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The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 47)

Posted on February 12, 2021 by bseat

One night, at an exclusive and remote hotel on the tip of Vancouver Island, someone etched with acid the following words on the large picture window in the bar: “Why don’t you swallow broken glass.”  Who was the message for … Continue reading →

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Snow by John Banville (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 46)

Posted on February 5, 2021 by bseat

You can’t get more appropriate than reading a book called “Snow” during a winter snow storm! Banville is a new author to me, but I know I will be reading more of his work.  It is a snowy winter day, … Continue reading →

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The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 43)

Posted on January 15, 2021 by bseat

Daniel Mason, is fast becoming one of my favorite authors. The Piano Tuner was published before The Winter Soldier which I really enjoyed and reviewed previously, and I found it just as engrossing and even more lyrical and mysterious. In … Continue reading →

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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson ( Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 39)

Posted on December 18, 2020 by bseat

Troublesome Creek, Kentucky in the 1930’s is a hardscrabble place to live, filled with prejudice and superstition. Many of the men work in mines that are not safe and the women stay at home in the backwoods and hollers trying … Continue reading →

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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 36)

Posted on November 27, 2020 by bseat

In the middle of colder days and longer nights, this book was a ray of sunshine and delight. Osman’s septuagenarian sleuths who meet every Thursday in the Jigsaw Room of their retirement community (hence the name “The Thursday Murder Club’) … Continue reading →

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The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker (Books To Read During a Pandemic, Part 35)

Posted on November 20, 2020 by bseat

On my father’s side I am supposedly a little bit Norwegian, which seemed very exotic to me as the rest of my gene pool is mostly German. I have had Norway on my bucket list since I was in fourth … Continue reading →

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The King Of Lies by John Hart (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 34)

Posted on November 13, 2020 by bseat

John Hart keeps on surprising me! I recently read one of his books and now, here I am again reviewing another novel he wrote! Although The King of Lies initially seems like a straight forward murder mystery, Hart somehow manages … Continue reading →

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A Dangerous Man by Robert Crais (Books to Read During the Pandemic, Part 33)

Posted on November 6, 2020 by bseat

Joe Pike and Elvis Cole are some of my favorite characters. As private detectives and investigators they are tough, thorough and have an innate sense of justice that kicks in when they see something going wrong. Pike is in the … Continue reading →

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Braiding Sweetgrass By Robin Wall Kimmerer (Books to Read During a Pandemic, Part 31)

Posted on October 23, 2020 by bseat

I’m not sure I would have ever picked this book up on my own but a friend told me that it was as important to her as the Bible and had changed her life. With a recommendation like that it … Continue reading →

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Testimony by Scott Turow (Books To Reading During a Pandemic, Part 29)

Posted on October 9, 2020 by bseat

You cannot think of Scott Turow without thinking of his book Presumed Innocent and the movie starring Harrison Ford. Scott Turow is a master of the the legal procedural, by both making the law relevant and exposing its limitations. His … Continue reading →

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