Joyce McDonald, B.A. in Russian and M.A. in Educational Psychology, is a former high school teacher and counselor. She has since served the technology sector as a programmer, technical trainer, network administrator and documentation specialist. She attends Tai Chi and Kung Fu classes every weekday, loves gardening, and has a serious eBay habit. Joyce’s literary preferences include science fiction, adventure in Antarctica, Christmas stories and Cozies like Lilian Jackson Braun's "Cat Who..." Series.
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An endearing quality about Wiggins’ writing is the wonderful detail with which she describes even the most minor of events. She is also very clever at describing the social milieu of the day, so clever that one would come to believe that she might be commenting on social realities such as class divisions. Continue reading .
Although Kate Douglas Wiggin is famous for Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, she can deal with some remarkably dark subjects for an obvious optimist. The Romance of a Christmas Card is in the end a story of strange coincidences that ultimately lead to redemption. Continue reading .
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