Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 22, 2009, 7:57 am
When I received the offer to read and review this book it had me intrigued.  Even the title had me wondering right away what it was all about, and I have to admit, I was laughing out loud laughing, s...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 20, 2009, 7:35 am
Charlie Noble, retired from the Coast Guard is living a serene life on his boat on the waters in the Pacific Northwest. Switching gears from working full time to retiring / investigations brings him ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 18, 2009, 8:11 am
One Day, Dan Page is at work as a pilot for the police force.  He returns home one evening to find his wife not home and walking around the house some of her items are missing.  While in the kitchen...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 17, 2009, 1:22 pm
Just when you thought you were safe right, and I just returned home from the library unscathed from picking up any more books then I can possibly handle, the wonderful and funny Deanna at HarperCollin...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 16, 2009, 8:22 pm
Lately, I have seen these posts in my reader and asked around today who and what it was all about, and Bermudiaonion and Booking Mama were the ones to start this up.  So, thank them in getting me suc...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 16, 2009, 5:35 pm
Ben has run from his life in England to Greece. Just separated/divorced from his wife and child, he is running from something that isn’t inherently known right away.  They want to talk to one anot...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 16, 2009, 7:53 am
Sharon was walking back to her offices to retrieve her cell phone when at the same time someone was breaking into her offices to take whatever information she had on a case her team was working on whe...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 14, 2009, 7:26 am
Will Ferguson hasn’t lost his style.  Set in Ireland his latest travel book is the background for a search for information about his grandfather and how he came to Canada from Ireland. He decides ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 12, 2009, 7:57 am
Forensic Anthropologists take what they see and what is around them in a crime scene as well as other places and interpret what happened when or who they came into contact with after the person has di...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 10, 2009, 7:53 am
I have to say, I keep getting more and more impressed with some of these vampire based books lately that I have had the privilege of being able to read.  I haven’t fully committed to being on the t...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 8, 2009, 12:40 pm
Recently, I had the great opportunity of being part of a wonderful blogging tour of Cathy Marie Buchanan’s debut historical fiction novel The Day The Falls Stood Still.  Yesterday, she was at t...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 8, 2009, 7:25 am
Is there any thing you do to get more books? Is there anything that you would do to get them? Sell your first child? Rob a bank? Find any means possible to get the ones you wanted with ignoring the co...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 6, 2009, 7:30 am
Kit, who is a graduate student in literature  is literally obsessed with her work is about to have a change. She decides on a whim to go across town to go to some dancing classes she came across.  ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 5, 2009, 12:30 pm
I was at the library today, and I know that so many of you are very frequent visitors to your local library, and this question came to my mind… So finish answering the question with your own fu...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 4, 2009, 8:33 am
I am wondering how many of you have watched the ABC show Castle on television?  Last season, Richard Castle and Detective Beckett has this uncanny spark between them, that spurred Richard penning his...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 2, 2009, 9:31 pm
It has been a bit hasn’t it since I last talked about the new bookcase I was getting from CSN Office Furniture hasn’t it? Well, after a glitch that was thrown my way, and finally getting ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 2, 2009, 1:40 pm
I was curious, what everyone is thinking about the book so far? Are you enjoying it? Are you thinking what will happen next? What is it about the book or the writing that you are finding humorous and ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Nov 2, 2009, 8:30 am
Have you ever had those types of women group type relationships that have gone on for 20-30 years where you have shared everything?  This book is one of those types of books. Three women friends hav...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 31, 2009, 10:30 am
... he gives his review of this book that he really likes and it is quite evident here at home, where he looks at it a lot. Eyewitness Soldier is one of those books that is great for one that is wa...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 30, 2009, 10:00 am
When this book came to my door, I was excited for my son who received it, but I had absolutely no idea how great and fact filled this books was.  It is absolutely filled with illustrations about ever...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 26, 2009, 11:35 pm
Do you or have you ever wondered what it takes in terms of resources to make certain things that we use every day?  Have you wondered since the topic of Global Warming has been more and more prevalen...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 24, 2009, 11:27 pm
From the beginning, Spooner was difficult.  When he was born in the back office of a rural doctor’s office along with his twin who died, it was difficult even in the best of situations back in ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 22, 2009, 11:10 pm
A great big Thank you to Thad Carhart for taking time of his busy schedule to be able to answer a few questions! What was it that made you pursuing a degree in Anthropology? and then turn it into boo...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 20, 2009, 11:46 pm
