There is nothing more satisfying than reading a book while sipping a hot cup of tea.
I begin 2024 with a new author. Virna Sheard (1865-1943) was a Canadian poet, novelist,and short story writer. Her story captures the spirit of Christmas. https://allpoetry.com/Virna-Sheard Lucinda Ellen who is called Cinders is a young girl who works as a maid. The poor girl is overworked and underpaid and treated in an unkindly manner by … Continue reading First Read of 2024: The Christmas Peacemaker by Virna Sheard (1900)
Young, vivacious Edith had welcomed the new century with her fiancé dreaming of a glorious future. But then he had gone off to fight in the Boer war.... now there is only his ghostly presence that comes to meet her everyday. However, now there is another war. And Edith, like many ghost widows of her … Continue reading SSW: The Ghost Widow by Katherine Hale (1918)
This week in Top Ten Tuesdays hosted @That Artsy Reader Girl, we have been asked to name top ten (or more or less) new authors whom we discovered last year. Well, last year I read a host of new authors from those whom I made a special point to read like Reginald Hill and Shelley … Continue reading Top Ten (+4) Tuesdays: New Authors 2021
Lost Among the Living by Simone St. JamesMy rating: 2 of 5 stars Random thoughts after reading Simone St. James' Lost Among the Living, a book listed on 50 Most Suspenseful Novels:1. Who makes these lists???????2. Why am I sucker for such lists??????3. If you are going to introduce the supernatural in a mystery, take … Continue reading A Ghost in Pearls: Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James
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