#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Love an African Adventure? My #bookreview for "Mrs. Pollifax on Safari" by Dorothy Gilman, on my #bookblog now! In this 5th book in the Mrs. Pollifax series, we find our protagonist in Africa! Lovely or not? #BeatTheBacklist #CloakDaggerChal #TheClassicsClub

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Love an African Adventure?

Book Review for “Mrs. Pollifax on Safari” by Dorothy Gilman. Summary: “Now the incredible Mrs. Pollifax has been sent on a safari to smoke out a very clever international assassin whose next …

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#ShortStorySunday First Impressions, Secondary Consequences.

Book Review for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” by Muriel Spark. Summary: “She was a schoolmistress with a difference. Proud, cultured, romantic, her ideas were progressive, even shocking. An…

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#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon A Palm, a Balm, or a Bomb? My #bookreview for "A Palm for Mrs Pollifax" by Dorothy Gilman (Mrs Pollifax Mystery #4) on my #bookblog here. Our #goldenyears spy gets into a potentially explosive situation! #BeatTheBacklist #CloakDaggerChal #TheClassicsClub

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A Palm, a Balm, or a Bomb?

Book Review for “A Palm for Mrs Pollifax” by Dorothy Gilman (Mrs Pollifax #4). Summary: “”What we are looking for – aside from the stolen plutonium, Mrs. Pollifax – is evil …

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#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon TCL's #CCSpin 43 #BookReview - Scout-ing for Justice. My #bookreview for "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, on my #bookblog now. Thanks to #TheClassicsClub for getting me to finally read this Pulitzer Prize winning, debut novel from 1960! #BeatTheBacklist

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TCL’s #CCSpin 43 #BookReview – Scout-ing for Justice.

Book Review for “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. Summary: “‘Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ A lawyer’s advice …

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#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon The Last Battle Mystery! My #bookreview for "Towards Zero" by Agatha Christie, which is the 5th and last Superintendent Battle novel, on my #bookblog now. Only 1 book left to my #battlerace #readingchallenge. #BeatTheBacklist #CloakDaggerChal #TheClassicsClub

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The Last Battle Mystery!

Book Review for “Towards Zero” by Agatha Christie. Summary: “What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life …

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#BookThreads #booksky 📚💙 #bookstodon Verbal and Literal Bombs. My #bookreview for "Table Two" by Marjorie Wilenski, on my #bookblog now. Thanks @DeanStPress for giving me a copy of this fascinating, and surprisingly insightful #WWII era novel. #TheClassicsClub #BeatTheBacklist #DeanStreetDecember

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Verbal and Literal Bombs.

Book Review for “Table Two” by Marjorie Wilenski. Summary: “Marjorie Wilenski’s only novel, as biting and funny as Barbara Pym at her crankiest, follows an office of women translators at the …

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Cruising on Denial.

Book Review for “Death on the Nile” by Agatha Christie. Summary: “The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the hea…

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#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon Do You Believe in Magic? My #bookreview for "Miss Carter and the Ifrit" by Susan Alice Kirby, on my #bookblog now. Thanks to @DeanStreetPress for this lovely #novella in time for #NovNov #TheClassicsClub #BeatTheBacklist.

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Do You Believe in Magic?

Book Review for “Miss Carter and the Ifrit” by Susan Alice Kirby. Summary: “It’s the final months of World War II and Georgina Carter, a single woman in her late forties with a drab job in th…

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TCL’s #CCSpin #42 Book Review – From Lovers to… ?

Book Review for “My Mortal Enemy” by Willa Cather. Summary: “Willa Cather’s protagonist in My Mortal Enemy is Myra Henshawe, who as a young woman gave up a fortune to marry for love—a b…

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Village Missives.

Book Review for “Dear Hugo” by Molly Clavering. Summary: “Sara Monteith makes an ideal correspondent for Hugo Jamieson, brother of her lost love Ivo, killed in the war before they could marry…

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