by Tea Cooper (Author), Casey Withoos (Narrator), Thomas Nelson (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin THE GIRL IN THE PAINTING by Tea Cooper is a wondrous historical fiction novel set in Australia. Brother and sister travel from England to Australia in the late 1800’s to join their parents who emigrated from Ireland first to establish a new home for…
by Victoria Tait (Author) A Book Review by Jackie Houchin What a superb wrap up to Victoria Tait’s six book British Antique Mystery series! Although the author promises more of Dotty Sayers, PRICELESS BETRAYAL completes a character and mystery ark in her heroine’s life. The story picks up in a tense situation as Dotty is stopped…
Originally posted on Momma Needs to Read:
Welcome back to my blog. For those of you that have already seen my How to Rate Books post, this is like part two. For those that have not seen that post, you can read it here. This post is all about the written review part of book…
Originally posted on Momma Needs to Read:
Sometimes, when you finish a book you immediately know where it lands on your rating scale. Sometimes, you have no clue, or maybe you are struggling to figure out where you feel it fits best. Something important to remember about ratings and reviews is that they are totally…
Originally posted on The Writers in Residence:
By Guest blogger/author Naomi Hirahara Artificial intelligence, especially ChatGPT, is on people’s minds these days. ChatGPT is developed through OpenAI, a company Elon Musk co-founded with a controlling and growing investment by Microsoft, which is beta-testing artificial intelligence in its search engine, bing. Instead of doing a simple…
By by Katie Gayle (Author) A Book Review by Jackie Houchin Katie Gayle has brought back her sixty-something recently single and very clever sleuth, Sarah Byrd with her rambunctious chocolate Labrador, Jake. Many of the characters in the Cotswolds town of Barrywick have returned too, including Tabitha her library friend and Sean, the handsome doctor, who looks like…
by Charles Todd (Author), Simon Prebble (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin A bizarre set of murders unfolds in Yorkshire after a creepily clothed corpse with a book on alchemy at his feet is found in the ruins of an abbey. There is a lot of misdirection at first which the local policeman advances due to…
by AJ Pearce (Author), Anna Popplewell (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin I very much enjoyed this historical novel set in the middle of WWII in Great Britain. DEAR MRS. BIRD is about the war efforts that those at home took part in to support the soldiers and sailors – often some of their own…
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