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Book Review: Needy Little Things
Speculative YA Mystery
Mar 8 • D. Apple
Review: Kindred
This book had me wanting to slap a lot of people.
May 25, 2020
Review: Photographs of October
There's something about the candid thought process of the main characters that I really love, and by the time I got a couple chapters in I couldn't put…
May 15, 2020
Review: Remembrance by Rita Woods
Woods weaves a tale that reveals the best and worst parts of all of us, whether it's how to get along with people we really don't like, or the…
Apr 19, 2020
Review: This Tender Land
This book came to me at a perfect time. I was trying to figure out why I so disliked a different book featuring a traveling group, and found the answer…
Mar 17, 2020
Who is Joaquin Murieta and Why Had I not Heard of Him?
It's a real question. Why is this bandit, who terrorized people throughout 1850s California, a new discovery for me? Murieta is everywhere and nowhere…
Jan 16, 2020
Book Reviews: Necessary Sins and Lost Saints, from the Lazare Family Saga
What does over two decades worth of research get you?
Jan 1, 2020
Book Review: Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
I don't want to give away the ending but the beginning words say it all: "There is no scatheless rapture."
Dec 7, 2019
Book Review: Cherokee Editor
Most who knew Boudinot described him as a sensitive (in a good way) and caring man. Some later described him as a traitor to his nation. After reading…
Nov 11, 2019
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