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I see the tips that this is not Ngaio's best, as indeed first novels would not be and that we merely ought to enjoy this typcial crime mystery frolic. I will forever prefer non-crime mysteries for the excitement and creative originality of actual MYSTERIOUSNESS!!!!!!! That is whence we obtain the very word, "mystery"! Dare to fabricate adventures that are not reliant upon solving a criminal case, dear authors!!!!!

If I still enjoy an author at or after sojourn 3, I remain a fan; hence my new "Gentle Spectrums" category "Is The Third Time A Charm". Third books with authors are turning points. I loathed volume 2. This one stepped back up, other than a baby robin and duck dying and more incorrect nature portrayals (bears, bird eggs). I soared across 332 pages! Three Pines does NOT receive less attention than Armand's moles.

I loved Louise's first novel but detested the second. Twice discussing euthanasia pissed me off. Secondly, the whole concept of mere -10C having the effects she exeplified surprised me knowing she is Canadian. Herein, she has bears wrong. You see exceptions like garbage dumps because the lure is still there. Their mindset is to eat what they find and move on. They would not return expecting more chocolate eggs!

Wonderful! I scored this 1979 treasure at a charity sale today. I nearly did not buy it because the edge of the outside cover is torn. I chose to because I had not heard of this book by Margaret Laurence and know her children's stories are rare. Apparently they don't lack infamy! It seems this is a beloved classic, even with a movie! An authoress from my own prairie province, Manitoba. What a compelling story.

This is better than Walter Karig's first in place of Mildred A. Wirt. It bodes well. When I think of the quality of the plot, the content is frivilous. Residents already known to be culpable keep trying to steal large items, which is stupid. A thief would rob places he is unknown and unnoticed! Notably, it is not true to Bess & George to snub Nancy over a relative's will. However I must say I am breezing along.

Hmm. Five stars might indeed be my feedback. After some factual-sounding recitation, Helen Y. Rolfe went back to featuring these extraordinary, hearty, spunky women in the tone of stories. They aren't of any length; chronologically describing their childhoods and everything leading up to their noteworthy exploits and after. However biographies would not give the glimpse of these many. She describes key moments.

I am enjoying this book so much, I am whizzing through it and absorbing decades of Canadian triumphs. nerve, and accomplishments easily. They are an honour to learn. If I bestow Helen Y. Rolfe fewer than five stars, it might only be because authors of these "Incredible Stories" history features need to steer away from recounting events like gathered facts. Only Sharon Wood's history was really weaved into a story.

Canada has not yet had a Green Party government. Seeing TWO PRIME MINISTERS endorse this book, I recognized the extraodinary praise: they had to come from different parties! Paul Martin & Joe Clark. Good grief, author Farley Mowat is Victoria Cate's Godfather? Jane Goodall played with her as a baby? Bill Clinton wrote Elizabeth's recommendation letter for Canadian law school? What a lady and an excellent book!

If I save intellectual books for bed, I have fallen asleep far earlier than planned for my reading sessions. I will feel accomplished to finish this important, highly informative missive by Elizabeth May, today! I have learned a lot! I am no longer unaware of key politics, such as how Canada's election system needs to improve, which I hope Justin Trudeau changes as intended. I also now know global warming basics.

I see how supressing Stephen Harper was and that climate change is no debatable possibility. He killed the progress Kyoto was making, for all United Nations! Denial campaigns were strong enough that I too, wondered how certain scientific results are. Ice core bubbles tell us atmospheric carbon dioxide didn't pass 280 parts-per-million for a million years. We are the first Earth beings to breathe air with 410 PPM!

Instruction in how governments work that I am glad to have. This was made autobiographical along the way, thus very good reading even though I need to absorb several patches slowly. Training braincells to learn social concepts. Some still failing to make sense, given a political group's stupidity in arguing useless notions forward. I feel that commonsense would sing out clearly if people read this knowledge book.

I sought to acquaint the lady for whom we vote. This book validates us. Many more like Elizabeth May's grace, intellect, experience, and determination than dare vote for her due to this party being small;
erroneously believing votes should and can block unwanted big parties. I learned that is not how "first past the post" works. Our system counts provincial seats won, not all of our votes! Best to truly choose.

