2020: #18 – The Hunting Party (Lucy Foley)

The Hunting Party is about an ill-fated annual New Year’s trip taken by a group of 9 friends – four couples and a singleton. Since Miranda is the queen bee of the group, it might be easiest to explain who everyone is related to her: Miranda and Julien (her husband)Mark (used to be obsessed with Miranda) and his girlfriend, Emma (the trip organizer)Samira (Miranda’s “fun”

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2020: #17 – Winter (Marissa Meyer)

Blogger note: Book #16 was a reread of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. This is the final book in Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles series, which is a fun series. The primary character in each book is very loosely based on a fairy tale character. First we had Cinder (Cinderella), then Scarlet (Little Red Riding Hood) and Cress (Rapunzel). Princess Winter of Luna is

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2020: #15 – Cress (Marissa Meyer)

Blogger note: Book #14 was a reread of The Mysterious Affair at Styles, by Agatha Christie. Cress is the 3rd book in Meyer’s fun Lunar Chronicles series. The primary character in each book is very loosely based on a fairy tale character. First we had Cinder (Cinderella), then Scarlet (Little Red Riding Hood) and now Cress, who represents Rapunzel. Like Rapunzel, Cress is trapped in

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