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A wonderful Litten (I feel awful - I've completely forgotten who) sent me a parcel of books a few years ago (now our post office system has almost completely collapsed). I read Fates and Furies and it was good, but intense. I can't explain why it took me so long to pick this one up. Her writing is definitely unique; I often find it difficult to understand her characters emotionally. But the story is engrossing and the magical realism so well done.

"You'd need the population of 123 million planet Earths to have a large enough population for it to be likely that two people share the same DNA profile"
This crime was unsolved for 30 years until genetic genealogy traced the DNA to a suspect.
Although it's closing ice cold cases I was surprised to learn the war between the leaders of the genealogy community involving privacy concerns. The evolution of DNA genealogy depicted was fascinating

"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaces in Lake Glimmerglass."

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Thanks for the tag, @Trashcanman!

I'm no good at tagging people, though! Play along if the spirit moves you ?

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#ShananigansReads25

I'm returning to this series of genealogical mysteries this morning

For several weeks, Max and the rest of the little group made themselves as comfortable as they could in the cellar of a burned-out house. ... they waited for word that they could cross [the Russian border]. The Broido girl spent the days reading popular French novels that she found in the house. Many years later, she could not forget the strange contrast between the abandoned streets outside and the book-lined rooms of the empty house...

“My paternal grandmother, Irene Miville Horton was descendant of not one fille du roi, but fifteen. Fifteen seemed like quite a lot until my research found people with a many as 80”.

Book: Descended from the mothers of Quebec by Paul Harvey Horton Jr.this is self-published.There are so few books on the fille du rio in English.I‘ve done some gen research on dads side.Mostly French Canadian and French.how many fille du roi I‘m related to🤷‍♀️.

I want to remind everyone at this time about special ballots and mail ins. These are never counted right away. Especially important for Pennsylvania and Michigan these two states are razor thin. And some of the states haven't finished their counts yet.
#uselection #americavotes

After reading “My Secret Sister,” by Helen Edwards and Jenny Lee Smith, I would recommend reading “Secret Daughter” by Shilpi Somaya Gowda or “Please Adopt Me” by Lynne Pardoe. These books give the reader the same feeling. Jenny had been wealthy growing up, while Helen, her long lost twin was poor, abused and uncared for. Toward the second half of this novel, Jenny‘s father passed away. That extremely affected her life because he was a great

“Remember to enjoy your life and never forget your family. “