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One-Liner Wednesday

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May 21, 2025

Part of Linda’s One-Liner Wednesday

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Review: Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear

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May 20, 2025

Leaving Everything Most Loved (Maisie Dobbs, #10)Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This series is so good, I can hardly wait to read the next one. Then I get ahead of my reviews, and I have to read the blurb to remember which book was which. So if you need to, go to Amazon and read the blurb. My quick blurb: Maisie Dobbs must solve the mystery of Indian immigrants in this book. But she has other issues that creep up to take care of. But in her thoughtful way, Ms. Dobbs gracefully finds answers.

You can find this one on Libby. If I had more income, I would buy the whole series. Jacqueline Winspear’s writing and research put her books over the top! In addition to the great stories, Orlagh Cassidy’s narration makes them feel like reality.

I highly recommend this series and this book.

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Review: Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear

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May 19, 2025

Elegy for EddieElegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Oh, this was sad. Poor Eddie.

This has a long blurb on Amazon so I suggest you take a look at it.

There are so many issues that we currently face but were surely worse back in 1933. Especially dealt with is how the disabled can live if worked with or can suffer through bullying.

As I’ve mentioned before I love the Maisie Dobbs series. Each book hold a wealth of information in history and psychology as well as a great mystery or two to solve in the process.

Again, I have to praise the writing of Jacqueline Winspear and the talented narration Orlagh Cassidy make these books the best entertainment and bedtime reading.

I feel blessed to have found the series on Libby. If you get the chance, give the series a try! Thank you, Kay for suggesting these.

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Review: A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings by Peggy Noonan

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May 18, 2025

A Certain Idea of America: Selected WritingsA Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings by Peggy Noonan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was a daytime read. I find it hard to read politics at bedtime. So I listened to the audiobook borrowed from Libby while doing my diamond paintings. I thought the author read this, but Hillary Huber is listed as the narrator. Either way, these are interesting essays.

I have to admit that I didn’t agree with everything, but even when I didn’t, I found something interesting to learn in each one. I do like how Peggy Noonan writes these essays. I felt engaged in the topic, pro or con.

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Stream of Consciousness Saturday, Straw

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May 17, 2025

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “straw.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

Straw in the country is important. Heck, it’s what keeps our chickens warm. My brother stacked a few bales on the west side of the coop to keep the wind out. He uses it for nesting material in their boxes.

There’s a whole theory of no weed gardening based on piles of straw. It helps keep down weeds around flowers or trees. It breaks down to mulch.

Ah, but here there are too many rodents that eat your plants before you even get started. So mostly you need to build rodent safe raised box gardens. That takes money we don’t have. Lumber isn’t cheap. Maybe someday we’ll get to try it.

Not my picture but we are surrounded by fields like this.

Drinking straws have gone back to paper to be good to the earth

But the last straw always is the worst, right?

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Finishing Friday

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May 16, 2025

Milo volunteered to be the socks background. I finally knitted to the arch ribbing.
Only managed one row on the watermelon socks. Milo shows off the colors.😉

I have to admit that three furry babies take a lot of time and energy. Even when they are the best audience and supportive friends. I’m surprised at my slow progress on everything.

Nothin’ but blue sky…
Shiloh loves music, especially keyboard and piano. This is her before I started my session.

See what I mean?

Sammie is already asleep under the diamond painting table.
Shiloh finally secumbs
Sammie prodding his bed.

So here is the best of my Warts and All. Please don’t feel obligated to listen. I know it’s still way slow and bumpy. I am enjoying learning bluesy songs. Classical is predictable; key signatures make sense, rhythms aren’t wonky. Sure, I still make mistakes but I understand why. Modern, blues, jazz I understand in theory but my hands don’t get it sometimes. It doesn’t flow. Modes instead of major and minor throw me off. The one and three beats of classical are now the second and fourth as main beats. Sorry. A lot of excuses for why I’m not perfect. My purpose of this blog and YouTube is to veer away from perfection that is in our faces everyday. So here is God Bless The Child.

Bless you!

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Review: A Lesson in Secrets: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear

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May 15, 2025

A Lesson in Secrets: A Maisie Dobbs NovelA Lesson in Secrets: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

As the next world war is just rumors and philosophical differences, Maisie works for Scotland Yard to help sort things out at a college. She takes the role of a professor to learn what she can.

As usual with this whole series, the story feels immediate, real. Jacqueline Winspear writes with all the research handy and dispels it in all the senses so you feel you are there.

With Orlagh Cassidy’s narration, the scenery and characters are alive.

I highly recommend this series. I can’t review them fast enough. I am already three reviews behind! I have to get into the next one as soon as I finish the first. So I’ve already borrowed #11 from Libby so I need to write these quickly!

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One-Liner Wednesday

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May 14, 2025

Found on Facebook, Baby Yoda Memes

A part of Linda’s One-Liner Wednesday

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Review: The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear

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May 13, 2025

The Mapping of Love and DeathThe Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I love, love, love this series! I have a hard time separating individual books as they blend in together after a while. Especially if I finish at an early hour, during my bedtime reading, and I have to check out the next one on the Libby app.

But this book caught me with the search for the wartime map maker. I have always loved maps. I miss them in our new GPS age. That just shows the road you are on and maybe a bit more, but a map gives you a freedom to know more areas, other roads to enjoy. But who thinks about the importance of a map during a battle? This book taught me a lot about how important that aid can be.

Orlagh Cassidy’s voice gives all Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs a feeling of being in the story. Even better than radio. I can see what is happening, the characters, and the surrounding area.

Thank you, Kay, and Libby for these books!

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Review: A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

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May 12, 2025

A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This was a fun, young adult read. The writing amused me. Naomi Novik presented literary fun.

Anisha Dadia narrated the audiobook from Libby, which I was privileged to read. Sometimes I wish I could have glanced at a word in a real book. There were fantasy/magical words that I didn’t recognize. Still, Ms. Dadia kept the characters and story more fun than I think it would have been in a dry paper book read.

I think if I were into YA right now or Harry Potter-type stories, I would love this, but I just didn’t love it. I think it is me not the book. So I don’t think I will move on to the rest of the series. But, hey, you may love it. Give it a try!

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