Fictionophile
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Hello, my name is Lynne. I love to share reading with others and use my blog as a way of documenting my own reading and to serve as an additional online place where I can share my opinions about the books I read.
Fictionophile
16h ago
The setting and the fact that Hecate was an assistant librarian are the factors that caused me to choose to read this novel. I loved the old cathedral with its chained library. (still in existence today!) However, after reading more ..read more
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4d ago
This month I added 4 new review commitments to my TBR mountain. I requested TWO titles from NetGalley. Temptation won me over… I was sent an invitation on Edelweiss for one title, and I was invited to read one title ..read more
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6d ago
An Áróra Investigation series – Book 4 Áróra, who once lived in Edinburgh, is a financial investigator, though to make her life simpler she tells everyone she is an accountant. She now lives in a flat in Iceland to facilitate ..read more
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1w ago
I wasn’t at all sure what this novel would be like. Though I didn’t find it ‘hilarious’ as the blurb implies, it did evoke several smiles and even a tear toward the end. The narrator of this novel is Rachel ..read more
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1w ago
Detective Sergeant Sara Hirst is a city girl. Single, in her mid-thirties, she has recently moved to Norfolk from her position with the London Metropolitan Police. Her reasons for the move were two-fold. She wanted to find her birth-father (who ..read more
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1w ago
Promise Falls, in upstate New York, is the epitome of small towns everywhere. Though it might look quite idyllic in appearance, there is a lot going on behind the doors of the homes within its boundaries. And… there is a ..read more
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1w ago
Told from the point of view of Deb Gardner, this novel is a double-fold love story, love of a man, and the love of Antarctica. Deb works for the APP, the Antarctic Penguin Project. She is doing research into the ..read more
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1w ago
translated from the Norwegian by Megan Turney This police procedural, set in Oslo, Norway, is the fifth to feature policeman Alexander Blix and blogger/journalist Emma Ramm. Blix is in his late forties and was a Detective Chief Inspector of the ..read more
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2w ago
I am re-posting my review of this novel to celebrate the UK paperback publication on November 21, 2024 (The Lidingö Mysteries #1) “Anger is just sadness that’s been hardened by time.” Permeated with a sense of overwhelming melancholy, I ..read more
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2w ago
A while back, I downloaded a book from NetGalley not realizing that it was number two in a series. I wanted to read this one first, in preparation for the second. Luckily, it was available via my local public library’s ..read more