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JUNE 2023 FREE BOOK!
This month, it’s my privilege to give away one of my favorite novels ever, THE PORCELAIN MOON by Janie Chang! From the publisher–“Set against the little-known history of the 140,000 Chinese workers brought to Europe [France] as noncombatant labor during WWI, THE PORCELAIN MOON is a tale of forbidden love, identity and belonging, and what…
Sept. ’13 Free Book #2!
Our second Free Book this month is M.K. Gilroy’s crime thriller/mystery EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE! Gilroy’s Kristen Conner series has taken detective novels to a whole new level, and in doing so Gilroy has won himself a growing audience of avid readers. From the back cover: “When the son of a Chicago billionaire is murdered,…
PUPPY LOVE! Labrador Retriever
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GOBBLE!
Wild Word Friday! To consider the origin of the word GOBBLE, we need to go back to the Celts, who gave us the word gober, meaning to gulp down or swallow. From gober we get gobbet, a morsel of food, particularly meat, and we also find the related word, gob, in various Gaelic dialects, which…
LYNCH
Wild Word Friday! Linguists generally agree that LYNCH is an eponymous word. That means that it originated from the name of a person. The problem seems to be which person. There are several candidates. The first is a James LYNCH Fitzstephen, a mayor of Galway in Ireland. According to some sources, in 1493, poor…
JUNE 2023 FREE BOOK!
This month, it’s my privilege to give away one of my favorite novels ever, THE PORCELAIN MOON by Janie Chang! From the publisher–“Set against the little-known history of the 140,000 Chinese workers brought to Europe [France] as noncombatant labor during WWI, THE PORCELAIN MOON is a tale of forbidden love, identity and belonging, and what…
Sept. ’13 Free Book #2!
Our second Free Book this month is M.K. Gilroy’s crime thriller/mystery EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE! Gilroy’s Kristen Conner series has taken detective novels to a whole new level, and in doing so Gilroy has won himself a growing audience of avid readers. From the back cover: “When the son of a Chicago billionaire is murdered,…
PUPPY LOVE! Labrador Retriever
When our children were small, my husband’s parents owned a wonderful black lab named Charlie. He was a patient and loving friend to our son and daughter. Whenever I think of Charlie, I remember him lying patiently while my children adorned him with daisies all down his back. What a sweet dog! Do you have…
GOBBLE!
Wild Word Friday! To consider the origin of the word GOBBLE, we need to go back to the Celts, who gave us the word gober, meaning to gulp down or swallow. From gober we get gobbet, a morsel of food, particularly meat, and we also find the related word, gob, in various Gaelic dialects, which…
LYNCH
Wild Word Friday! Linguists generally agree that LYNCH is an eponymous word. That means that it originated from the name of a person. The problem seems to be which person. There are several candidates. The first is a James LYNCH Fitzstephen, a mayor of Galway in Ireland. According to some sources, in 1493, poor…
JUNE 2023 FREE BOOK!
This month, it’s my privilege to give away one of my favorite novels ever, THE PORCELAIN MOON by Janie Chang! From the publisher–“Set against the little-known history of the 140,000 Chinese workers brought to Europe [France] as noncombatant labor during WWI, THE PORCELAIN MOON is a tale of forbidden love, identity and belonging, and what…
Sept. ’13 Free Book #2!
Our second Free Book this month is M.K. Gilroy’s crime thriller/mystery EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE! Gilroy’s Kristen Conner series has taken detective novels to a whole new level, and in doing so Gilroy has won himself a growing audience of avid readers. From the back cover: “When the son of a Chicago billionaire is murdered,…
PUPPY LOVE! Labrador Retriever
When our children were small, my husband’s parents owned a wonderful black lab named Charlie. He was a patient and loving friend to our son and daughter. Whenever I think of Charlie, I remember him lying patiently while my children adorned him with daisies all down his back. What a sweet dog! Do you have…
GOBBLE!
Wild Word Friday! To consider the origin of the word GOBBLE, we need to go back to the Celts, who gave us the word gober, meaning to gulp down or swallow. From gober we get gobbet, a morsel of food, particularly meat, and we also find the related word, gob, in various Gaelic dialects, which…
LYNCH
Wild Word Friday! Linguists generally agree that LYNCH is an eponymous word. That means that it originated from the name of a person. The problem seems to be which person. There are several candidates. The first is a James LYNCH Fitzstephen, a mayor of Galway in Ireland. According to some sources, in 1493, poor…