Joyce's Choices
BY JOYCE B. WILCOX
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ell dear readers, it would appear that we’re celebrating an anniversary of sorts. Seems like just yesterday when you invited me into your homes to share Joyce’s Choices of books, and here we are at six Canadian Laker issues later approaching the one-year mark. And how appropriate that the recommended gift commemorating first anniversaries is paper! That’s definitely one for the books. My original goal was to try to read an average of four books a month and out of those eight books read for each bi-monthly issue, find five that I’d recommend. So far, this method has proven to be effective, eclectic, and incredibly enjoyable. With this issue, I’ve been able to 40 |
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scope out thirty-one books for your reading pleasure in the course of a year. With the positive feedback I’ve received, it seems that many of you have been enjoying several of my selections and exploring new authors. I’ve tried to reach you all, so our year together has spanned a variety of genres: from women’s mainstream to mystery; suspense thriller to senior sleuth; light fantasy to frontier; psychological to sports; historical to hysterically humorous and to everything in between. I have also attempted to offer you a variety of authors in these various genres and managed to repeat only one author over my thirty-one picks. Care to take a guess as to which author was repeated? All of this being said, the selections for June
