tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60085605691880930942024-03-16T05:39:54.922-05:00peppermint phdmorning musings of a recovering academicPeppermint Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02839146118641977559noreply@blogger.comBlogger505125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008560569188093094.post-49462792713795839542020-07-25T14:02:00.000-05:002020-07-25T14:02:04.736-05:00Morning musings<div style="text-align: center;">Anybody else think their straightest first thing in the morning?</div><div style="text-align: center;">Anybody else still have a hard time getting up early even when they know they will be so happy they did?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">only me?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">not at all surprised.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The first thing I do every morning is </div><div style="text-align: center;">use the bathroom</div><div style="text-align: center;">take my meds</div><div style="text-align: center;">take my phone off the charger and walk downstairs to make the first blessed cup of coffee</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I sit in one of my outside swings and drink that first cup while I give myself permission to scroll.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">When the first cup is done, I make the 2nd one and sit down with my morning books and Jesus...back in the swing.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Now, some people will tell you I'm doing it wrong. They would tell you that I should have my time with Jesus before I scroll on my phone.</div><div style="text-align: center;">And I have fallen into guilt about that my own self from time to time.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But here's the thing...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have yet to find a story in the Bible that tells me Jesus is upset with me because I drink a cup of coffee before we meet. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I don't think Jesus works like that.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I like to think that Jesus may be having quiet time with someone else when I first get up, so I'm just waiting patiently for our appt. time to begin.</div><div style="text-align: center;">A quick scroll through social media helps me also remember that so many people in our world are hurting...Jesus is, in fact, a very busy Savior right now.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My morning reads right now are :</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Common-Prayer-Liturgy-Ordinary-Radicals/dp/0310326192/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2LK5M4M2P8NIH&dchild=1&keywords=book+of+common+prayer+for+ordinary+radicals&qid=1595701072&sprefix=book+of+common+pray%2Caps%2C194&sr=8-1" target="_blank">The Book of Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals</a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h-VtvaDVZHM/Xxx3Nc87llI/AAAAAAAAMP4/BQ_vfAttRfAKTkaCSCVBKtxl7DxOAFDLgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5304.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h-VtvaDVZHM/Xxx3Nc87llI/AAAAAAAAMP4/BQ_vfAttRfAKTkaCSCVBKtxl7DxOAFDLgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_5304.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.shopshereadstruth.com/products/she-reads-truth-bible-white-hardcover" target="_blank">She Reads Truth Bible</a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oq3IQbzjLSA/Xxx0oBg2LNI/AAAAAAAAMPg/JxHRdNsFyZYxDc4EMaEC258qk_lSQAA7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5113.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oq3IQbzjLSA/Xxx0oBg2LNI/AAAAAAAAMPg/JxHRdNsFyZYxDc4EMaEC258qk_lSQAA7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_5113.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/One-Thousand-Gifts-Devotional-Reflections/dp/0310315441/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1PT689KTU157U&dchild=1&keywords=one+thousand+gifts+ann+voskamp&qid=1595700535&sprefix=one+thou%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-2" target="_blank">One Thousand Gifts Devotional </a></i>by Ann Voskamp</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J-SG0IzdI_U/Xxx2xXThuiI/AAAAAAAAMPs/_RYAlkWJPHIp-Jys563JJH6IvaTcD-meQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5306.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J-SG0IzdI_U/Xxx2xXThuiI/AAAAAAAAMPs/_RYAlkWJPHIp-Jys563JJH6IvaTcD-meQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_5306.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sarah-Bessey/dp/1501155466/ref=sr_1_1?crid=277TZ2873T5KG&dchild=1&keywords=miracles+and+other+reasonable+things+sarah+bessey&qid=1595701379&sprefix=miracles+%2Caps%2C187&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><i>Miracles and Other Reasonable Things</i> </a>by Sarah Bessey</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RGn31t1hcxY/Xxx4ctkU6oI/AAAAAAAAMQI/Mo_b5wgvik0dug5GtfCoNxT4pg4RpmVKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5259.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RGn31t1hcxY/Xxx4ctkU6oI/AAAAAAAAMQI/Mo_b5wgvik0dug5GtfCoNxT4pg4RpmVKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_5259.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Book of Common Prayer is a year round read...I started this last year, have put it down from time to time but always seem drawn to come back to it. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Su7Vjo5OMic/Xxx9ilkfhaI/AAAAAAAAMQw/u9rS0kgsDeMqAEuWWchg62RhlcUtRQZXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5308.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="504" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Su7Vjo5OMic/Xxx9ilkfhaI/AAAAAAAAMQw/u9rS0kgsDeMqAEuWWchg62RhlcUtRQZXwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_5308.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I didn't care for the She Reads Truth Bible when I first bought it...but I love it now.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have no idea how to explain this.</div><div style="text-align: center;">My mom, my youngest daughter, and I are supposed to be working our way through the One Thousand Gifts Devotional...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1xJTH7YSX44/Xxx9rkxsWaI/AAAAAAAAMQ0/GmoO7Ite-io6tr14uUCqBWpzLM6x7YJigCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5309.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="619" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1xJTH7YSX44/Xxx9rkxsWaI/AAAAAAAAMQ0/GmoO7Ite-io6tr14uUCqBWpzLM6x7YJigCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_5309.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sarah Bessey's book is an add on...Over the summer, I've been adding on books by authors I've been wanting to read but just haven't taken the time to </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y9nNflkYiIc/Xxx5yGlVmqI/AAAAAAAAMQQ/EUAidC2QrXsgsYj4jdCJB0XccuqAWOe8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5282.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y9nNflkYiIc/Xxx5yGlVmqI/AAAAAAAAMQQ/EUAidC2QrXsgsYj4jdCJB0XccuqAWOe8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_5282.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is from Sarah Bessey today...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>But at the same time, I don't know if we are doing folks any favors if we act like when we become Christians or when we follow Jesus, all we do is win. I think it's okay to say that we mess up, that we let people down, that we overpromise and underdeliver, that we go to therapy, that we take our meds, that we go for walks to remember everything good and true, that we're still in the midst of figuring out where God is in the middle of all this, that we're learning our capacity and God's goodness the real way; by living our lives and experiencing both victories and sorrows in the midst.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">.<i>..I didn't need a miracle to know that God was real, that God was good, that wholeness is relative, that shalom includes the incarnation and the material, that we are still breathing the air of God's goodness, perhaps most especially in the desert. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">(page 130)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In an earlier chapter, Sarah Bessey talks about a "word of knowledge" - "a supernatural revelation of information pertaining to a person of an event, given for a specific purpose, usually having to do with an immediate need" pg 98</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I couldn't help but wonder today if Sarah Bessey has any idea how many times her words have been just that for me over the last few months?</div><div style="text-align: center;">And not just hers...Rachel Held Evans...who died suddenly a year ago...who inspires me with all that she left behind.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c1SNofEljQI/Xxx5-ZLaHSI/AAAAAAAAMQY/ibmDbby0cdMl_CgwScenQ5usaWTvKIW8ACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5231.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c1SNofEljQI/Xxx5-ZLaHSI/AAAAAAAAMQY/ibmDbby0cdMl_CgwScenQ5usaWTvKIW8ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_5231.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ann Voskamp and the cross on her wrist...teaching me to practice a daily eucharisteo - to look for the God moments and give thanks.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8butVEeHf6U/Xxx6FqJanNI/AAAAAAAAMQg/jAXxoRqD0GYdjf7TSaUoBzVjt9TE0vnMwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1883/IMG_4827.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1883" data-original-width="1242" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8butVEeHf6U/Xxx6FqJanNI/AAAAAAAAMQg/jAXxoRqD0GYdjf7TSaUoBzVjt9TE0vnMwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_4827.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/living-proof-with-beth-moore/id1289289851" target="_blank">Beth Moore </a>- her Texas drawl through my headphones on Monday nights when I walk.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RDSYZoELrwg/Xxx-KfESLeI/AAAAAAAAMRA/KtS1-a0UAAIAj7EynZit8wL6JTG3uGlJwCLcBGAsYHQ/s736/IMG_5310.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="631" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RDSYZoELrwg/Xxx-KfESLeI/AAAAAAAAMRA/KtS1-a0UAAIAj7EynZit8wL6JTG3uGlJwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_5310.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://jenhatmaker.com/podcast/" target="_blank">Jen Hatmaker </a>who makes me snort on a regular basis...and cry...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YCh7V9JA5gk/Xxx_WE_y9NI/AAAAAAAAMRM/aqkrl5T7n5ApxJH4DGfoLTVcJjLmq0ZaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1470/IMG_5311.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1470" data-original-width="1197" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YCh7V9JA5gk/Xxx_WE_y9NI/AAAAAAAAMRM/aqkrl5T7n5ApxJH4DGfoLTVcJjLmq0ZaQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_5311.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thebloggess.com/" target="_blank">Jenny Lawson </a>who wakes up every morning and chooses to stay.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IM7pyYr2jZs/Xxx_vIA1cPI/AAAAAAAAMRU/gtJxcFYOpCEwxAe8v6pSmIRk31XY7V6ywCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-07-25%2Bat%2B1.53.24%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IM7pyYr2jZs/Xxx_vIA1cPI/AAAAAAAAMRU/gtJxcFYOpCEwxAe8v6pSmIRk31XY7V6ywCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-07-25%2Bat%2B1.53.24%2BPM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and so many other strong women...finding their feet in today's chaos...</div><div style="text-align: center;">they are not perfect.</div><div style="text-align: center;">they are not the same.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">their lives are not and have never been perfect...and they don't pretend that it is...they've made mistakes, even big ones, and they are honest about those. They don't pretend they have all the answers.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But they refuse to sit back and be quiet.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I need that.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I need to know that my brokenness is ok.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm not perfect.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Far from it, in fact</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But my lack of perfection does not make me any less in God's eyes. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Because He loves me.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Just.the.way.I.am.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And just maybe I have to be broken to appreciate the whole.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Grateful.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sQQzLWXcPo8/XxyAwsFeWyI/AAAAAAAAMRg/HhIPQNTs4SUUEt-3_MfOuSZBbT_wiCcnQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5312.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sQQzLWXcPo8/XxyAwsFeWyI/AAAAAAAAMRg/HhIPQNTs4SUUEt-3_MfOuSZBbT_wiCcnQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_5312.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>Peppermint Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02839146118641977559noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008560569188093094.post-83202866710516138902020-07-24T14:26:00.010-05:002020-07-24T14:45:38.166-05:00I'm not on a roll...<div style="text-align: center;">Well, day 4 and day 5 just came right on and went...</div><div style="text-align: center;">but I'm still here.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We've made it to the end of another week somehow...most weeks are up and down for our household as I know they are for everyone else as well. I don't really know how we are doing this...we just keep on keepin' on...that's all I know to do.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I've always been a reluctant scheduler...I like having choices...but I can also quickly get overwhelmed with choices. </div><div style="text-align: center;">It has helped a lot to make lists and some days just put one foot in front of the other...naps are good too...sometimes...and a house full of foster animals is pretty good as well...we're out of room though, so don't ask.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We have a foster pup (10 months probably) with red mange, 2 kittens, and a Mama cat.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The kittens are the best of the crew...they are playing like they have no care in the world. They are sisters</div><div style="text-align: center;">but caught at different times...so they weren't sure of each other in the initial reintroduction stage.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The "pup" keeps getting bigger and has the slowest growing hair - the plan for him is to catch a ride up North on the next transport...after his hair grows back...whenever that is.</div><div style="text-align: center;">He also doesn't know how to play gently with the cats - he's got a lot of lab in him...and all that entails.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The mama cat won't let us touch her...for two days, she was loose in my middle daughter's bedroom.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Yep.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Loose.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Our 4 permanent residents (2 cats and 2 dogs) are not impressed with any of the visitors so keeping doors closed and 24/7 alternating rounds of letting canines in the backyard and giving everyone equal socialization time is making us crazy...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Fostering is hard.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have to continually tell myself we can't keep them.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I have a friend who fosters too...she's always showing pictures of her big, happy foster family on social media.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I've fostered a lot...and have never experienced that.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Maybe it's me?