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Richard Friesen

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Culinary Mysteries (199 books) 199 books based on 125 votes: Coyote in Provence by Dianne Harman, The Uninvited Corpse by Debra Sennefelder, Murder and Marinara by Rosie Genova, The Di...

Apparently there are a whole lot of books like that. www.goodreads.com/list/show/42...

13.04.2025 22:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's true of any text or email. In almost every case, even if your expecting something, use the website directly and not the link in the email or text.

13.04.2025 21:50 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I would say all of the above. It would depend on the situation.

But stories where people overcome long odds may be the best. It's the G.K. Chesterson quote: Fairy tales don't teach children that dragons are real. They know they're real. They teach children that dragons can be defeated.

31.01.2025 00:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Then there's C.S. Lewis who's Til We Have Faces is a master work: He has a first person narrator who never breaks character or knows what she shouldn't. But through the entire thing, the reader knows she's wrong.

18.01.2025 18:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

C.J. Cherryh is kind of a master at this. If the characters don't know something, the reader doesn't either. Then late in the book you find out this big thing happened somewhere else that's driving a lot of stuff that didn't seem to make sense.

18.01.2025 18:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, Canada will get help from most of Europe. The likely outcome is WWIII.

10.01.2025 03:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy thanksgiving everyone!
May all your dreams come true in the next year

28.11.2024 23:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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