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SuzyWriter
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Bibliophile, editor, and author of PASSION AND PAINT and HUNTING THE DEVIL. She was born in West Texas at the height of the Cold War, and her world travels and pioneer ancestors fuel her writing about strong female protagonists.
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BOOK REVIEW: #Midwives by Chris Bohjalian puts a woman’s right to choose where and how to birth her child up against the medical establishment.
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February 12, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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30 days of books-by-women challenge. Post 30 books written by women that you’ve read. 1 per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 5/30 Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
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February 12, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #TheMagiciansAssistant by #AnnPatchett. A found family and a secret past revealed.
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#FoundFamilies
#MagicInFiction
#MagicalRealism
#FamilyLifeFiction
#ComingOfAgeFiction
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February 11, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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30 days of books-by-women. Post 30 books written by women that you’ve read. 1 per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 4/30 Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan by Deborah Reed
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February 11, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: #IllusionOfTruth by James L'Etoile. Third in the Emily Hunter detective series. Wild plot swings and endless suspects.
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#FictionSetInCalifornia
#FemaleDetectiveMysterySeries
#Detectives
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February 10, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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30 days of books-by-women challenge. Post 30 books written by women that you’ve read. 1 per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 3/30 The Antidote by Karen Russell
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February 10, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #KeepernMe by #RichardWagamese. Autobiographical fiction coming-of-age of a Canadian Indian man after his forced removal from his family.
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#ComingOfAge
#CanadianFiction
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February 9, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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30 days of books-by-women challenge. Post 30 books by women that you’ve read. 1 per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 2/30 I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
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#Bookstagram
#BookSky
#WomenAuthorsReadingChallenge
#30BooksWrittenByWomen
February 9, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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30 days of books-by-women challenge. Post 30 books written by women that you’ve read. 1 per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
#AmReading
#Bookstagram
#BookSky
#WomenAuthorsReadingChallenge
#30BooksWrittenByWomen
1/30 Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer
February 8, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Post 31 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 31 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 31/31 Recitatif by Toni Morrison
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February 7, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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Post 31 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 31 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 30/31 The Women Who Stand Between by Jeanneé Sacken
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February 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: #TheNickelBoys by Colson Whitehead. A searing look at an abusive reform school in Tennessee that wreaked havoc on the lives of countless young men for years.
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#ReformSchools
#SystemicRacism
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February 5, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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Post 31 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 31 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 29/31 Keeper’n Me by Richard Wagamese
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February 5, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #BloodSisters and #TheBoneThief by Vanessa Lillie. A BIA archeologist investigates remains of murdered and missing Indigenous women.
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#MissingAndMurderedIndigenousWomen
#NativeAmericanThrillers
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February 4, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Post 31 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 31 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 28/31 Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
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February 4, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: #TheLastOutlaws by Tom Clavin. A look at the post-Civil War bandits who ravaged banks and trains from Kansas and Oklahoma to California.
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#AmericanWestNonFiction
#DaltonGang
#BankRobbers
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February 3, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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Post 31 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 31 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 27/31 Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
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February 3, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: A fun, outrageous, sometimes brutal novel set during the days of Pancho Villa.
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#TexasHistoricalFiction
#MexicanHistoricalFiction
#Westerns
#ElPaso
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February 2, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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My January 2026 book reviews. The best of these: #OutStealingHorses by Per Petterson; #TheBrokenEarthTrilogy by N.K.Jemisin; and #ThePashaOfCuisine by Saygin Ersin. You can find my reviews at suanneschaferauthor.com/book-reviews/
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February 2, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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My January 2026 books read. The best of these. #Westerly and #WinterLoon by Susan Donovan Bernhard; #IllusionOfTruth by James L’Etoile; and #TheWomanWhoPaintedTheSeasons by Penny Field-Schneider.
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#HistoricalFiction
#FictionalBiography
#FemaleDetectiveSeries
February 2, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Post 31 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 31 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 26/31 The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
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#2025ReadingChallenge
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February 2, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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Post 31 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 31 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 25/31 Clever Little Thing by Helena Echlin
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January 31, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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Post 31 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 31 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 24/31 Song of the Wooden Sparrow by Isabel Tutaine
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January 30, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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Post 31 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 31 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 23/31 Shadow of the Solstice by Anne Hillerman
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January 29, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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ICMYI BOOK REVIEW: #TheHotCountry by Robert Olen Butler. A noir series following an early 1900s war correspondent.
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#WarCorrespondentsInFiction #HistoricalFiction
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January 28, 2026 at 11:03 PM