Tag: Reading
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Books I enjoyed this month (July 2026)
The theme of this month’s reading was ✨ whatever I felt like ✨ Let’s look at the overlap with these 9 books:📚 Continuing series I’ve already started = 7🕵️♂️ Mysteries = 5🧙♂️ At least a little bit fantastical = 5🏳️🌈 Gays = 3🔝 Happened to be at the top of a pile = 3⌛ Been…
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The Poetry Machine
There’s a fun new contraption at my local library! According to a post on the library blog, The Poetry Machine features poems submitted directly to the library from “newbies through to experienced poets, school children to more mature folk.” And it sounds like it’ll only be there for a short time – I’m glad I…
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The Trials of Lila Dalton by L. J. Shepherd
I was hooked the moment I heard about this book from fellow author friends. One author whose skills and opinion I highly respect has read an advance copy and said he’d intended to read for a few minutes before bed, but had powered through half of the book before realising how late it was! If…
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My top 5 reads of 2023 (+ more)
I read so many great books last year, but today I’ve pulled out: 5 stand-out books of 2023 Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle meet Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club in this fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery. It’s just…
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Blurbing Paul Austin Ardoin’s The Trailer Park Murder
I had the privilege of reading Paul Austin Ardoin’s latest Woodhead & Becker Mystery, The Trailer Park Murder, earlier in the year, and I really enjoyed it. Paul recently shared the paperback cover with me, ahead of its scheduled release on 5 December 2023. I asked if I could show it off, and he said…