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Limiting social media and weekly therapy are also a must to surviving fostering animals and a pandemic.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">yup</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">as is coffee</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">clean dishes and clean clothes...one load at a time are good too...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Target pick ups</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Y'all. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I may never go inside the stores again.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Paper Mate flair pens - lots of colors</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">books - it's ok to like books...I'm 51.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ezekiel bread (thank you @dominiquesachse for introducing me)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Nature's Farm gourmet eggs (#shoplocal)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">sports bras</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">cute masks</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Apparently, today's post is a rambling sort of post...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_DPoFdUCpcQ/Xxs1u_Wo3uI/AAAAAAAAMPE/moFL_t6Bk7APtYBO17dw7mwuKFo4AwutgCLcBGAsYHQ/s455/gypsy-rose-lee-1941-women-at-typewriter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="375" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_DPoFdUCpcQ/Xxs1u_Wo3uI/AAAAAAAAMPE/moFL_t6Bk7APtYBO17dw7mwuKFo4AwutgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/gypsy-rose-lee-1941-women-at-typewriter.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If this doesn't look like pandemic writing, I don't know what does...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Is it naptime yet?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Peppermint Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02839146118641977559noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008560569188093094.post-61126383072632849082020-07-20T11:30:00.001-05:002020-07-20T11:30:59.785-05:003 days in a row<div style="text-align: center;">Today is Monday </div><div style="text-align: center;">Fine.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The sun is out, the skies are blue...it's hot but there's actually a breeze...oh wait, maybe that's my fan.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">For some strange reason, I've been thinking a lot about who I used to be.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Because I think she is who I really am.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">At some point, I think I got caught up in what I thought the rest of the world thought I should be.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My middle daughter who is on a weight loss journey was announcing her successful weigh in this morning..dimples deep and wide, her bright eyes shining, her color rosey and healthy looking...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She said to me, "If I could just get to ___ lbs, then everything will be good, I won't feel overwhelmed, I won't be anxious, I'll feel so much better.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I looked up from the book I'm reading (Sarah Bessey's <i>Miracles and Other Reasonable Things)</i>, and said, "Wait, what?"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My aunts and my mom always focused on weight. Every pound gained or lost was the first thing noticed when entering the house, Mama Dare's house, or in the dressing room, trying on clothes. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The women in my life are good people. I am absolutely not saying they are bad people. They focused on weight because of their own personal battles with themselves.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But, I see in myself the tendency to do the very same thing...not a pound, inch, bubble, fluff, dark spot, loose skin, and/or wrinkle gets by me. I don't need a psychologist to tell me that's learned behavior on my part. All this to say that I have tried my best to never, even when my girls were younger, make comments about their bodies...we used the word healthy. Period.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Last summer I was so depressed that I lost a lot of weight...more than I ever have. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Please don't worry. Quarantine has taken care of those pounds for me. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">At her Gender Reveal, my oldest daughter said, "Mom, you look really healthy."</div><div style="text-align: center;">Nice every now and then to find out you may possibly have done something just a little bit right. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My husband said, "I think you're too skinny."</div><div style="text-align: center;">I appreciated my daughter's comment, but the husband's comment made me giddy.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I was 129 pounds. 5'6", 50 years old. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">An acquaintence of mine messaged me on FB:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Girl, you look amazing!</div><div style="text-align: center;">What's your secret??"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Depression</div><div style="text-align: center;">Anxiety</div><div style="text-align: center;">Feeling like I'm losing my mind.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Crying every day.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Brain fog.</div><div style="text-align: center;">No appetite.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Her response: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--FJzy3ZIGIU/XxXFZ_2GwMI/AAAAAAAAMOs/zfQYXB__fgsKNfNzI9bc_dHNBLhdjLIdQCLcBGAsYHQ/s300/download.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--FJzy3ZIGIU/XxXFZ_2GwMI/AAAAAAAAMOs/zfQYXB__fgsKNfNzI9bc_dHNBLhdjLIdQCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/download.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Glad there's a positive."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xP7wZ3SxEko/XxXGaRgJDQI/AAAAAAAAMO0/KNPyKvjdkhgPaQDVNaBZMw6Dkwq5990DQCLcBGAsYHQ/s265/images%2B%25282%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xP7wZ3SxEko/XxXGaRgJDQI/AAAAAAAAMO0/KNPyKvjdkhgPaQDVNaBZMw6Dkwq5990DQCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/images%2B%25282%2529.jpeg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I don't know what this means. </div><div style="text-align: center;">And I'm not going to stress myself out trying to figure out what it means. </div><div style="text-align: center;">It just is. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Might be back tomorrow.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Peppermint Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02839146118641977559noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008560569188093094.post-9106389812778659222020-07-19T11:35:00.004-05:002020-07-19T11:39:32.221-05:00Trippie Redd<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I look down at my phone to see my youngest is Facetiming me. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am most certainly not a willing Facetimer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have no issues with technology; I just come from a generation of women who would rather not take pictures of or see themselves via a phone chat...anybody else?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My kids know this about me...so my anxiety immediately kicks in.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What the heck.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Mama, don't be mad at me." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Has any conversation between a kid and her mama ever started off well like that?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My mind starts racing assuming she's had a fender bender of some sort...she's Facetiming me so I know she's ok...but she's had her license since right before the pandemic, and it's all I can do to keep my brain busy whenever she drives out of the driveway.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"What is it??" I asked, probably a little too aggressively.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Mama, I found a puppy."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He was all by himself, and he looks really hungry and like he needs help."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The kid goes 10 miles to deliver a school binder to a friend and somehow/someway, of course, finds a puppy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Honey, you're in a neighborhood area, so he probably belongs to someone...just come on back home...I'm sure he'll be fine."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She scrolls the camera around so that I can see said needy puppy already sitting in the backseat of her car.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Mom, I saw him when I was on my way to Jill's house, and I told myself that if he was still there on the way back home, I would pick him up."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"He was still there."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I take a deep breath at this point because I realize she didn't really call me for advice; she called me to give me advanced warning that she was bringing a homeless puppy to our home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And, of course, she's expecting me to pave the way with her daddy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I can see in the picture that the puppy has skin issues...leave it to my kid to pick up a puppy with skin issues...I'm envisioning the "breakouts" we had from time to time at the animal shelters we used to volunteer for...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">How am I going to get us out of this?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I put on my shoes and meet her in the driveway so that we can take this puppy to the vet straightaway...my plan: let vet take care of puppy; I'll figure out a way to pay for it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thank you kindly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Curbside vet is quite an interesting concept...makes it really easy for the vet to tell me that they don't really have space for him due to the same concerns I have about bringing him into our home. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Of course they don't.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Good news, however!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Homeless puppy only has worms and a skin condition that is, in fact, NOT contagious.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He will need to be treated fairly easily but it will take time for his hair to grow back healthy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm adding up how much this is going to cost me in my head...how much is boarding per day + administering medication, etc. Are there any other vets that will take him?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The vet says, "I'm sorry we can't just keep him for you; I guess you could just take him to the animal shelter."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Um, no, I guess we can't. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">After several phone calls and exasperated conversations with friends in animal rescue who are, by the way, even more exhausted than they usually are right now, I realize that this puppy is coming home with us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I can't justify the amount of money I will have to fork over just to make my life more convenient. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These are crazy times; I'm trying to be a better budgeter...I have to be prepared for emergencies, as well as taking care of all of the souls (canine, feline, and human) that already live in our house. I am an able bodied human being, we are in a pandemic, and I am trying to teach compassion, kindness, and justice to my kids (not to mention the rest of the world).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The vet swipes my card for almost $300, hands me a bag of medicine, instructions, and says, "See you in two weeks :) "</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Homeless puppy is now named Trippie Redd.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hhszTtd5vmw/XxRwJRnjBpI/AAAAAAAAMOc/4p6PWpLacfQDggXA4TZrUvIDQuaEzbmDACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5274.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hhszTtd5vmw/XxRwJRnjBpI/AAAAAAAAMOc/4p6PWpLacfQDggXA4TZrUvIDQuaEzbmDACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_5274.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"You mean like 'Trip'," I ask my daughter?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"No, Trippie Redd," she says.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Aww, don't you remember the little kitty stories about Skippy John Jones? That would be so cute! "Trippie John Jones. :) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"No, Mom, not Trip, and definitely not Trippy John Jones." She's rolling her eyes at me now.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">"His name is Trippie Redd."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Tull69v2ec/XxRwJcbUSmI/AAAAAAAAMOY/ebv6VmfW1y8NWtjEUEac2mw8cirzpFEngCLcBGAsYHQ/s415/Q6W5BHD2WNF6LDR7TJFGRGWPXE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="415" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Tull69v2ec/XxRwJcbUSmI/AAAAAAAAMOY/ebv6VmfW1y8NWtjEUEac2mw8cirzpFEngCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Q6W5BHD2WNF6LDR7TJFGRGWPXE.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Trippie Redd's namesake</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">😎</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Millenials are gonna save us all, y'all.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not even kidding.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oy.</div>Peppermint Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02839146118641977559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008560569188093094.post-11626076951562663472020-07-18T11:34:00.000-05:002020-07-18T11:34:38.153-05:00Hello July<div style="text-align: center;">I have a fan on the back porch.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It's a little standing fan that used to be in my youngest daughter's bedroom.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In South Mississippi, if you like to work outside on the patio, you better have a fan.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And even then, sometimes the little fan won't be enough, and you'll have to go inside and sit by yourself staring at your laptop for hours. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Since the beginning of the pandemic, I've worked from home. Every dang day. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm an introvert, so don't think that working from home is something that I have a problem with. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sitting in one place every day, however, is not my idea of working from home. When the pandemic first began, I had certain spaces throughout my house that I would move to for certain tasks. Quiet time in the morning in the swing outside while it was still somewhat cool, morning email check at the bar in my kitchin while doing some basic yoga, breakfast at my dining table with a magazine...no screens allowed, upstairs for a load of laundry and a couple of hours at the most at my desk in the bedroom....yes, I was that person. I should have known better.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">As my kids started coming home, my spaces were slowly overtaken, and I ended up outside most of the time or stuck at my desk. Outside was my first choice, so many days I would sit outside until I could not stand it. Mississippi heat is not that big of a deal...until the humidity sets in...think about the actors in the movie, A Time to Kill...we made jokes about how much they sweated in that movie...even though it was a pretty true picture.