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Book review: The Useful Book: 201 Life Skills They Used to Teach in Home Ec and Shop by David and Sharon Bowers
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis book is great. Simply written guide to just about everything. Divided on five sections: Cooking Sewing Laundry and clothing Domestic Arts Life Skills This book is a simple how-to…
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Book review: Live and Love Again by Jan Gayle
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJan Gayle’s debut novel is a short and sweet romance story. Gayle’s protagonist, Sarah Jarret struggles every day with the death of her long-time partner, Sarah meets and falls…
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Book review: The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis book my attention from the very first sentence. So many twists and turns, it is an adventure on the run with two very shady and resourceful women. This story…
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Doing the Work I Love
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis week I made the big leap in switching platforms for My Jamaican Vignettes. I am excited about this, my first official WordPress post. Over the past three months, writing…
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Book Review: Don’t You Cry by Mary Kubica
Reading Time: 2 minutesI hesitated when selecting this book because I did not like Kubica’s massively successful debut novel, The Good Girl. I was glad I chose to give Kubica a second try,…
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Hopes for a type of Prosperity-Progress Coalition Government for Jamaica
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast Thursday was Election Day and I voted. First time voter and I am glad I did. Now, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) won the Jamaican General Elections. It was…
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Book review: Keep You Close by Lucie Whitehouse
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was blown away by this book. Lucie Whitehouse’s Keep You Close started off slow and at times in the first few chapters, I got really annoyed by the main character,…