pick2.75 ⭐️/4
I think I sort of wanted a little more about the Dakota. Still an entertaining read in a soap opera kind of way.
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pick2.75 ⭐️/4
I think I sort of wanted a little more about the Dakota. Still an entertaining read in a soap opera kind of way.
“The fireplace of bloodred marble reminded her of a piece of raw steak, streaked with fat.”
Today I discovered that one can, in fact, make a library sound awful. 🤢
I tried to sneak in 20 minutes of reading before heading off to work. Unfortunately, I was interrupted by cats and my husband. I love them all dearly, but I just wanted to read 😫
Thanks for the tag @Eggs 😊
#WondrousWednesday
1. #BookedInTime
2. The tagged book
3. The Rum Diary - it just didn't hold my interest.
pickSoooo good with some unexpected history lessons about Roosevelt Island.
And yes, I absolutely finished this while frying up cutlets for chicken parm 😁
#historicalfiction
A small #bookhaul from a nearby used bookstore
"The sight of a child teetering on the window ledge of room 510 turned Sara's world upside down."
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
Hello Summer and outdoor reading 😎
Davis pens the most wonderful HFs with dual timelines set in NYC. This, the #Authors2ndBook, has a setting at the Dakota.
#MayMontage @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickI read this bc I am going to NYC for the first time this year, and the Dakota/Strawberry Fields is high on my list of places to check out.
I loved reading about the design/building of the Dakota and how barren the area around the building was at that time. Little historical touches like Nellie Bly's investigation of Blackwell's Island and the arrival of the Statue of Liberty helped to fill things out. I enjoyed the story from the 1980s as well.
pickI‘m giving this one a “Soft Pick”. There was so much happening with Sara‘s story that Bailey‘s seemed to take a backseat. Not my favorite Fiona Davis book, but it could‘ve been worse 🤷🏼♀️
This was where I was. This is where I wish I still was. Ughhhh, back home and back to reality 🙄 Had a great trip to Michigan filled with fun, family and beach time reading 😎
bailedToo predictable, and the world wasn't interesting enough to keep me going despite that. Not like cozy-mystery-predictible, just predictable.
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Fiona Davis has done it again. This book is intriguing and captivating. It's full of twists and turns right up until the very end. So well developed it was a joy to read! Loved it!
So many I want to get to this month! But I started with A Gentleman in Moscow and I think it will take me awhile. Only about 50 pages in and I love it already! #BookSpinBingo
I‘m very much a seasonal reader in summer, fall and over the holidays. But from January to May it‘s whatever I‘m in the mood for. I very excited about this list! #BookSpinBingo
pickThank you, @marleed for recommending this book! It was a quick, entertaining read. I briefly worried it would become a Snake Pit (1948 film) type story... I don't want to give anything away, but I thought Fiona Davis did an excellent job tilting my perspective and trust in the characters. An interesting historical context, as well!
I started The Address while finishing up this bit of advocacy for switch cane. I am already hooked on the story and *love* that one of the narrators is Saskia Maarleveld!
#JulyJourneys
I love #NewYorkCity & I am fascinated with the iconic buildings & history surrounding them. These are six books from my stacks, a couple read, one in process & the others from my #TBR & all have settings in iconic buildings like the Dakota, or in buildings based on iconic NYC locations.
pickThe Dakota in NYC made a fantastic backdrop for this story. It was a good read.
pickIt really didn‘t take off till the 2nd half, but I thought about it for a long while after.
pickMy final book of 2020! Finished it around 11:30 p.m. 👊 I enjoyed this historical fiction focus on tenants of the Dakota, a famous building in NYC. This was my second Fiona Davis novel, and I‘ll definitely continue to read more of hers.
#KindnessandPositivityWeek
#WhatMadeYouSmileToday
You will never guess where I found these today!! Definitely made me smile 😊 Gifts for others!!
pickI love reading about somewhere I've been. On my TBR for a long time. The book takes place in the 1880s & the 1980s with two different main characters & their time at NYC's The Dakota. A building Elton John described as "sinister" & I agree as well as eerie. 1st book I've read by Fions Davis. She is lovely in person. I enjoyed it, even if it was predictable. Pic from TCM tour with @aroc & my bridesmaids for my bachelorette weekend. #bookspinbingo
pickThis was really good-historical fiction set in the 1880s and 1980s featuring mystery, love, family and betrayal. I love books set in NYC and enjoyed learning about the Dakota. This is my 2nd Fiona Davis and she is quickly becoming a favorite author.
#doublespin for October @TheAromaofBooks
The sight of a child teetering on the window ledge of room 510 turned Sara‘s world upside down.
#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl
pickI will ready anything Fiona Davis publishes. I love her approach to historical fiction, intertwining past and present moving the two stories toward a “shared” conclusion.
I have been trying to like this for 250 pages 😳 Now I am invested enough that I have to finish. Enough of a mystery that I need an answer, but, oh, I don‘t really like anyone in this story!
What do you do when you are this far along and not liking a book?
pickA lovely read with all of the hallmarks of a good read... love, mystery, intrigue and a rich history!
pickReally good. Quiet and calming while at the same time surprising and fresh. I loved how the author wove the stories from the 1880s and the 1980s with the Camden family and the iconic apartment the Dakota together. Lovely on audio, this kept me walking each evening while I listened. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Dual timeline, historical fiction, family mystery, what's not to love.
It‘s pick here since my favorite setting for a book is NYC, and I love the history this author provides. I‘m ok with dueling timelines in HF and understand the 1980s TL provided a seamless ancestry connection to the 1880s. However, I wished the 1980s TL had a richer historical story to validate why it was chosen vs publishing decade because 1980s NYC is fascinating.
Slow afternoon at work. So I‘m going to listen to my audiobook. 🤣
pickI loved this book from page one. I love historical fiction, and this was a great story, connecting the life of Theo Camden, the fictional architect and assistant to Henry Hardenbergh, the actual architect of The Dakota in New York City in the 1880s, with the lives of Camden's ancestors in the 1980s.
#24B42020 @TheReadingMermaid @jb72 @Andrew65
It was #serendipity that I found these books at goodwill after their 50% off sale!! I got there at closing time!! 👏🏻📚 7 bucks!!
#DearDecember
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I had to take a day break from this compulsive audiobook.I had become so invested in Sarah Smythe‘s 1880‘s story that I could not face the murder & it‘s aftermath. A century later, Bailey Camden, fresh out of rehab, makes a discovery that link‘s her life to Sarah‘s.This book is about second chances, obsessive love, lies, heartbreaking loss, family, mystery. Add the historic Dakota in NYC & an appearance by Nellie Bly & I was smitten.
My first Fiona Davis. Listening to it in bits & pieces while doing dishes or too tired to read words!!📚🎧
I don‘t know about y‘all but I can‘t use a map!! Yeah it‘s terrible!! So I don‘t #Getthemapout I use google maps to find the address!! 🤣🤣
One of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors!!
#LilithJuly
so-soThis #audiobook tells the stories of two related women living a century apart in New York City‘s Dakota Apartments. I found the story in 1885 more interesting than the one in 1985. The image is from StreetEasy.
pickBailey is an alcoholic, when she leaves rehab she tries to pick up the pieces by helping her cousin melinda at The Dakota. This is a Cinderella type tale. It moves back and forth between 1885 and 1985. Bailey finds the history of the Dakota and more. ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
pickThis was an enjoyable read. Not an entirely plausible story but I kind of forgive that because I expect it going in and because I like the concept of these books based on famous buildings in New York.
