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Good Morning Friends,Graduation craziness begins tomorrow and runs thorough next Saturday so you won't hear much from me other than to announce today's guest, Erica Vetsch with her latest novel, The Debutante’s Code.Take it away Erica....Jane Austen meets Sherlock Holmes in this new Regency mystery seriesNewly returned from finishing school, Lady Juliette Thorndike is ready to debut in London society. Due to her years away, she hasn’t spent much time with her parents, and sees them only as the flighty, dilettante couple the other nobles love. But when they disappear, she discovers she never really knew them at all. They’ve...

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Happy Friday… the 13th?! We’re just going to pretend that’s not a thing today, k? The weather in New England turned a corner this week and it felt like summer. We did a lot of playing outside with the kids, some great walks with Boots, and the warm temps put everyone in a good mood. This weekend Anel and I are taking a little one-night adventure into the city as my Mother’s Day redo since we spent the real one with two sick kiddos! We have no real plans besides a dinner reservation. We’re excited to walk around and explore...

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month! You know what that means: an AAPIHM reading list. (NB: These are books that should be read/savored/returned to all year long.) I have asked a few trusty independent booksellers to recommend their favorite books by AAPI writers. They did not disappoint. Big love for the good people at Yu & Me Books (NY), Book Club Bar (NY), Loyalty (MD and DC), Wild Geese Bookshop (IN), Green Apple Books (CA), and Books Are Magic (NY) for this stellar reading list that spans time, continent, genre, and language of origin. Although the past few...

    Today's constructor is veteran Lynn Lempel, who is known in the trade as the "Queen of Monday crosswords" (i.e "easy puzzles".).  By my count she has appeared in 3 Monday LA Times puzzles, the first in October of 2021 and two earlier this year, all reviewed by Boomer of course.  However she got in the game long before her debut here, appearing first in the Sunday New York Times(!!!) in December of 1979.  Also Lynn and our very own C.C. Burnikel are two of the women constructors featured in a collection of puzzles called Women of Letters, edited...