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Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors.

With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews are either new authors or unknown authors that many in the general public are unaware of. After a segment reviewing books or interviewing authors, Blaine ends each episode with a discussion of the movies and TV shows he is currently watching.

Learn more about Blaine and his podcast at ViewsOnBooks.com.

This Week’s Episode

She lied, she cheated, she swindled. And she almost got away with it. Annie Reed, author of “The Impostor Heiress,” reveals the stranger-than-fiction tale of Cassie Chadwick, a woman who posed as Andrew Carnegie’s daughter and conned her way into millions during the Gilded Age. But who was the real Cassie Chadwick hiding beneath all the diamonds and deception? Reed unravels the mysteries in this unbelievable true story of greed, manipulation and the art of the con.

https://youtu.be/brEund2FJvc

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Blaine Desantis

Blaine is an avid lifetime reader, a retired attorney, and has been a book club leader for the past seven years. He is an active teacher in senior education classes at Furman University. Blaine loves fiction, nonfiction, histories, mysteries and almost all genres of books, which he discusses on his podcast, Books & Looks.