Re-reads

I got frustrated by the length of time I was having to wait for new library books and decided to do some rereading this week, since older books are easily obtainable. I chose the first book, The Good… Read More

Category: Legal thriller, Mystery, Relationship Fiction, Socially engaged fictionTags: , , ,

We All Live Here

I just finished JoJo Moyes‘s latest, We All Live Here, published just under a year ago. In looking at the list of her books that I have read, most have received four or five stars from me; but… Read More

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I’m fine

That’s everyone’s socially acceptable response when someone asks “How are you?”, right? But how often is it actually true? My initial reaction to the first third of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman (despite some clues… Read More

Category: Realistic Fiction, Relationship Fiction, Socially engaged fictionTags: ,

Saving the library

My next book on the library holds list was The Last Chance Library, by Freya Sampson, and I’m happy to report that I am now two for two (two good reads in a row) for 2026. This was… Read More

Category: Chick lit, Relationship Fiction, Romance, Socially engaged fictionTags: ,

Serendipity

I am wary of books that are described as “heartwarming.” I likewise shy away from anything that has been labeled “meet cute.” But there are occasionally stories about fortuitous occurrences that actually are genuinely charming, and The Lost… Read More

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Christmas past

I find myself, on the 18th of December, woefully unprepared to offer up Christmas reads here on the blog. I haven’t exactly been busy, but I also haven’t been much in the holiday mood, so I have read… Read More

Category: Christmas, Speculative fictionTags: ,

Public, secret lives

I finally got around to reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Although she has written some other well-received books (Daisy Jones and The Six, Carrie Soto Is Back), this was the first of… Read More

Category: Fictional Memoir, Mainstream fiction, Realistic Fiction, Relationship FictionTags: ,

Busybodies

The Busybody Book Club is my first experience of the novels of Freya Sampson, and I think I will need to read at least one more just to verify what other reviewers on Goodreads had to say about… Read More

Category: Cozy, Mystery, Relationship FictionTags: , ,

Memorable

I just finished Say You’ll Remember Me, by Abby Jimenez, and it seems that I am among the few who enjoyed it more than some of her other popular titles. I think I did because it was a… Read More

Category: Realistic Fiction, Relationship Fiction, RomanceTags:

Short but jam-packed

As I have mentioned here before, I am generally not a reader of short stories. The last time I blogged about a couple of them that I picked up for my Kindle, I commented that in the future… Read More

Category: Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Socially engaged fiction, Speculative fiction, Time travelTags: , ,

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