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Abracadaver, A Father Dowling Mystery by Ralph McInerny

Abracadaver, A Father Dowling Mystery by Ralph McInerny A magic show at St. Hilary’s Parish sets the ball rolling for murder. It’s the dead of winter in Fox River, Illinois and we soon learn the community is upset by the disappearance of the wife of a well to do real estate developer. At first, the newspapers depict a loving marriage and grieving husband but as the weeks eked by with no news for the reporters, they turned on the husband and implicate him as having an affair with a coworker. Is it true? Did he bump off his wife to make way for a new missus? Or did the “new woman” get rid of competition? Father Dowling finds himself in a mess of rumors and deaths. Can he help the police or will he become the next victim? I didn’t particularly care much for this book, which came as a surprise to me. I was all set to sink my teeth into Father Dowling in book form, having religiously watched the show as a kid. The book had a little humor (what was there was good) and little character depth

The Friday 56 - Zorro, A Novel

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This is a cool weekly thing from Story Time With Tonya . 1. Grab the book nearest you right now. 2. Turn to page 56. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like). 5. Post a link with your post to Storytime with Tonya and Friends. "In October, when the town was still talking about nothing else, they were attacked by pirates." - Zorro, A Novel by Isabel Allende

Monday Musings - Keeping Books

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Thanks for Rebecca's blog 'Just One More Page' for Monday Musings... Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about a keeping books. Do you keep all the books you ever buy? Just the ones you love? Just collectibles? What do you do with the ones you don’t want to keep? PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Musing Mondays post, or share your opinion in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks. I've kept most books I've ever bought. When I junk out, I just can't let go of books. When I was a kid, I was born into books - Mom had every Agatha Christie, Nero Wolfe and Dick Francis book not to mention dozens of other series or sets. I was maybe a teenager when I found out I could actually take out 30 books on my library card - not the number Mom told my sister and me while she'd walk out with like sixty books every three weeks! The books that I got as gifts were very special to me because they were mine - I could read them as many times as I wante

Monday Musings - Reference Material

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Thanks for Rebecca's blog 'Just One More Page' for Monday Musings... Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about a reference material. Do you keep reference books on your shelves at home? What’s your first port of call when you need information – the internet or a book? PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Musing Mondays post, or share your opinion in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks. I have reference books on writing mysteries, publishing, alternative medicine and cooking. I used to go to those books for any information but now I go online for pretty much everything. Of course, I triple-check (or more) any information I find online. I like online sources because they're the most up-to-date and/or I love to read what people have to say. I can read a reference book about a cure for allergies for example but online, I can find a forum of people's actual experiences with something. There's a certain human element, human interaction you