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November 26, 2019
Nonfiction November 2019 ~ Week 5
Week 5: (Nov. 25 to 30) – New to My TBR Hosted by Rennie @ What’s Nonfiction: It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR? Be sure to link back to the original blogger who posted about that book! Oh, man. In week three, I asked …
November 21, 2019
{Books} Ghostbuster’s Daughter & Pumpkinheads
Shockingly, I announced a TBR near the beginning of the month and haven’t read anything from it. I should possibly always find/replace “books to-be-read” with “book-I’m-not-going-to-read-yet.” Ghostbuster’s Daughter: Life with My Dad, Harold Ramis by Violet Ramis Stiel At the beginning of the month, I jumped into reading some heavy stuff about axe-murderers and hysterical …
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November 18, 2019
Nonfiction November 2019 ~ Week 4
Week 4: (Nov. 18 to 22) – What Makes a Favorite? Hosted by Leeann at Shelf Aware We’ve talked about how you pick nonfiction books in previous years, but this week I’m excited to talk about what makes a book you’ve read one of your favorites. Is the topic pretty much all that matters? Are …
November 14, 2019
{Book} Death by Suggestion
This book was provided to me by the editor for review consideration. Death by Suggestion: An Anthology of 19th and Early 20th-Century Tales of Hypnotically Induced Murder, Suicide, and Accidental Death, edited by Donald K Hartman DEATH BY SUGGESTION gathers together twenty-two short stories from the 19th and early 20th century where hypnotism is used …
November 12, 2019
{Movies} Shirley Jackson, Hail, Caesar! & Dead Don’t Die
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018) In the realm of Shirley Jackson adaptations Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Hill House television series and Stacie Passon’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle are on opposite ends of the fidelity spectrum. The Haunting of Hill House is sort of Jackson-flavored. I’m not saying that …
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November 11, 2019
Nonfiction November 2019 ~ Week 3
Week 3: (Nov. 11 to 15) – Be The Expert/Ask the Expert/Become the Expert Hosted by Katie at Doing Dewey Three ways to join in this week! You can either share 3 or more books on a single topic that you have read and can recommend (be the expert), you can put the call out …
November 4, 2019
Nonfiction November 2019 ~ Week 2
Week 2: (Nov. 4 to 8) – Book Pairing Hosted by Sarah of Sarah’s Book Shelves) This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. It can be a “If you loved this book, read this!” or just two titles that you think would go well together. Maybe it’s a historical novel and …
November 3, 2019
Sunday Salon, 11/03/19
#RIPXIV & #SomethingWickedFall Wrap-Up *emerges from under a pile of candy wrappers, pumpkin pie tins, and creepy stories* Hope everyone had a great spooky season! Since I can see Halloween decorations in the stores in August, I have little problem with queuing up the Christmas music now. Me, though, I’ll stick with my Halloween-flavored playlist …
November 2, 2019
One Ahead Mystery #2 ~ Now Available!
One Ahead: The Case of the Real Estate Revenant The second story in my One Ahead mystery series is now available on Amazon for Kindle. One Ahead Mysteries feature David P. Abbott. Aside from being an accomplished magician in early 20th century Omaha, NE, David Abbott was a skeptic and debunker of fraudulent mediums. In …
