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Heckagirl631
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09-08-2010
| Friday, September 19, 2025 - 2:17 pm 
I just finished "Ingathering" by Zenna Henderson. It was kind of uneven. Some of the stories were really good. Mostly the ones toward the end of the book were the really good ones. But they were all pretty good. I enjoyed it.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Sunday, September 28, 2025 - 5:10 pm
I recently finished "The Long Walk" by Stephen King. It was originally published under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman. I read it a long time ago, but it was so long ago, I didn't really remember it. It was actually the first novel he wrote,even before Carrie. I watched the trailer for the movie. It's going to be brutal, but it is Stephen King.
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Heckagirl631
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09-08-2010
| Monday, September 29, 2025 - 6:49 pm
I finished a book that was basically just comic strips that my 75 year old sister thought was cute in less than two days. The Magical Adventures of Phoebe and her Unicorn. It was cute.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Tuesday, October 07, 2025 - 7:44 am
I finished "The Ghost Tree" by Christina Henry. This one would make a good scary movie. It was really good.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Friday, October 24, 2025 - 12:32 pm
I recently read "Under the Tulip Tree" by Michelle Shocklee. A charming book set during the Great Depression. A woman hired to write about former slaves lives.
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Rieann
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08-26-2006
| Thursday, November 06, 2025 - 3:13 pm
I’m a few chapters in on The Lost Heiress by Elizabeth Klehfoth. I picked it up for free through Kindle’s First Reads program. I think it will be released fully on December 1st.
It takes place in the present and in 1982 when the heiress went missing. Her bones are found beneath the family’s seaside mansion in the present day (along with another human’s bones). We have a detective, in the present, trying to solve the decades old mystery alternating with the events of the year before she went missing. The book focuses on the heiress, the housekeeper, and the young woman recently hired as a companion to the heiress. Forgive my terrible sentences-lol-my head is fuzzy-fighting a cold.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230270339-the-lost-heiress
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Teachmichigan
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07-21-2001
| Sunday, November 09, 2025 - 6:12 pm
In need of some comfort reads in this crazy world? While I'm not catching up with everything, I popped in to recommend two audiobooks and an author.
Over the space of 4 days (3 of them work days!), I listened to A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna and Rules for Second Chances by Maggie North. The first is the same author who wrote another of my favorites, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. Innkeeping was absolutely charming, heartwarming, and had a host of quirky, funny, and loveable characters. It's been a helluva year, so if you need a heart-warmer, this is your book!
North's book has a bit more angsty as the FMC is neurodivergent so, since she's the main narrator, her anxiousness comes through. However, there are many laughs and the core of the story is fighting for what you love.
Finally, I have come to love Carley Fortune this year. I've read four of her books (in no particular order b/c I didn't realize they were all connected) and thoroughly enjoyed each one. They are HEA romances set in Canada and have just the right amount of angst (i.e. nothing that makes you seriously worried.}
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 3:02 pm
I finished "The Tenants" by M.A. Hunter. It was pretty good. My Libby book came up to be borrowed, a bunch of short stories based on Stephen King's The Stand called "The End of the World As We Know It."
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Kappy
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06-28-2002
| Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 3:55 pm
Come December, I always start craving cozy Christmas-themed mysteries. This year, I felt the need to begin early and am currently reading Murder at an Irish Christmas by Carlene O'Connor. After that, I'm going to look into the suggestions given by Teach. While I find I'm not reading as many books this year, I am so grateful to have it as an alternative to turn to when the news becomes too much.
Earlier this year, these are books that I did enjoy: The Good House by Ann Leary, The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (excellent), The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley, Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty, Three Days in June by Anne Tyler and The God of the Woods by Liz Moore.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Thursday, November 27, 2025 - 6:54 pm
Finished "The End of the World as We Know It" by Various Writers. It was okay. I liked "The Stand" by Stephen King better.
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