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Champagne Sundays Interview

Karen Dahood talks about an “old lady” detective. No, it is not Jane Marple, she’s Sophie George, a retired librarian who comes to the aid of an unimaginative chief of detectives in a small Florida town. They encounter a revenge killing corporation and a woman who is totally — butt totally – dependent on men. And, she’s not really old – just

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New Page - Book Reviews

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS -

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My gosh!  That’s the link to my latest review for bookpleasures.com and it will interest anyone thinking of publishing a book in this strange period of the industry’s reinvention.  The book is called ” A Self-Publisher’s Companion….” and it is by Joel Friedlander, a book designer, and a very nice one.

 

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Like the butterfly I am watching….

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . .

A butterfly poised on a branch crowded with Orange Jubilee blossoms (Tacoma stans) is moving his wings so fast it brings to mind the expression, “butterflies in my stomach.” That’s what I have.

On Saturday my first mystery book was “launched” at Clues Unlimited, the only specialized mystery bookstore in

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The response to the grotesque is humor.

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS. . .

Literary theories come and go, but this one stuck with me.  The idea is this: when something seems too terrible to bear, or so awful that it is awkward to respond, you find a laugh in it; and then you realize your laughter is grotesque.

Last night, for instance, my husband and

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I never got to say what I thought.

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . .

Book discussions can be frustrating.  I quit going to the Faculty Wives Book Club about four decades ago, even before they realized the name was sexist.  Whether there is a Faculty Spouse Book Club, I doubt.  In the first place, the invitation would have to go to 1000 or more

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Why Sophie will never be a jogger blogger.

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS . . .

My readers quickly learn Sophie George walks around Dorado Circle twice every early morning.  It never would occur to her to jog.  Not any more than it would occur to her to blog.

Her generation — my own — is astonished — maybe I should say appalled — by the amount

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