In the midst of a pandemic and quite by accident, author Katherine May has presented the world with a book that guides the reader through winter – not the annual season, but those darker periods of our lives when we are forced to retreat from the unexpected hardships of life that leave us severely bent
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Oona, Oona – how you made me cry! Going into this book, I never would have thought it would be one I would shed tears over, but I did. That’s a rare feat. I can list the number of books that have made me cry in my lifetime. Generally, the only things that make me
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I’m sure many of you have taken one of the DNA tests out there through something like Ancestry.com or 23 and Me, right? You’ve at least heard of them. You can find out your familial regions, your predisposed tendencies for certain illnesses, and police are using them to solve crimes. What if you could also use it to
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I know what you’re wondering and I’ll answer that question first. Yes, there are erotic stories peppered throughout this book. The stories are beautiful and well-written and I would read a whole collection of them if Balli Kaur Jaswal chose to write one. However, there is so much more to this book. There is mystery, romance, tragedy,
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It’s the rare book that makes me want to read it again as soon as I finish it, but The Song of Achilles is an exceptional enough treat that it does exactly that. This tale of mythological characters is larger than life but reads as intimately as the best of any historical fiction. You do believe that
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August 28, 2024 Guess who’s back, back again? Y’all, I can’t get this song out of my head, and I’ve got to exorcize this demon. It’s been rattling around in my brain for too many weeks, and it’s Eminem 24/7 around my house now. If you don’t recognize the snippet of a lyric, we’re talking
