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Some more books I've read recently: Summer Blowout by Claire Cook. Just a note to myself that I read it. Thirty-something divorced hairdresser interacts with quirky family members while reluctantly…
WHY I BLOG
Courtesty of Wordpress’s Post-A-Week campaign, I now have a file full of blog topics. Sadly, however, my good intentions to post at least once a week have fallen by the…
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Picky Reader's recently read books: Northern Lights by Nora Roberts. How many books has Nora Roberts written? A hundred? A thousand? So you expect her work to be good. Great. …
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God on a Harley by Joan Brady. This is the second Joan Brady book I’ve read, and maybe ? it’s the first she had published. It’s a short and simple…
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Rainwater by Sandra Brown. Has Sandra Brown ever written a bad book? If she has, I suppose they didn’t make it to publication. Maybe she’s got a few trunk novels…
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The End of an Error by Mameve Medwed. If you’re a middle-aged woman who didn’t marry her first love and who’s ever wondered about the road not taken, this is…
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It’s an impressive feat for an author to mirror her readers back to themselves in some way.
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Is there a way to say I liked the story but didn’t exactly enjoy reading the book?
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Years ago I read everything I could get my hands on by John D. MacDonald and Elmore Leonard. Maybe the trick is to find male authors I enjoy reading and I haven’t made much effort to do that.
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. I’m not sophisticated enough to realize when an author or a character is lying to me. Sort of pisses me off. But again, if the author can make you understand why her character lies to the reader and to herself, she can make it work. And this author does.