2012: #28 – Dancing in the Dark (Mary Jane Clark)

Title: Dancing in the Dark Author: Mary Jane Clark Format: Hardback Pages: 352 (2012 total – 7,209) Approx. Word Count: 96,800 (2012 total – 2,007,014) Release Date: July 26, 2005 Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Categories: suspense Source: personal copy Rating: 3 out of 5 Back of the book: Trying to mix business with pleasure, KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has brought her children and her

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2012: #27 – The Sandcastle Girls (Chris Bohjalian)

Title: The Sandcastle Girls Author: Chris Bohjalian Format: Kindle Pages: 320 (2012 total – 6,857) Approx. Word Count: 96,000 (2012 total – 1,910,214) Release Date: July 17, 2012 Publisher: Doubleday Categories: general fiction, historical fiction Source: ARC from publisher via Edelweiss Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Back of the book: The Sandcastle Girls is a sweeping historical love story steeped in Chris Bohjalian’s Armenian heritage.

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2012: #26 – Explosive Eighteen (Janet Evanovich)

Title: Explosive Eighteen Author: Janet Evanovich Series: Stephanie Plum #18 Format: Kindle Pages:  352 (2012 total – 6,537) Approx. Word Count: 88,000 (2012 total – 1,814,214) Release Date: May 15, 2012 Publisher: Bantam Categories: humor, romantic adventure Source: personal copy Rating: 3 out of 5 Back of the book: Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously

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2012: Relatively Back to Normal

Well! That was exciting. I discovered earlier this week that my web site had been hacked, and some malicious code added. Bonkers! I immediately started working to close the security hole, but along the way I realized that my web host was no longer adequate for my needs. Nothing against it — the host was an acquaintance who has let me freeload on his space

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