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BOOKS: Smoke Kings by Jahmal Mayfield
A stunning debut novel that will leave you wondering how far you'd go to right the wrongs of the past, and the present.
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BOOKS: Casualties of Truth, by Lauren Francis-Sharma
A literary fiction thriller which poses puzzles of morality delivered compellingly
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Part 4: The Year In (and out of) Reading
The last months of 2024 were not a time period I will want to recall.
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Part 3: The Year In (and out) of Reading
An introvert's summer reads.
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Part 2: The Year In (and out) Of Reading
I only did one 11 day house-sit in February, accompanied friends for two surgeries and follow-ups, one quite awful and scary, took a relative to the…
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The Year In (and out of) Reading, Part 1
A literary journey of quixotic inconstancy meets a life path of hard practicalities
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So That (never)Happened
I See What I Wanna See
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Here We Are, Going
Here We Are, Going
A curmudgeon forged in the fires of musical theatre, misspent youth, & a marked inability to keep opinions to myself.
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