Our topic for this week is our most anticipated books releasing in the first half of 2025. 1. Beautiful Ugly – Alice Feeney out January 14 2. Out of the Woods – Hannah Bonam-Young out January 28 3. Harlem Rhapsody – Victoria Christopher Murray out February 4 4. Three Days in June – Anne Tyler …

This week’s topic is our winter 2024-2025 to-be-read list. Some are Christmas-y and will be read after Christmas but I don’t mind. I like Christmas 🙂 1. Hillbilly Elegy – J.D. Vance 2. The Story She Left Behind – Patti Callahan Henry out March 18, 2025 3. It’s Time for Christmas – Elizabeth Sechrist & …

This week’s topic is: books to read during a storm. This could be cozy reads, books with storms in them, atmospheric reads for dark and stormy nights, light reads to combat the heavy weather, etc. I like snow (but maybe not storms) so I chose to look at books set in snowstorms, at least for …

This week’s topic is a freebie. Since it is December, and Christmas decorations are going up everywhere now, I decided to look at green covers. I had recently looked at red covers, so, since green is also a Christmas color, that’s the one I chose this time 🙂 1. The Sweetness at the Bottom of …

This week’s topic is a freebie. Since it is Thanksgiving week, I am going to list ten things I am thankful for. 1. I am thankful for my family’s and my good health. 2. I am thankful that I have a good job. 3. I am thankful that I can pay my bills, and that …

This week’s topic is destination titles. I did this as a freebie once and chose random places. This time, I decided to narrow it down to European countries (most of which I hope to visit someday and some I have already visited). Since there are 44 European countries, I chose to do the northern and …

This week’s topic was a freebie. Since it is Halloween week, and it is the fall season, I decided to look at covers with the color orange or something related to fall on them. 1. Autumn Chills – Agatha Christie 2. Catch and Keep – Erin Hahn 3. As Time Goes By – Mary Higgins …

This week’s topic: how my reading habits have changed over time. Some have improved, and some have not, but such is life. I’m sure they will change all over again at some point LOL. 1. It used to bother me to DNF, but now I don’t mind (as bad). It does bother me to be …

This week’s topic is books we were assigned to read in school. I’ll admit – I wasn’t a fan of most of these books but I do remember being required to read them, and then being tested on them. Only after looking them up for this, do I remember what they are about. I only …

This week’s topic: books on my Fall 2024 to-be-read list. I always love making these lists, and I always have high hopes of getting everything on them read HA! 1. Autism and Your Church – Barbara J. Newman 2. The Blanket Cats – Kiyoshi Shigematsu  I received an advanced copy of this book to review. It …