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  I Only Read Murder Ian Ferguson and Will Ferguson 4 stars Pub date Jun 27, 2023 It's a fun summer read. Be entertained! Delightful, easy read by Canadian (brothers), Ian and Will Ferguson. Set in a town called Happy Rock, centers on an amateur theatre group, a bookstore, and an on-stage murder, how could this not be fun? Happy Rock hadn't been built;  it had been crocheted into existance. Miranda (a TV sleuth with fading fame) is surrounded by the quirkiest of characters, red herrings abound, and love her or dislike her, she gets things moving. Throw in an old romance and the town is primed for this murder. Oh, and by the way, Miranda is a red-head in my mind! You’ll enjoy the quick pace from this Canadian writing duo (brothers who live in different cities, one being my hometown) and there was lots to laugh out loud about. It is just what this reader needed as a summer read. Also, the writers intimated that this is only the first murder set in Happy Rock. So we can look forw...

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Lorrie Moore 3 Stars Pub date June 23, 2023    Two stories that don’t meet for a long while. Haunting, ghosts, grief, sadness, what’s real and what isn’t? So let me ask you, do you read about sadness when you are sad? Or something more uplifting? Are ghosts always around us, or do they abandon us for a new life? Can a person (living or dead) ever make amends? These are the thoughts that floated in my head while I read. I found this short (200 page) book tiresome and long. The writing however was beautiful at times, poetic, playful and digging of deep emotions.  It was also like the stars themselves which sat there invisible  in the day. It took the disappearance of sunlight to see  what had been there all along. But it did not reach what I needed from such a story, it was too sad, too stricken, and although there was much reference to Hope, I felt none, I was sad for the characters because their lives seemed void of a bright...