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LLM32XM5Q1U/XxMh_Rqi71I/AAAAAAAAMNw/jYvTJkaHbXA4h9GbU0R_gmJejm-J2sK1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s800/5d3b233db44ce7451c508c71.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LLM32XM5Q1U/XxMh_Rqi71I/AAAAAAAAMNw/jYvTJkaHbXA4h9GbU0R_gmJejm-J2sK1gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/5d3b233db44ce7451c508c71.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9jKMhLUxjMs/XxMh_YLqhxI/AAAAAAAAMN0/rrcD9Jtr3gE1tddMUgsshPB1ypT3j8ZIgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/a-time-to-kill-1200-1200-675-675-crop-000000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9jKMhLUxjMs/XxMh_YLqhxI/AAAAAAAAMN0/rrcD9Jtr3gE1tddMUgsshPB1ypT3j8ZIgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/a-time-to-kill-1200-1200-675-675-crop-000000.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3JX5r3HLpvA/XxMh_TD6s6I/AAAAAAAAMNs/dRhPyQ7APRUw8oBW8HnAvslO5wi40GK_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s600/ByeGWlXCAAAMfAY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3JX5r3HLpvA/XxMh_TD6s6I/AAAAAAAAMNs/dRhPyQ7APRUw8oBW8HnAvslO5wi40GK_wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/ByeGWlXCAAAMfAY.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">That's pretty much what we look like in Mississippi, especially in July -September...sometimes longer than that...I've worn shorts at Christmas before in my lifetime. Ashley Judd may have overdone her portrayal a bit, but if I'm not mistaken, she's the only one in this film who was actually from the South...so yeah...this is how we feel.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'ma probably have to fact check that last statement so don't yell at me about it.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Anybody tired of all the yelling going on in the world right now?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sometimes I forget to put the little fan away in the outside closet. (We don't have a cover on our back patio....I just move the patio furniture around as the sun moves). 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That is not what I said.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I said, "she still keeps on workin'"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Me too, y'all.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Me too.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I've missed this space.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">We'll see.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Peppermint Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02839146118641977559noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008560569188093094.post-36399425028620498332020-05-23T09:33:00.001-05:002020-05-23T09:33:25.174-05:00Blessings<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GrBLSBdL8J0" width="320" youtube-src-id="GrBLSBdL8J0"></iframe></div>Peppermint Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02839146118641977559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008560569188093094.post-48894117658607619762020-05-22T07:57:00.000-05:002020-05-22T07:57:05.123-05:00Masks...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f_OLtwScPGQ/XsfHQl_nDCI/AAAAAAAAMLY/Dp0RoiZyNaYSSch_t5U_R6NBt62BPsEkQCK4BGAsYHg/IMG_4952.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="507" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f_OLtwScPGQ/XsfHQl_nDCI/AAAAAAAAMLY/Dp0RoiZyNaYSSch_t5U_R6NBt62BPsEkQCK4BGAsYHg/s320/IMG_4952.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jrb40GICvJA/XsfHROi41tI/AAAAAAAAMLc/y8C4Kreb4cMQQCdvBlJFzt4NAlqAItRvwCK4BGAsYHg/IMG_4953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jrb40GICvJA/XsfHROi41tI/AAAAAAAAMLc/y8C4Kreb4cMQQCdvBlJFzt4NAlqAItRvwCK4BGAsYHg/s320/IMG_4953.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh my.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I mean.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Y'all, the universe is making it so easy to find happies. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You have to look hard for them sometimes...but they are there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The German Shepherd mask is for me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Cavalier mask is for my mama.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Because that's how we roll.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Other things making me happy right now:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">7 a.m. Daily Prayer Call with Christ Church in NYC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Farm fresh eggs and Ezekial bread with BUTTER for breakfast every morning. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">No decision making about breakfast.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Online church services and bible studies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Dinner on the patio at 6 p.m.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A schedule. That we stick to. Mostly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Early morning quiet.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Walking and Podcasting - Jen Hatmaker and Enneagram 1s yesterday with Richard Rohr. News Flash - I am not a 1...but I think my husband is.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pretty sure I'm a 4. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We've been married 31 years.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0DfpfvlvoiU/XsfLSZ4IXjI/AAAAAAAAMMA/MtQZ8BjoFRYZ5Z_66JGerLuhHjihoz4awCK4BGAsYHg/billnye.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="390" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0DfpfvlvoiU/XsfLSZ4IXjI/AAAAAAAAMMA/MtQZ8BjoFRYZ5Z_66JGerLuhHjihoz4awCK4BGAsYHg/s320/billnye.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">~</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Peppermint Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02839146118641977559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008560569188093094.post-20782503465815201522020-05-05T10:21:00.001-05:002020-05-05T10:21:36.425-05:00Working from home...WFH...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today is a day off for him so he'll be roaming around aggravating the rest of us.</div>
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Is this a new normal?</div>
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I might be tired of people using that phrase...</div>
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I'm at the point where I don't think we're going to see a new anything anytime soon.</div>
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I've never been an extrovert. Ever.</div>
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I told my youngest daughter last night that even when things get back moving in the outside world, I'm done pretending that I am in any sense, extroverted.</div>
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Y'all, I love church online. </div>
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I love that I can listen to my church on my back patio.</div>
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I love that I can connect with friends from far away as well as across town while we're watching church together.</div>
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I love that a mentor of mine for so many years can send me a message while we're watching church together.</div>
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I love that I can fold a load of clothes while watching and listening to church.</div>
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I love that the husband can rake pine straw while listening to church.</div>
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I love that the teenager can lay in our bed, snuggled in the covers while we listen to church.</div>
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I love that I can listen to church from around the world all through the day if I want...and even into the week.</div>
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I love that I can listen to church in NYC in the church my mom and the teenager found as our home away from home.</div>
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I'm not a high maintenance woman...really, I'm not. </div>
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I look the same today as I pretty much did before all this craziness began. </div>
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I just looked back at that first sentence and 2nd guessed myself.</div>
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I started coloring my hair around 40, nothing fancy, just covering the gray...</div>
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around 45, I let my stylists put in my first highlights...ya'll...I loved it!</div>
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I've been a regular customer ever since, and I love my sweet stylist like she is part of our family.</div>
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The salon owner held a FB Live last night to speak to us all as well as announce that following the Mississippi governor's guidelines, her salon would not be re-opening yet. As a matter of fact, she anticipates not opening for at least another month...safety.</div>
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Not because I want to get my hair done so badly...but because I really needed to see these acts of human kindness.</div>
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I really needed to see her face...and hear that something other than money is guiding decisions.</div>
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I just don't want to hear about that right now.</div>
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I'm privileged. I get that too. </div>
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I can sit in my house with a steady paycheck still coming in, work from home, read, clean the house, cook more meals, spend time with my kids, get to know my husband again as a friend and partner, order food and supplies mostly online, and pick up perishables when we need them without much worry.</div>
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I don't live in a mansion. (that's funny)</div>
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so here I am</div>
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nothing's happening in order so apparently today is go with the flow...for a while anyway.</div>
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I finally made it to bed on time last night...and couldn't sleep</div>
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I kept trying to go to sleep but my brain just kept spinning - it's funny how I can keep the old brain busy during the day...mostly...but at night, when I lay my head down on my pillow finally...I am awake...I am mostly imagining things...things that could happen...but probably won't </div>
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I take deep breaths and try to push those thoughts away...they're under control for maybe 1/2 second...and they start working again.</div>
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I want my bedtime to be 10 p.m.</div>
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I want to get up before the sun rises and use all that morning time efficiently.</div>
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that didn't happen last night nor this morning</div>
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instead of letting myself spiral completely out of control, I got up and went downstairs to make some tea</div>
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Is it possible to overdose on tea?</div>
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I mixed Yogi tea "Stress Relief" with Pukka tea "Relax" and "Night Night"</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the beginning, she'd wanted to come to West Point to prove something: maybe to her father, maybe to herself. But the sound of that body hitting the ground had knocked her motivations completely off balance. (127)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Give me a book about strong women and their friendships, the good, the bad, and the ugly...along with unconditional love and support, and I'll take it any day. That's exactly what Claire Gibson has created in <i>Beyond the Point.</i> A story so poignant, so believable, so true to the nature of young women and their relationships...such a good story...with no perfect endings, and many tears along the way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Claire Gibson is a writer and journalist based in Nashville, Tennessee. Born and raised at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, she grew up captivated by cadets and always dreamed of writing a story that honored her childhood home and the women that inspired her there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Her stories have been featured in <em>The Washington Post</em>, <em>The Christian Science Monitor</em>, <em>The Tennessean </em>and <em>Entrepreneur</em> <em>Magazine</em>, among many other publications. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">A Junior Library Guild selection, <i>Claiming My Place</i> is the true story of a young Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by escaping to Nazi Germany and hiding in plain sight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> Meet Gucia Gomolinska: smart, determined, independent, and steadfast in the face of injustice. A Jew growing up in predominantly Catholic Poland during the 1920s and ’30s, Gucia studies hard, makes friends, falls in love, and dreams of a bright future. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I remember reading Eli Wisel's <i>Night</i> the first time and being blown away...emotionally, spiritually, even physically...it's not just the story that affects the reader, it's also (and possibly more so) the way the story is told. The words, the emotion, the personal invitation to see, hear, smell, and feel the story...I'll be thinking about Claiming My Place for a long time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">After graduating from Berkeley and earning a Master's Degree in English Literature from UCLA, Planaria Price began her career teaching English to adult immigrants in Los Angeles. She has written several textbooks for University of Michigan Press and has lectured at over 75 conferences. In addition to her passion for teaching and writing, Planaria has worked with her husband to save and restore over 30 Victorian and Craftsman homes in her historic Los Angeles neighborhood. Claiming My Place is her first book for young adults. </span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">If you enjoyed <i>The Tattooist of Auschwitz</i>, read <i>The Huntress </i>by Kate Quinn." </span></strong></div>
