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I am motoring along through a mystery for a change. Canadian greats Gail Bowen and Howard Engel, weave their novels so much about the lives and families of their protagonists that you are invested. Even if a mystery is not always personal to them as this one is so directly and poigantly to Gail's character; the emotion-based perspective always makes even the mystery-solving process feel personal for their readers.

I am sticking with a pair of Canadian mysteries. We switch from Howard Engel near the Niagara Escapment, to Saskatchewan's capital city. This heroine tells a very personal story from volume I, about a husband's senseless murder. They were invested in provincial politcs, she still is. Four books and a few years after, the teen killer is dead, his eerie wife lurking. Joanne's youngest son wants to know everything.

Funny, we scoured one of our charity booksales yesterday. I found this Howard Engel series volume I'm presently reading, in hardcover! Very handy, not only because I adore Howard as one of my top Canadian authors and appreciate his hardcovers. My softcover needs glueing, slated after reading it. However I had to hold loose sections so they don't tumble out. How timely to switch to a hardcover and read with ease!

I love Howard Engel's writing. I will read anything he has penned and remotely authored.

This is one of the fantastic books I find, browsing for second-hand deals from my list. I have heard one protest that this is entirely European. An English author and a Dutch illustrator are two reasons. Canada's art is of unrivalled beauty and depth. However famous paintings predate our existance: our 150th confederation was this July 1st! A Canadian author would add Robert Bateman and the Group Of 7 for sure.

Whatever Benny Cooperman is doing, you can count on Howard Engel's superb creativity and writing to paint colourful personalities that make every action or adventure a pleasure to read. Keeping everything Canadian is an exceptionally special touch. We are tired of everything taking place in England or the United States. Canadian cities, towns, customs, and law enforcement are well worth visiting!

I love Howard Engel, along with the pleasurable fact that I can envision his town's environs. I took in Niagara Falls and its memorable details twice. It is always nice and high time to feature Canadian cities and settings. When they are those you can personally picture, like the general Niagara Escarpment region, what an extra thrill. Howard's superb and comic writing are impressive, as is his honourable sleuth.

I thought 5 stars as one of the best teaching books, with good workable knowledge of metaphysical disciplines: animal communication, auras.... and meditation to do all similar work and message-receiving well. 4 stars for prepostrous, heavy-handed use of "gentle" with things that ARE soft; massage, floating!!! I especially feel that imagining separate places for anything; past, future, or spirits, is irrelevant.

This textbook contains an unexpectedly good range of healing and metaphysical subjects and strikes the basics so that readers become informed well about Monica's sampling. Example, anyone for whom Reiki healing and the auras that surround everybody were new, would not only be clued into what they are but could try exercises saying how to see and feel auras. It starts with meditation, animal communication and grows.

I hope my precious cat appears home very soon. I have missed him for two months because he is one of my most profound sources of joy.

She is banned from using the word "gently" and especially from plunking it into stupid uses too, like when a concept is already soft!!!!

I wish I had been in the mood to read last night and soar through great progress. I read a few pages before deciding to sleep. This introduction to Monica Diedrich's instructional trilogy is excellent, I'll finish it today. It's funny, I read her first, unrelated book years ago. It must be why I delayed this one for years. I like turning to a variety of authors. I gave it to a friend and wasn't keen to keep it.

This is animal communication instruction I bought around 2004. After my childhood cat passed away, it blew me away to see that there is validation of my certainty, that she was equally sentient and I could understand her directly. Most instructions say to quiet the mind, send love, visualize offering a connection between you, and letting information flow in. Monica describes how to quiet a mind; true first steps!

Discussing letters could be tedious but house owners Mark and Rebecca Spencer sufficiently built up how exciting and lucky it is, for the readers to enthuse about too, that they found Ladell's letters. We have also been treated to a great deal of paranormal moments, simple enough to render them believeable. They are snippets of wonder here and there, we must recognize and appreciate. The love story is a new layer.

I am enjoying this.

I love this, am enjoying it already. It is rare that I buy literature new. I read physical books almost exclusively and have as many as the average person must store on e-readers. To afford a good stock, second-hand is imperative. Thus I really treasure or feel a book is for me if I choose one that is new. Mark Spencer just needs to desist with "crimson" instead of red! I dislike indulgent, dramatic vocabulary.

Drat! It seems this gothic mystery novel might debunk like the majority of them and not contian a spirit like I had hoped! I hope that isn't how it pans out. Twenty pages don't seem to be enough for this novel to get into much action. I hope it doesn't build up to finding a discarded explanation letter from a mysterious, unknown character and solving everything peripherally. This hasn't had a haunted house feel.

I really enjoy deviations from the gothic mystery blueprint. I wonder if Carolyn Wilson sways far from it because she solely authored one. I enjoy that she is not living in terror, even though there are weird things to investigate. She has allies and isn't limited to the chief setting, three traits typical gothic mysteries overdo. In fact she is a 28 year-old Mom who worked and there is actually a spirit to meet!

Do I like it? I'm unsure. Right now, a lot of ground work is guiding the pages. How this widowed young Mother ran into her college professor and courted him. They are married, temporarily staying in his family manor until theirs is built. It is three-dimensional and realistic, with Laura needing to remind her Mom she is in charge of her son and feeling one sister-in-law dislikes her. The suspense is coming now.

A special find in mint condition. I can't wait to read my non-fiction book about the actual Allen House, written by its present, longtime residents.

I thought this looked like a lovely, precious, and emotional story in a positive way in lake country this week-end. I had to pick it up on my second-hand book-seeking trip and was astounded to find that "Franklin In The Dark" is a Canadian classic of twenty-five years. I am very glad to know it for this reason in particular, as well as it turning out that its authoress, Paulette Bourgeois, is from our own Winnipeg.

Now we're getting down to a part that is mystery-solving, as well as an exciting magical reason for the grim presence of that most ancient town, Y-Gros (shortened Welsh for "the crossing place"). The duo Phil Rickman finally made into protagonists, Berry Morelli the American and Bethan the Welsh-English teacher, noted there is no crossing place there. I surmise it is a good old transdimensional portal of some kind!

In the last section, we are getting back to the research that is much more interesting. I wish there hadn't been so much detail on scenes that I think were filler; mundane activity the novel could do without. We don't need a million examples that this village is weird and are past obtaining a clear picture of what being Welsh is like. Now for the good stuff; a historic figure or old magic that caused the horror.

A baby book is right for quartet birthday of our four kittens! Love is remembered with all our hearts. I continue to thank everyone giving us prayer and support that Conan comes home safely very soon now. I am sorry he isn't here by their birthday but my imppression is he wants time in the great outdoors in this good weather. I can't believe Conan & his sisters Angel & Petal are seven! Happy birthday, my babies!