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The Street Lawyer by John Grisham (1998)

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I’m posting a handful of book reviews that I wrote two decades ago while in college. Sadly, I can’t find reviews of John Grisham‘s better books that I’d also read back then, books like The Client and A Time to … Continue reading

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Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (2017)

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The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I. It’s the end of the season for our annual Siblings’ Book Club, and this year I finished 9 of our 10 books (plus 2 runners-up, as you can see on our … Continue reading

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The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov (1954)

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The Foundations Series, Book 2 of 15 This second book follows The Complete Robot, a collection of 31 short stories that sets the literal foundation for Isaac Asimov‘s epic Foundation series. While most people view this series to have only … Continue reading

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The Mystery Thief by Paul Hutchens (1946)

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The Sugar Creek Gang, Book #10 As I mentioned in a previous post (Palm Tree Manhunt), our return overseas has brought some extra blessings we didn’t foresee, and one was stumbling upon these old novels from the Sugar Creek series. … Continue reading

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The Palm Tree Manhunt by Paul Hutchens (1944)

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The Sugar Creek Gang, Book #8 It’s been a year since I read a book from the Sugar Creek Gang series to my kids and 5 years since we picked up the first book, The Swamp Robber. I blame COVID, … Continue reading

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The Red House Mystery by A.A. Milne (1922)

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My recent travels overseas have hampered my reading calendar a bit, and jet-lag brain hasn’t allowed for much reading either. Still, I finished five books over the past 2 weeks, one of which was this jolly murder-mystery by Winnie the … Continue reading

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The Medusa Plot by Gordon Korman (2011)

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The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers, Book 1 of 6 The kids and I recently finished the first eleven-book series of The 39 Clues and were deeply impressed by the final two installments, Into the Gauntlet and Vespers Rising. They … Continue reading

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Rasmus and the Vagabond by Astrid Lindgren (1956)

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I absolutely love reading and reviewing great books you’ve never heard of! This book by the author of Pippi Longstocking is a far more human, far less silly tale of yet another 9-year-old in Sweden. It’s a fantastic read. Because … Continue reading

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Traces of Guilt by Dee Henderson (2016)

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An Evie Blackwell Cold Case “Wait, Elliot, you read Dee Henderson?” That was your first thought, right? From my prolific history of reviewing books, you can tell that, No I don’t “read Dee Henderson”—though now I can officially say that … Continue reading

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Vespers Rising by Various Authors (2011)

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The 39 Clues, Book 11 by Rick Riordan, Peter Lerangis, Gordon Korman, and Jude Watson The kids and I took about 7 months to work our way through The 39 Clues series (or at least this initial 11-book portion of … Continue reading

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