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Category: Books
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Book Review: Joanna Godden
I am quite out of countenance with my coffeepot. Yesterday, as I am batching it (wouldn’t that be a feminine in my case? But the word eludes me) I used the french press to make a modest amount of coffee and it was pleasantly mellow, no bitter notes at all. Today, as I anticipate…
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Readers take Note
It’s going to be a busy day here at the Nut House. Sounds of drilling already emanate from the closet, and the dishwasher is singing it’s song in the kitchen. So in lieu of a sensible essay type-post, you get a glimpse into my reading habits of late. Some old, some new… all of…
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Eat This While You Read That: Jerry Boyd
I asked Jerry Boyd to take part in this series because even though I have not (yet! I promise I will, Jerry!) read any of this series, they look like tons of fun. And the First Reader read all of them. It was a little funny – I manage the Kindle library, and I’d…
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Eat This While You Read That – Sam Schall
Sam’s Smoked Chicken. Sometimes I wonder about that woman’s sense of humor. I mean, the books are collectively the Honor and Duty series. But the first one is Vengeance from Ashes and she asks me to smoke some chicken. I snorted, and then I got to thinking. Smoked chicken isn’t so much a recipe as…
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Book Review: Rimworld Series
One thing about being very reluctantly quarantined and sick: I can read. And, since I haven’t been up to writing yet (I have hopes. Two weeks of enforced confinement is a lot of time for writing) I have been reading. As I was reading yesterday, and tripping over what I was reading, I realized…
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Hot New Release! Anthology Day
New anthology! Fresh off the presses! You can find fourteen impeccably edited short stories in When Valor Must Hold, tales of derring do, heroism, and hope. When all else fails, heroes take up arms and hold. Read the snippet, and then click the ‘Read More!’ to buy and read the book. It was another…
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Books to Read
So in this time of enforced leisure, have you considered what you will be reading? I am, sadly, an essential worker and thus have no time. But a number of my friends who are also authors have been putting books on sale to help out the passage of time until the world rights itself…
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Eat This While You Read That: William Joseph Roberts
It’s been a while, and I have missed this. I’m not going to commit to it on a weekly programme again, sadly, those days of time and fun have passed into the night with the advent of career and kids needing my time on the weekends. However, I’m pleased and proud to present a…
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Nominate! for the Curmudgeon’s Book List
The First Reader is on leave from work, and has departed for his parent’s house. He will be down there, returning the favor for them raising him. However, we both anticipate long hours of quiet time, where he will have little to do besides read. So… I need to make a very special book…
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Anthology Release Day!
Happy Valentine’s to my readers! I present to you a dozen stories, rather than roses. Something makes me think you’ll like these better than dying flowers. High Fantasy romantic tales, every one of them. The Hearts’ Enchantment is an anthology from Huntress press, and you can find it on Amazon now (not sure yet…
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Anthologies Galore!
This last year was weird, and good, and, well, weird. I wrote a lot more than you all saw from me, but I couldn’t talk about it. Now, finally, I can start to reveal some of the secret projects. Three of them, to be specific. I don’t think there was any planning in this,…
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Emergency Books
I’ve seen this meme thing floating around on social media for a while, now, but my friend Bill sent it to me last night, saying it reminded him of me. Since he’s seen what my library used to be… yeah. He’s not wrong! But it makes me happy, because I was that little girl…