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Alice’s 2020 Year in Books
Take a look at Alice’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Alice K. Boatwright
Goodreads Author
Born
in New Haven, Connecticut, The United States
November 05
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From Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf to Richard Brautigan and Bruce Spr
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Under an English Heaven: An Ellie Kent Mystery (Ellie Kent Mystery, #1)
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2014
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What Child Is This? (Ellie Kent Mystery, #2)
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2017
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Collateral Damage
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2012
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Sea, Sky, Islands: Three stories
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What Child is This?
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In the Life Ever After (Ellie Kent mystery, #3)
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2021
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The things worth writing about
The poet Jack Gilbert said the only things worth writing about were: ”Love, death, man, virtue, nature, magnitude, excellence, evil, suffering, courage, morality. What is the good life. What is honor. Who am I.”
So what about women? I suppose many subjects I would add to the list fit under virtue, magnitude, etc. But only a man would still use “man” in that way.
I’m reading a book about women in 17 Read more of this blog post »
So what about women? I suppose many subjects I would add to the list fit under virtue, magnitude, etc. But only a man would still use “man” in that way.
I’m reading a book about women in 17 Read more of this blog post »
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| I loved this beautifully constructed mystery. Wow! You know you are in the hands of a master from the first sentence to the last. I always love a mystery with snow. . . and this was Vera's take on the death in a snowy isolated country house and villa ...more | |
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| Have I ever flown a plane? Dreamt of doing it? Imagined reading a book that is largely about flying? No. But a good writer can draw you in and make you turn pages as fast as you can on any subject. And Cecilia Aragon is that type of writer. I loved t ...more | |
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“their combined voices giving them a unity and strength they did not possess in ordinary life.”
― Under an English Heaven: An Ellie Kent Mystery
― Under an English Heaven: An Ellie Kent Mystery
“Of course, I don’t mind,” said Ellie, who was always pleased when doing what she wanted was interpreted as selfless,”
― Under an English Heaven: An Ellie Kent Mystery
― Under an English Heaven: An Ellie Kent Mystery
“it never worked to pray for results. You had to pray for acceptance of the results, whatever they were.”
― Under an English Heaven: An Ellie Kent Mystery
― Under an English Heaven: An Ellie Kent Mystery
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