Pip: Nancy B. Klein is an American writer living in Spain, and apparently the internet already knew that before she did.Mara: This episode follows one post from Nancy B. Klein's blog, and it takes us into the territory where AI meets personal identity — specifically, what happens when you ask a machine to tell you … Continue reading What AI Knows About You: A Personal Experiment
Category: books
Review of Building a Top-Notch Family Tree
By John R. Austin The following is an independent review by a man passionate about genealogy, as his biography illustrates. Nancy’s book is exactly what every beginner in genealogy needs. It is clearly written in a way that even someone with no prior knowledge can easily understand. One of the book’s greatest strengths is its … Continue reading Review of Building a Top-Notch Family Tree
Seeking Published Authors To Review My New Novel
Hello readers. I know some of my subscribers are published authors so this post is specifically addressed to you. I’m planning on publishing my new novel, Time to Take Off, in October and seek authors interested in reading and reviewing it ahead of its scheduled release date. Here’s the blurb for this approximately 60,000 word very … Continue reading Seeking Published Authors To Review My New Novel
Using AI to Discover My Online Identity
The other day I decided I would use Chat GPT to find out what information existed online about me so I wrote the following question: “Who is Nancy Blodgett Klein?” Photo by Levart_Photographer on Unsplash Here is what I got back: Nancy Blodgett Klein is an American writer, former journalist, magazine editor, and bilingual teacher known for historical … Continue reading Using AI to Discover My Online Identity
Books of 2025
Summary of books I have read in 2025 tracked by Goodreads.
Smorgasbord New Book Spotlight and Review – Amanda in Ireland: The Body in the Bag by Darlene Foster
My good friend Darlene Foster has released her latest book, Amanda in Ireland: The Body in the Bog. It's being highlighted here on Sally Cronin's Smorgasbord, a super blog to follow. The next stop on the blog tour is at Sally Cronin’s Smorgasbord New Book Spotlight. Sally has written a fabulous review for Amanda in … Continue reading Smorgasbord New Book Spotlight and Review – Amanda in Ireland: The Body in the Bag by Darlene Foster
The Hot Topic of Immigration
Since the issue of immigration is much in the news these days, especially in the US, I thought it would be a good time to remind my dear readers about my well-reviewed novel Torn Between Worlds. (It has a score of 4.7 out of five on Amazon.) It’s about a 12-year-old Mexican named Isabel who … Continue reading The Hot Topic of Immigration
Drive to Make a Difference in the World
What’s your favorite thing about yourself? I would say my favorite thing about myself is my drive to make a positive difference in the world. We retired to Spain almost eight years ago from Chicago. Since then I have written and published five books and rescued four kittens, three birds and two dogs. I am … Continue reading Drive to Make a Difference in the World
Lord of the Flies
A Book Review This is a novel I knew I would have to read someday because of all the times I would hear someone say, “It was a Lord of the Flies” situation. Until I read this classic, I never understood what they meant but I figured it must be something really bad.My mother was … Continue reading Lord of the Flies
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, A Book Review
This was an enjoyable and quick read about a widowed and grumpy owner of Island Books whose unhappy life turns around when he decides to raise a two-year-old girl abandoned at his bookstore named Maya. It’s a great book for book lovers too as it’s told in short stories with references to related books starting … Continue reading The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, A Book Review
US Author Nancy Klein in Spain 