“On a hot, almost windless afternoon in June, a seven-year-old boy stood beside his mother and looked out across the green islands of Boston Harbor.”
That 7-year-old was John Quincy Adams, and they were witnessing the Battle of Bunker Hill from at least ten miles away.
#history #RevolutionaryWar #BunkerHill
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
Deep dive into the lead-up and start of the American Revolution. So far, so good.
#history #AmericanRevolution #TBR #TBRstack
bailedI read Kelly Link‘s short stories in grad school, so I wanted to like this book. But, no. I ended up bailing. I didn‘t like anything about it. 😬😒
pick4/5 stars
2nd book in the Maple Bishop series.
Thanks to NetGalley & Crooked Lane Books for a free e-copy.. All opinions are mine.
War-widow Maple Bishop is rebuilding her life. She started a business building dollhouses & it's doing well. But what she really loves doing is assisting the sheriff in his investigations by building miniatures of the crime scenes.
#NetGalley, #NetGalleyReviewer, # #HistoricalFiction
My latest Piper and Ivy #bookish t-shirt purchase newly arrived from the post office. ❤️❤️❤️
#bookishthings #bookishclothes #piperandivy
I‘ve had the tagged book on my TBR for a long time. And it‘s going to have to wait several more months since I don‘t have it with me.
#SundayFunday
Pub date: Sept. 23, 2025.
Oh yay! I was approved for an ARC of this book. The series is based Frances Glessner Lee, the real-life mother of forensic science.
WWII widow Maple Bishop's dollhouse business is thriving. She's used her miniatures to help the sheriff solve an earlier murder. Now he's asking for her help again when a body is found in a burned cabin.
#NetGally #ARC #NetGalleyARC #NetGalleyReviewer
pickPub date was June 24th.
Book #2 in the Beatrice Steele series. Beatrice is determined to make her own way in Regency England. She and Inspector Drake start their own PI business, DS Investigations in London. When the bodies of the elite of the Sweetbriar neighborhood start appearing, she and Drake are in a race with Sir Huxley, London's premier (but inept) detective to solve the cases.
#NetGalley #ATerriblyNastyBusiness #Historicalfiction
Well this is unfortunate. Looks like pgs.197-198 got caught in a machine at some point.
Picked up my order at River City Books in Soldotna, Alaska. Got “trapped” inside the bookstore by a mama moose and her twins munching on the plants right outside the door. (Is it really “trapped” when it‘s a bookstore? 🤣). I hope to start it tonight.
Received my second #SummerCardSwap today. 😎
I love the flowers @jenniferw88 I avoid romance books too!
@TheBookHippie
Happy release day in the 4th Saffron Everleigh historical mystery series.
This series is a favorite, and I love the covers.
#historicalmystery #saffroneverleigh #historicalfiction #netgalley #netgalleyreviewer
#FridayNightShare #MidsummerSolace
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is, so far, my favorite 2025 read thus far.
#SummerCardSwap mail going out today. We‘re on baby-watch, so I wanted to be sure to get these out before grandbaby #5 arrives sometime today. 🙂🤞🏻
My first #summercardswap has arrived! I got it several days ago, but forgot to post. Thanks @BkClubCare 🙂
Birthday book haul from River City Books in Soldotna, Alaska. I‘m planning on reading the tagged book first. I also ordered another one. 🙂
#cozymysteries #independentbookstore #birthdaybooks
#Two4Tuesday
1) The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
2) A Botanist‘s Guide to Rituals and Revenge by Kate Khavari.
#ThreeListThursday #TLT
7/100. Better than I thought I would get considering my history with these lists. 🤣
I don‘t know that any of them will make my TBR stack. 🤷🏼♀️
#SundayFunday
Longest I‘ve read, I think, is the tagged book-“Sacajawea” at 1424 pages. “Lonesome Dove,” “The Thorn Birds,” and “The Lord of The Rings” are some other chunksters I‘ve read. And “Hamilton” by Ron Chernow. ❤️❤️📚📚
@BookmarkTavern
#Two4Tuesday
1) Daniel Mason
2) North Woods. One of my favorite books of 2025. That‘s something because I don‘t usually read short story collections.
#FirstLineFridays
“No one was dead, at least not to begin with”
I will probably DNF this. I‘m 50 pages in, and I don‘t care. All the characters except the detective are mean, and the detective needs a backbone. 😬
#WondrousWednesday
1) Tagged. It‘s in the mail. He‘s an auto-buy author for me.
2) For the NetGalley books, sometimes I like writing them, other times not so much. 😬 I post on NetGalley, Litsy, GR, BookBub, Amazon, B&N, my blog. For bought/borrowed books, I usually leave a star rating on GR. If I really like it, I‘ll write a review. I‘m trying to use Story Graph more, but I keep forgetting.
#Two4Tuesday
) Sitting
2) Tagged book. It‘s an ARC. It‘s a fun read-snappy dialogue, great characters, humor. I enjoyed the first book in this series.
