Death's Half Acre by Margaret MaronMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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19614 members<b>Are you ready to set your 2019 reading goal?</b> This is a supportive, fun group of people looking for people just like you. Track your annual reading goal here with us, and we have challenges, group reads, and other fun ways to help keep you on pace. There will never be a specific number of books to read here or pressure to read more than you can commit to. Your goal is five? Great! You think you want to read 200? Very cool! We won't kick you out for not participating regularly, but we'll love it if you do. Join us!
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles DickensMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is another Dickens favorite. I read it for a Ravelry group called "Knitting like the Dickens." It is a little too sweet and a little to sentimental, but a great book despite that. Dickens' talent is to create characters that are so real, it is as if they actually lived. While the fact that Nell is slated for an early death is obvious from the beginning, the characters which surround her and not nearly as predictable.
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Friday, January 06, 2012
Ladies Of Letters.Com by Carole HaymanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is absolutely delightful! I have the audio book and could listen to it again and again. (Actually, I did repeat it on a 600 mile drive and found it just as entertaining the second time.) If you love Patricia Rutledge in the BBC comedy "Keeping up Appearances," you will love her in this.
It is the ongoing exchange of letters and email between two old friends. The ladies are very different, but were friends from their youth on. The comedy is subtle in some spots, so read or listen to it slowly to pick it up. There are subtle jibes and a bit of posturing that keeps the plot moving as the nature and character of the women unfolds. There is no narrator or prose to fill in details, so you only learn about them through their own words and it is masterfully done.
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Ladies Of Letters.Com by Carole HaymanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is absolutely delightful! I have the audio book and could listen to it again and again. (Actually, I did repeat it on a 600 mile drive and found it just as entertaining the second time.) If you love Patricia Rutledge in the BBC comedy "Keeping up Appearances," you will love her in this.
It is the ongoing exchange of letters and email between two old friends. The ladies are very different, but were friends from their youth on. The comedy is subtle in some spots, so read or listen to it slowly to pick it up. There are subtle jibes and a bit of posturing that keeps the plot moving as the nature and character of the women unfolds. There is no narrator or prose to fill in details, so you only learn about them through their own words and it is masterfully done.
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Monday, January 02, 2012
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Saturday, July 02, 2011
False Mermaid: A Novel (Nora Gavin, #3)
False Mermaid: A Novel by Erin HartMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is the third book in the series and we finally get the full story of Nora’s sister’s tragic death. Nora has long suspected her brother-in-law Peter Hallett as the vicious murderer, as has the lead detective, but Peter was too crafty to be caught. Now he intends to marry again and Nora is desperate to prevent any further tragedy both to his bride to be, and her young neice, Elizabeth. While Nora is certain that she loves Cormac McGuire, she cannot move further in that relationship until the murderer of her sister is brought to justice and her neice is safe.
Nora finds some clues her sister left hidden in a secret place they shared as children and she and the detective are convinced that the murder of her sister was not his first. Clues turn up in other places also and yet, they don’t lead all the way back to Peter Hallett, but Nora is sure he is the source of the evil.
In the meantime, Cormac McGuire has returned to an isolated village where his long-estranged father has been staying near Port na Rón. He meets Roz, a friend of his father’s and becomes interested in the mysterious disappearance of Mary Heaney who was reported to be a selkie who returned to the sea. While walking on the headlands, he finds the abandoned fishing hut where Mary was supposed to have lived and upon searching it, he finds a single shoe. Who runs away with only one shoe? Eventually, he and Nora are reunited and discover the truth of the old legend.
I really enjoyed this series and look forward to more books by this author.
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Monday, June 27, 2011
Lake of Sorrows (Nora Gavin, #2)
Lake of Sorrows by Erin HartMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I enjoyed this book. The setting of Irish bogs is different from so many mysteries and adds a bit of interest because of the discoveries surrounding the prehistoric bog bodies found there. Forensic pathologist, Nora Gavin, has been asked to help with the discovery of another bog body who seems to have been killed in a prehistoric ritual “triple death.” When a more recent body turns up with the same “triple death” characteristics, the mystery widens. Is the ritual still being practiced?
-Archaeologist, Cormac MacGuire, is on the scene again too and he has the cottage where his mentor has lived when working on the bogs. Nora was invited to stay there and the two continue their relationship, but not without trials. Cormac knows that he loves Nora, but Nora is being pulled back to her home in the United States by the tragic and brutal death of her sister. When the identity of the second body is discovered, a cast of local characters are introduced and the link to their ancient roots is probed. As always, the colorful world of Irish music and dancing also adds to the feeling of the book
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