Tag: contemporary fiction
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Book Review: hello, summer
Author: Mary Kay Andrews Rating: 4/5 stars Book Blurb: It’s a new season… Conley Hawkins left her family’s small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon, in the rearview mirror years ago. Now a star reporter for a big-city paper, Conley is exactly where she wants to be and is about to take a fancy new position…
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Book Review: And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
Author: Fredrik Backman Rating: 5 stars Book Blurb: From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, and Anxious People comes an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man’s struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family’s efforts to care for him even…
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Book Review: The Summer of Broken Rules
Author: K.L. Walther Rating: 3/5 stars Book Blurb: Meredith’s family’s annual game of assassin at Martha’s Vineyard during a summer wedding is the perfect chance to honor her sister’s legacy, and finally join the world again. But when she forms an alliance with a cute groomsman, she’s at risk of losing both the game ……
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Friday Reads!!! 7/29/22
Happy Friday! This is what I am currently reading. I am over half way through them and will review them when I am done. As you can see I switched up my TBR a little. Library holds came in! Biggest surprise so far? Recursion ! Oh my goodness – so good! I have enjoyed Blake…
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JULY TBR 2022
Since I started this blog late -July there are only a few books I have left to read. These are the books left on my TBR for the month: I am about 100 pages into The Singles Game. I have already read 100 pages into Red Mars and really liked it, but that was so…
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Book Review: The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
Author: Katherine Center Rating: 4/5 stars Book Blurb: She’s got his back.Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka “bodyguard”), and she just got hired to…
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Book Review: That Summer by Jennifer Weiner
Author: Jennifer Weiner Rating: 2/5 stars Book Blurb: Daisy Shoemaker can’t sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has…