Originally published in the Dunwoody Crier If you follow my columns, you had to know it wouldn’t be long before I returned to British mysteries. I don’t consciously say to myself, “It’s time to return to England,” but somehow that’s what happens. Once again, I can’t recall where I heard about these two, but I’m […]
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I’m an avid reader—someone who reads every night and never goes anywhere without a book. Heaven forbid I’d be stuck somewhere without one. I can still recall with horror the time I downloaded a book to a new tablet for a business trip, and the tablet froze up on the first leg of the journey.
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Beyond planning my wardrobe for a trip, I can’t think of anything more important than ensuring I have plenty of reading material. It won’t belong before I arrive in Athens, Greece and begin the Greek Odyssey cruise which hugs the coast of Greece and visits Santorini and Crete. Because I don’t take paperbacks on overseas
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The WSJ posed the question: Who is your favorite fictional detective? They printed five answers, and I’m not sure any of them would have made my list. Perhaps there are just too many from which to choose especially for someone like me who mostly reads mysteries. Not that I need any books to add to
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Wow! Mum read an awesome book about a cat who’s on a ‘round the world trip with a guy on a bicycle. I’m not sure I want to travel on a bicycle—or at all—but it’s a grand adventure story. And it’s not fiction. It’s true. Nala was a tiny kitten, when Dean, a cyclist from
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Are there any King Arthur fans out there? It was Mary Stewart’s King Arthur trilogy that hooked me when I was in high school. I suspect “The Crystal Cave,” published in 1970, was one of the many books I snuck into class and read between the covers of textbooks. I had to wait until 1973
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