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<strong>From the author of the <em>New York Times </em>and <em>USA Today </em>bestselling novel, <i>THE ALICE NETWORK</i>, comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America.</strong> <strong>In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted</strong> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina's bravery and cunning will keep her alive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Transformed by the horrors he witnessed from Omaha Beach to the Nuremberg Trials, British war correspondent Ian Graham has become a Nazi hunter. Yet one target eludes him: a vicious predator known as the Huntress. To find her, the fierce, disciplined investigator joins forces with the only witness to escape the Huntress alive: the brazen, cocksure Nina. But a shared secret could derail their mission unless Ian and Nina force themselves to confront it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> In this immersive, heart-wrenching story, Kate Quinn illuminates the consequences of war on individual lives, and the price we pay to seek justice and truth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Kate Quinn is a native of Southern California. She attended Boston University, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in classical voice. A lifelong history buff, she has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga and two books set in the Italian Renaissance detailing the early years of the infamous Borgia clan. All have been translated into multiple languages. She and her husband now live in San Diego with two black dogs named Caesar and Calpurnia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Find out more about Kate at her <a href="http://www.katequinnauthor.com/">website</a>, and connect with her on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kate.quinn.549">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/katequinn5975/">Instagram</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/KateQuinnAuthor">Twitter</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tuesday, February 26th: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BuWNlGSny5h/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @worldswithinpages</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tuesday, February 26th: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theunreadshelf/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @theunreadshelf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wednesday, February 27th: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BuZtAIUlJyk/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @readingbringsjoy</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thursday, February 28th: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BubyqRwHSGu/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @happiestwhenreading</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Friday, March 1st: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BueldyggxEe/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @laceybooklovers</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Saturday, March 2nd: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/oddandbookish/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @oddandbookish</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sunday, March 3rd: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reading.betweenthewines/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @reading.betweenthewines</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Monday, March 4th: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lavieestbooks/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @lavieestbooks</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Monday, March 4th: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/books.coffee.cats/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @books.coffee.cats</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tuesday, February 26th: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BuXgKRcH_Kj/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @shereadswithcats</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thursday, February 28th: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BucWNIwn9oY/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @brookesbooksandbrews</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Monday, March 4th: <a href="http://www.theliteraryllama.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">The Literary Llama</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tuesday, March 5th: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/libraryinprogress/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @libraryinprogress</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tuesday, March 5th: <a href="http://epkwrsmith.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Peppermint PhD</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wednesday, March 6th: <a href="http://abookishaffair.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">A Bookish Affair</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thursday, March 7th: <a href="http://msnoseinabook.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Ms. Nose in a Book</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Monday, March 11th: <a href="https://vcolotta.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Thoughts From a Highly Caffeinated Mind</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tuesday, March 12th: <a href="http://www.brokenteepee.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Broken Teepee</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wednesday, March 13th: <a href="https://intothehallofbooks.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Into the Hall of Books</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thursday, March 14th: <a href="http://achickwhoreads.blogspot.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">A Chick Who Reads</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Friday, March 15th: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sjwonderlandz/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @sjwonderlandz</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Monday, March 18th: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/giuliland/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @giuliland</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tuesday, March 19th: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/my_book_journey_/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @my_book_journey_</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wednesday, March 20th: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/crystal_clears_the_shelves/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @crystal_clears_the_shelves</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thursday, March 21st: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tbretc/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @tbretc</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Friday, March 22nd: <a href="http://www.literaryquicksand.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Literary Quicksand</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">TBD: Wednesday, February 27th: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ladyofthelibrary/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1233d9; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Instagram: @ladyofthelibrary</a></span></div>
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Seventeen-year-old May Convery, unhappy with her privileged life in turn-of-the-century New York City, dreams of becoming a poet. When she meets the talented young Mike Bernard, an aspiring concert pianist, she immediately falls in love. But after their secret liaison is discovered, neither is prepared for the far-reaching consequences that will haunt them for decades. </b></div>
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<b>As Mike abandons serious music to ruthlessly defend his hard-won title, Ragtime King of the World, May struggles to find her voice as an artist and a woman. It is not until years after their youthful romance, when they cross paths again, that they must finally confront the truth about themselves and each other. But is it too late? </b></div>
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<b> The world of ragtime is the backdrop for a remarkable story about the price of freedom, the longing for immortality, and the human need to find forgiveness. From vaudevilleís greatest stars to the geniuses of early African American musical theater, an unforgettable cast of real-life characters populates this richly-fictionalized historical saga.
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"Fascinating real-life characters make Temptation Rag an emotional and page-turning story of passion, ambition, and desire." - Megan Chance, bestselling author of <i>Bone River </i>and <i>Inamorata</i></div>
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"Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard captures the style of the ragtime era. Music, art and culture spring from every page of this delightfully artistic work." - Readers' Favorite Book Review, 5 stars </div>
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"Terrific historical research and deft writing provide a striking portrait of racial and gender inequality in the ragtime era. An unforgettable and deeply human story." - Frederic Tulsky, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
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Ms. Bernard weaves her knowledge of music with true historical characters and fictionalized ones into a syncopated symphony of human drama." -Kathryn Wood, author of <i>Sea Snow</i>: the gentle haunting of a 19th century lighthouse </div>
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"A gripping page-turner that has romance, history and music. A smart retelling of history through multiple points of view." - SA Examiner Book Review</div>
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"Tell my father, Mike. Tell him that you love me. That we're going to be together - forever." (97).</div>
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Ruined. (113)</div>
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So I do have a lot of time to myself. I fear that I waste much of it, but I like to read. Poetry mostly. I used to fancy myself a poet," she added with a laugh. "Back in the days when I thought I had something important to say." (189)</div>
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"Have you ever wondered why the caged bird sings?" (199)</div>
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"You're not a tramp, May. You're a seeker. It comes with being a writer, I'm afraid. But it doesn't have to destroy you." (373)</div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><i>Temptation Rag</i> is about a lot...racial issues, women's independence, ragtime, New York City...but to me, it was mostly May's story. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">May's freedom story. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">May, as a wealthy heiress, sold to the highest bidder in return for a business partnership.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">May, as a jilted young woman...who'd given her worth to a man who didn't love her after all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">May at the New York Public Library...well-known in New York literary circles...an activist for women's equality...published author...Actors Fund benefactor...independent woman.</span></div>
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Elizabeth Hutchison Bernard is an award-winning author of historical fiction. Her novel The Beauty Doctor is a suspenseful tale that takes place in the early days of cosmetic surgeryówhen the world of medicine was a bit like the Wild West and beauty doctors were the newest breed of outlaw. Temptation Rag: A Novel immerses readers in the bawdy atmosphere of vaudeville and early twentieth-century African American musical theater in a story about the price of freedom, the longing for immortality, and the human need to find forgiveness.
Elizabeth currently lives in Arizona with her husband and their much-loved and very spoiled black Lab.</div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Monday, February 18</strong></span>
Review at <a href="http://passagestothepast.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Passages to the Past</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Tuesday, February 19</strong></span>
Review at <a href="https://pursuingstacie.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Pursuing Stacie</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Wednesday, February 20</strong></span>
Feature at <a href="https://thebookjunkiereadspromos.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Book Junkie Reads</a>
Excerpt at W<a href="http://whatisthatbookabout.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">hat Is That Book About</a></div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Friday, February 22</strong></span>
Excerpt at <a href="http://maidenofthepages.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Maiden of the Pages</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Saturday, February 23</strong></span>
Guest Post at <a href="https://tcl-bookreviews.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Chocolate Lady's Book Reviews</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Monday, February 25</strong></span>
Review at <a href="https://epkwrsmith.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Peppermint Ph.D.</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Tuesday, February 26</strong></span>
Excerpt at C<a href="http://celticladysreviews.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">elticLady's Reviews</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Wednesday, February 27</strong></span>
Interview at <a href="http://passagestothepast.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Passages to the Past</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Friday, March 1</strong></span>
Review at <a href="http://www.birdhouse-books.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">View from the Birdhouse</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Monday, March 4</strong></span>
Review at <a href="https://macsbooks311.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Macsbooks</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Wednesday, March 6</strong></span>
Review at <a href="http://achickwhoreads.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">A Chick Who Reads</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Friday, March 8</strong></span>
Excerpt at <a href="http://brokenteepee.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Broken Teepee</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Tuesday, March 12</strong></span>
Review at <a href="http://www.readerthenblogger.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Reader then Blogger</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Friday, March 15</strong></span>
Review at <a href="https://coffeeandinkbooks.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Coffee and Ink</a><br />
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During the Blog Tour we will be giving away copies of Bernard's other novel, <i>The Beauty Doctor</i>. One paperback and two eBooks are up for grabs. </div>
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<b>Publication Date: February 21, 2019</b><br />
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<b>Series: Bootleggers Chronicles Series, Book One</b><br />
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<b>Genre: Historical Fiction/Crime/Women's Fiction</b><br />
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<b>In a city of bootleggers and crime, one woman must rely on a long-dead lawman to hunt down justice Philadelphia, 1924. </b><br />
<b>Maggie Barnes doesn't have much left. </b><br />
<b>After the death of her husband, she finds herself all alone to care for her young son and look after their rundown house. </b><br />
<b>As if that weren't bad enough, Prohibition has turned her neighborhood into a bootlegger's playground. </b><br />
<b>To keep the shoddy roof over their heads, she has no choice but to take on boarders with questionable ties. </b><br />
<b>When her son's friend disappears, Maggie suspects the worst. And local politicians and police don't seem to have any interest in an investigation. </b><br />
<b>With a child's life on the line, Maggie takes the case and risks angering the enemy living right under her nose. </b><br />
<b>Maggie's one advantage may be her new found friend: the ghost of a Victorian-era cop. With his help, can she find justice in a lawless city? </b><br />
<b> <i>Innocence Lost</i> is the first novel in the Bootleggers Chronicles, a series of historical fiction tales. If you like headstrong heroines, Prohibition-era criminal underworlds, and just a touch of the paranormal, then you'll love Sherilyn Decter's gripping tale.
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<b>Sherilyn Decter is a writer, researcher, and lover of historical fiction. Her work is set in the Roaring Twenties and if you like feisty and determined heroines, complex cover-ups, Prohibition stories about criminal underworlds, police and political corruption, then youíre going to love Sherilynís grand gangster tales.
