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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2171 KP) rated A Biscuit, a Casket (Pawsitively Organic Mystery, #2) in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
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A Biscuit, a Casket (Pawsitively Organic Mystery, #2)
Liz Mugavero | 2014
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Stan is hired to cater a birthday party for a dog at a neighboring farm. However before the party can even get started, the owner is found dead. Did one of Hal’s business dealings turn deadly?

While I enjoyed the first book in the series, this one was even stronger. The characters are growing in an engaging way, and I liked spending time around them. The pacing of the plot was better than the first, and I was surprised by several twists before we reached the climax. There were several engaging sub-plots as well, and some plot threads from the first book were picked up and resolved here as well.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2014/10/book-review-biscuit-casket-by-liz.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Dianne Robbins (1738 KP) rated Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid in Books

Sep 3, 2018  
Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid
Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid
Margaret Powell | 2011 | Biography
7
6.3 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
Margaret Powell's memoir Below Stairs is growing up in a poor in money but rich in love with her family in a small village near London, England and her life in domestic service in the 1920s. It is simply wonderful. Her other memoirs Climbing the Stairs and Servants Hall and her Cookery Book are next on my list. It's more like listening to your favorite aunt sitting at the kitchen with you over fresh-baked cookies and glasses of homemade lemonade while retelling stories of her childhood and life in the early part of the 20th century. You HAVE to read it!. Julian Fellowes read her books and they were the inspiration behind the extremely popular BBC series Downton Abbey, that is watched by us in the states on PBS Masterpiece.
  
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Vicki Coyne (45 KP) rated The Bookish Life of Nina Hill in Books

Jan 3, 2020  
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
Abbi Waxman | 2019
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8.5 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
The writing is conversational and witty, welcoming the reader right in (2 more)
The story flows really well to the point where it never seems like a good place to stop
It takes on anxiety, social awkwardness and modern family structures without breaking stride
It finished - always with a good book, you are sad when it's done (0 more)
Well written, funny and welcoming. Couldn't put it down.
Nina Hill is anxious, a control freak, competitive, smart and completely socially awkward. And you'll love her.

The story takes you briefly through her life growing up and gradually offers explanation for each of the character traits as her present story evolves.

I love that there are a couple of threads to the story and not just the love interest part.

Completely engaging and unputdownable.