Author name: judyann dutcher

Midnight Crossroad

  I am such a fangirl of Charlaine Harris that I squeed when Midnight Crossroad showed up in my email for downloading. This book is intended to be the first of a series, the first new novel series since 2005. I read slowly so I could take in each new character. I knew that these […]

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Happy New Year 5775

2014 has been an string of difficult health-related issues. Every time I would think that things couldn’t get worse, they would. As I was gasping for air in hopes of some relief, I was thinking that if I were Jewish, the “year” would soon be over. I’m so ready for 5774 to be done! It

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The Husband’s Secret

The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty was a book club pick. I didn’t want to read it because a co-worker told me what Secret was. I wasn’t planning on reading it, just showing up at the club meeting for the camaraderie and to pick next month’s book. I had gone through the motions of putting

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Poetry

We are exposed to poetry from the moment we are born. Lullabys and nursery rhymes are poetry of some sort. We are initially led to believe that poetry rhymes in iambic pentameter. We digest Dr Seuss books in his unique poetic phrasing. I had to memorize Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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A Fighting Chance

A Fighting Chance by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was a book club pick. In always like when the author is the narrator of the audiobook because only s/he can really give emphasis where it is truly intended. There was an earnestness, an authenticity that engaged me to Warren herself. A Fighting Chance is an autobiographical

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