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Friday, February 15</strong></span> </div>
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Review at <a href="http://passagestothepast.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Passages to the Past</a> </div>
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Excerpt at <a href="http://englishmysteriesblog.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Encouraging Words from the Tea Queen</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Saturday, February 16</strong></span> </div>
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Review at <a href="https://pursuingstacie.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Pursuing Stacie</a> </div>
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Excerpt at <a href="http://www.bookishrantings.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Bookish Rantings</a> </div>
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Review at <a href="http://achickwhoreads.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">A Chick Who Reads</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Sunday, February 17</strong></span> </div>
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Excerpt at <a href="http://maidenofthepages.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Maiden of the Pages</a> </div>
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Guest Post at <a href="https://jennifersilverwood.com/blog/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Jennifer Silverwood's Blog</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Monday, February 18</strong></span> </div>
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Review at <a href="http://stephaniesbookreviews.weebly.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">100 Pages a Day</a> </div>
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Excerpt at <a href="https://oldtimeybooks.com/reviews/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Old Timey Books</a> </div>
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Feature at <a href="http://whatisthatbookabout.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">What Is That Book About</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Tuesday, February 19</strong></span> </div>
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Review at <a href="https://epkwrsmith.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Peppermint Ph.D.</a> </div>
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Review at <a href="http://www.readerthenblogger.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Reader then Blogger</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Wednesday, February 20</strong></span> </div>
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Interview at <a href="http://theoldshelter.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Old Shelter</a> </div>
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Guest Post at <a href="http://letthemreadbooks.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Let Them Read Books</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Thursday, February 21</strong></span> </div>
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Review at <a href="https://macsbooks311.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Macsbooks</a> </div>
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Review at <a href="http://theoldshelter.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Old Shelter</a> </div>
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Interview at <a href="http://maryanneyarde.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Myths, Legends, Books & Coffee Pots</a> </div>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Friday, February 22</strong></span> </div>
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Review at <a href="http://abookgeek-llm.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">A Book Geek</a> </div>
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Review at <a href="https://coffeeandinkbooks.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Coffee and Ink</a> </div>
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Review at <a href="http://celticladysreviews.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">CelticLady's Reviews</a> </div>
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Excerpt at <a href="https://authornaomifinley.com/blog/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Spellbound by History</a>
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<b>Publisher:</b>William Morrow Paperbacks (February 12, 2019) </div>
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<strong>For fans of Susan Mallery, Kristan Higgins, or Susan Wiggs, this is a novel for anyone who loves stories about sisters, dogs, and family secrets.</strong></div>
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The Hemingway Sisters of Cold River, Missouri are local legends. Raised by a mother obsessed with Ernest Hemingway, they were named after the author's four wives Hadley, Pfeiffer, Martha, and Mary. The sisters couldn't be more different or more alike. </div>
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Now they're back in town, reunited to repair their fractured relationships. </div>
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Hadley is the poised, polished wife of a senator.
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Pfeiffer is a successful New York book editor. </div>
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Martha has skyrocketed to Nashville stardom. </div>
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They each have a secret a marriage on the rocks, a job lost, a stint in rehab, and they haven't been together in years. </div>
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Together, they must stay in their childhood home, faced with a puzzle that may affect all their futures. </div>
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I already knew I would like this book just by the content...I also have 3 daughters who couldn't be more alike and at the same time, so different.</div>
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I loved the premise of each "escaping" home and coming back to find each other again, now that they're old enough to realizes their differences don't mean they have no connection.</div>
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Childhood trauma flows through this story to me. I never faulted any of sisters for their actions. In my mind, they were each just trying to survive in their own way. I loved the sisters and would love for Noblin to write more about them. I found myself emotionally attached by the end. One of my favorite scenes is when the sisters are trying to get up in the attic...these sophisticated worldly women and their various body parts are hanging from the ceiling trying to get the ladder to spring...I laughed out loud here because so much of this novel is about what happens when we go home...when we've lost ourselves in the world...or think we have...and then find out that our true selves have really been there all the time. We just needed our sisters, lifetime friends, and honesty to bring our selves back around again.</div>
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I'm not a romance reader, but the romance in this novel touched even me. We all have those we left behind, and I think all of us wonders from time to time what would happen if we went back.</div>
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Annie England Noblin lives with her son, husband, and three dogs in the Missouri Ozarks. She graduated with an M.A. in creative writing from Missouri State University and currently teaches English and communications for Arkansas State University in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She spends her free time playing make-believe, feeding stray cats, and working with animal shelters across the country to save homeless dogs. </div>
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<b>In turn-of-the century New York, a mobster rises—and his favorite sister struggles between loyalty and life itself. How far will she go when he commits murder?
After midnight, Thelma Lorber enters her brother Abie’s hangout under the Williamsburg Bridge, finding Jewish mobster Louis “Pretty” Amberg in a puddle of blood on the kitchen floor. She could flee. Instead, in the dark hours of that October 1935 night before the dawn of Murder, Inc., she remains beside the fierce, funny brother who has nurtured and protected her since childhood. There are many kinds of love a woman can feel for a man, but few compare to that of the baby sister for her older brother. For Thelma, a wild widow tethered to a young son, Abie is the center of her world. But that love is about to undo everything she holds dear…
Flipping the familiar script of The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, and The Godfather, Bittersweet Brooklyn explores the shattering impact of mob violence on the women expected to mop up the mess. Winding its way over decades, this haunting family saga plunges readers into a dangerous past—revealed through the perspective of a forgotten yet vibrant woman.
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<b>“Thelma Adams is our new Dickens in her effervescently vivid tale of Jewish hardscrabble living, gangsters, torn-apart families, and a young woman desperate for love, family, and a stable future. Set in a 1920s and 30s Brooklyn so rich, raw, and bristling with life that you can taste the brine on the deli pickles and see the flasks of whiskey hidden in a garter, this is the kind of novel that’s lived, rather than read.” — Caroline Leavitt, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author
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<b>Bittersweet Brooklyn is a riveting journey into a glamorous and deadly underworld. Fascinating characters and a backdrop of New York in the 1920’s kept me churning through pages. Add in twist after twist to an already vibrant plot, and you’ve got the makings of a perfect read! No one writes women in history better than Thelma Adams. I loved this book!” —Heather Burch, bestselling author of <i>In the Light of the Garden</i></b></div>
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<b> “Bookies! Bubbes! Bossy big-mouths! Thelma Adams’ <i>Bittersweet Brooklyn </i>takes you back to an early twentieth-century Williamsburg teeming not with too-cool-for-school millennials, but with rough-and-tumble Jewish and Italian immigrants. You’ll race through this raucous historical saga, admiring its gritty detail and street-smart dialogue. Inspired by real events, Thelma Adams brings to life an unforgettable family ruled by filial love divided by biting dysfunction.” —Sally Koslow, author of <i>Another Side of Paradise</i></b></div>
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<b> “<i>Bittersweet Brooklyn</i> is gripping from page one. An intimate look at the dynamics of a broken family in gangster-riddled New York, it will have you rooting for protagonist and antagonist alike as wounds are open, healed, scarred, and exposed. With some of the finest dialogue I've ever come across, this is one I will not soon forget.” —Camille Di Maio, bestselling author of <i>The Memory of Us</i></b></div>
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<b> “Set in the savage underbelly of a Mafia-linked social club and amusement park, Bittersweet Brooklyn tells the sizzling and unforgettable family saga of a brother and sister who must pit survival against loyalty, desire, and compassion.” —Susan Henderson, author of <i>The Flicker of Old Dreams</i></b></div>
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<b> “Terrific! A great story, suspense, a vibrant heroine, complex and colorful supporting characters and amazing period details: I couldn’t put it down.” —Caryn James, cultural critic and author of <i>Glorie</i> and <i>What Caroline Knew</i></b></div>
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<b> “A searing, layered portrait of a Brooklyn family divided against itself, this novel brims with heartbreak, history, empathy and grace.” —Greer Macallister, bestselling author of <i>The Magician’s Lie</i> and <i>Girl in Disguise</i></b></div>
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<b> “A fresh, fierce retelling of the crime family saga from the female point of view.” —Paula Froelich, New York Times bestselling author of <i>Mercury in Retrograde</i></b></div>
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<b> “A noir coming-of-age story with a feisty and unforgettable heroine.” —Meryl Gordon, New York Times bestselling author of <i>The Biography of Bunny Mellon</i></b></div>
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<b><b>Thelma Adams is the author of the best selling historical novel <i>The Last Woman Standing</i> and <i>Playdate</i>, which Oprah magazine described as "a witty debut novel." In addition to her fiction work, Adams is a prominent American film critic and an outspoken voice in the Hollywood community. She has been the in-house film critic for Us Weekly and The New York Post, and has written essays, celebrity profiles and reviews for Yahoo! Movies,The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Parade, Marie Claire and The Huffington Post. Adams studied history at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was valedictorian, and received her MFA from Columbia University. She lives in upstate New York with her family.</b></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a href="https://pursuingstacie.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Pursuing Stacie</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Interview at <a href="http://maryanneyarde.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Myths, Legends, Books & Coffee Pots</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Guest Post at <a href="http://toreadornottoread.net/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">To Read, Or Not to Read</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review & Interview at <a href="http://passagestothepast.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Passages to the Past</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Excerpt at <a href="http://justonemorechapter.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Just One More Chapter</a> </span></div>
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<strong><span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Saturday, February 2</span></strong> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Excerpt at <a href="http://maidenofthepages.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Maiden of the Pages</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Feature at <a href="http://www.lisas2900.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Queen of Random</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a href="http://www.creatingherstory.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Creating Herstory</a> </span></div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Wednesday, February 6</strong></span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a href="http://www.bibliophile.reviews/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Bibliophile Reviews</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a href="https://epkwrsmith.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Peppermint Ph.D.</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Excerpt at <a href="https://oldtimeybooks.com/reviews/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Old
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Guest Post at <a href="http://jathanandheather.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Jathan & Heather</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a href="http://thelitbitch.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Lit Bitch</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Feature at <a href="http://whatisthatbookabout.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">What Is That Book About</a> </span></div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Monday, February 11</strong></span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a href="https://macsbooks311.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Macsbooks</a> </span></div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Tuesday, February 12</strong></span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a href="http://www.evie-bookish.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Bookish</a> </span></div>
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<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><strong>Wednesday, February 13</strong></span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a href="http://covertocovercafe.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Cover To Cover Cafe</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a href="https://coffeeandinkbooks.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Coffee and Ink</a> </span></div>
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<strong><span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Friday, February 15</span></strong> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Excerpt at <a href="http://brokenteepee.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Broken Teepee</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a href="https://cometreadings.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Comet Readings</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a href="http://celticladysreviews.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">CelticLady's Reviews</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Excerpt at <a href="https://authornaomifinley.com/blog/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Spellbound by History</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a href="https://ohthebooksshewillread.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Oh, The Books She Will Read</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>The Eulogist </i></span>by Terry Gamble</div>
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From the author of <em>The Water Dancers</em> and <em>Good Family</em>, an exquisitely crafted novel, set in Ohio in the decades leading to the Civil War, that illuminates the immigrant experience, the injustice of slavery, and the debts human beings owe to one another, witnessed through the endeavors of one Irish-American family. </div>
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Cheated out of their family estate in Northern Ireland after the Napoleonic Wars, the Givens family arrives in America in 1819. But in coming to this new land, they have lost nearly everything. Making their way west they settle in Cincinnati, a burgeoning town on the banks of the mighty Ohio River whose rise, like the Givenses’ own, will be fashioned by the colliding forces of Jacksonian populism, religious evangelism, industrial capitalism, and the struggle for emancipation.
