Saturdays at the Café is a weekly feature hosted here to talk about and discuss the books I’ve discovered during the past week, added to my shelf and am excited about reading. They may be new/scheduled releases I’ve seen on NetGalley, at the library, or from publishers or they may be older titles my friends have… Continue reading Saturdays at the Café
This challenge is focused on finally finishing those series that you’ve started but not yet completed. It was previously hosted by Bea’s Book Nook, but since 2018 it’s been in the capable hands of Celebrity Readers. I’m going for the A-List Series Finisher (9+ series) again! January to March Link-Up April to June Link-Up July… Continue reading 2021 Finishing the Series Reading Challenge
This reading challenge, hosted by Austine & Katie @ NovelKnight, is all about knocking off those older books from your to-read list. Any genre, any format, any length. I participate in several group reads of older series so this fits my reading habits so very well. Last year, I read almost 80 books for this… Continue reading 2021 Beat the Backlist Challenge
The Audiobook Challenge is back for 2020! I’ll be joining Caffeinated Reviewer and That’s What I’m Talking About who is a new co-host for the 9th year of this challenge. I’m going for The 100 Club since I listened to more than that in 2020 and I listen to more audiobooks than I read these… Continue reading 2021 Audiobook Challenge
Hosted by Angel’s Guilty Pleasures & Books of My Heart, this is a favorite challenge. I love libraries and so many of the books I read are sourced by them. This will be my third year participating in the challenge and I’m signing up for Overdrive Junkie (36 books) since I did at least that… Continue reading 2021 Library Love Challenge
Some people search their whole lives to find love. He just wants to avoid it. Teddy Spenser spends his days selling design ideas to higher-ups, living or dying on each new pitch. Stodgy engineer types like Romeo Blue, his nemesis—if you can call someone who barely talks to you a nemesis—are a necessary evil. A… Continue reading Blog Tour: Teddy Spenser Isn’t Looking for Love by Kim Fielding @KFieldingWrites @CarinaPress
Kidnapping cases are always awful but this time, it’s much, much worse. DI Kim Stone and her team are handed the case where two nine-year old girls, best friends, were abducted in broad daylight. What makes it even more insidious are the demands of their captors. The parents are pitted against each other to bid… Continue reading Lost Girls by Angela Marsons @WriteAngie @bookouture @JanCramervoice
Charlotte Dawson is having a bad day. She shops at Alder Market on Tuesdays specifically to avoid running into Ruby Pearl, the most judgmental of the gossipy old ladies in town and her biggest non-fan. In an effort to avoid the woman, she takes refuge in the liquor section only to run into (literally) the… Continue reading Love in the Aisles by Heather Van Fleet & Jessica Calla
Saturdays at the Café is a weekly feature hosted here to talk about and discuss the books I’ve discovered during the past week, added to my shelf and am excited about reading. They may be new/scheduled releases I’ve seen on NetGalley, at the library, or from publishers or they may be older titles my friends have… Continue reading Saturdays at the Café
Cyril Conroy turns to real estate investment at the end of World War II and transforms his family’s circumstances from impoverishment to wealth. When he surprises them with a move to the Philadelphia suburbs and the purchase of a great mansion called The Dutch House, it also alters the course of everyone he cares about,… Continue reading The Dutch House by Ann Patchett @ParnassusBooks1 @tomhanks @HarperAudio
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