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Sheena Macleod

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Writer of historical fiction, and an avid reader. I like some fact to my fiction.

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Average rating: 4.14 · 154 ratings · 62 reviews · 35 distinct works

	Reign of the Marionettes 4.41 avg rating — 75 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Million Project Fiction Anthology by Jason Greenfield (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), K.V. Wilson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tom Walburn (Contributor) 4.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Right Cozy Christmas Crime by Wendy H. Jones (Goodreads Author), Sheena Macleod (Goodreads Author), Pauline Tait (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mom’s Favorite Reads eMagazine December 2021 by Goylake Publishing, Hannah Howe (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Melanie Smith (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mom’s Favorite Reads eMagazine January 2021 by Goylake Publishing, Hannah Howe (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Melanie Smith (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mom’s Favorite Reads eMagazine February 2021 by Goylake Publishing, Hannah Howe (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Melanie Smith (Editor) 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So, you Say I Can't Vote! Frances Connelly: The Working Class Woman's Route To The Vote by Sheena Macleod (Goodreads Author), Laura Linham 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Book Review: A Fighting Chance by Val Penny

A Fighting Chance by Val Penny- book 2 in the Jane Renwick crime thriller series

I’ve been reading a fair bit of cozy crime from my TBR pile recently, so it was a welcome change to read Val Penny’s latest crime thriller in her Jane Renwick series as part of the Reading Between the Lines Book Blog Tour. You can find my review below..

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Death Row (Alibis Collection, #1)

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12 Ways to Kill Your Family at Christmas

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Game of Scones (Sugar & Spice Mysteries, #1)

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― Oscar Wilde

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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
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“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
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Book Review Club — 2909 members — last activity Dec 28, 2025 03:10PM
This group is to help authors to achieve more-HONEST-reviews by reviewing freely provided books/ARCs. Rather than post scathing reviews, the reader ...more

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Welcome to Historical Fictionistas! We want to experience all different kinds of HF with all different kinds of people. The more diverse, the better. ...more

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This Group is only for authors who are looking for reviews and Reviewers who love to read books and share their reviews.

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OMP related books and discussions. Post your books here. Request reviews. Post blog, twitter and FB sites for us to follow you.

Goodreads Reviewers' Group — 13259 members — last activity 12 hours, 46 min ago
This group helps to bring Reviewers and Authors together! Reviewers can make their own thread to post their reviews in, or post their reviews in the r ...more

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History: Actual, Fictional and Legendary — 1203 members — last activity Dec 30, 2025 12:47AM
This group is for anyone whose interest in History goes beyond textbooks. While I enjoy reading books that cover actual events and actual people, I al ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22582 members — last activity Dec 24, 2025 01:37PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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