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A challenge host gave this volume a jeering low review thus I expected it to be lame. I read Eric Wilson in order and reaching this took time. He complained of the old-fashioned cheesy dialogue, likely the villain's and I know some are like that because Eric is teaching the unkindness of some behaviour. This must be the host's first Eric Wilson novel. It is among his best, shows big growth, and I am enjoying it!

There was once a group of arctic visitors on I plane I was taking home. I was perplexed by the same announcement a flight attendant made, who had us bid them welcome: they were going to for the first time be seeing trees! This 1995 novel also tells me Inuit are unfamiliar with domestic large animals; including horses? That surprises me as much. I appreciate Eric's educational details. This novel might be okay.

Man, this author must be better in her exotic Egypt stories! The dialogue, narrative, and character behaviour of this novel, including the baby talk of one child are crap. Denting enjoyment in particular, where are her eyes and her editor? She used the word "gentle" about four times a page! I'm ready to puke if I see it again. Even weird things that shouldn't be called that and obvious things that need not be.

Yeah, the idea is suspenseful and might build up to something spooky but the stilted way that story is being constructed is driving me nuts. "What's wrong honey? People saying our house is haunted? It's just gossip. You heard a noise? You probably had a dream". Then the irritating townspeople with all the information being evasive. If we bought a creepy house, tell us everything there is to know! Warn people!

When I finished "Property Of A Lady" by Sarah Rayne with elated enthusiasm, I looked for other appreciative reviews. To my surprise, one cited "House Of Echoes" as better and disliked Sarah's. I had started this one but needed to pause and choose something else because the dialogue is so stilted and mundane! I might feel that Barbara Erskine's story idea is more exciting but this feels like factory-made narration.

I will give Victoria Abbott a fresh helping of praise for their continued reservoir of originality. This is not a mundane mystery based on finding a body. Much more intriguing and likely, never mind gratefully more unique; is that it is about a mysterious person. She can be the sole trigger for Jordan being fired from a live-in job based on rare trust with the choosy Vera. Who is this stranger, to pressure Vera?

Funny. But am I in the mood for funny right now, or the stress of a fictional character fighting for her "cozy mystery" job? I feel that I have lost my taste for this "sanitized" genre after discovering that there are a great bunch of out-and-out suspenseful paranormal mysteries for adults. I need no longer settle. However Victoria & Mary Jane are among the best writers found in this genre and I appreciate them.

Last year I borrowed a bunch of Dr. Seuss books from my friends when I noticed they had them, for their once young children. Not wanting the reading experience affected by too much Seuss at one time, I read and review them well-spaced out. Since this friends are visiting today, I will make sure this penultimate one is returned. I wanted to get a feel for a variety of them. I only knew two others in my childhood.

I'm unsure I'm in the mood for a heavy, moody, grim thing when it is so wonderfully hot out and I have just finished the most beautifully-written mystery by Louise Penny, her first. I did make a dent into my first foray with Barbara Erskine two days earlier and switched. I might need one more lighter but exceedingly well-written excursion before I resume this. Therefore I will keep this noted, as a "juggle read".

I am indoctrinating myself with Louise Penny, whose autographed first novel I have. :) Just the dedication to her husband is inspiring immediately, not merely for lovers. For writers! It speaks of him letting her quit her job so she can pretend to write and then produce drivel at first and praise it nonetheless. Ron & I are in such a financial boat, for my dream of doing what I believe I am meant to do and can!

Wow! In a good way! Look at how much I read in one sitting; until I had to sleep. I am in that special euphoria, of a book undoubtedly being as superb as I hoped. This is when I acutely feel there should be a ten-star scale, to genuinely reflect a different between "very good" and "I did not want my floating upon this reading journey to end"

HAPPY CANADA DAY, BIRTHDAY #149!

Not all comical. There are some straightforward statistics, which were bland because I am expecting trivia. However it is all educational and well-presented. We don't wait long for Angela's personal touch and humour to emerge upon succeeding pages. Probably not five stars but I am still reading.

