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I spent much of 2020 grateful to books and authors for giving me a way to visit other times and places while stuck at home because of Covid. Below, listed in alphabetical order by author, are my top eight favorite books of 2020. Some grades have been adjusted since my ... more >
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Trigger warning: READERS PLEASE NOTE: The following review contains MASSIVE spoilers for the earlier five books in Megan Whalen Turner’s Thief series and this is one series where spoilers should be avoided at all costs. Seriously, don’t even read the blurbs for the later books. If you’d like to try ... more >
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Readers please note: the following interview contains SPOILERS for books 1-3 in Megan Whalen Turner’s Queen’s Thief series. As I mentioned the last time I interviewed Megan Whalen Turner, her Queen’s Thief series is one of my favorite YA series, novels filled with high-stakes intrigue and deception, loyal friendships, dangerous ... more >
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I was a cranky reader on social media this year, so I was surprised to discover that like Jayne’s, my top ten list runneth over. In hindsight, I think some my crankiness was due to the difficulty I had finding satisfying reads in historical romance, traditionally my favorite genre. Please ... more >
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Unforgiven by Mary Balogh Recently I reread Balogh’s 1997 release, Indiscreet, and found that it still works for me. Since I’d never read the other two books in the Four Horsemen trilogy and they had all been recently reissued, I then decided to move on to book two, Unforgiven. Unforgiven ... more >
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Perhaps this post should be titled What Janine is Rereading, since the books mentioned below are all books I’ve read before. Indiscreet by Mary Balogh This was my third time reading Indiscreet. I first read it in the early 2000s because it was recommended by a number of people in ... more >