After losing their mother in childbirth and their father to a riverboat headed for New Orleans, James, Olivia, and Erasmus Givens must fend for themselves. </div>
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Ambitious James eventually marries into a prosperous family, builds a successful business, and rises in Cincinnati society. Taken by the spirit and wanderlust, Erasmus becomes an itinerant preacher, finding passion and heartbreak as he seeks God. Independent-minded Olivia, seemingly destined for spinsterhood, enters into a surprising partnership and marriage with Silas Orpheus, a local doctor who spurns social mores. </div>
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When her husband suddenly dies from an infection, Olivia travels to his family home in Kentucky, where she meets his estranged brother and encounters the horrors of slavery firsthand. After abetting the escape of one slave, Olivia is forced to confront the status of a young woman named Tilly, another slave owned by Olivia’s brother-in-law. When her attempt to help Tilly ends in disaster, Olivia tracks down Erasmus, who has begun smuggling runaways across the river—the borderline between freedom and slavery. </div>
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As the years pass, this family of immigrants initially indifferent to slavery will actively work for its end—performing courageous, often dangerous, occasionally foolhardy acts of moral rectitude that will reverberate through their lives for generations to come.</div>
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There's nothing like a generational family saga that's also steeped in history, historical characters, events, and a deep look at the tragedy of "the good ole days" with lack of sanitation, corpse stealing, rampant spread of disease, manipulation of women and children, and the absolute gut-wrenching and mind boggling horrors of slavery. </div>
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Along with the evils of the day came those like James, Olivia, and Erasmus Givens...who find themselves unable to turn away, even as life deals them personally with their own losses. The Abolitionist Movement is well underway...but things are never as simple as they seem. How does one family fight for right in a world where the laws don't support right? </div>
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If you enjoy books about family, religion, the business of artificial light in America (candle-making and supply, gaslight, and at the end a teaser for the electric light that is to come), immigrants, literature, early teaching and medicine, and settler life in America, you'll dig right into <i>The Eulogist</i> as I did. </div>
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I could not help but agree with Owen that religion was divisive. The Methodists looked down their noses at the waterlogged Baptists; the Presbyterians scorned the Catholics; and no one put stock in the Quakers, who were, to a one, abolitionists. (68)</div>
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Such was the sensibility of Cincinnati that a woman of contrarian opinion could drive away commerce like pigs before a stick. (71)</div>
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"In the evenings, Miss Givens, I steal corpses." (88)</div>
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Summoning the words of Fanny Wright, I raised my chin. "It does seem obscene to own another soul." (93)</div>
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"If there <i>is </i>a God - and like you, I wonder - would He not want us to turn our efforts toward saving each other rather than madly fretting if we ourselves are saved?" (95)</div>
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Indeed, it was becoming de rigueur for young women to hack off their tresses and sell them, particularly when they had no other means of support. Flyers went out soliciting locks, countered by tracts that compared the practice to prostitution. (119)</div>
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"We loved Tilly very much, Mr. Handsome," said Hatsepha. "It was an outrage what was done to her." (238)</div>
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As the horse began to trot, Erasmus doffed his old black preacher's hat and threw it into the air. It spun high, caught the sunlight, seeming to hover, until the boy broke loose and ran to catch it. (253)</div>
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I took off my spectacles, feeling suffocated as if by a miasma on the river. "The article," I said, "does not mention a daughter." (287)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Genre: Historical Mystery</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“We are transported. We are consigned to the ends of the Earth. And we are therefore as good as dead to the realm and its judges. There can be no hope of reprieve…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gabriel Carver, the convict <span class="il">hangman</span> of Sydney Prison, knows that none of his kind may depart Australia’s penal colony without the system’s leave. Then three people are murdered, seemingly to protect the “Rats’ Line,” <span class="il">an</span> illicit path to freedom that exists only in the fevered imaginations of transported felons. But why kill to protect something that doesn’t exist?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When <span class="il">an</span> innocent woman from Carver’s past is charged with one of the murders and faces execution at his hands, she threatens to reveal <span class="il">an</span>incriminating secret of his own unless he helps her. So Carver must try to unmask the killer among the convicts, soldiers, sailors, and fallen women roaming 1829 Sydney. If he can find the murderer, he may discover who is defying the system under its very nose. His search will take him back to the scene of his ruin—to London and <span class="il">a</span> past he can never remake nor ever escape, not even at the edge of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Not only is the historical fiction interesting, but Baltakmens writing is such that you feel transported back to 1850's Australia, penal colonies, and London. The descriptions reminded me so much of Dickens. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">The mystery is solid, and the links all fit but are not at all obvious. There's even a really nice little surprise about 3/4 of the way in that made me me say, "Ahhhhhhhhhha" out loud while sitting at my desk. Very nice touch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Carver figured out who the murderer was before I did. I may have even said, "How the heck did he know?" outloud again. *rolling my eyes at myself here*</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">I also appreciated the female roles and their very important placements in the narrative. Survivors, each of them, in her own way. I felt saddest for young Nan Tucker who was swallowed whole by the system right when she was beginning to find her way and was most impressed by Ruth Tremaine...yep, Ruth...she worked the system for her own agenda and left more than a few men in her wake.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">I also love historical fiction that schools me (in a nice way) on a topic I knew nothing about. I felt for these characters...truly, each of them, in his or her own way, was damaged. For survival sake, looking out for #1 was vital, no matter the cost or who you have to throw under the bus on the way. And, even though that sounds negative, it's really not. The way Baltakmens tells this story, you can even see why the criminals acted the way they did. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">These were hard times (see what I did there?). Most of the world didn't live in homes full of servants who kept the fires lit and food on the table. Most of the world had to scrap and steal and sell just to keep themselves or their families fed. Many children had to survive on their own. On the other side of the river, the convicts are banished and live even worse lives than you can imagine for the very same reasons. And the rich get richer off the backs of the poorest.</span></span></div>
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Gabriel Carver, convict hangman, executioner to the warder of Sydney Gaol</div>
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Meg Harper - young woman falsely accused of murder - formerly Carver's "wife"</div>
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Matthew Staines - the emancipist</div>
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Ruth Tremaine- Staines' runaway wife</div>
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Nan Tucker or Whistling Nan - a very young prostitute who gets caught in the middle</div>
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Mother O'Doul and her son Callum</div>
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Captain Pryor - the soldier who abandons his troops</div>
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Sidmouthe - opium addicted clerk to the magistrate Foyle</div>
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Constable Ellington - the policeman assigned to Carver</div>
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Mrs. Antonia Fitchett - wife (of convenience) of the police magistrate</div>
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Archibald Fitchett - the police magistrate</div>
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Jankle and Sons - cargo business, convict transport</div>
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<i>Full daylight spread over Sydney Town. No shadows remained. No relief from the sun in the vastness of this continent rendered prison, a Golgotha of the spirit. </i>(12)</div>
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"<i>The problem with common sense is that every man's common sense conforms to his prejudices," said Carver. </i>(36)</div>
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<i>"There are but two ways a convict can return to England. Serve out the sentence, or get an absolute pardon from the governor himself. Any other escape to an English or Irish port is but a passage to the gallows." </i>(71)</div>
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"<i>And to survive here, and prosper, I begin to see, you must perforce still the whispers of the past in your head. We should all need a sort of slaughterman for memories, a hangman for ghosts." </i>(73)</div>
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<i>"I have a convict maid, a convict cook, convicts to water my garden. I have heard the children playing at games of lashing and shackling. I have known babes that threaten their convict nursemaids with execution. I am as familiar with transportation and assignment, the whole grand and awful design, as you. I am a magistrate's wife, and I am as close confined by that as any felon." </i>(92)</div>
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<i>Death and the Lady, thought the colonel, closing his teeth on the end of his pipe. There is our subject this evening, assuredly: death and the lady. </i>(103)</div>
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<i>"The question is, will you stand by, mewling about your misfortune in Sydney Gaol, while the old woman hobbles about and makes her own trouble, or will you take a man's part and set to?" </i>(152)</div>
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<i>"Whether you return or no, there will be no further contact with my wife, in word or thought or deed, or I will not forbear to avoid her ruin, or yours." </i>(155)</div>
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<i>Eleven men, bearded, lean, and haggard - for to feed a man on the hulks was to cut into their profit - resembling so many goblins gathered in a ruined palace. </i>(179)</div>
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<i>The hulk groaned and dead water shivered in its bowels, like a leviathan of the deep with poisoned dreams. </i>(182)</div>
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<i>"There's a dog that hears his master's voice even when the master ain't near. Let's see where he runs." </i>(220)</div>
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<i>A company of ghosts, therefore. The ghosts of pride, and rage, and longing, of drunkenness, of gentleness, of boldness, determination, guile, thrift, and labour, thievery and despair, banishment and home-longing, sent back to haunt the shores they had quit under the weight of crime and judgement. (244)</i></div>
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<i>The great city sighed as evening closed in, and the church bells, from Westminster to the slums and rookeries of Limehouse and Rotherhithe, began their tolling for evensong and repentance. (252)</i></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Historical "stuff" I've been Googling</b></span></div>
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Macquarie Harbor - Hell's gate</div>
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The Female Factory</div>
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The Rats' Line as it applies to convicts/prisons - first time I Googled this, I saw wayyyyy more rats than I ever wanted to...y'all, some of those rats were bigger than housecats!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Andrei Baltakmens</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3c2313; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, of Latvian descent. He has</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span class="il">a</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ph.D. in English literature, focused on Charles Dickens and Victorian urban mysteries.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">His first novel, The Battleship Regal, was published in New Zealand in 1996. His short fiction has appeared in various literary journals, and his first historical mystery, The Raven’s Seal, was published in 2012.</span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tuesday, December 18</strong></div>
