About the book: The Regression Strain Genre: Medical Thriller Publisher: Normal Range Press Publication Date: May 26, 2025 Scroll down for Giveaway Dr. Peter Palma joins the medical team of the Paradise to treat passengers for minor ailments as the cruise ship sails across the Atlantic. But he soon discovers that something foul is […]
A delusional prison patient warns Dr. Brian Heiser, Marriage and Family Therapist, of enormous impending disaster. Dr. Heiser and his best friend, a lauded Forensic Psychologist, find themselves entangled in a 72-hour deadly race to stop an AI bill being fast-tracked through the Texas state legislature.
Under Vixen’s Mere is one of those novels that quietly gets under your skin and then refuses to leave.
From the opening pages, the prose immediately stood out to me. It’s spare without ever feeling sparse—clean, confident, and quietly assured. Dialogue and description are held in careful balance, each doing its work without calling attention to itself. Nothing strains for effect, and that sense of restraint builds trust early on, inviting the reader to settle in and follow where the story leads.
What makes this book especially satisfying is its sensory richness. The attention to detail is so precise you can practically smell the bread cooling on the racks, the sharpness of cheese, the damp stone after rain. It is comfort reading with substance: sunshine and laughter paired with the everyday complications life throws at us, and the quiet resilience required to meet them.
This is not a book about capital-H heroes. Instead, it centers on people who engage in small acts of service, kindness, and yes, heroism—not for recognition or glory, but because it was the right thing to do in the moment. These are stories of people showing up when it would have been easier not to.
It is funny how certain things just ‘belong’ to the people in our lives, and the way seeing something, or hearing a particular set of words sets off a whole separate train of thought. I think that’s the best sort of way to behold someone, to remember them. It’s far more genuine than saying “She was great. I loved her,” or something of equal context.
My grandmother will live on in oilcloth tablecloths and in Wandering Jews in hanging baskets and those shapeless sort of dresses that come in the most unattractive patterns ever created but somehow worked out with clip-on button-shaped earrings…and in that face powder that comes in a round box and has a perfume element. Yikes. I’m babbling. Sorry.
I love velvet… and violets… and the Vagina monologues… and… (so on, and so forth!) :D
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A Very Vunderful list, Miss Meliss. I especially like 4, 8, 11, 12. Happy T13!!
There’s something so romantic about a verandah, isn’t there? And velvet clothes, ahhh, the mere thought is decadently delicious (as long as you can keep the Seinfeld references at bay).
Cool list – & informative…there were a few that I didn’t know about on here.
Have a great Thursday! :)
Vampires in Velvet on the Verandah taking in the Violet drenched air on a Voodoo Night in New Orleans… V is apparently a great letter when you stop to think about it. *grin*
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Great list I have always wanted to try Venison and my we have a vice in common mines are books & tea Happy TT
I loved the Vagina Monologues!
I was in the Stage Production of Vagina Monologues last year at our local theatre. It was enlightening
Maribeth
The Vagina monologues was showing in a local theater, I remember that now that you mentioned this.
I love velvet!! I bought a navy blue velvet blazer in college, I loved it , loved getting dressed up wearing it.
For some reason I think venison stew has to cook for hours…! I have never tried venison.
Happy thirteening!
Very cool. *points and laughs at the remaining letters*
Speaking of perfumes, have you got your latest BPAL order yet? I organized mine last night…phew, took awhile. Realized I’m missing some, too! Hmmm…
#13 has me thinking of Rosemary Clooney. Happy TT.
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Wonderful list. My grandmother used to talk to her violets, too. She had so many that my uncle used to joke that one day he’d call the house and one of the plants would answer and say, “We put her out – there wasn’t enough room!”
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Very Vonderful!!
Women certainly do seem to like vampires. I’d write more but the sun is coming up and I have to go to bed.
I love velvet, violets, and vespers too. Great list. I haven’t stopped by in some time, so I’m taking this opportunity to say I LOVE the new look. Very cheerful and easy to read and navigate.
Happy TT – oh and good luck with redecorating with Fuzzy away!
Hey..a cool list..thanks for sharing..
I love the letter V. One of my favorite expressions is “Don’t make me get voodoo on your ass.” I am a Louisiana girl to the core.
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