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We are in my birthday month! May our precious Conan finally be home with us by my special day! We are expanding the search right now, trying new resources and certainly not giving up on our precious boy. It is the only gift I need!

I am relieved to reach the point at which a story is too interesting and at the height of its momentum, to postpone. I will finish this today. HAPPY HALLOWE'EN, EVERYONE! Yours, Carolyn.

Y'all know I am Carolyn, even if you simply see "C", I hope. I set it like that merely to avoid giving out my whole name to the general public. I'll stop signing comments and y'all will remember, right? :)

I would much rather be reading something paranormal but I don't mind giving "Ellis Peters" a second chance. I will probably feel motivated to read the third novel, "Monks Hood", because it finishes the prettily-decorated omnibus that my version comprises. Thankfully, although Edith Pargeter is still pissing me off with stupid, needless uses of "gently" that make me want to puke; this novel is superior to the first.

I can't exactly tell which page I am on because my copy of this story is in a triple omnibus. My method with compilations is to choose an individual version for my read Goodreads along status, statistics totals, and reading challenge themes that apply. Guess what? This spiritual, Celtic, and historic mystery covers all four of my own challenges that I run! I will represent the omnibus when I am at its last novel.

Most of us know principal rules to writing excellence that maximizes enjoyment of it for us, as readers. "Show, don't tell" and "keep adverbs & adjectives at a minimum"! Stephen King actually says "skip adverbs"! I hate sofening, weak adverbs / adjectives so much; I cringe, even scream, and can't stand authors like Ellis Peters, whose style is "softly, gently". However, I give first novels a break. Wish me luck!