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Feature at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jennifertarheelreader.com/&source=gmail&ust=1548212298508000&usg=AFQjCNHpX7tNiF24BfGuBrT9v7jzMoNcuQ" href="http://www.jennifertarheelreader.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Tar Heel Reader</a></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sandi Ward’s shrewdly observed, funny, and wonderfully touching novel tells of a fractured family, a teenage boy, and a remarkable cat whose loyalty knows no bounds . . .</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A boy and his cat. It’s an unconventional friendship, perhaps, but for Charlie and Lily, it works beautifully. It was Charlie who chose Lily from among all the cats in the shelter. He didn’t frown, the way other humans did, when he saw her injured back leg, the legacy of a cruel previous owner. Instead, Charlie insisted on rescuing her. Now Lily wants to do the same for Charlie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She’s the only one who’s seen the bruises on Charlie’s body. If she knew who was hurting him, she’d scratch their eyes out. But she can’t fix this by herself. Lily needs to get the rest of the family to focus on Charlie—not easy when they’re wrapped up in their own problems. Charlie’s mother kicked his father out weeks ago and has a new boyfriend who seems charming, but is still a stranger. Oldest son Kevin misses his father desperately. Victoria, Charlie’s sister, also has someone new in her life, and Lily is decidedly suspicious. Even Charlie’s father, who Lily loves dearly, is behaving strangely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Something Worth Saving</i> is told from Charlie's cat, Lily's perspective. I'm pretty on top of these kinds of stories because I love dogs and cats already, so you can probably imagine why I volunteered to read this in the first place. I do think it helps the reader to have affection for animals to really understand the nuances of the story...especially Lily's narration</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lily, whose full name is Lily J. Potter (love this) truly cares about her family...like only a cat can. Lily and retired police dog, Gretel have somewhat of a symbiotic relationship within the household. They don't necessarily love each other, but they realize that each existence benefits the other, especially if they work together. As much as I loved Lily's voice and personality, Gretel also tugged at my heartstrings. I'm a German Shepherd mama myself so I could see Gretel's downtrodden face as Jeremy leaves her behind. I could see her waiting for him, and I've literally seen that confusion and distress that occurs when the dog is unsure what she did wrong...even if she's done nothing wrong. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dealing with the range of emotions the family goes through (as evidenced by the list above), it's hard not to feel like you are part of the family...not really one of them...but you know them so well that you want what's best for all of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, the list of struggles is long, but Ward weaves them together so that it doesn't seem like they are just thrown in. They overlap and mingle...one leading to another, some consequences of others. The sins of the parents and all that...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One issue that I felt Ward did a really nice job of was Charlie's coming to terms with his gender identity. Ward doesn't present this as a major family problem, and even though everyone is not thrilled about the prospect, most are cautiously supportive. This is just the beginning for Charlie, so nothing is hashed out completely, nor did I think it should be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>There must be a way Gretel and I could work together to repair this family. There is something worth saving in this family - a love that connects all of us and binds us together. I include Dad in this even though he has moved out, and Mark even though he is new. Like raindrops plunking onto the river, causing overlapping circles of waves, each member of our family impacts the next. </i>(243)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Sometimes the one who receives our love is a very good baby who does not live long. Sometimes, it is a strange man who shows up to build a bookshelf. And sometimes, it is an absolutely gorgeous cat with a funny limp who fits right into the crook of your arm. </i> (302)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sandi grew up in Manchester-by-the-sea, Massachusetts, and received her MA in Creative Writing at New York University. She’s the author of book club novels published by Kensington Books, stories of dysfunctional families told from the point of view of the family cat. She’s also a medical copywriter at an advertising agency. She lives on the Jersey Shore with her husband, teenagers, dog and a large black cat named Winnie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On December 18, 2018 her latest novel, <i>SOMETHING WORTH SAVING</i>, will be on sale (available now for pre-order) in trade paperback, e-book and audio book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Self-indulgent young writer Thomas Gadwell has traveled from Boston to the new Hotel Del Coronado in California to at last finish his novel when he meets the clever and headstrong Miss Mary Harting. At once Thomas tosses aside his literary pursuits for a charmed summer of romance that ends with the happy couple making future plans. However, Mary Harting is the only unmarried daughter of notorious railroad tycoon Charles Harting, and he has no intention of letting a useless wordsmith derail his own critical plans for Mary. The couple must continue a clandestine courtship, but Thomas’ ingenuity has unexpected repercussions and he unwittingly uncovers a sinister plot of deception, greed, and blackmail. Guided by mentor Henry James, to win Mary, Thomas must step from the pages of the world he creates to explore his own insecurities, battle against worldly corruption, and expose family demons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Told through a series of clever, heartfelt, and engaging letters, From Across the Room is a voyeuristic escapade that delights at every twist. Reflecting back to a time when letters were saved in the imagination of the reader, the lost art of letter writing brings to life the opulent Gilded Age and unfolds the universal passions of love, ambition, and the resilient bonds of family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“A passionate love story set in a brilliantly recreated Gilded Age, this intimate epistolary novel takes the reader from a wide-open California to the salons of literary and industrial New York. Colorful and indelible characters stride across the pages of this exceptionally vivid historical novel that brings the past stirringly to life.” -Diana Birchall, Bestselling Author of Mr. Darcy’s Dilemma</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Gina Mulligan’s impeccable prose, engaging characters, and original style reminds us all why we love to read.” -Reza Kahlili, 2010 National Best Books winner for A Time to Betray</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“The characters have richly defined voices and fascinating lives that sparkle against a transcontinental history of America at the beginning of the twentieth century.” -Jessica Klein, Award-winning Writer/Producer of Northern Exposure, Beverly Hills 90210, Gabriel’s Fire and other popular TV series.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ahhh...the epistolary style...I've read enough books in my lifetime to really appreciate one that uses something a little different to tell a story. Nothing turns me off more than reading the same ole same ole all the time. Seriously. Who has time for that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>From Across the Room</i> is told entirely via letters from the main character Thomas Gadwell to a variety of other characters, including his love interest, Mary Harting. When I first began reading <i>From Across the Room</i>, I thought the story was going to be more romancey, and I wondered if I had made a mistake in agreeing to read it...I'm not usually a romance fan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I quickly realized that there was so much more involved in this story. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mulligan weaves in family and societal issues from the Gilded Age as well as description that is so vivid, I could see the action. Here's where the letters are perfectly situated. In a world very different from the world we live in today, the words on the page were IT. There were no visuals to click on, no immediate opportunity to ask a question if the reader didn't understand something, and no smart phones to send SnapChats and Selfies. To communicate, the writer HAD to choose words carefully. The writer got one shot...and then might have to wait two weeks to find out how the recipient interpreted the letter or felt about it because that's how long it took for the letter to arrive, be read, responded to, and the response sent. In today's time, I know a lot of people who would go crazy waiting that long for anything :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I loved that Thomas Gadwell's mentor was Henry James :) I'm an English teacher so the author and writing aspect of From Across the Room interested me a great deal...the publishing industry, Thomas's agent, etc. were also interesting tidbits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Abigail Winchester is the character that jumped out to me...I think Mulligan could write an entirely new novel about this very eccentric lady :):) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wasn't entirely sure about the ending. At first, it made me a little mad...but the more I sit with it, the more I think I do actually like it...from the author, publishing viewpoint. If you like a sneaky little read, you'll like this turn of events as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gina L. Mulligan is a veteran freelance journalist for numerous national magazines and the author of the award-winning novel, <i>REMEMBER THE LADIES</i> and <i>FROM ACROSS THE ROOM</i>. After her own diagnosis, Gina founded <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.girlslovemail.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNECS8sHvOy6873RaKW3e0DaLzXHtQ" href="http://www.girlslovemail.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Girls Love Mail</a>, a charity that collects handwritten letters of encouragement for women with breast cancer. She was honored for her charitable work on the nationally syndicated television talk show The Steve Harvey Show, People.com, and TODAY.com.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://jorielovesastory.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNFMBKzVpw9Qta7soPUISyywMf74OA" href="http://jorielovesastory.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jorie Loves a Story</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://achickwhoreads.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNHc3DC66DaJR4tX62lOCIYKUp9SAg" href="http://achickwhoreads.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">A Chick Who Reads</a></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tuesday, December 4</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://celticladysreviews.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNG3BrChrqfsGvC28bPgLviPcyL_GA" href="http://celticladysreviews.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">CelticLady’s Reviews</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Excerpt at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://whatisthatbookabout.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNELiHYgQl9u8KHLcn5A2d58qwe-Dg" href="http://whatisthatbookabout.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">What Is That Book About</a></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wednesday, December 5</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Interview at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://passagestothepast.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNFwFxW-pQXdSJvITF6n5nTRWlhPgA" href="http://passagestothepast.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Passages to the Past</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://epkwrsmith.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNHJEWTfHEgKDnfEwmzBaaSUEd2IFQ" href="https://epkwrsmith.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Peppermint Ph.D.</a></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Friday, December 7</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Interview at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://jorielovesastory.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNFMBKzVpw9Qta7soPUISyywMf74OA" href="http://jorielovesastory.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jorie Loves a Story</a></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Monday, December 10</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Guest Post at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://letthemreadbooks.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNFmelk05qC-0cRjvB1i-zdmQ05yxQ" href="http://letthemreadbooks.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Let Them Read Books</a></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tuesday, December 11</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://passagestothepast.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNFwFxW-pQXdSJvITF6n5nTRWlhPgA" href="http://passagestothepast.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Passages to the Past</a></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wednesday, December 12</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at L<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://dogsmomvisits.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNHF4ppEExjelfJr6jbEcTJqz6KXLQ" href="http://dogsmomvisits.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">aura’s Interests</a></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Friday, December 14</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://stephaniesbookreviews.weebly.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNEej8jW6NcRHbh0I-0VRY2O5HeJ-Q" href="http://stephaniesbookreviews.weebly.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">100 Pages a Day</a></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Monday, December 17</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review & Excerpt at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://amybooksy.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNEsBfZ3e-c4cP-G0JhPVp5k86gR5A" href="http://amybooksy.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Locks, Hooks and Books</a></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tuesday, December 18</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Feature at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://brokenteepee.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNGwGy-ZqrBXHBkgV0d-IUVF2UFN6g" href="http://brokenteepee.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Broken Teepee</a></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wednesday, December 19</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review & Excerpt at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thebookjunkiereadspromos.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNGCGH9Pe9PPov4bGxkPIZgVd8udIA" href="https://thebookjunkiereadspromos.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Book Junkie Reads</a></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thursday, December 20</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://brisbooknook.wordpress.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNF-3HoCHjbhs5GtF-k2DuNNB2IbAA" href="https://brisbooknook.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Bri’s Book Nook</a></span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Friday, December 21</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://rbenton61.wordpress.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNEWaqFK97uzkHFLK6S9docbDhpORA" href="https://rbenton61.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Book Mind</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Guest Post and Excerpt at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.confessionsofanavidreader.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545495146325000&usg=AFQjCNEHF5XXY_uV7AwKEK2TDEDlYmAiog" href="http://www.confessionsofanavidreader.