Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood: My David Cassidy Hair by Tom Purcell Misadventures, this book includes 16 vignettes of life in the 70’s for the author, as remembered more than 40 years later. It covers such wondrous events as bike jumps, sled vengeance, puppy love, the dog that ran away, the kid left at the • Read More »
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Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers. Feel The Fear! This fits into the ‘Book that Intimidates Me’ part of my life. I have had it on my shelf for a long while. I picked it up a few different times and decided the time wasn’t right. I had another book that • Read More »
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Nightmare Sally – The Reed Ferguson Mystery Series Book #15 by Renee Pawlish Nightmare Sally – really? However, I very much enjoyed this story it rollicked along at a breakneck pace. The main characters were interesting and vulnerable at the same time. There seemed to be less laid back, laconic bogey style dialogue, but I guess • Read More »
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Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker Secrets of the Millionaire Mind reveals the missing link between wanting success and achieving it! This from the sales blurb on the Kindle page. This is a brilliant book. It did tell me I AM my father and that made me angry for a time. But • Read More »
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Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Malcolm Gladwell a Canadian Journalist of “The Tipping Point: How little things can make a difference” fame, a book he published in 2000; has gone on to write approx 5 books. I have been meaning to read one of these for some time it is called “Outliers: The Story of Success” • Read More »
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Corktown (Abby Kane FBI Thriller book 1) by Ty Hutchinson. Abby Kane is going to be a part of my life for some time I am sure. This was an extremely good book. Plenty of tension sexual, professional, familial and more, but you’ll have to buy the book to find out about that. I spent • Read More »
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The Falling Girl by Thomas Fincham – A Review Sometimes I comment, in reviews, about the convoluted plots, the fairly large cast of characters, and the fact that I find difficulty understanding where the book is going. I now realise after reading The Falling Girl by Thomas Fincham, that it has nothing whatsoever to do • Read More »
Out of Mind by Kendall Talbot Another one of Kendall Talbot’s romantic adventure stories. This one with a couple of different strings to it’s bow. Full of excitement, wonderful evocative imagery and a few plot twists and turns as well. An example: ‘Four layers of clothing did little to stop the frigid air from seeping into her • Read More »
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Successful Blog by Gundi Gabrielle Successful Blog when you have NO CLUE. I liked this book. Although it wasn’t until I skipped the first half and had another look that I realised it was in the beginner series. Perhaps I should have gone for a more advanced one. But when it got to the bits • Read More »
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Cheaper By The Dozen – Frank B. Gilbreth Jr, and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey A few weeks ago someone asked me about the book that had most changed my life. A big question. One I couldn’t answer. Until a cupla days ago. I was pottering around my kitchen organising breakfast and thought when I went back • Read More »
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