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Book 56 I have heard the author’s name several times through Project Linus, so I decided to try her out through the Christmas Reading Challenge. On an old estate in rural Pennsylvania, two ladies have built a quilters’ retreat. I understood it to be… Continue Reading “The Christmas Quilt, by Jennifer Chiaverini”
These are the two I finished between Blanket Day and Starbucks night yesterday: The bluish solid one has a guitar and Hard Rock symbol sewn on. Edged in Caron White yarn. The astronomical one is edged in Red Heart.. turquoise yarn? My chapter of Project Linus… Continue Reading “Blankets 83 & 84”
I am several posts behind, including three Charlaine Harris books, and one about a cupcake truck in the suburbs! But I want to sign up for The True Book Addict’s Christmas Spirit Reading Challenge, so I need to skip ahead a bit. I have four… Continue Reading “Christmas Reading Challenge”
Book 55 I could tell by the “other recommendations” list on GoodReads that I was going to like this book. I already had it on my shelf, then it was picked for my book club. Post-war Barcelona, a boy chooses a tome from the… Continue Reading “The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon”
Book 54 The second book in the Aurora Teagarden series is my least favorite from Harris so far. It starts out pretty well – Roe inherits the estate of a friend from the Real Murders club. An old lady named Jane who died of… Continue Reading “A Bone to Pick, by Charlaine Harris”
Book 53 I don’t know why I thought it would be cool to read a book about how gawdawful it was to live in the Dust Bowl in the 1930’s, but there it is. Egan writes about a whole bunch of families in several… Continue Reading “The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan”
The big bi-monthly Blanket Day for my chapter of Project Linus is next weekend, and I have these in the washing machine right now: You can’t see it very well, but there are pieces of Winnie the Pooh fleece embroidered onto the blue one… Continue Reading “Blankets 74 – 82”
I am bouncing back and forth between returns and the Bulls game. And some West Wing clips on YouTube. I left work a bit early to go vote. The place was packed and the volunteer I spoke with said that in his nine years… Continue Reading “On Election Night”
Book 52 Small town librarian is a member of a little club of weird people that like to study true crime. Famous murders to be exact. One night she arrives for a meeting and finds another member bludgeoned to death in and arranged just… Continue Reading “Real Murders, by Charlaine Harris”
Books 50 and 51 The Harper Connelly mysteries are such easy reads that I figured I would finish out the series. An Ice Cold Grave has Harper called in to find a missing teenaged boy. She finds that several such boys have gone missing… Continue Reading “An Ice Cold Grave and Grave Secret, by Charlaine Harris”
The Next Dark Age 