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I love this novel and am glad there are two of them.

Oh, get this novel over with fast. I will read it in one go this afternoon and save a new novel for bedtime, in my favourite "standard mystery" level which actually feels adult.

It is a pleasure to return to Simon Brett's humour and fine writing. I only want him to stop writing about people drinking. When you have a character, Hugo, doing so even more abysmally than Charles Paris, it is over the top. It is tiresome and depressing to go nowhere but work and drinking scenes. Move on please, there is more to see and do in novels.

I am reading the second story, “An Amateur Corpse”, 1978.

This is beautiful storywriting and I am enjoying it immensely. It is rare to find fiction that has no hardship or drama at the centre of it and seldom do I read outside genres that spotlight a mystery or paranormal phenomenon. The images woven of girls playing among flowers and adult Daughters admiring their lovely, aged Mother, are sublime. Thank you, my sweet friend Kerri, for giving this birthday present to me.

A wonderful cat's health book, guide, and education resource!

I am surprised this book only uses the word "meridian" once. Donna Eden almost entirely uses them for her triumphant mode of healing. Stephen Gascoigne refers to them a few times as "channels" but does not dicuss healing through them, show each of their paths, nor tell readers that doing this heals us! It is a simple, powerful, helpful thing to do that is inappropriate to omit. Down to four stars for that reason.

Excellently, clearly, and very positively taught by a friendly teacher.

This education is wonderfully guided, historically and naturally explained.
This sturdy book's rich pages are beautifully coloured and displayed. Absorbing its helpful, encouraging wisdom is a pleasure.

A wonderfully guided, easy, accessible educational journey! I would not have sought a history on the spread and changes of Chinese medicine but this provenance is interesting too. It is wise to know why, despite modern medicine being inadequate by itself, health strategies treating us as parts of nature for 4000 years became what we are calling "alternative"!

Here is a great summary of my reading. Enjoy it! Your friend, Carolyn. https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_i...

This is wonderful!

A wonderful book from which I am glad to be learning and refreshing better, more deeply, and adeptly.

Happy new year 2024, everyone! Your friend and peer, Carolyn!

Did Goodreads remove book reading progress? I suddenly don't see anywhere to update my page and this is my favourite feature for using this website in the first place. They should remove nonsense like false polls (telling people what THEY ought to read next?) and keep what we use daily!

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