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Confessions of an Avid Reader</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">By Suzanne M. Wolfe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Publication Date: October 9, 2018</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Crooked Lane Books</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hardcover & eBook; 326 Pages</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Genre: Historical Mystery</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When a brutal murder threatens the sanctity of the <span style="color: red;">Elizabethan court</span>, it’s up to a hot-tempered <span style="color: red;">spy</span> to save the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;">The court of Elizabeth I</span> is no stranger to <span style="color: red;">plotting and intrigue</span>, but the royal retinue is thrown into chaos when the Queen’s youngest and sweetest <span style="color: red;">lady-in-waiting</span> is murdered, her body left on the high altar of the Chapel Royal in Whitehall Palace. Solving the murder will require the cunning and savvy possessed by only one man. Enter Nicholas Holt, younger brother of the Earl of Blackwell—spy, rake, and owner of the infamous Black Sheep tavern in the seedy district of Bankside. Nick quickly learns that <span style="color: red;">working for the Queen is a mixed blessing. Elizabeth—salty-tongued, vain, and fiercely intelligent—can, with a glance, either reward Nick with a purse of gold or have his head forcibly removed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When a second lady-in-waiting is slain at Whitehall, the court once again reels with shock and dismay. On the trail of a diabolical killer, Nick and </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">his faithful sidekick—an enormous Irish Wolfhound named Hector</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">—are treading on treacherous ground, and only the killer’s head on a platter can keep them in the Queen’s good graces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Captivating… Fans of Fiona Buckley’s Ursula Blanchard and Kathy Lynn Emerson’s Rosamond Jaffrey will be delighted to add Wolfe to their reading lists.” ―Booklist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“[A] promising series launch… Fans of Elizabethan historicals will be satisfied.” ―Publishers Weekly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“An excellent series kickoff by Wolfe that cleverly highlights both the mystery and the many ills of Elizabethan times.” ―Kirkus Reviews</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“In vivid passages, Suzanne Wolfe’s novel brings to the reader the light and dark of Elizabethan England, its squalor and splendor, filth and riches, intrigues and delights.” ―NY Journal of Books</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“A deeply atmospheric and richly textured Elizabethan mystery… I was captivated by Nicholas and Hector as they navigated court treachery and the dark recesses of the lower classes in this compelling Elizabethan mystery.” ―Shelley Freydont, New York Times bestselling author</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Wolfe’s descriptions are unparalleled, immersing the reader in the time period as they join her wily protagonist on his quest to catch a cold-hearted killer.” ―Anna Lee Huber, bestselling author of the Lady Darby Mysteries</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I stayed up reading much too late to finish this book! Wonderful Elizabethan atmosphere, well-drawn and unusual characters, action and intrigue and excitement―I felt like I was in the 1570s” ―Amanda Carmack, award-winning author of the Elizabethan mysteries</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Bewitching! Suzanne Wolfe opens the door to Elizabethan life through her masterful creation of the sympathetic spy, Nicholas Holt. An exciting start to a promising new historical mystery series.” ―Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award-winning author of the Mas Arai series</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“A classically plotted whodunit set against the background of Elizabethan London and the court of Queen Elizabeth the First, both of them well researched and vividly realized, with a wealth of detail. One can almost smell the reek of the 16th century streets and waterways.” ―Fiona Buckley, author of the Ursula Blanchard Elizabethan mysteries</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">From the introductory paragraph, I was taken by the vivid language and descriptions that involve all four senses...whether I wanted them to or not. I'm a huge fan of description...I like to read those paragraphs slowly and let the words pull me in :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ahhhh, Elizabethan England...I never tire of it...Elizabeth I is an icon, and her rule is one I doubt historians will ever stop researching, no matter how much factual knowledge we digest...I loved how Wolfe pulled in historical characters, namely William Shakespeare and the Walsinghams, along with the fictional characters to make the story hold even tighter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">One of the things I appreciate so much about historical fiction is the attention to more than just the glowing parts of the story. In some "romantic" versions of Elizabeth's story, all the reader sees is court at its "best"...opulent parties, decorations, love stories, debauchery, money, between the rich, richer, and richest inhabitants. It's as if the others don't even exist except to keep the wine pitchers refilled. That's not so in <i>A Murder by Any Name</i>. While the story does take place in the court of Elizabeth I, the story is the focus, not her majesty. Elizabethan court seems to be the setting rather than the plot...I thoroughly enjoyed this strategy! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ah, Hector...put a canine sidekick in a story, and I'm pretty much all yours :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Suzanne M. Wolfe</span> grew up in Manchester, England and read English Literature at Oxford University, where she co-founded the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society. She served as Writer in Residence at Seattle Pacific University and taught literature and creative writing there for nearly two decades. Wolfe is the author of three novels: A Murder by Any Name, The Confessions of X, and Unveiling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thirty years ago, she and her husband, Gregory Wolfe, co-founded Image, a journal of the arts and faith. They have also co-authored many books on literature and prayer including Books That Build Character: How to Teach Your Child Moral Values Through Stories, and Bless This House: Prayers For Children and Families. Her essays and blog posts have appeared in Image and other publications. She and her husband are the parents of four grown children. They live in Richmond Beach, Washington.</span></div>
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Excerpt at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://letthemreadbooks.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNF8D6-UpKdDPUfVMvq37qKV8Dd7ew" href="http://letthemreadbooks.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Let Them Read Books</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wednesday, December 19</strong></div>
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Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://pursuingstacie.wordpress.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNFnT2dYgaFY6JFvboxKkT1HHYapeA" href="https://pursuingstacie.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Pursuing Stacie</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thursday, December 20</strong></div>
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Feature at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://thelitbitch.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNFzMA35mmTFFem_kEN8L7iIIJvSOA" href="http://thelitbitch.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Lit Bitch</a></div>
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Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://epkwrsmith.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNExB70_xLa66s0JTbfqtT8n_WAgOg" href="https://epkwrsmith.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Peppermint Ph.D.</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday, December 21</strong></div>
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Feature at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://whatisthatbookabout.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNGLMI-rnBPfXaIbpF2NEc3WuIAflA" href="http://whatisthatbookabout.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">What Is That Book About</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sunday, December 23</strong></div>
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Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.caroleraesrandomramblings.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNHPIflrfThW1cxEbtt78zDJTkLxSQ" href="http://www.caroleraesrandomramblings.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Carole’s Ramblings</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thursday, December 27</strong></div>
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Review & Interview at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://jorielovesastory.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNE7HVvn5rQkmjnOEnF3spb6rpyHVg" href="http://jorielovesastory.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jorie Loves a Story</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday, December 28</strong></div>
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Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jennifertarheelreader.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNGSOaZ8rHO7f8O0dGLIzbnZ70_IuQ" href="http://www.jennifertarheelreader.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Tar Heel Reader</a></div>
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Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://amysbooketlist.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNHxnNB6Fnxq-h2qOiy8VHcLtllUKg" href="http://amysbooketlist.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Amy’s Booket List</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Monday, December 31</strong></div>
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Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://thetudorenthusiast.weebly.com/my-tudor-blog.html&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNFVXHaHTgE-8HmpmPiH1ijGc31Fjw" href="http://thetudorenthusiast.weebly.com/my-tudor-blog.html" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Tudor Enthusiast</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wednesday, January 2</strong></div>
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Excerpt at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://englishmysteriesblog.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNFEcj8Lqtsz_GQK0_O_b4hZG4UMdg" href="http://englishmysteriesblog.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Encouraging Words from the Tea Queen</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thursday, January 3</strong></div>
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Excerpt at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://teresanoel.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNFTscdJZytywjUC2bnHoYKGJcwW7g" href="http://teresanoel.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">T’s Stuff</a></div>
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Guest Post at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://maryanneyarde.blogspot.co.uk/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNFIfczcmYeuPUfpWBUhHayT_K1RzQ" href="http://maryanneyarde.blogspot.co.uk/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Myths, Legends, Books & Coffee Pots</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday, January 4</strong></div>
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Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://stephaniesbookreviews.weebly.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNEhESb9RJffsVeo2hDA4ahkelq6uA" href="http://stephaniesbookreviews.weebly.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">100 Pages a Day</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Monday, January 7</strong></div>
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Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://jennifercwilsonwriter.wordpress.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNErPoFWONwgBgt6V6d0Igy_6azO4w" href="https://jennifercwilsonwriter.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Historical Fiction with Spirit</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tuesday, January 8</strong></div>
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Guest Post at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNEEZaaIloU2lCRHDEYEjCgORkb5hQ" href="http://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">On the Tudor Trail</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wednesday, January 9</strong></div>
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Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://readingthepast.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNEIEIAfUOobwAvEVk4jjnPw6f5mDw" href="http://readingthepast.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Reading the Past</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thursday, January 10</strong></div>
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Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://brokenteepee.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNEvS-1I6k4tL2uq6d-aHNPLFRlrvQ" href="http://brokenteepee.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Broken Teepee</a></div>
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Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thequirkyladybookworm.wordpress.com/blog/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNGYObVwFRqETbT5pTeyBG68goutug" href="https://thequirkyladybookworm.wordpress.com/blog/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Clarissa Reads it All</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday, January 11</strong></div>
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Feature at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thebookjunkiereadspromos.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNEmMe2qnGprHdq03vKuRgRT3yESXA" href="https://thebookjunkiereadspromos.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Book Junkie Reads</a></div>
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Feature at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.birdhouse-books.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNEOFJDADO2V8xcJBPXaESr3piORwg" href="http://www.birdhouse-books.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">View from the Birdhouse</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Monday, January 14</strong></div>
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Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://maidenofthepages.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNHnRkLVy9xLoOBwMbXOhtac4D6SjQ" href="http://maidenofthepages.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Maiden of the Pages</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tuesday, January 15</strong></div>
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Interview at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://passagestothepast.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNFrwP-37FJm_sdYIWtCGexMVE65aQ" href="http://passagestothepast.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Passages to the Past</a></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wednesday, January 16</strong></div>
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Review at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://abookgeek-llm.blogspot.com/&source=gmail&ust=1545443337660000&usg=AFQjCNEoWqchy18egzhbQjqWfLbEcfZ6hw" href="http://abookgeek-llm.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="background: transparent; color: #0d4a49; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">A Book Geek</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">During the Blog Tour we will be giving away 3 hardcover copies of <i>A Murder By Any Name</i>! To enter, please use the Gleam form below.</span></div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Giveaway Rules</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">– Giveaway ends at 11:59pm EST on January 17th. You must be 18 or older to enter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">– Giveaway is open to US residents only.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">– Only one entry per household.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">– All giveaway entrants agree to be honest and not cheat the systems; any suspect of fraud is decided upon by blog/site owner and the sponsor, and entrants may be disqualified at our discretion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">– Winner has 48 hours to claim prize or new winner is chosen.</span></div>
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