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Summer of ’45

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― It’s the summer of 1945 and, in a big old house in a North Carolina mountain town, 10-year-old Helen is under the guardianship of her 22-year-old cousin Flora. From just that outline, I thought I knew what would happen in Gail Godwin’s...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Southern Books, Thoughts On Books, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading

Patebooks ― 2 hr 53 min ago

All over again

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― My friend Dean recently banned the use of the old Yogi Berra saying “deja vu all over again” because it is misused and overused, cliched and redundant. But when I first started reading Kate Atkinson’s kaleidoscopic new novel ...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Thoughts On Books, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading, Dr. Who

Patebooks ― 6 weeks 6 days ago

Moments, memories and dreams

Moments, memories and dreams

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― As a hospice volunteer, Joanna knows the importance of moments. Her own checkered past has led her back to the small North Carolina town of Fulton, where she made peace with her daddy and now records the last thoughts and words of the dying at the...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Southern Books, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading, Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill

Patebooks ― 7 weeks 5 days ago

Women of mystery

Women of mystery

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― Keeping secrets, telling lies, they require the same skill,” says former FBI agent Brigid Quinn near the beginning of Rage Against the Dying (St. Martins, digital galley), an engrossing first mystery from Becky Masterman. Brigid is willing ...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Thoughts On Books, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading, A Dying Fall

Patebooks ― 8 weeks 4 days ago

Grammar, ghosts, math, magic . . .

Grammar, ghosts, math, magic . . .

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― Sometimes I think I want to go back to school. Not ordinary school-school but someplace exotic, like Hogwarts or Brakebills. Wexford, the London school in Maureen Johnson’s The Madness Underneath (Penguin Young Readers, digital galley),...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Thoughts On Books, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading, Arkwright Academy

Patebooks ― 9 weeks 6 days ago

Places in the heart

Places in the heart

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― I had the perfect excuse to put off packing this weekend to go back to Edisto — I was reading Beth Webb Hart’s engaging new novel, Moon Over Edisto (Thomas Nelson, purchased e-book), which is set on the South Carolina lowcountry island ...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Southern Books, Thoughts On Books, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading

Patebooks ― 10 weeks 6 days ago

FREE eBook: Get Everything You Want…And More – 20 Tips To Becoming a Kick Ass Goal Setter

FREE eBook: Get Everything You Want…And More – 20 Tips To Becoming a Kick Ass Goal Setter

Through My Looking Glass ― So…I wrote a book. It's something that I've always wanted to do and want to do more of in the future so I figured I may as well just go and write the first one so that I can keep moving forward. Know what I mean? In fact, that's kind of ...

Tags: Reading And Writing, So Inspired, EBook, Get Everything You Want, Goal Setting

Throughmylookinglass ― 11 weeks ago

Crime go round

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― Peter Robinson’s series detective Alan Banks has little in common with David Baldacci’s Army Special Agent John Puller. But both the thoughtful Yorkshire copper and the cunning combat veteran face complex cases involving human ...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Thoughts On Books, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading, Alan Banks

Patebooks ― 18 weeks ago

Before and beyond Downton

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― I’m more than ready for the third season of Downton Abbey to begin Sunday night on PBS. I’ve watched the rerun of season 2 (that last scene of Matthew and Lady Mary gets me every time), looked at the preview clips online, tried to ...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Thoughts On Books, Thoughts On TV, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading

Patebooks ― 19 weeks ago

Making a list (or two)

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― I love lists of books because I almost always find new titles to add to my infinite TBR list. My favorite lists are themed — best baseball novels, choice chick-lit, nifty noir tales, etc. Come December and I’m immersed in ...

Tags: Fiction, Thoughts On Books, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading, Best Of 2012, First Novels

Patebooks ― 21 weeks ago

The spy who loved fiction

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― Ian McEwan’s Sweet Tooth (Knopf, digital galley via edelweiss) is a sly wink, a puff of smoke and a few mirrors. Pretending to write a spy novel, McEwan has gone all “tricksy” — his word, not mine — on us with a story...

Tags: Reviews, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading, Fiction, Ian McEwan, Spy Novels

Patebooks ― 26 weeks ago

So you wanna know some secrets?

On a Clear Day I Can Read Forever ― Whew! Glad that’s over. Oh, wait. You thought I was talking about the election? Well, that, too. But it seemed like it took me forever to finish Kate Morton’s new doorstop of a novel The Secret Keeper (Atria Books, digital galley via...

Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Thoughts On Books, Uncategorized, Writing And Reading, Cold Light

Patebooks ― 27 weeks ago

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