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November 30, 2021
Cackle by Rachel Harrison
You must surrender everything for everything…. wicked.
“Maybe there’s someone, something in my future worth moving toward.”
Cackle by Rachel Harrison
Cackle is the story of a woman learning self-acceptance and confidence. Annie’s long-term boyfriend has dumped her. She starts fresh with a teaching job several hours from New York City and finds an apartment to rent in a quaint little town about 30 minutes from where she will be teaching. Now if she cou...
Best Laid Plans (Garnet Run Book #2) by Roan Parrish
A life without plans meets a house in shambles.
“Dimensions (as he thought of them), weren’t positive or negative. They were simply the truth of how he felt about things.”
Best Laid Plans by Roan Parrish.
This book came to my attention when it was returned to the library with sticky note tabs all over it! Seems the person who read it was offended by every bit that was tabbed! I HAD to read it to see what was SO offensive! Spoiler alert! The tabs marked p...
November 18, 2021
ANF’s bookclub’s recommendations. 10 Nov. 2021
Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown (SS recommend)
A family mystery set in the 1920s
The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada (my recommendation)
A novella translated from Japanese with succinct and powerful metaphors about societal roles of Japanese women.
Racing the Devil by Charles Todd (MY)
An Ian Rutledge mystery set in Scotland in the 1920s
As You Wish by Jude Devereaux (MY)
Three women find commonality despite very different circumstances
November 16, 2021
Payback’s A Witch by Lana Harper
“I clearly had no trouble recognizing him. Yet there was nothing in his eyes, beyond the generic glaze of a drunk and horny male who wanted into my pants.” ~ Payback’s a Witch
There’s more magic in the first of The Witches of Thistle Grove by Lana Harper (From Bad to Curse) when a jilter gets his comeuppance.
It’s fall once again. Time for the leaves to be turning, the apples to be...
October 21, 2021
A long haul back to my writing routine.
I’m back online, after a long silence. I’m finally ready to get back to work. After I published Finding Ching Ha, I was busy with some health issues. A month later I came down with COVID. After two weeks of being sick at home, and a couple of trips to the emergency room, I ended up in the hospital with respiratory failure caused by pneumonia. Thankfully, I was out five days later and was able to continue the rest of my treatment at home. It took another month of recovery and taking it relativ...
September 20, 2021
Finding Ching Ha virtually attends a book group meeting.
Dorothy of the Most Exotic Mersea Book Salon chose Finding Ching Ha as September’s book, and I was invited to make a virtual guest appearance, along with another special guest virtually visiting from the UK.
After a short reading, we had a lively Q and A. We also discussed some of the diverse themes in Finding Ching Ha.that extended beyond inter-cultural adoption, into the similarities and differences between people exclusive of cultural background. While I wasn’t able to engage in the f...
September 6, 2021
Dabbling with Dark Drabbles
Two of my flash fiction stories have been published in Dark Drabbles 666 – the latest anthology by Black Hare Press.
The stories in this anthology Seeking Asylum and The Husband’s Lair are published under Mariya West and Nelsim F. Chan. Does anyone who is good at anagrams want to take a shot at unscrambling the names?
Click here to read my short story, Neighbourhood Watch.
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August 11, 2021
Love books? Get ready for Jólabókafló∂
If you love to read and buy books, this Icelandic tradition may become your favourite celebration of the year.
Click here to read my post on anovelfiend.com.
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August 4, 2021
The Magnolia Sisters by Michelle Major
Finding Family and Romance in a Quaint TownAvery Keller is a woman scorned by love and a father she never knew, shows up in the quaint town of Magnolia, N.C. to collect her inheritance and get out of town. But, (surprise, surprise), Avery ends up staying to support her two new half-sisters as they figure out their father’s estate. The hunky firefighter neighbor adds to Avery’s turmoil about getting embroiled in another relationship. However; news of Avery’s past relationship di...
Eating the Sun by Ella Frances Sanders
Satisfy the craving to buy the book.
A Feast of Celestial InformationWhat starts as an examination of the sun and its role, becomes an entertaining and informative contemplation on our cosmic universe, earth, our bodies, science and a plethora of other things.
This book is just under 200 pages and is a short but engrossing journey for adults to read to themselves, or youngsters who are sure to be engaged by the winsome illustrations with playful font.
The audiobook, narrated b...
