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1. 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...
2. 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...
3. 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...
4. 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...
5. 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...
6. 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. When she told me about this book, I discovered that she and I shared a com...
7. 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...
8. 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...
9. "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...
10. 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...
11. 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 favorite my...
12. 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...
13. 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...
14. 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 it ha...
15. 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...
16. 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...
17. Book Lists For "Seasonal" Readers I have quite a few articles (or lenses) on Squidoo with reading "lists". More than one is about "Summer Reading". Does one just read in the summer? I doubt it. We read for many reasons and for many seasons. Stick around and find out more reasons a...
18. Girls Detecting Headquarters Girls Detecting This group features lenses that discuss books written by women about female detectives (professional and accidental). Exception: If a fictional female detective is exceptional--but is created by a male--I will allow that lens in t...
19. 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...
20. Summer Reading That Isn't Boring I meet a lot of children who don't like reading, and whenever I do I ask them to read a book of my choosing and then see if they don't like to read. More often than not, they love the book and want to know of another one to read. I just give them the...