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Kathy Shuker
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Taking stock
After a long, hot summer it’s a relief to have cool nights again and the odd, brief shower of rain, hopefully with more to come. Since the launch of The House at Dart’s End and the usual promotional activities to get the word out, I have to admit to having been pretty idle – at least on the writing front. Completing a novel and then all the work that accompanies publishing it is satisfying but als
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"5 star thriller/detective fun. Wonderful low-key detective—-middle-aged, outwardly unremarkable Japanese widow named Wada. Her real superpower is what Goddard calls her “cloak of obscurity.” The plot is interesting and carefully revealed to the reade"
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"This is a late Edith Wharton short story published in 1934, just a few years before her death. She’s still using her personal knowledge of upperclass Americans who spent a lot of time in the Old World—here Italy. Unlike many of her stories, the chara"
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"I find it hard to review this book. It is so unusual. I don't think that I've read another book quite like it and so am left with a range of emotions. Initially, I found it quite hard to stay with - it almost lacked form (but so does the Helm wind in"
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“Letting go’ sounded like such an easy thing to do...but actually involved a lot of pain.”
― Deep Water, Thin Ice
― Deep Water, Thin Ice
“There was almost an air of penance about her, as if, by doing these dirty jobs which she found so distasteful, she was trying to repay some debt. And, to judge from the shadowy sadness which she carried around her like a mantle, it was about as effective as throwing in spadefuls of sand to dam a flowing river.”
― Deep Water, Thin Ice
― Deep Water, Thin Ice
“He had found that jealousy – or perhaps the fear of betrayal – was no respecter of age. Indeed, if anything, he thought getting older simply made it worse; he felt more vulnerable now.”
― Silent Faces, Painted Ghosts
― Silent Faces, Painted Ghosts
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“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.”
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“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“If you knew in advance that something momentous and terrible would happen you’d make an effort to imprint it all in your mind, wouldn’t you, every detail. But of course you don’t know. And perhaps that’s just as well.”
― Silent Faces, Painted Ghosts
― Silent Faces, Painted Ghosts
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