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lisak09

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Finished this a couple of days ago. Another good one from this author. It's about a writer who's hired to ghostwrite a book by a husband who's suspected of murdering his wife and wants his side of the story told. I've read a few by this author and would definitely recommend them.
 

lisak09

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Finished this a couple of days ago. Another really good Holly (from The Mercedes Killer Trilogy) story from Stephen King. This one wasn't a supernatural one. Some of them are. Really enjoyed it as I love Holly. Also Sttephen King has always been my favourite author and still is!
 

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Finished this a couple of days ago. Another really good Holly (from The Mercedes Killer Trilogy) story from Stephen King. This one wasn't a supernatural one. Some of them are. Really enjoyed it as I love Holly. Also Sttephen King has always been my favourite author and still is!
It's on my list but I have to read all the previous ones first.
 

Songbird76

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I finished By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult. It was really good. It's about how voices of certain groups of people are absent or severely under-represented in entertainment, specifically theater, and have been for centuries. In Shakespeare's time, women could not write for the theater, or be on stage. Women's roles were played by men. But there's actually a theory that Shakespeare didn't write his own plays. For one, he was a full-time actor and businessman. When did he have time to write? Two, in a time when most playwrites collaborated, he worked alone and somehow had nothing but success. Three, when he died, there were no books, manuscripts, or writing implements to give to anyone. Most playwrites would have things they were working on when they died, that other people would then inherit or try to finish. He didn't. Four, he wrote in detail about things he couldn't have known about....like a painting in Italy, where he had never been, or about the canal system in Verona. And there were no guidebooks to describe them. Or how to play a recorder, when he wasn't a musician. He used names that were of meaning to certain people who were also writers, so it's suspected that there may have been a sort of club that wrote many of Shakespeare's works. One of the people who is thought to have possibly written at least SOME of his works is Emilia Bassano. Her family came from Italy as a family of musicians hired to perform for the monarch. She was the first woman in England to have a book of poetry published, so we know she was a writer, she had knowledge of music, of Italy, and used names very similar to those of her family members, etc.

Anyway, the book goes between HER story and modern times, and sheds light on the fact that though women buy the majority of the tickets for theater, there are only a small number of women who write, direct, or produce plays. I found it fascinating and I love the historical aspect of it, and I also read the Author's notes, which can sometimes be pretty boring, but she cited exactly where she found information she used for specific scenes, which was really interesting. This was definitely different than her courtroom stories, but I loved it.

 

Songbird76

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I just read The Otherwhere Post by Emily J Taylor. It was so good!! It's a YA somewhat fantasy-ish book about a world where there are people who can add magic to writing. When someone reads an enchanted piece of writing, things happen...perhaps the enchantment locks in one of their memories so someone else can see it. Perhaps they enchant it to make someone feel a particular emotion. There are many things they can do with these enchantments, and years ago, a door was enchanted that enabled people to travel between parallel worlds. Until someone released a deadly vine into one of them and its prick put people into a deep sleep for which they had no known cure. (Kind of like sleeping beauty) The door had to be burned in order to prevent the vine from spreading. People who had been in a different world when the vine was brought were now stuck in the world they had been visiting because the door that let them go back and forth was destroyed. Only postal couriers who could write enchantments that created a temporary door for themselves could travel between worlds. Maeve has grown up hiding her identity because her father is said to have been the one to bring in the vine that killed so many people and destroyed that world. If anyone finds out who she is, it would be very dangerous for her. 7 years after the incident, the backlog of mail starts to get delivered and she receives a letter saying her father was innocent, but it doesn't tell her anything about how the person knows this or who really introduced the vine. She has to go undercover into Scriptomancy school to find the truth.

If you like YA and fantasy, I think it's a good one. I guess also maybe Sci-fi, as the scriptomancy is kind of a technology they have. It's pretty much a world like ours, except for the existance of this arcane magic. So I don't know how most would classify it....fantasy or sci-fi. But I really liked it.

 

lisak09

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Just finished this, it's the first book in the romantic escapes series. They're set all over the world. I read the eight one "The Cosy Cottage in Ireland" already just because I'm irish 🤷‍♀️
I've really enjoyed them both, they're fun and light hearted. I read a lot of thrillers and like to break them up with something lighter, these are perfect for that!
I'll definitely read more of the series, the second one is The Little Brooklyn Bakery so I'll get that one next.
 

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