FEAR AMONG THE FAROLITOS

CAPTURES THE REAL SANTA FE
Where the Devil Doesn’t Show
Christine Barber
Minotaur Books, 3013

Christine Barber was nurtured by the Tony Hillerman writing community, and is a journalist, so it is no surprise that her depiction of northern New Mexico is perfect.

In Gilbert Montoya, she presents a true to life hero, brave but not always right. More

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Burning to Tell

ABOUT MY WEEKEND READS….
UP IN FLAMES: A Casey and Catt Mystery (#1)
Amazon, 2013
Geraldine Evans
 “Having parents who were out of their heads concentrated Casey’s wonderfully.”

Casey, one of the two detectives in this fascinating first-in-a-series, has a mom and dad still hung over from Beatles tours. That they had dragged their only child to India and left

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On the Border

We spent two nights at Rancho de la Osa, just two miles from the Mexican border. We could see the fence, once it was pointed out to us. In my camera lens, it looked like another mountain range.  The Border Patrol had waved us through the checkpoint on our way. 

This was my second visit to

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Smart Kids Want More

Monday, February 4, 2013 

How does a blizzard move me?

My brother sent me this evocative snow print of a painting by Bill Alexander (dated 1972). My photo of it behind glass is a little blurred — as are my memories of snow. I do remember striding on skiis through woods in Upper Michigan in the late 1940s. When our generation was in grade school,

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Reason to Learn to Write is to Reason and Inspire

The Yale man and I agreed on the value of poems: Poetry is a wonderful way to come to understand the real meaning of words (his basic professional need) and trying to make a poem is a good way to learn how to communicate (my goal as a writer).

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Does Make-believe Money Matter?

This morning I discovered there are people who had a solution: they paid for everything in cash. Not in real cash made by the federal government; but in faux cash made in someone’ back room or barn.

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Books Are My Business – and Yours

I’m ranked only 33,400 or so as an Amazon book reviewer — but that’s up from 45,000 (or so). Almost all of the people who have rated my reviews found them helpful. Therefore, I am posting all my reviews on this site. Your comments on the same books are most welcome. Different people

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KILLER BOOK BARGAINS

 

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS…

I subscribe to Omnimystery News, a great source of “the latest” about mysteries and crime novels appearing in all formats. One spectacular feature is the Free Mysterebooks every week. Occasionally, someone as well known as Ian Rankin will offer a book free or at a low, low price.

Many more freebies come from little-known

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Save Venice with BioArchitecture

MOXIE COSMOS SAYS…

This book you’ve got to read, and it won’t take long. It is a TED book (under 20,000 words). It will amaze you to discover how our grandchildren’s world will look — and BREATHE.

TITLE: LIVING ARCHITECTURE: HOW SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY CAN REMAKE OUR CITIES AND RESHAPE OUR LIVES
Rachel Armstrong

TED Books, 2012

A reader who got a

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