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Books have been a part of my life from a very young age . I'm currently being ruled over by 3 cats (Rafferty, Bodhi Rook & Yersinia Pestis), who I can mostly get not to chew on book covers. Lately, I'll read anything, though Science Fiction and Romance will always be on the bottom of the pile.

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If you want to live forever, read this book. It will feel like an eternity.

A Fate Inked in Blood: Saga of the Unfated Book One by Danielle L. Jensen

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Set in a world where the Gods frequently join in marital relations and give blood to their chosen children, Freya chafes at her life. Bound in an unwanted marriage to a son of the Ocean God Njord, she spends her days gutting fish, but dreams of joining Snorri’s, the region’s jarl, war band and proving herself in battle. And putting an axe in her boorish husband’s back. (Of course he’s horrible; this is a Romantasy, and he’s not the MMC.) Her dreams abruptly come true […]

“There are laws for everything except the harm families do.”

“D” is for Deadbeat: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (#4) by Sue Grafton

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He called himself Alvin Limardo, and according to him, he had a simple job for Kinsey: locate some fifteen-year-old who’d done him a favor once and pass on a check for $25,000. But then the $400 check for his retainer bounced. And that’s when Kinsey discovered his name was actually John Daggett; ex-con, iInveterate liar, chronic drunk, and before Kinsey can find him and either get her retainer or (more her preference) give the check back and wash her hands of the whole business, dead. […]

O Hey! Johnnie Cope are ye waukin’ yet? Or are your drums a-beating yet?

The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean

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After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left injured on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally scarred from grapeshot, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades. Six years later, with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed into the British state, Iain lives a quiet life as a bookshop owner in Inverness. One day,  he notices a stranger lurking in the upper gallery of his shop, poring over his collection of Lord Lovat, the Old […]

“Alright. Let’s go rescue a corpse from some shrubbery.”

The Resurrectionist: A Novel by A. Rae Dunlap

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Edinburgh, Scotland, 1828. Naïve but determined James Willoughby has abandoned his posh, sheltered life at Oxford to pursue a lifelong dream of studying surgery in Edinburgh. (Side effect of this being that his father apparently drops dead of the horror, a fact that his family will never let him live down. Ah well; you win some, you lose some.) Edinburgh is where medical discovery is at in the age of New Enlightenment, and the city’s university offers everything James desires to get his career going—except […]

“History, like America, is always a work in progress, an experiment, an adventure, a journey”.

History Matters by David McCullough

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Our curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages- David McCullough This book collects a smattering of speeches, essays, interviews, and reading lists that David McCullough accumulated over the years, some of which have never been published before. Collected by his daughter Dorie McCullough Lawson, and fellow historical researcher Michael Hall, this really short book (it’s only 176 pages) gives you a good taste of the kind of man McCullough was. And what type of man was David McCullough? A man who understands history. He […]

“Worthwhile literature; a book that deals with some social or moral issue in an earnest, plodding, and pessimistic manner. What Aida, who was also a member, called “reading to slit your wrists by”.

Probable Caws: A Meg Langslow Mystery (#39) by Donna Andrews

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While this may not have been the best Meg book, just like Seanan McGuire or Terry Pratchett, Donna Andrews’ “not-so-goods” are better than some people’s “top-tier A-level”. Has to be one off the more interesting murderer reveals I’ve read in a very long time. In this, the 39th book in the series (which will make no sense unless you’ve read the other 38), Meg has finally found time to get some blacksmithing done; she has a candelabra to make for her mother’s interior design firm, […]



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