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BOOK REVIEW: Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

  Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher New York: Roc, 2012 ISBN 9780451464408 (hardcover) Katherine gives this wizard story 4 stars — be ready […] More

BOOK REVIEW: The Burning Air: a novel by Erin Kelly

Burning Air: A Novel by Erin Kelly ISBN 9780670026722 (hardback) New York : Pamela Dorman Books, 2013 Katherine gives this family relationship / psychological suspense novel 3 stars. The English […] More

BOOK REVIEW: The Real Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Really Lived In Stately Homes A Century Ago by Jacky Hyams

  The Real Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Really Lived In Stately Homes A Century Ago by Jacky Hyams London : John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2011.   Katherine […] More

BOOK REVIEW: Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith

Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.   Katherine gives this wonderful book 4 stars and loves the reader (5 stars) […] More

BOOK REVIEW: Ashenden: A Novel by Elizabeth Wilhide

Ashenden: A Novel by Elizabeth Wilhide New York : Simon & Schuster, c2012.   Katherine gives this novel four stars — where the main character is a grand ol’ […] More

BOOK REVIEW: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton New York : Atria Books, 2009, c2008.   Katherine gives this five stars!  A victorian mystery that spans a century, and throw in a […] More

BOOK REVIEW: Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2012 ISBN 9780316204279 Katherine gives this 4 stars – a quick, light, fun read. SUMMARY: When […] More

BOOK REVIEW: Juliet in August by Dianne Warren

  Juliet in August by Dianne Warren Pub InfoNew York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2012. ISBN9780399157998 (hardback) Katherine gives this book a great 4 stars — stick with the […] More

BOOK REVIEW: What the Nanny Saw: A Novel by Fiona Neill

What the Nanny Saw: A Novel by Fiona Neill  New York: Riverhead Books, 2011 ISBN 9781594487163 Katherine gives this a big 4 stars — not just another light “nanny” […] More

BOOK REVIEW: The Cutting Season: A Novel by Attica Locke

The Cutting Season: A Novel by Attica Locke New York: Harper, c2012 ISBN 9780061802058   Katherine gives this book 3 stars. A good mystery and history lesson together. SUMMARY: […] More
 
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BOOK REVIEW: Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

By The Lit Witch On March 26, 2013 · Add Comment
  Cold Days: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher New York: Roc, 2012 ISBN 9780451464408 (hardcover) Katherine gives this wizard story 4 stars — be ready for action and a thrilling ending that will surely carry to the next story. Harry Dresden has seen and gone through a lot in [...]
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BOOK REVIEW: The Burning Air: a novel by Erin Kelly

By The Lit Witch On March 25, 2013 · Add Comment
Burning Air: A Novel by Erin Kelly ISBN 9780670026722 (hardback) New York : Pamela Dorman Books, 2013 Katherine gives this family relationship / psychological suspense novel 3 stars. The English have been doing a wonderful job bringing us psychological/suspense fiction in the last year or so like Before I Go to Sleep, What the [...]
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BOOK REVIEW: The Real Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Really Lived In Stately Homes A Century Ago by Jacky Hyams

By The Lit Witch On March 8, 2013 · 1 Comment
  The Real Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Really Lived In Stately Homes A Century Ago by Jacky Hyams London : John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2011.   Katherine gives this book 3 stars — read it to find out tidbits and facts about upstairs and downstairs life in the Edwardian manor. It [...]
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How many times have you let life pass you by so you can keep reading? :-)

By The Lit Witch On March 8, 2013 · Add Comment
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BOOK REVIEW: Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith

By The Lit Witch On March 6, 2013 · Add Comment
Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.   Katherine gives this wonderful book 4 stars and loves the reader (5 stars) in the audio version. Alexander McCall Smith continues to come up with wonderful stories for the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. Based in [...]
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BOOK REVIEW: Ashenden: A Novel by Elizabeth Wilhide

By The Lit Witch On March 6, 2013 · Add Comment
Ashenden: A Novel by Elizabeth Wilhide New York : Simon & Schuster, c2012.   Katherine gives this novel four stars — where the main character is a grand ol’ manor home that grows on you as you read the book.   Ashenden: A Novel by Elizabeth Wilhide When Downton Abbey finished its third [...]
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BOOK REVIEW: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

By The Lit Witch On March 4, 2013 · Add Comment
Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton New York : Atria Books, 2009, c2008.   Katherine gives this five stars!  A victorian mystery that spans a century, and throw in a little romance too. After writing the bestselling book The House at Riverton Kate Morton returned in 2008 with The Forgotten Garden, another wonderful flowing [...]
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BUILD THE BUZZ: Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassinatin That Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly and Marin Dugard

By The Lit Witch On December 6, 2012 · Add Comment
  Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassinatin That Changed America Forever by Bill O’Reilly and Marin Dugard With nearly a year on the best seller list, Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard remains a worthwhile read. A nonfiction book that reads like fiction, Dugard and O’Reilly come under some criticism for their [...]
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BUILD THE BUZZ: Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes

By The Lit Witch On December 6, 2012 · Add Comment
  Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes   A brilliant contribution to war fiction, Matterhorn chronicles the boredom, confusion and terror that are a timeless part of ground battles. For a  generation who came of age in Vietnam, Matterhorn is one of the few novels to address the Vietnam [...]
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BUILD THE BUZZ: Jack 1939 • Francine Mathews

By The Lit Witch On December 6, 2012 · Add Comment
  Jack 1939 by Francine Mathews It’s spring, 1939. A war is looming in Europe. President Franklin D. Roosevelt needs to know what is going on in Germany but there is no intelligence service in place. When the son to the ambassador to Britain decides to travel through Europe to gather research for [...]
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