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I had a birthday last month and treated myself to a bag of books from the library. They haven’t had a book sale in almost two years and decided to permanently set up tables with books for sale in lieu of the larger weekend sales. I picked up a few quilting books in the bag.

The next day was girls day out and I bought a book off the clearance shelf at Hobby Lobby. Learning to crochet socks has been on my list for several years.

I picked up the yarn at the thrift store later that day.

This ...

 Can you spy her?

All this week down at the pond I've been serenaded by several cardinals singing their beautiful songs. I had to think how blessed I am to not only live where this is a morning greeting but also to have my hearing to hear them. With hubby being hard of hearing, I'm conscious of that too. 

I had a marvelous treat last week when the barred owl suddenly alighted on a tree in the marshy area as I was sitting on the skating shack steps. I was using binoculars and caught the movement of something quite chunky looking. Because ...

A Hundred Dollar Drawing.

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Very few novels, let alone romance novels, are written for misanthropes like me. So when François Tremblay, author of the obscure and hilarious 2016 short Extract of the Spy Who Came In From Tumblr, announced his new satirical romance She’s Found Her Mind, I begged for a review copy.

Sometimes even misathropes like me want to relax with an entertaining “beach read,” and She’s Found Her Mind fits the bill perfectly. It’s light and readable, with clearly-drawn characters and a not-too-complicated plot. Any narrative inconsistencies are congruent with the Romance genre it sends up. Most romance novels ...

Until I Find You by Rea Frey 

What would happen if a mother reached down into her three-month-old son's crib and discovered that the baby lying there was not her own? What if none of her friends noticed the subtle differences that made it so obvious to her? What if no  one believed the blind widow at all? I absolutely loved this domestic thriller. Rebecca is such a likeable character and the author did such a  great job of pulling me into her world. The ending fell a bit flat, but the journey to get there had me holding ...

*I received a free copy of this novel from NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group for my honest review.*Joe Goldberg, what are you doing to me? You left your son behind and moved to the Pacific Northwest and fell in love. Again. Are you up to your old tricks? You are, but you are trying so hard to be good.I have waited so long for the third novel. I have only watched the first season of You

Three quick reviews on cozy mysteries.Solid story for a new series!! Shiloh Bellamy is being called back from LA to her Michigan farm home to help her ailing father out. But the farm is in shambles and she has a lot of work ahead of her. And her father is against the investor that Shiloh found to help with some expenses. Luckily for her, the investor is found dead the next day.There are a lot of

I'm not sure why I can't stop reading long enough to write reviews. I have some from NetGalley that I need to review. Trying to get back to everything.Emma, a doctor in a local clinic, and Nate, a detective in the local police department, have a son, Josh, who has leukemia and needs a life saving treatment not covered by insurance. And with a local opioid ring causing havoc with overdoses, Nate's

It’s been another month of eclectic reading, some more culling, and new finds in the quilting/sewing genre. Another load of books went to the library bookstore, and I made my decision on the cookbook series. The Cooking Light series was donated, mainly due to its lack of photography, even though the recipes are lighter and healthier. I just don’t get inspired from mostly printed words. When you are cooking, those pictures really do make a difference. I still need to cull just a bit more from the cookbook shelves, and donate the rest of the novels I ...

 The Lost Village by Camilla Sten 

One day in 1959, the residents of an isolated mining town vanished, taking nothing with them and leaving no trace of where they might have gone. Only a newborn baby and a battered body, tied to a wooden post in the town square and surrounded by stones, remained. Alice Lindstet has spent her entire life hearing her grandmother's stories about the tragedy and is raising funds for a documentary project that she hopes will solve the mystery. She and her film crew have only a few days to explore the village and put ...

Come along for a new journey visiting some old familiar friends! It’s Sew Emma’s Among the Stars Again Book combines old blocks from their original Among the Stars quilt book with fresh new stars in a brand new setting. With two zesty new colorways to sample, you will fall in love with this bright spin on a beloved classic!

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The Among the Stars Again quilt is inspired by Kimberly’s deep love of star quilts. Of all the countless quilts ...

 I think we all know what we like and need to make our days feel productive and enjoyable. Here are six of the many things that make me feel satisfied and content with my life even in a continuing lockdown state.

１...Good Food

I love how my appetite is still strong for good food. I love finding a new way of cooking something that I've been eating all my life.  Take eggs for instance.  Lately I've been making scrambled eggs alongside rice and veggies with a little sauce of balsamic vinegar, dash of soya sauce and honey ...