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Paula’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Paula’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Paula Vince
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Born
in Adelaide, Australia
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L.M.Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, Harpe
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Member Since
July 2012
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Best Forgotten
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2011
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The Greenfield Legacy
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2012
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Imogen's Chance
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2014
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Picking Up the Pieces (Adelaide Hills #2)
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2010
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Glimpses of Light
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The Prophecies (Quenarden, #1)
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2002
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The Risky Way Home
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2012
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A Design of Gold
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2009
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The Castle of Light (Quenarden, #2)
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2003
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The Dark Secret (Quenarden, #3)
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2004
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'The Tea Ladies' by Amanda Hampson
Here's what I chose for the Cosy Mystery category of my 2025 Aussie Reading Challenge..
MY THOUGHTS:
This is a retro Aussie tale set in the Surrey Hills and King's Cross areas of Sydney in 1965.
The mystery starts when a tea lady named Hazel Bates spots a beautiful young woman peering through the window of an abandoned warehouse building, scribbling a cryptic message on the dusty glass. Th
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Paula Vince
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Siobhan's review
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The Penderwicks at Last (The Penderwicks #5):
"i like how at the end the book foreshadows something brewing between Lydia and Alice's brother because she bumped into him the same way Skye bumped into Jeffrey. Except this time there will be a Penderwick sister falling in love with a Cagney clone a"
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Sally Morgan's autobiography merges into family history, because getting to the bottom of whatever happened to her mother and grandmother became a driving force in her own life. It begins in the mid-1950s. Sally is the eldest of five children. Her dad ...more |
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| Sara Dane, a young woman from Kent, is convicted of theft based on flimsy circumstantial evidence. Sentenced to seven years of hard labor, she's on her way to Botany Bay aboard the Georgette. A sudden opportunity to work for the migrating Ryder famil ...more | |
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| This classic was first published in 1897, the late Victorian era when 'Invasion Literature' about monstrous beings converging on the British Empire had gained a fair bit of traction. Perhaps the Brits grappled with dread that the nations they'd colon ...more | |
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| It seemed to be an open-and-shut case. Mrs McGinty was an ordinary cleaning lady who got murdered in her own home, apparently for her ￡30 savings. She was smashed brutally on the back of the head with a sharp object, and since there were no signs of ...more | |
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Paula Vince
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9 other people
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Adam Heff's review
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Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love:
"How might your faith be different if it were not based around fear?
What if you could think of God as the overflowing source of love in your life, because nobody told you God was like an abusive parent who would punish you for questioning, doubting, o" Read more of this review » |
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"A beautifully written, larger-than-life Amazonian adventure story that’s filled with lovable heroes and heroines, some dastardly villains and a cleverly worked plot.
Set a hundred years ago, the story follows the life and journey of Maia, a young orp" Read more of this review » |
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"Well indeed, if I had encountered Eva Ibbotson’s 2001 historical fiction novel Journey to the River Sea (about a young orphaned English girl’s adventures and misadventures in 1910 Brazil and on the Amazon) as a child (or rather I should say if the no"
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| Some anonymous donor dropped this novel off into our Little Free Book Library, and I considered it very timely, for I meant to read it someday. I know this book has been doing the rounds for years and since it found its way to me, I've got onto it at ...more | |
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| This book is written in a documentary style. Daphne du Maurier was a huge fan of the Brontes, and it's very cool to see her tackle a non-fiction project of this calibre, changing her setting for once from her beloved seaside Cornwall to the chilly in ...more | |
“Reader's Bill of Rights
1. The right to not read
2. The right to skip pages
3. The right to not finish
4. The right to reread
5. The right to read anything
6. The right to escapism
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10. The right to not defend your tastes”
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1. The right to not read
2. The right to skip pages
3. The right to not finish
4. The right to reread
5. The right to read anything
6. The right to escapism
7. The right to read anywhere
8. The right to browse
9. The right to read out loud
10. The right to not defend your tastes”
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“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
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“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
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“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”
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“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
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Paula wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Dear Paula,I'm not certain if my message got to you yesterday, so here I go again. Sally from Wombat Books has asked me to write my press release for Green Heart of the Forest a..."
Hi Elizabeth, sure, please feel free to use any of my quotes for your press release. Have fun putting it together.
Blessings,
Paula V
Elizabeth wrote: "Dear Paula,I'm not certain if my message got to you yesterday, so here I go again. Sally from Wombat Books has asked me to write my press release for Green Heart of the Forest and because you wro..."
Elizabeth wrote: "Dear Paula,
I'm not certain if my message got to you yesterday, so here I go again. Sally from Wombat Books has asked me to write my press release for Green Heart of the Forest and because you wro..."
Dear Paula,I'm not certain if my message got to you yesterday, so here I go again. Sally from Wombat Books has asked me to write my press release for Green Heart of the Forest and because you wrote my appraisal in the Caleb Ms competition, I was wondering if i could use some of your quotes please. Thanks and God bless.
Elizabeth Klein
