Sunday, May 3, 2020

Isolation Can Deepen a Mystery's Impact

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If you're like me, you're finding the isolation of social distancing increasingly tiresome, but it certainly improves understanding...
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Thursday, April 2, 2020

Use Fun Nonfiction to Cure at-Home Blues

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Many folks tell me their forced COVID-19 at-home time has become 1) a surprising reprieve from their usual hectic life, or 2) a numbing str...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Bored in Quarantine? Try Armchair-Travel Fiction

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Suffering cabin fever after only a short time of at-home lockdown due to COVID-19? Armchair travel is a proven antidote available to fictio...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

Quarantines Can't Stop Sleuths, or Mystery Fans

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As mystery fans across the country find themselves in quarantine conditions because of the novel coronavirus, they can enjoy reading about ...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

Pandemics Inspire Fear — and Fiction

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Worried about the novel coronavirus becoming a global pandemic? Remember that humanity has faced such crises before, and authors have used ...
Monday, February 3, 2020

When Mystery Meets Fantasy, It Can Be Magic

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Recently, my book club's monthly selection was a fantasy novel. It's not a genre that I commonly read, and this blog is usually abo...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Books to Help Keep New Year's Resolutions

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At the start of every new year, we tend to make vows to do something to improve our lives or, more selflessly, the lives of others — someth...