Between a prom dinner for 40, the kitchen project, getting ready for Spring Break, two varsity sports and my job, life has been bonkers lately. My goal every day is simply to make it to the next day :-) I haven’t had time to pick up an actual book but I plowed through three audio… Read More

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig was a charming and intriguing read. The Midnight Library exists in the place between life and death, and each book in the library tells the story of a life one could have read based on their choice. It was one of those books where I could see the picture… Read More

I’m back in my WWII historical fiction genre with The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer. This is time hopping novel set in Poland that marvelously weaves a story between WWII Nazi-occupation and modern life in America. Like always in this genre, I was gripped by the heartbreak, the horror, the hardship, the will… Read More

My reading mission for 2024 is to make it through the LARGE stack on my bedside of TBR books. (to be read, as I’m seeing it called lately). I have all sorts of goodies there that I collected over the last year, most of them given to me by Marme or a friend who read… Read More

Well folks, it is time to wrap up my 12 Books in 12 Months review for 2023. The project came to a conclusion with Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. This one was laugh out loud funny and entirely entertaining to me. I very much enjoyed the quirky Elizabeth Zott and her shenanigans and, being… Read More

We’ve made it to book eleven of my 12 Books in 12 Months project! For November I read The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons. I love World War II historical fiction and couldn’t put this one down. Of all the books I’ve read on this topic, this was the first one set in Russia. It’s a… Read More