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You deserve a break. I love your new book (and all the others I read), and I also love your discipline and dedication. You inspire me... 🙂 I already mentioned this a gazillion times. But you do. ~ And thank you for all your support, I so appreciate it (as I mentioned in my last newsletter of the year). ~ Happy Holidays!🦃

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Also, just discovered she wrote about her experiences living there, and that The Yearling won a Pulitzer.

https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Creek-Marjorie-Kinnan-Rawlings/dp/0684818795/

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Found Majorie Kinan Rawling's book on the ZON:

https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Cookery-Marjorie-Kinnan-Rawlings/dp/0684818787/

lots of game and seafood in this. I think she grew up in backwoods Florida, where there was such a place.

But no gingerbread. No time to input just yet, but I will say the recipe only works at sea level - or maybe 100 ft above. The soda doesn't hold it aloft at 4400 ft altitude.

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Huge congratulations on finishing the Jayne series!!! It’s a remarkable accomplishment, and they’re terrific books. Wow—you’ve written 6!

Am reading 📖Gallows Hill by Darcy Coates and 🎧The Wilds by Sarah Pearse. Portugal 🇵🇹 seems to be very on trend.

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Congratulations on the Jayne finish! It’s a wonderful series!

I recently finished Cynthia Pelayo’s upcoming Vanished Daughters and it was wonderful. An updated take on Sleeping Beauty with urban legends, a serial killer, a fabulous dog, and so much love for Chicago. Really luscious writing. Look for it in March!

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!

This week’s books:

All the Hearts You Eat by Hailey Piper

The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

You’ve Got To Laugh by Allison Hammond

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Congratulations on the bittersweet ending to your Jayne series!!! I hope it all calms down for you next week and you get a lot of rest physically and creatively.

I'm in a great mood. My son told us months ago he wouldn't be able to come home from college for Thanksgiving due to his having late classes (Calculus and Physics) on Tuesday. Last night he mentioned that all but calculus is cancelled and wished he was coming home as he has a 95% in that class. This morning, we surprised him with tickets home. He'll be here for 8 days!! (All the hubs work travel paid off.) And I'm flying high!!! His sisters don't know so it's a surprise to them too. His oldest sister cried when she found out that he wouldn't be coming home so she'll be ecstatic too.

As for reading, I've been doing a deconstruction of books for me. Plus, I'm looking at books where I feel the writer leveled up and what changed in their stories. This week, I started A KILLER'S WIFE by Victor Methos. I'm liking it so far, but it isn't as fast paced as THE SILENT WATCHER. And it's the whole reason I started down the deconstruction road. So, from here to the end of the year, it'll be super slow reading for me. I hope y'all have a wonderful Thanksgiving if you celebrate it. If you see a big beam of light from Texas, it's me smiling and glowing from all the good energy that will be in my home.

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So happy to see you so cheery, Rachael! Thrilled your boy is coming home - congrats on makign that happen!

And great work on the deconstruction process. That's how I figured out all the steps to thriller writing, using John Sandford's books. It's a great exercise!

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Re: bookshelves - We got a rotating bookcase, which is free-standing. I was able to clear out many, many piles of TBR books from all around my house. Would something like this work for you?

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That's an interesting idea - instead of stacking them on the floor!!! Do you have a link, perchance?

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I got mine from Amazon. They have several different ones - just search rotating bookshelves/book cases

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It has been an exhausting week. So physically drained. My concentration has been crap. I read one book in the past 8 days. The Laws of Wrath by Eriq LaSalle. Actually I don’t know if that’s the name. 😂😂🥴 I’m starting Forgotten Sister by Cynthia Pelayo tonight.

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It's a hard time of year coupled with so much uncertainty! My wish for you is a nice, quiet, calm weekend!

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This cookbook looks so good! I have my Mom's old Majorie Rawlins's Cross Creek Cookery (Florida - she wrote The Yearling). Her recipe for Strawberry Shortcake and Gingerbread are to die for. SS is built on biscuit dough and G is build on molasses.

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It's really great. There's a gingerbread recipe but I'd love to see your mom's!

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I’m currently reading Taste: My Life in Food by Stanley Tucci. It’s a delightful memoir that includes family recipes!

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I can’t wait to dig into that one. Did you see he has a new line of pans?

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I did! He has a more recent book out called What I Ate in One Year, which I’ll have to check out.

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Happy Friday! It has finally gotten cold here in southeast Nebraska. We went from highs in the 60s to struggling to make it to 40!

I read BETRAYAL ROAD by Christine Feehan. I used to love her books, but they all seem to be the same now. They're good books, but not fantastic. I had 6 books appear in my Kindle on Tues. My TBR pile is exploding!

Im 3/4 of the way through THE MIRROR by Nora Roberts. This is the 2nd book in THE LOST BRIDE TRILOGY and it's excellent. Nora Roberts just keeps getting better!

I can't wait for book 5 and 6 in the Jayne series. I'll be sorry for it to end.

We watched the first episode of Landman...holy crap, what a great first episode!

I finished season 1 of The Diplomat and I was so glad I could dive into season 2...holy cliffhanger for season 1?!?

We're traveling to Branson next week to spend Thanksgiving with my stepson and his family.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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Oh, Amy, just you wait. I think all of the shows are reading our favorite thrillers because the twists are piling up and the endings are *chef’s kiss*

Sounds like a fabulous weekend and holiday week ahead - have so much fun!

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I received a bound galley of Lisa Jewell’s newest- DON’T LET HIM IN. Expected pub. date is 6/24/25. Definitely be on the lookout for it- it’s totally “ unputdownable”

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Ooooh I am officially greeen with envy!!! She is amazing.

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Isn’t she? I don’t know how she comes up with such twisted story lines since she’s so nice! Don’t know how you do it either!

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It’s rather worrying, isn’t it? 😂😂

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She's amazing, but you're as good as she is. So, nothing to worry about.🤗

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It is! 🤣

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