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Author Archives: Susan
October Preview
Well we’ve made it to October and a big snowstorm just dumped about eight inches of white powder last night. Yikes, I kid you not — so much for fall (as pictured at left.) This photo was taken before the … Continue reading
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The Removes
Perhaps due to my California roots, I’ve always been a bit of a sucker for American West / frontier / pioneer kinds of historical novels and I finished a couple of good ones last year with Paulette Jiles’s “News of … Continue reading
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September Mini Reviews
Ahh fall is here. Tomorrow we might even see some snowflakes, which is pretty crazy for September. Meanwhile those on the southern East Coast are about to get battered by Hurricane Florence. Yikes, stay safe everyone. I remember Hurricane Isabel … Continue reading
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September Preview
Greetings, Happy Labor Day. If you can believe it, it’s September already. Where did the summer go? I don’t know about your area, but there’s a nip of fall in the air here now. It’s cool, though luckily the smoke … Continue reading
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August Mini-Reviews
Well I’m on my way soon to play in the national age-group tennis tournament in Montreal, Yikes. I hope it will be fun and that my husband and I will get to explore the city too. I’m a bit glad … Continue reading
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August Releases
August might just pass me by if I’m not careful. The days are whizzing by and our area has been in the midst of a heat wave this past week. It just reached the hottest temperature ever on record here … Continue reading
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We Begin Our Ascent and Other Reviews
Oh blimey, it’s August already. July went by in a flash and this month means fall and winter are that much closer, especially living in a northern country. Gads, August usually feels like the last hoorah and that the end … Continue reading
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July Releases
Summer is busy, is it not? It seems Canadians try to fit everything they can do into a short summer season — and now I’m guilty of this too. I’ve got too many things in the frying pan so to … Continue reading
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Love and Ruin and Regeneration
Greetings. We arrived home last week from our overseas trip and then I promptly got a bad cold from all the travels, which set me back longer than I expected, so I’ve been MIA from blogging for quite a while. … Continue reading
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On Vacation
I’m away for a couple weeks visiting battle sites in France and paying respects to soldiers who fought for freedom. Above is Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial in northern France, which contains the graves of 6,012 American soldiers who died … Continue reading
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