Dorothy Gilman – Cannonball Read 17

“The Caravan of life is moving by, Quick! to your places in the passing show.”

Caravan by Dorothy Gilman

August 3, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR17 Bingo: Culture – Caressa encounters and immerses herself in multiple cultures during her wanderings through the Sahara, including the Tuareg and the Hausa. By the age of sixteen Caressa has been a carnie, a Boston schoolgirl, and the wife of an anthropologist – but in her years in the Sahara desert, she will go on to become a widow, a sorceress, a slave, and much more. The trouble with this book is that the description is rather misleading. There’s a little magic, and a […]

Light and fluffy cozy mystery about a senior citizen CIA agent saving hippies from the Bulgarian secret police in 1971

The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman

March 9, 2021 by pixifer 2 Comments

The Mrs. Pollifax series has become one of my reading comforts. When I’m tired or world-weary, it’s nice to pick up something familiar with a little mystery and adventure, but no real threat of danger, while some nice people make the world a safer place. The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax is the third in the series, published in 1971. Life is back to normal for Mrs. Pollifax; she’s hosting her garden club for a rare blooming of her night-blooming cereus. Just as she’s thinking her short-lived […]

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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman

The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman

November 19, 2020 by pixifer Leave a Comment

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax Emily Pollifax is a widowed housewife who has filled her days with volunteering and gardening. Society tells her that should be enough, but she finds herself unfulfilled and wanting excitement. One day, she remembers that as a child she wanted to be a spy, so she goes to the CIA to volunteer her services. She’s thrilled to be sent on her first secret mission, and doesn’t even care that she’s only a courier and the assignment was a result of mistaken […]

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