I knew our country was impacted for too many years by Stephen Harper's dictatorship style, whom I greeted with an open heart because here at last was a prairie prime minister. Always one for detail, Elizabeth explains the fast damage of his arrival. Pushing out prime minister Paul Martin and Canada's Kyoto accord contract, right after all in the United Nations fought tough odds to make membership a legal agreement!

I knew Canada's green party leader was American, her parents moving them to Nova Scotia. It is magical there! I did not know her Mom was an activist; against nuclear testing etc. She knew Bill & Hillary in university, whose daughter acquainted them. How cool is this? Elizabeth's letter of recommendation to law university in Halifax, was from future US president Bill Clinton! Highly connected in both countries.

I knew Canada's green party leader was American, her parents moving them to Nova Scotia. It is magical there! I did not know her Mom was an activist; against nuclear testing etc. She knew Bill & Hillary in university, whose daughter acquainted them. How cool is this? Elizabeth's letter of recommendation to law university in Halifax, was from future US president Bill Clinton! Highly connected in both countries.

Startling information about my homeland. Full of heart and pride but examining how bad Stephen Harper's very long administration was for us, which certainly felt like a dictatorship, is scary. I look forward to learning more about Elizabeth May, our ideal leader if only people would stop hesitating to elect a presently small party. I thought she must be vegetarian but how nice, to confirm she is. :)

Writers need to skip euthanasia remarks. Against my beliefs, it rattles me to see lesser circumstances in which some thought it acceptable. Just say an animal eventually died, or bypass that fully and give us the stories of how they lived. In his first cat book, Cleveland Amory said he hated books that end with a subject's death; a buzz kill! In every other way, Marta's highly educational book lifts our spirits.

I am enjoying Ellery Adams' book tremendously now, from all kinds of perspectives. Thank you for fine fiction, Ellery! :)

I read a little further and my enjoyment grew a great deal more. Watching everyone prepare for a storm and help clean after it, held my interest. Olivia's caring investment in her friend, Laurel is one of my favourite tones. Mutually shedding her trivial relationship with Flynn has my admiration too. Especially that she did it for herself, independently of recognizing that she begins to feel something for Sawyer.

If Ellery opened with cookie-cutter characters and comments from these personages to illustrate something about her title, I don't mind seeing where she is leading and having faith that her writing is not shallow in reality. I praise volume #1. However I strongly get the sense that she is telling this story instead of showing it, even insofar as the protagonist's emotions. It leaves my connection flat and tenuous.

A lot of clichés at the start of this book: the worst of the things an idiotic tourist might say, the personality types.... However I appreciated so much about the first novel, including Olivia's unusual age of 40 and complex personality, neither rude nor bubbly. Private, happy by herself but loyal to the friends she makes. Thus I trust Ellery opened in cookie-cutter fashion for a reason, given this book's title.

A likeable heroine and intelligent writing, full of inner-thought narrative humour. Except the witticisms are too many to digest all the time.
They'd be better enjoyed with space in between, instead of this being the way the whole narration goes. My other feeling is that Agate reads like a burned-out, been there, seen everything 50 year-old! A busy life and family should not change our sense that she is only 34!

The segues into metaphors, descriptive comparison observations are very intelligent and bring a lot of the humour but they are too many; constant intead of dotting the novel. It becomes too much of a mouthful, too sluggish for a reader to keep encoutering. Because I appreciate them highly and laugh at nearly all of them, I am certain Emilie Richards only needs to treat us to them selectively instead of constantly.

Wow, this story is zipping me along! I am glad Sarah Wynde is not a storywriter who churns out ideas but does not publish them into real books, which is what gives me the sense of a genuine authoress. This was free; I would never buy air (like MP3 versus music albums). However it has done its job, with me considering that I just might be interested in the printed sequels! Sarah is a very nice surprise discovery!

I would far prefer having books in print. I don't own a "kindle" because I'm not an e-reader. I am crouching at a PC and desk, although with my gorgeous Siamese in his chair beside me. However this was free and I am glad to discover a new spirit-related story, even if the way it is conceived is ficticious. Sarah Wynde does have a humorous, unique way of writing; a great pace and flow. I like her work and ideas.

Very new authoress and series to me. I avoid "cozy" in favour of "standard adult mystery" because light content often compromises complexity of plot and intelligent story. The exceptions are the gifted people I read. Would Emilie Richards be among them? I think so! Her inner conversation style is bulky and rapid fire but mature and astute enough that she grows on me. I love a best friend with nothing in common!