“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
Latest Posts
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The Vish Puri Novels, and a couple of other book recommendations
Several people remarked that I have not been on Facebook recently. Actually, I haven’t been on any social media, nor watching television. I’ve been reading! These days I have difficulty, sadly, finding a book to make me eagerly grab it up and forget the world. I wonder if it has to do with I’m out…
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Time, Ancestors, and Southern Sayings
This morning I sat down to write a blog post, and that was three hours ago. I got sidetracked when I opened email first and found a notification of a post in an ancestry group to which I belong. A member posted surnames from his great-great grandparents and invited others to do the same that…
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Free and Sale Books!
SWEET DREAMS AT THE GOODNIGHT MOTEL is on sale today through Tuesday, January 17 – 22, $1.99, at all major online bookstores. And don’t forget that Donna Fasano’s FREE BOOKS start today! Check them out! JASON, Single Daddy Club, book 2 REECE, Single Daddy Club, book 3 Reader friends, if you enjoy these books, please…
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Book Recommendations–the Latest No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, two sweet romances, and news of my own.
I have used the Christmas and New Year holiday weeks to practice the habit of stopping what I’m doing and sitting to read. I am reading much more again! I finally got to read the latest installment from the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels by Alexander McCall Smith: THE COLORS OF ALL THE…
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Don’t Miss Powell’s Compendium of Readerly Terms
Prin-tro-vert: n. a person who favors the company of books to people. That would be me, sadly, the truth. This is from Powell’s Compendium of Readerly Terms. Of course readerly is not a word in the dictionary, well, until now. We all know it should be a word. Many words we use should be…
“Matlock writes about generous people striving to live and love well. She does it beautifully.
~ Contra Costa Times
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