Title: What Could Be SavedAuthor: Liese O’Halloran Schwarz Genre: Literary, Historical FictionPublished On: January 12, 2021Publisher: Atria BooksSource: digitalPages: 460 Synopsis: An enthralling, redemptive novel set in Bangkok in 1972 and Washington, DC, in 2019 about an expatriate child who goes missing, whose family is contacted decades later by a man claiming to be the vanished …
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Meant to Read in 2020 (i.e. Books I’m Embarrassed I Haven’t Read Yet)
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Books I Meant to Read In 2020 but Didn’t Get To (You could take this opportunity to tell us what’s left on your seasonal TBRs …
ARC Book Review | The Perfect Guests by Emma Rous
Title: The Perfect GuestsAuthor: Emma Rous Genre: MysteryPublished On: January 12, 2021Publisher: Berkley BooksSource: digitalPages: 400 Synopsis: The USA Today bestselling author of The Au Pair returns with another delicious, twisty novel—about a grand estate with many secrets, an orphan caught in a web of lies, and a young woman playing a sinister game. 1988. Beth Soames is fourteen years …
Highlight Book Review | Snowflakes at the Little Christmas Tree Farm by Jaimie Admans
Title: Snowflakes at the Little Christmas Tree FarmAuthor: Jaimie AdmansGenre: Romance, HolidayPublished On: October 9, 2019Publisher: HQ DigitalSource: digitalPages: 384 Synopsis: All she wants for Christmas… Leah Griffiths has woken up after a few too many glasses of Prosecco with a hangover – and discovers she’s accidentally bought a little Christmas tree farm in Scotland! …
Top Ten Tuesday: My Top Ten Goals for 2021
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Resolutions/Hopes for 2021 (bookish or not!). Hello Readers! I hope you’re all well and safe at the start of this (already tumultuous) new year. I seem to …
My Popsugar Reading Challenge for 2021
Hello Readers! This will be my fourth year to participate in the Popsugar Reading Challenge! If you’ve never heard of the challenge, you can learn about it here. There’s also an informative Goodreads group here, as well as a Facebook group—but I’m not currently using Facebook. What I like about this challenge is it pushes …
Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Book Releases | January – June 2021
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2021. Hello Readers! I hope you’re feeling rested and refreshed for the New Year! Personally, I could …
My 2020 End-of-the-Year Reading Wrap-Up
Hello Readers! We’ve finally arrived at the end of 2020! While it’s been a year full of unimaginable tragedies and hardships, there have been a few good things to come out of 2020. (But just a few.) One of those is books! Maybe it was a way to escape or cope—or maybe it was all …
December 2020 Monthly Wrap-Up & Book Haul
Hello Readers! December was very different from normal for us here in Texas. It felt like Covid-19 was closing in swiftly as we watched some of our extended family and friends come down with it. While we’ve been social distancing and isolating all year, many here have not—which, sadly, has caused some tension in our …
My December Book HookUp Unboxing
In 2019, my husband gifted me a subscription to The Strand’s The Book HookUp. We’d visited New York City for the first time the previous Christmas in 2018, stopping in at The Strand bookstore, of course, so it was the perfect gift. What I love about this subscription is that it’s quarterly, so not a …