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Friday, March 8, 2024

“Today We Go Home” by Kelli Estes

Title: Today We Go Home
Author: Kelli Estes
Publisher:  Sourcebooks Landmark
Year: 2019    
Genre(s): historical fiction, contemporary fiction 
Part of a Series: No

Rating: 

Why I read it: Once Upon a Book Club selection

Summary: Discharged from the army and suffering from PTSD after her last tour in Afghanistan, Larkin Bennett returns home and is teetering on the edge. The only thing keeping her from going over is a diary found amongst her late friend’s belongings about Emily Wilson, a woman who disguised herself as a man to fight in the Civil War. Though living in a different century, Larkin finds comfort in Emily’s story and realizes she isn’t alone.


Friday, February 23, 2024

“Between Earth and Sky” by Amanda Skenandore

Title: Between Earth and Sky
Author: Amanda Skenandore
Publisher:  Kensington Books
Year: 2018    
Genre(s): historical fiction
Part of a Series: No

Rating: 

Why I read it: Once Upon a Book Club pick

Summary: Alma Mitchell is surprised when the morning newspaper contains an article about a her childhood friend and that he is suspected of murdering a federal agent. She convinces her husband to go from Philadelphia to Wisconsin to help him. Going back to Wisconsin and facing Harry or Asku forces Alma to consider their time at a school meant to assimilate Indigenous children into white culture and challenge the lies she has told herself.


Friday, February 2, 2024

“She Wouldn’t Change a Thing” by Sarah Adlakha

Title: She Wouldn’t Change a Thing
Author: Sarah Adlakha
Publisher:  Forge
Year: 2021    
Genre(s):  literary fiction, science fiction
Part of a Series: No

Rating: 

Why I read it: 12 Days of Bookmas gift

Summary: Maria Forsmann is a successful psychiatrist, wife and mother of two with one on the way. But an appointment with one patient sets things in motion that ultimately change Maria’s life forever. After a traumatic event, she wakes up in her seventeen year body and realizes she has been sent in time to prevent another tragedy. But doing so would prevent her from returning to her family forever. What will she choose?


Friday, January 19, 2024

“The Last Tale of the Flower Bride” by Roshani Chokshi

Title: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
Author: Roshani Chokshi
Publisher:  HarperCollins
Year: 2023
Genre(s):  gothic, mystery
Part of a Series: No

Rating: 

Why I Read It: Once Upon a Book Club selection

Summary: A scholar specializing in fairytales and legends marries a mysterious woman named Indigo on one condition – he never asks about her past. But when they return to her childhood home for her aunt’s last days, he realizes he needs to break his promise and discover what happened to her friend Azure. But will learning this secret not only end his marriage but his life?

Friday, January 5, 2024

Wrapping Up 2023

Happy New Year again! 

Since I don't have a new review ready, I thought I would just do a little wrap up of 2023. Everyone else does it, so why not me?

I had 22 posts to this blog during 2023 and 17 of them were book reviews. The other fives were other posts, usually recommendation lists. Of those reviews, these were the most popular: 

1. The Space Between by Dete Meserve: 55 total views

2. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna with 45 total views

3. The Duchess by Wendy Holden  with 44 total views

4. The Wildland by Rebecca Hodges and Sisters of the Resistance by Christine Wells tied with 43 total views each

6. The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James with 42 total views 

Many, of course, were published in the first half of the year and so benefitted from being up longer. Here were the three most popular posts of the second half of the year: 

1. The House on Harbor Hill by Shelly Stratton with 33 total views

2. The Night Olivia Fell by Christina McDonald with 20 total views

3. How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior with 16 total views

So that was my 2023! I look forward to all the reviews I'll post in 2024 and hope you continue reading them!

Did you have a favorite review or book from 2023? If so, let me know in the comments! 

Monday, January 1, 2024

My Books of 2023

 


These are the 15 books I read in 2023! I still have two books left to review so you can expect those soon! I struggled with one and then the holidays were a bit crazy this year. But I'll start new now that it's January 1st and I'll finish those two pending reviews from 2023. 

And then I'll continue on with the new books I'm going to read in 2024. 

Thank you to everyone who read one of my reviews last year and I hope you'll continue this year! 

Happy New Year! 

Friday, November 24, 2023

Happy Holidays!

Yesterday was Thanksgiving. I’m preparing this post ahead of time because I know this will be a busy time period for me. Either I’m recovering from a turkey coma or hiding from my sister because she’s super stressed about her wedding next week and taking it out on everyone.

Whatever it is, please wish me luck.

Since the holiday season is in full swing, I thought I would share some books I’ve read that center around the holidays.

Enjoy!