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1. Good Summer Reading-- A Great Little List of Fiction Books Do you have a reading list? Being over 50 (yes, I am classic Boomer), I sometimes have trouble remembering what books I have read or listened to in the past - or even what I an currently reading. I attribute this lapse to the computer-like nature of...
2. The Best Fiction Reader's Site Ever I am a picky reader. My time is valuable to me and I cannot stand to waste it on a really terrible read. So, I usually try to read books that have been recommended or authors that write books similar to ones I have enjoyed. I have included informat...
3. Renaissance Education - how to study and apply classical literature Educational endeavors, as all social activities, move from extreme to extreme like a pendulum. At the start of the renaissance there was need to redevelop appreciation of science and math after the excesses of allegorical thought within the precedin...
4. The BEST Female Detective (In Fiction) Is.... Kinsey is the best female detective in fiction-land because each novel that she appears in has gotten better and thicker (=more great writing to read)! I also love the concept that all of her adventures take place in the '70s and pretty much happen...
5. The Help: a novel by Kathryn Stockett I love "southern literature". So, when a friend told me about a new southern novel she had just finished reading, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, my ears perked up. I discovered that my friend and I had something in common concerning our &qu...
6. Love Crime Fiction? Lee Child and Adrian McKinty have an honored place in my little red wagon full of great reading. Though Lee Child is the better known of the two, I put them both at the top of the heap in their shared fiction genre of "Crime Fiction". And What woul...
7. December Is Read a New Book Month! I get an e-newsletter every week titled All About Thyme: A Weekly Calendar of Times & Seasonings Celebrating the Mysteries, Magic, and Myths of Herbs sent by the fictional character, China Bayles. China Bayles is the creation of one of my favorit...
8. Dragonsdale: Stable Your Pet Dragon In my 12 year old's words: Dragonsdale is a nice book revealing an enchanting place. If I could only go to the places in books, I would love to go to Seahaven. It is easy to see the love between Cara and Skydancer, to see how Drane would find i...
9. Laura Lippman & Tess Monaghan: Women Detecting Years ago I began reading the Kinsey Millhone series by Sue Grafton. Searching for similar books, I discovered V.I. Warshawski created by Sara Paretsky. Then I found out that there are tons of female detectives out there in bookland! One of my...
10. Marv by Marilyn Sachs Do you have a reluctant reader in your family? When my tween needed some encouragement to read I stumbled across Marv by Marilyn Sachs. Marv is an inventor. His mind is always working; thinking of new inventions. He builds a revolving door, an elevat...
11. Janet Evanovich's Fearless Fourteen Evanovich is near the top of her numbers game in this Stephanie Plum novel. Are you ready for Granma Mazur as an online gamer with the moniker of "Scorch"? What about Lula as a "Bounty Hunting 'Ho"? How about Stephanie looking like a Smurf while c...
12. A Summer Reading List ★ So, you are on your way to the beach or the mountains. Need a book? I have suggestions for you. On this lens, you will find: 1. What I read during the 2008 summer season 2. What audio books were in my cue 3. Wanna reads and my reserve list at t...
13. NASCAR Fiction by Sharyn McCrumb Last year, I was searching the stacks in my local library for a new book to read. I remembered meeting Sharyn McCrumb years ago at a writer's conference and quite enjoyed her. She also writes a decent mystery--which is my favorite genre. So I ambled...
14. "The Third Wish" How many times have you been frustrated by a character in a story who is given three wishes and makes a bad choice for the first, undoes the first bad wish with the second, and then only has one, final wish to make! Oh, yes, I remember that frustrat...
15. A Good Read - NOTHING TO LOSE by Lee Child In this 12th Lee Child novel, Nothing to Lose, Jack Reacher was in the middle of a journey from extreme NE Maine to extreme SW California when he stopped in Hope, Colorado. He was making a diagonal journey. In the beginning, I was loving it. By the...
16. A Good Read -- SOUTHERN STYLE Thanks for stopping by this SquidLit lens. If you love classic southern fiction like I do, you will be interested in reading this novel. Below you will find several reviews of the novel Down River by John Hart. Some of these reviews come from book r...
17. Dale Earnhardt, Sr.: A Video Showcase Welcome Race Fans! My husband is all about racing. Therefore, I became "all about racing". I am no authority on NASCAR, IMSA, Formula One, or anything else. I just hear and see a lot about cars and Karts (as in go karts) at home. It is amazing and...
18. GWEN MADOC, Bestselling Novelist GWEN MADOC is the author of eleven published novels - historical romance and family sagas - spanning eras from mid to late 19th century and early twentieth century. Gwen writes about fiesty young women struggling in a man's world to survive the...
19. "Female Detectives": A Group of Outstanding Mystery Reads You know what? There are lots of lady authors out there who write about women who solve crimes! In fact, those books are usually my favorite reading material. Featured here are lenses that discuss books written by women about female detectives (profe...
20. Best Books ~ Fantasy, Vampires, Historical Fiction Some of the best vampire dark fantasy and vampire romance authors include Christine Feehan, Maggie Shayne, Laurell K. Hamilton,  L.A. Banks, Katie Macalister, and MaryJanice Davidson. Other featured vampire authors include Amanda Ashley, Shannon...