Craig Rowland's Journal

Travelogues, book reviews and things that make me happy

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Christmas Wishes

I was drawn to Christmas Wishes by Sue Moorcroft partly because the setting is Stockholm, specifically Gamla Stan. In this old area of the city

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Can This Be Christmas?

Can This Be Christmas? by Debbie Macomber is the second, and shorter, of two stories found in this collection. I had read The Perfect Christmas

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Snow on the Cobbles

Snow on the Cobbles by Maggie Sullivan is a prequel to the TV series, which started broadcasting in 1960. The cover indicates that the story

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The Snow Bride

Oh my gosh I am such a liar. After reading my fourteenth Debbie Macomber book earlier this year I declared at the end of its

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Mom, nine years later

My mother died in her sleep over the night of November 11, 2014. I discovered her the following evening. I remember what I was doing

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