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   My review of It's Alive!: Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Movie Posters from the Kirk Hammett Collection
      My review of It's Alive!: Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Movie Posters from the Kirk Hammett Collectionhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
 Three Netgalley titles off my pile this week:
      Three Netgalley titles off my pile this week: The Dry by Jane Harper
 The Dry by Jane Harperhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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 The Orchid Girls by Lesley Sanderson
 The Orchid Girls by Lesley Sandersonhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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 A Dark So Deadly by Stuart MacBride https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
 A Dark So Deadly by Stuart MacBride https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Plus one children's book
 Stuck in the Muck by Brett Avison https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit...
 Stuck in the Muck by Brett Avison https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit...https://www.sandysbookaday.wordpress....
And an audiobook
 The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
 The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
 I am on tenterhooks now, waiting to see where Gregg Hurwitz takes the Nowhere Man next! Terrific, disturbingly real warfare concerns in Prodigal Son.
      I am on tenterhooks now, waiting to see where Gregg Hurwitz takes the Nowhere Man next! Terrific, disturbingly real warfare concerns in Prodigal Son. 4.5★  Link to my Prodigal Son review
 4.5★  Link to my Prodigal Son review
     Rainbow Colors by words&pictures is a cute little book for very young kids to enjoy with an older friend to help them find the things that are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
      Rainbow Colors by words&pictures is a cute little book for very young kids to enjoy with an older friend to help them find the things that are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. 4★  Link to my Rainbow Colors review
 4★  Link to my Rainbow Colors review
     The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham - 2 stars - My Review
      The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham - 2 stars - My ReviewBe Still the Water by Karen Emilson - 3 stars - My Review
 Frederik Backman's thought-provoking short novella, The Deal of a Lifetime is about a meeting between a somewhat estranged father and son that happens to take place on Christmas Eve. Loved it!
      Frederik Backman's thought-provoking short novella, The Deal of a Lifetime is about a meeting between a somewhat estranged father and son that happens to take place on Christmas Eve. Loved it! 5★  Link to my Deal of a Lifetime review
 5★  Link to my Deal of a Lifetime review
     Jennifer just wanted to kill someone, make the world a better place, but Judy Fitzwater's aspiring murder mystery writer, who was Dying to Get Published, had a lot of (amusing) trouble getting her act together in real life.
      Jennifer just wanted to kill someone, make the world a better place, but Judy Fitzwater's aspiring murder mystery writer, who was Dying to Get Published, had a lot of (amusing) trouble getting her act together in real life. 3.5★  Link to my Dying to Get Published review
 3.5★  Link to my Dying to Get Published review
     My review of The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom by H.W. Brands
      My review of The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom by H.W. Brandshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
 Finally got around to reading the final book in The Hunger Games Trilogy:
      Finally got around to reading the final book in The Hunger Games Trilogy:Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - 2 stars - My Review
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 Tweet-length "fiction". I love, love, love wise sayings, witticisms, simple fun. I am too wordy - these guys are not. A Small Fiction by brothers James Mark Miller and Jefferson Miller is a sheer delight. Funny, clever, excellent!
      Tweet-length "fiction". I love, love, love wise sayings, witticisms, simple fun. I am too wordy - these guys are not. A Small Fiction by brothers James Mark Miller and Jefferson Miller is a sheer delight. Funny, clever, excellent! 5★ Link to my Small Fiction review with excerpts
 5★ Link to my Small Fiction review with excerpts
     John Lennon by Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara is a beaut little kids' book about his life and the Beatles. This is a lovely little tribute to the musical genius we lost to a gunman 40 years ago this month. 40 years!
      John Lennon by Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara is a beaut little kids' book about his life and the Beatles. This is a lovely little tribute to the musical genius we lost to a gunman 40 years ago this month. 40 years! 4.5★ Link to my John Lennon review with illustrations
 4.5★ Link to my John Lennon review with illustrations
     PattyMacDotComma wrote: "I have just finished The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley and adore his 11-year-old experimental poisoner/investigator, Flavia de Luce. This is th..."
      PattyMacDotComma wrote: "I have just finished The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley and adore his 11-year-old experimental poisoner/investigator, Flavia de Luce. This is th..."I loved this one too. The only thing I will say is that for me they went a bit off the boil by becoming too unlikely later on in the series but the first five or so are brilliant.
 Catching up on my last few reads of 2020:
      Catching up on my last few reads of 2020:Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3700372244
The Dragon Hoard by Tanith Lee - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3722675685
Black Unicorn by Tanith Lee - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3722720821
and Elephantasm also by Tanith Lee - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3722764942
That also completes my 2020 book challenge!
 My best books of 2020 were..
      My best books of 2020 were..Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Misery by Stephen King
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Southern Book Clubs Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
 I read I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson.
      I read I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
 Jen wrote: "My year in review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
      Jen wrote: "My year in review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."I like this! How did you find your year in review? All I can find is my year in books, which is different.
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