I am not typically the kind to set New Year’s Resolutions. In fact, I don’t know the last time I did. My philosophy is, if I see something that needs to change I should just do it, not wait for some arbitrary date. But, as it happens, this December I’ve noticed several things about my […]
2021 Bookish Resolutions — Never Not Reading
Category: Reading
Homemade Christmas Stollen!
Crime Fiction Author’s November Wrap Up
Christmas Afternoon Tea, with Crime Author Milly Reynolds
‘The Sisters of the Winter Wood’ Book Review
Book Review: ‘The Constant Rabbit’
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Book Review # 210: Mexican Gothic — The Pine-Scented Chronicles (Reblog)

Horror in High House Mexican-born writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia is on the rise. Currently residing in Canada, Moreno-Garcia became a household name when her 2019 novel, Gods of Jade and Shadows became an instant bestseller. It earned several accolades and was even nominated for the 2019 Nebula Award Best Novel category and the 2019 Locus Award, […]
Book Review # 210: Mexican Gothic — The Pine-Scented Chronicles
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Goodreads Monday # 43 — The Pine-Scented Chronicles (Reblog)

Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme that was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. This meme is quite easy to follow – just randomly pick a book from your to-be-read list and give the reasons why you want to read it. It is that simple. This week’s book: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Blurb from […]
Goodreads Monday # 43 — The Pine-Scented Chronicles
Charity Book Shops… Worth Taking A Look?
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Book Review: In the Distance by Hernán Díaz (2/5) — Taking On a World of Words (Reblog)

I had no idea what to expect out of this book because, as usual, I didn’t read anything about it before picking it up. I liked to do that with book club books because I like being surprised. Maybe I wouldn’t have been waiting for something to happen for so long if I’d known that […]
Book Review: In the Distance by Hernán Díaz (2/5) — Taking On a World of Words
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Book Review # 206: Anxious People — The Pine-Scented Chronicles (Reblog)

Our Daily Concerns Swedish writer, Fredrik Backman’s literary career has certainly taken an upward trajectory. The phenomenal and critical success of A Man Called Ove (2013, originally published in Swedish as En man som heter Ove) has made him a household name, not just in his native Sweden but all over the world. His study […]
Book Review # 206: Anxious People — The Pine-Scented Chronicles
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