It’s time to look at the books I read in June! The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan ★★★★ Zoe is a single mother who escapes London and moves to the Scottish Highlands. She wants to build a new life for herself and her four-year-old son Hari. Her son’s father is no help at …
It’s time to look at the books I read in May! How Y’all Doing? by Leslie Jordan ★★★★.75 Maybe you remember him from Will & Grace, or a few episodes of Reba…or maybe you didn’t really know him until he became viral on Instagram during the pandemic. But anyone that knows him or has heard …
It’s time to look at the books I read in April! Exiles by Jane Harper ★★★★.75 Federal Investigator Aaron Falk heads to a small town in Southern Australian wine country for his friend Raco’s child’s christening. It is also the weekend that marks the one-year anniversary of Kim Gillespie’s disappearance. One year prior, at the …
It’s time to look at the books I read in March! In the Woods by Tana French ★★★★.75 In the summer of 1984, in a small suburb outside of Dublin, three children were playing outside, and they go into the woods, just like they did every day. One afternoon, three mothers call their children home …
It’s time to look at the books I read in February! The Family Across the Street by Nicole Trope ★★★★★ From bookshop.org, “Sometimes, the most perfect families are hiding the most terrible secrets. How well do you know the people next door? Everybody wants to live on Hogarth Street, the pretty, tree-lined avenue with its …
It’s time to look at the books I read in January! My Trip Down the Pink Carpet by Leslie Jordan ★★★★.5 I had planned to buy his books but just hadn’t gotten around to ordering them. The morning he passed away, I snatched up this one and another one. I should have already gotten them! …
It’s time to look at the books I read in December! A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles ★★★★.5 Bookshop.org describes it best: “In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. …
It’s time to look at the books I read in November! Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell ★★★★.75 Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter, fifteen years old, loved by her family, friends, and teachers, and part of a teenage “golden couple”. ….and then she was gone. Now, ten years later, her mom Laurel is …
It’s time to look at the books I read in August! Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews ★★★★.5 I love LOVE Mary Poppins so when I saw, three years ago, that Julie Andrews had a biography, I was all for it! So, I bought the book. However, for no fault of …
It’s time to look at the book I read in July! The Boardwalk Bookshop by Susan Mallery ★★★★.5 Three strangers look to lease a store space on the California coast, but the space is too big for just one. So, The Boardway Bookshop is born. It becomes part bookshop, part gift stop, part bakery….and the …