Jean Baptise Charbonneau has lived a somewhat charmed life so to speak.  Born in 1805 in the wilderness to his mother Sacagawea and father Toussaint Charbonneau, who just happened to be the translato...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 17, 2009, 11:01 pm
Have you ever given your heart to someone and then have it broken so it seemed at the time, to be broken into a million pieces or if it was ripped out from your chest still beating on the ground, or a...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 16, 2009, 7:11 am
With great pleasure, I had the great opportunity to talk to Julie on her latest book After You, about the upcoming movie based on her book The Opposite of Love, and what she is working on now.  So ha...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 15, 2009, 7:30 am
Taking place in New York State, A woman who is murdered is connected to a prominent man in town; plus a few unsavoury characters.  As the investigation continues, and seemingly disrupts the family li...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 13, 2009, 8:15 am
Harry Bosch is on the job again.  Once again he doesn’t disappoint. Assigned to a suspected robbery homicide that involves an Asian family business in an area they don’t  usually cover, they ar...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 11, 2009, 8:19 am
I am simply speechless. All of us know Marilyn Monroe was one of the most famous actresses in her day, who is still as iconic as she was before her death – her natural beauty, her tumultuous relati...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 9, 2009, 1:36 pm
Usually, this time of year brings thoughts of being thankful and grateful of the many things that have been given to us, so, this is my little way of adding to that.  This pie I have been making for ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 9, 2009, 8:53 am
A huge thank you goes out to Julia who took the time out her busy schedule to be able to answer my questions.  I hope you enjoy ! Which talent would you most like to have besides writing or teaching...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 8, 2009, 8:27 am
In the area I live in, there has been a shift in the type of nationalities that are living here.  When I was younger it was a mix of mainly Ukrainian, Polish, Italian, and like nationalities that liv...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 6, 2009, 8:17 am
All right, before I get started on this book review, I have to admit that this author has so sucked me in again. After losing her best friend to a seemingly quite random case of violence near her Not...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 4, 2009, 8:00 pm
I have to admit, I was taken so much by this book by the first paragraph, that I neglected things in my real life until I absolutely had to do them. What would you do if the place you have called you...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 3, 2009, 4:22 pm
I was contacted a few weeks ago by Louise from the Telegraph Paper in the UK, asking me if I would be interested in joining their online book club while they read the second installment of Corduroy Ma...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 3, 2009, 8:00 am
Patrick and Margaret who were recently married move to Kenya for Patrick to continue his research as a Doctor. Moving for anyone even to a new country or across the country for that matter is one of ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Oct 1, 2009, 8:10 am
I have to say right off this was the perfect book when I read it.  I had read some pretty heavy literary works before this book and was in a sort of rut in choosing what I would read next.  I think ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Sep 30, 2009, 5:52 pm
This afternoon I had the distinct pleasure of being asked to call into the end of a book blogging tour for Cathy Marie Buchanan’s The Day The Falls Stood Still.  Also attended by Author Sandra ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Sep 29, 2009, 8:00 am
Have you ever wondered when watching Schindler’s List or The Defiance, or reading Anne Frank’s Diary about the absolute terror and fragility that Jewish people went through as the Germans invaded ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Sep 27, 2009, 8:00 am
This latest debut of James Patterson’s latest non fiction thriller is nothing short of pure gold. As James came up with the idea, pitched it to his agent, editor, and then started researching it th...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Sep 25, 2009, 8:00 am
In this dark noir type work from Nick Cave, I think it was the cover that intrigued me more about the novel, and decided I just had to read it.  Isn’t the cover just too neat? Bunny Munro is a mes...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Sep 23, 2009, 8:00 am
Theresa Mclean returns to the spotlight after her fiancé was killed during a bank robbery that went horrifically wrong.  In her deep grief that hasn’t abated even a bit, nothing even work seems to...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Sep 21, 2009, 9:49 am
Everyone this morning was awaiting the announcement of the Giller Prize longlist, now that it is, are you surprised, do you think they are missing anyone? Here is the list: Year of The Flood –...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Sep 21, 2009, 8:00 am
Do you sense that graveyards are creepy; do they make you cringe when you drive by one; is it a place only to be visited during the day to lay flowers and visit loved ones that have already passed on?...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Sep 20, 2009, 6:58 am
Karen lived with Samir until he threw her out, but not before he convinced her to let him hold her money she had instead of it being in the bank.  She agreed, and thought that she would get it back, ...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Sep 19, 2009, 6:57 am
Mary Gooch realizes that on the eve of her 25th wedding anniversary that she has absolutely nothing to wear.  Being morbidly obese, a lot is trial and error, but then again her job doesn’t really r...
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Marci C. posted an article on Serendipitous Readings - Sep 17, 2009, 11:16 pm
Without further ado, I wish to thank Cathy for a most wonderful Q and A, for taking the time out of her busy schedule and welcome her to my blog! 1. What is your most treasured possession? I’m goi...
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