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• Book Review: The Miraculous Fever Tree-the Cure that changed the world

    “Absorbing and SUPERBLY researched” with my emphasis on superbly.  I agree with Miranda Seymour!  Rocco is an award winning investigative journalist.  Her interest in medicine began with her grandparents in Africa in the 1920s.  They were blessed to get quinine tablets made locally because cinchona seeds/trees from Peru had been planted there decades earlier. World […]

• Book Review: In the Blue Hour

    Elizabeth Hall is my maiden name.  I like seeing my former name on book covers 😉  I have also read Miramont’s Ghost and The Music of the Deep. In The Blue Hour multi-generational grief found peace of mind and healing.  The story unfolds in the cultures of New Mexico with a compelling connection to […]

• Book Review: The Bookshop of Yesterdays

  This is an amazing book!  The setting is LosAngelos, which didn’t appeal to me until the storyline developed fully.  Short quotes from classic books (of different genres starting with Shakespeare) expertly punctuated the narrative.  Cause of death and paternity was a mystery for Mira, who had been misled.  She also processed the enormity of inheriting […]

• Books Review: Seven Days in Utopia, Golf’s Sacred Journey and The Sequel

  We saw the movie.  I knew I needed to read the book, bonus found the sequel. The movie starring Robert DuVall and Lucas Black is warm, genuine and inspiring.  In my youth, I took golf lessons and followed tournament play.  As an adult, I played in a golf league after work.  I’m fond of movies about […]

• Book Review: The Alice Network

  Brought to my attention by Qanon @llcoolja17.   Ladies, Ladies, Ladies:  The Alice Network by Kate Quinn is extraordinary, compelling, historical, revealing, healing… The narrative of The Alice Network alternates between 1915 and 1944 chapter after chapter skillfully telling the story of female spies in WW1 and WW2 in Europe with an amazing amount of historical […]