The 10 March 2023 Friday Finds are here with a new Author of the Week, Tons of news, books, recipes, and crafts!
Can you believe it’s Friday already? Let alone March…didn’t we just do Christmas? If this racing time is a sign of old age, I am in way too deep.
It’s been a lovely week full of good company, great food, books, and words. Those really do mean so much to me.
What joy did you find the past week? I hope you will share your news with us all in the comments.
I attended my first-ever violin concert to watch my 11-year-old grandson overcome his stage fright and ace his first concert and solo! We let him choose where to eat dinner—no McDonald’s for that boy. We went to Fugiyama Japanese Grill, where we all enjoyed great food and a delightful show.
Well, there are a ton more joyful things I did this week, but I won’t bore you with all my simple pleasures. The list is long…I have a wonderful life.
Peace & Love
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Friday Finds | 10 March 2023 | Books
Indie Author Spotlight
Lethal Blues: A Jarvis Mann Detective Novel by R. Weir
“Fentanyl is the latest in the long line of popular drugs,” Catalina noted. “Usage and deaths are sky rocketing. If I were you Jarvis, I’d leave this one alone. It would be sad seeing you dead.”
“It wouldn’t make my day either,” I added with a chuckle.
Catalina had joined the long line of people telling me I’d be smart in backing out, though I had rarely in my life made the smart choice.
As promised with the release of Lethal Blues, I’m running a free promo for the Jarvis Mann Detective Boxset Vol 1, which will run from March 10th thru March 15th. I hope everyone will take advantage of this great deal and download the eBook, which includes the first four books in the Jarvis Mann PI series: The Case of the Missing Bubble Gum Card, Tracking A Shadow, Twice as Fatal, and Blood Brothers. Over 600 pages of snarky banter and fierce cases for Jarvis to solve. Please share this with everyone you know, so I can hopefully push the book to the top of the Amazon charts. Here is the Amazon Link for you to download the eBook and share.
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Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan.
Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old-money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood but giving up far too much in the process; Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family, and finds herself cast as the arriviste outsider; and Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can’t have, and must decide what kind of person she wants to be.
Rife with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York’s one-percenters, Pineapple Street is a smart, escapist novel that sparkles with wit. Full of recognizable, loveable—if fallible—characters, it’s about the peculiar unknowability of someone else’s family, the miles between the haves and have-nots, and the insanity of first love—all wrapped in a story that is a sheer delight.
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I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
The riveting new novel — “part true-crime page-turner, part campus coming-of-age” (San Francisco Chronicle) — from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia’s death and the conviction of the school’s athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers—needs—to let sleeping dogs lie.
But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn’t as much of an outsider at Granby as she’d thought—if, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case.
In I Have Some Questions for You, award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted her most irresistible novel yet: a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman’s reckoning with her past, with a transfixing mystery at its heart. Timely, hypnotic, and populated with a cast of unforgettable characters, I Have Some Questions for You is at once a compulsive page-turner and a literary triumph.
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DOG MAN IS BACK! The highly anticipated new graphic novel in the #1 worldwide bestselling Dog Man series starring everyone’s favorite canine superhero by award-winning author and illustrator Dav Pilkey is coming March 28, 2023!
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Friday Finds | 10 March 2023 | Author News
Do you have a new book releasing soon, a special promotion coming up, or any other news I can share with my readers?
In the reported book and author news this week…
You might be interested in Jessica Adams‘ latest blog post: The Best Place to Find Great eBooks to Download. Don’t miss her free books as part of this limited-time promotion.
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Geary Reid is my latest featured author. Please welcome this prolific author to the website (on the sidebar & in this post) by reading my review and visiting their website. They are also the featured author in my Bookshop.
Would you like to be featured as my Author/Blogger of the Week? Please drop me a comment below to let me know. That’s all it takes! If no one “volunteers”, I have systems in place to choose one.
Friday Finds | 10 March 2023 | Recipes
A traditional Dublin Coddle is a bacon, potato, onion, and sausage stew that is cooked in the oven, low and slow. Check out This Mom’s Menu recipe for a healthier version with minimal ingredient changes.
Healthier Dublin Coddle
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Irish Chicken with Cabbage & Potatoes from Recipes, Food, & Cooking
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Irish Bread Pudding with Whiskey from Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons
Friday Finds | 10 March 2023 | Creative Projects
Crochet Easter Decorations – Pattern by RNata
Knitted Easter Egg Patterns by Little Red Window
Friday Finds | 10 March 2023 | Gina’s Blog Roundup
Eline is sharing her Audiobook Recommendations – March 2023
If you missed one of my reviews in the past week, here’s an easy link to find them all, or click on the image & links below. Be sure you check out the giveaways. There are some great prizes this week!
Ice (A Chris Matheson Cold Case Mystery Book 1) by Lauren Carr | Book Review ~ Giveaway
$75 Paypal Card plus Granny Bella’s Cookies
The Surfing Mouse by Stefan Piccione | Book Review ~ 5-Stars ~ Meet the Author
$15 Gift Card
$25 Gift Card
$25 Gift Card
Signed copy of book
Metamorphosis (Worlds of Fire #2) by Deborah A. Bailey | Romantic Fantasy
$40 Gift Card
$10 Gift Card
BBNYA Winner’s Tour: #11 ~ These Violent Nights by Rebecca Crunden | Romantic Dystopian Fantasy
A fabulous tale with unique themes & storytelling. by a favorite author!
$15 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner & a signed copy of the book to another randomly drawn winner.
Whew!!! That was a lot, wasn’t it? What would you like to see in next week’s Friday Finds?
Thanks for reading this week. Peace & Love!
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Great blog as always. I noticed some of your favorite Easter crochets and wondered if you would be interested in reading and reviewing my Favorite Easter book, The Untold Story of the Darkest Days.
I had not heard of Pineapple Street until I saw that it is the Good Morning America book club read for March. Lots of great stuff here today, Gina. How wonderful for your family to attend your grandson’s violin recital. Great thing to be joyful for.
Congratulations to your grandson! I have flute concert coming up; maybe he can give me some pointers on overcoming stage fright!
My favorite is the adorable crochet bunnies and eggs!
Thank you so much for including my blog post about the eBook sale! I hope it was helpful to the authors that I included in the post and I hope it will help readers find great books to read!
Your wonderful blog is one of my favorite places to visit online.