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Come home sooh, Conan! We all love you and need you, as we're sure you know and we're waiting for you!

A very beautiful book and not solely a suite of quotations. There are a few sprinkled in it but this starts out as the story of a fellow-Canadian woman falling in love with a cat she took care of, needing her own. She grew up with a cherished dog, thinking she only loved that kind. Realized a cat could be the precious pet by her side through strife and joy too. She appears to have 3, whose portraits are featured.

Everyone who has paid attention since July 13 knows why I am reading this. May our precious Conan come home safely, now that we have some snow. His vacation should be concluded and like many pets our community is reassuring us about, he should be on his way home now. We have watched for him daily these three months, never giving up and are sure he will be home any day. WE KNOW your prayers are keeping Conan safe!

I love Nova Scotia and can't wait to show Ron why! He would fall into its magic too. I always believe it reminds me of Manitoba, if the ocean were close-by. It's in-land terrain resembles my province's trees and landscapes. It too is a blend of the Celtic, French, German... The fun aspects are those we don't have, Nova Scotia's own wonders. Tanya's book is an educational, beautiful, and fantastic balanced tour.

I am enjoying this art tour immensely and gaining education. I am pleased I recognize many of the oeuvres and names but not the names of the masterpieces, the full names of the artists, nor their countries and dates. The information about the work highlighted is invaluable too. How many of us who aren't painters, know what to look for? Now I know the supersalient, interesting attributes about 35 major paintings..

I am enjoying this art tour immensely and gaining education. I am pleased I recognize many of the oeuvres and names but not the names of the masterpieces, the full names of the artists, nor their countries and dates. The information about the work highlighted is invaluable too. How many of us who aren't painters, know what to look for? Now I know the supersalient, interesting attributes about 35 major paintings..

These quotates and pictures - sometimes photos, sometimes drawings, - are very nice. Some are meant to be funny observations about felines, others are stereotyped. Oftentimes I am pleased that the authors this compilation quotes, GET who cats actually are. Ours are not the stereotype, ignoring or not caring. They LOVE being part of everything. The most enchanting aspect is the cover kitten, resembling our Petal!

This is spinning into a complex, excting number of astounding revelations. They might seem far-fetched but Sarah Rayne is making them feasible. That's why the synopsis remarks that what the author discovers is recent political history. She does not seem to be writing the paranormal!
Disappointing because that's why I sought the novel out. Very long stories about why characters are damaged. Alive: no spirits.

The beautiful orange tabby kitten on this bookcover makes us smile, by looking a lot like our dear Petal when she was a baby. I have had a similar photograph of her, climbing rather than swinging, framed on the wall of this room for seven years. Three of our precious children are orange, including Petal's brother Conan, who should be home as our weather slowly cools and their Mom, Marigold. Angel & Love are white.

This is much more mystery than horror, someone who finished it said. A rare time I'm glad I browsed a review with my excursion in progress, whether or not I too would have pinpointed that observation. I would have called it "standard adult mystery" with paranormal possibilities, because the protagonist is working to solve profound family puzzles. However one part got very gruesome! Sarah keeps this a mild horror.

We have cases I'll be unable to discuss in a review, that construe unlikely, unreasonable, unbelieveable reactions to situations. For instance, of all the outlandish ways we've heard in life or stories, of people reacting to a pregnancy; in this thread, it was the most prepostrous. Howeever Sarah's non-series novels are minor horrors, less so this one, thus I like it much more. She wanted to fabricate an extreme.

Jumping a book right into action or intrigue is one technique for interesting readers. The trick is writing enough first, so that readers like the protagonist, or know just enough to be interested in the book. I didn't know anything about the premise or character to have any feelings about the first chapter. That is bland, no matter how suspenseful. Avoid blind description. However we become up to speed quickly.

I wanted to approach the end of a novel at which I have churned away but got very interested in this instead. Then I was ready to sleep but this talented, symbolic, and inspiring history from around the world was a nice note to relax upon. I see this receiving five stars and art education is something I could use. Like I said last night, I wish I could paint the gloriously large, pink sunset that graced our home.

I am finally diving into this and I love it. There is a gorgeous, unusually gorgeous, pink sunset right now filling our whole sky, as only Manitoba can. I wish I were a drawer or painter so that I could capture an exquisite experience like this. I take no beauty, glory, or joy for granted. I consider all of it a gift. Learning about art, something that is not my milieu, will help me appreciate those who make it.

This is turning out to be a more layered and complexly-constructed mystery than the romance atmosphere makes it seem. Especially a silly thief alliance and oh-so-overdone "We should have nothing to do with each other but are attracted to each other like magnets". However if the criminal behind things is an ex-pupil, a kid; it is too much of a reach to see him having the international connections he'd have to have.

I enjoyed this until typified romance elements gushed all over the makings of an excellent adventure and story. A woman disinclined towards hasty decisions of any kind and romance of any kind, is not going to instantly permit someone to kiss her and not so boldly or sexually. You don't even get attracted so easily merely for an appealing physique or personality. I'm glad I know Nora Roberts writes better later on!

An intriguing premise about an affluent family's company needing their expert daughter to authenticate a bronze statue. It was found under a villa and might be an unknown Michaelangelo statue made when he was about 18. Miranda only has a professional relationship with her rigid Mother, the director in Italy. She and her restless brother run an institute in Maine, USA. Their archaeologist Father was always absent.

I have had this second-hand hardcover shelved for years. Maybe two years ago, I began organizing the smattering of Nora Roberts novels I have on hand to see which of them went with volume accompanyments. I owned what I needed for a couple of series and bought the introductions to others. Some, such "The Reef" and "Homeport", are unattached stories. I finished the former. It's time to get this one out of the way!

I am loving this! This is wonderful and it is blissfully, freshly original; no matter how many books you have read about cats approaching the snow. I don';t believe there are many, nor many about the loves of my life, CATS, observing Christmas. The artists, Ann Mortiimer, couldn't have drawn this kitty better. She captures their moves, their structure, their intent eyes, and the adorable faces, shape, and poses.

This story's finish is zooming along.