Author name: judyann dutcher

The Host

I didn’t want to like The Host by Stephenie Meyer as much as I did but I admit I really liked the style, pacing, content and characters. Maybe I was so familiar with the style from my Twilight addiction that I felt some kinship with this story but it sucked me in and I couldn’t […]

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Mango Dale

Coming home at lunch, I found no leftovers from the previous night’s dinner. Garden burgers are an easy go-to when I’m left with “nothing” to eat but I had eaten one already that week and wasn’t very excited about the prospect of the usual sandwich. Peering into the refrigerator, I found Mango Dale cheese. I

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13.5

After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse (Sookie Stackhouse #13.5) by Charlaine Harris isn’t a story so much as a coda. This is an A-Z directory of what happened to all of the characters after the final Dead Ever After novel. There was such an outrage of how Dead Ever After

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Interval Texting

On my morning walk up the hill, I got a text from a gf on the east coast. We hadn’t chatted in a while so I texted her back while I was walking. I described the ocean channel and islands bathed in the orange light of sunrise. I noticed that I had to slow down

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Curfew

Daughter has new freedom by driving herself to events. This has opened up a new world and she is more social now that she can come and go as she’s invited to go places. Because she’s never been social before, we never had to impose a curfew on her. When she does go somewhere, she

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