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Mondays always make me wish I could step sideways out of the present—pause the inbox, skip the errands, slip into a pocket of time where everything feels suspended. Conveniently, my current read is doing exactly that for me. I’ve been wandering through the jittery, neon-washed world of 11/22/63 by Stephen King, and let me tell
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A cat has nine lives. For three he plays, for three he strays and for the last three he stays. William Shakespeare Grimalkin is a young cat living in 1902. On this morning, a young charlady lights some coal to warm the house and Grimalkin curls up to enjoy the heat. As he closes his
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Alison Bannister has spent the past ten years looking for her son, and in the middle of a Wiltshire antiques shop, she comes across a portrait that could be the key to finding him. The portrait is of a woman known as Mary Seymour. Alison knows this because they grew up together. The Phantom Tree
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I’m a sucker for World War 1 books. I love the era and the culture of that time. So when I found a copy of Clementine & Claudia on NetGalley. I couldn’t wait to dig in! Cut to almost a year later, and I’ve finished it! Clementine & Claudia, two sisters, who couldn’t be more different.
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