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When in doubt, tea.

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

October 25, 2024 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr16bingo golden Mrs. Palfrey, recently widowed, has had to make a decision regarding the rest of her life.  She has no home of her own, since she had spent most of her life stationed in Burma with her husband.  She had been temporarily staying with her daughter in Scotland, but clearly that was no permanent solution.  So she eyed the London papers and settled on the Claremont Hotel in South Kensington.  After all, her grandson, whom she had rarely seen, worked nearby at the British […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction Tagged With: 1960s Britain, cbr16bingo golden, Elizabeth Taylor, family issues, Getting old is not for the weak, Retirement, Unlikely companions

elderberrywine's CBR16 Review No:32 · Genres: Featured, Fiction · Tags: 1960s Britain, cbr16bingo golden, Elizabeth Taylor, family issues, Getting old is not for the weak, Retirement, Unlikely companions ·
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Manipulated Into Caring

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

July 10, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

For a tale of four siblings bound together by a traumatic experience with a fortune teller when they were young, The Immortalists is not terribly enthralling. Varya, Simon, Klara, and Daniel, the siblings, meet an old woman in a cramped and hot apartment. They have saved up and pooled their allowance; they overheard other kids in the neighborhood saying that “the woman on Hester Street” could tell you the date of your death. She gives gives our fearless foursome their dates; they do not share them with […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Chloe Benjamin, family issues, fortune telling, magic, regret, siblings, tragedy

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:74 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Chloe Benjamin, family issues, fortune telling, magic, regret, siblings, tragedy ·
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Another Jackie Lau that made me very hungry

The Ultimate Pi Day Party by Jackie Lau

June 4, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

Official book description: If there’s one thing that might get my dad, a retired math teacher, to visit Toronto and have a real conversation with me for the first time in seventeen years, it’s a big nerdy Pi Day party. And hopefully this party—and seeing the tech company I built from nothing—will finally be enough to impress him and make him forgive me for everything I did when I was a teenager. But it’s got to be a really great party. That’s where Sarah Winters […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #food, Baldwin Village, Canada, cbr12, Contemporary Romance, family issues, Jackie Lau, The Ultimate Pi Day Party

Malin's CBR12 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: #food, Baldwin Village, Canada, cbr12, Contemporary Romance, family issues, Jackie Lau, The Ultimate Pi Day Party ·
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