dark Places.” The story of… Continue reading
About Me
An English diarist and naval administrator. I served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament. I had no maritime experience, but I rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II through patronage, diligence, and my talent for administration.
Adventures With Words 