Angela, who seems to come from my own Manitoba, is an intelligent and wonderful hostess! Maybe her humour strikes my funniest centres so well because she is indeed from here! I understand her jokes and witty demeanour instantly. Interesting that she mentioned the loss of Pierre Trudeau's son in a 1998 avalanche: Michel, our present prime minister's brother. I just finished his book, where he wrote of their loss.

Holocaust stories are never pleasant and none I seek or need to hear. However this is a Canadian authoress, whom we should count on to tell a compassionate story with an uplifting tone. Knowing the environmental and political climate with which someone else once lived, is honourable. I could not imagine the rage and poison of 1930s Germany. I'm glad many families left early, some who became my countrywomen / men.

Allan Gould and Pat Hancock brought us an original array of subjects, which is saying something, as someone who reads numerous ghost story compilations. Sadly, Allan Gould died young in 2013, at 73, from an aneurism. He was a teacher who loved children, people, and his religious roots. This book contains creative stories, including a computer encounter that might have been unsettling in 1993, when modems were new.

The Yukon's gold rush history is a special time and place and certainly a unique setting for fiction. They are worth taking time to acclimatize these surroundings, which are surreal even to most Canadians in terms of present day nature. However you declare your books mysteries, it should not take 120 pages to start the mystery aspect. If it is your chosen genre, it should come first and strongly captivate readers.

I wish Vicki Delaney had followed-up the dangerous, very belated excitement in which novel I culminated. This rewards those who stick with series: to see what became of the protagonists. Certainly Vicki won't spoil for people who might read out of order but nothing at all was mentioned; business as usual. How did the ordeal affect Fiona? I find again that there is no mystery. It is all about the Yukon setting.

I rejoin rejoin mystery volume II through the gold rush tableau of 1880s Yukon Territory. It is literally in the great white north.

A good story-writer draws us in personally, one-on-one. Then when we get to serious, detailed, informational subject matter such as politics; we keep on gliding along. We really feel that it is a fluid continuation of the same narrator's story. I enjoy knowing how our first youthful prime minister achieved his first MP riding, through very hard work. I didn't know him at federal election time and am glad to now.

It is surprising how quickly this book is going by, except that to any open-minded person who will allow someone to tell them a story: it is pleasant and absorbing! It doesn't seem to matter what the subject is or whom is hosting a conversation with us. I would certainly not read of hunting nor human terror of course. Justin seems a decent person and good writer: thus I feel riveted, appreciative, and informed!

My sole concern being no stance on animal rights, I enjoy having a prime minister who is 11 months older than I am. His book discusses politics and toots Canada's horn but all appreciative Canadians beam about our homeland. This book is very personal. He bonds with me by saying he loves fiction, fitting in novels no matter how busy. He calls his parent's lake getaway "a Hardy Boys setting, begging for adventure"!

HAPPY SIXTEENTH BIRTHDAY, TO OUR DARLING KITTY, MCCARTNEY HENDRIX!

Exquisite photographs that set me dreaming and admiring Nova Scotia's piece of Canada and informative! A treasure, as we would like books to be, in both rights!

I loved our narrator's hilarious, personal voice again, so much so from page one, that I was laughing already upon page two and kept blowing all the way through this non-fiction memoir to page one-hundred! It saddens me that he writes of Christopher and Dana Reeves, Robin Williams, Princess Diana, and Muhammed Ali; no longer here. Especially what he would make of Lance Armstrong's and Bill Cosby's reputations now.

As much as ever, I dream of showing Nova Scotia to Ron. It found a place in my heart sixteen years ago even though I only saw it once. I would visit the north, depicted here but feel passionate about the south east.

This title is very familiar. As I keep reading through this Hardy Boys legendary series for the first time; I am excited to discover why "The Shore Road Mystery" gives me an impression that it is their best loved or most successful book.

From Canadian location to location, one doesn't know if they are getting an Eric Wilson mystery on the hokey side, or his better adventures. Some are substantially better than others and when I saw this was a Liz Austen mystery, I was relieved! I always prefer Liz to Tom's mysteries, which makes it a shame they are fewer, because hers are intelligent and mature. His cases can be lame and juvenile and I am age 40!