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• 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 […]

• Book Reviews: 2 in 1 This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness

  Over 2 million sold.   Written in 1986 and 1989 respectively.  These novels are bold, elegant and powerful.  I much prefer these over Harry Potter books.  One reviewer described the books as “Christian thrillers.”  Smile 🙂  Each narrative is set in a small U.S. town with complex problems. These books were brought to my attention in […]

• Book Review: Origin, A Novel by Dan Brown

  Book 5 of 5 featuring Professor Robert Langdon I have been a Dan Brown fan for years.  I was delighted to find this at a used book store.  Was there no fanfare on the release?  If there was, I missed it. The dramatic adventure set in Spain includes outstanding narrative of art, architecture, literature, history, […]