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07 July 2012
Alice Taylor's Wonderful Series About Ireland.
I came across Alice Taylor's books about Ireland when searching for another author and I'm so happy to have found her. To School Through the Fields was her first book and it was so well received that she has written many more. I'm buying and reading them one at a time and I fall in love with mid-century Ireland all over again with each story. If you love Ireland in the good old days you'll love Alice Taylor. She writes about the same era that Patrick Taylor writes about in his Irish Country Doctor series but they are not related in any way other than talent and I have thoroughly loved both. It may take awhile to collect the entire series but it's worth the trouble.
06 January 2012
If you think Ohio and Ireland have nothing in common think again.
As usual, Julie Kistler entertains with this funny fast paced read. With a Grandfather who claims to be a leprechan and looks the part, a beautiful botanist who doesn't and a sophisticated business man who finds himself stuck in a old Irish pub in, wait for it, Ohio, this story never loses it's zest! His company has just purchased 200 acres across the road to build a factory that promises to destroy the beauty of the mystical countryside. The plot has more twists and turns than an Irish jig carried along by severl characters determined to find grist for the local rumor mill. Our hero finally finds a way to win fair lady and his job and becomes a believer in what isn't supposed to real. You won't be bored a minute in this fun romp filled with gold coins, mystical lagoons and disappearing sports car.
05 May 2012
A tale of a murderer convicted by chance
I found A Scream on the Water a very frightening read because it reveals how a man who seemed very normal to his friends and relatives was in fact a very dangerous sociopath involved in a hunt for a woman to rape and murder. Although he considered himself extremely intelligent he in fact was deluding himself because the woman he murdered was a friend and known to be going for a sail boat ride that day with him. These collaborating authors were also residents of the area where the murder took place and knew the much loved artist he chose as his victim. Although he put a lot of thought into the disposal of her body, a higher power was at work to thwart him and it became tangled in the trapline of a local fisherman and was brought to the surface in only a few days. Although the reader knows who was killed and who did it it's still a fascinating story of how he destroyed a wonderful woman but was brought to justice through many odd occurances.