Post 3 on this book-last one! The pages in this book are a lot of fun. Some are colorful. All have illustrations related to the essay‘s topic. The pages are what make this book fun to read, and fit Syme‘s humor/writing style. These choices keep the book from becoming a dull read, IMHO. Not all the pages are colorful. Some are the usual black on white, but still have graphics.
(2nd post on this book 🤣) I got this from the library, but have told my kids I want my own copy for Mother‘s Day or my birthday (both in May). 🤣 I mean, how could I not after opening the book to this? This beautiful envelope with a letter to the reader inside. 🙂 #letterwriting #penpals #nonfiction #librarybook
pickThis was such a fun book to read. The pages are a big reason (in another post). Short essays about most, if not all, things letter writing. Paper, envelopes, style, “how to write about (subject). Syme‘s goal is to get more people interested in writing letters, an activity she started during the pandemic. 5 🌟
#librarybook #letterwriting #penpals #essays
#nonfiction
#TLT
#ThreeListThursday
28/100. Ouch. 🤣
I had two that were DNRs for me-Gone Girl and Left Behind. Several I think I may have read, but can‘t remember. I didn‘t count those.
Favorites-Joy Luck Club, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy.
pickThis was a fun read. The four queens of crime-Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Nagaio Marsh, Margery Allingham-team up with DCI Lilian Wyles (also a historical figure) to solve the murder of their host, Baronet Sir Henry Heathcote. Told in multiple POV. Solid mystery. Historical fiction. 5/5 🌟
#historicalfiction #mystery #debutnovel
“The boy in the bed was just fifteen years old.”
@ShyBookOwl
#FirstLineFridays
pick4/5 stars. A German doctor and his patient move to an isolated, but not unknown, tropical island to establish a private utopia. Word gets out. Another German couple (she‘s pregnant) & their son follow. An unstable baroness arrives with 3 men in tow. What could possibly go wrong? ⬇️
“The wire reports traveled three thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean and described a gruesome scene: On Marchena Island, a bleak and barren speck of land in the northern part of the Galapagos, passing fishermen found two bodies.”
From the prologue of Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of WWII.
I‘m making time to finish this one today. ⬇️
#FirstLineFridays
pick4/5🌟
3 different timelines about 3 related women generations apart. One is tried as a witch because of fear. One is naive about the ways of the world because her father turns their home into a prison and pays an awful price. One escapes an abusive relationship until her past finds her. Each one finds the strength to seize the story of their lives and build something new.
#FirstLineFridays
“Samuel Adams delivered what may count as the most remarkable second act in American life.”
#TLT #ThreeListThursday
3 favorites on the list:
The Graveyard Book
Little House in the Big Woods
A Wrinkle In Time
3 that should‘ve been on the list
The rest of the Little House books 😁
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Mrs. Mike
Three on my TBR pile
One Thousand and One Nights
Howl‘s Moving Castle
One of the Moomin books.
pick4/5 ⭐️ New cozy mystery releases tomorrow. This one features Jennifer “Jenn” Dalton, mystery author and director of Clarion University‘s writing center. She decides to solve the murder of a cantankerous professor when a student Jenn knows well is accused of killing him. The book is fast paced. Plenty of red herrings to keep a reader guessing. It the 1st book in the Campus Sleuth series.
#cozymystery #Netgalley
pick5/5 ⭐️. This novel places the reader into Stump Branch, a West Virginia mountain community decimated by mountain top removal mining and opioids. Jasper and Romie, high school sweethearts are trying to make a living in an environment that threatens to destroy them. It is also a novel of perseverance, second (and third) chances, and hope. ⬇️
#Two4Tuesday
1. To read more of my TBR stacks.
2. Tagged book. It releases this summer. “A Botanist‘s Guide to Rituals and Revenge” is the 4th book in the series.
#SundayFunday @BookmarkTavern
This whole series, The Christmas Tree Farm Mysteries, is set at Christmas. 🎄 🎅🤶🎁❤️📚
1. Remote cabin with snow
2. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. Not specifically Christmas-drawing a blank there, book wise-but has the mountains, snow, and Alaska. A favorite book by a favorite author. 🙂❤️🏔️
#Two4Tuesday
1. Putting up the tree with my grandkids.
2. Good question. I‘ve already read the tagged book. Probably something from my Kindle Unlimited books. 🤷🏼♀️Most of the books I want to read are back home in Ohio. I‘m currently in Alaska helping out family, so most of my books aren‘t here. My Kindle and I pad are though. And a few physical books. Oh hey! I just remembered books are waiting for me at the post office! 🎉🥳
#two4Tuesday
Put aside one book and picked up this one. So far, so good. 🤞🏻
I‘m having a hard time reading this book. I just started it, but I‘m setting it aside for now. It‘s too dark and depressing. I‘m not getting rid of it though. I want to try it again later. Maybe. I‘ve read a lot of past posts and it seems like I‘m in the minority. 🤣
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