For some reason the start of this book was slow for me. I knew I had to finish it and once you do ..😳😢 Loved the authors notes on the real life midwife Martha Ballard and the story she wrote based on her daily diaries in 1789. Women were always strong and continue to fight.

Watched the Netflix series first then I heard that the author allowed them to change a few things. Usually never watch then read but I did like the ending better on the series. Also loved the beach line dance at the beginning credits after episode one…watched it every time!

Did anyone have to read this? I did and I‘m going to say after getting past his two eggplants this was a heart warming story. Beauty and the Beast for adults! Will I read more probably not but I did like the undertones to this story.

Written in free verse this book would be great in ELA reading groups. Moth lost her family in an accident but finds a friend in Sani. Loved this, can read in one sitting. 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋. Good twist at the end that I did not see coming.

Kept seeing this and resisted reading it. Saw someone said how they were learning and made myself pick up the paperback. 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎. Art history, equine science, horse racing in the antebellum South, 3 timelines and a bit of a romance…Loved this Read. Not a horse person but now I am closer to being one. Based on the stud Lexington.

Short and sweet and I loved it. If you are or were or could have been a mother this read is for you. Beach week with the family…this is a great quick read.

Scary as usual, Stephen King mixes cannibalism with poetry with Covid with popculture and real world doings. Loved this one. 4.5 stars. Kings books are always horrifying but I love them. Holly and Barbara are great characters. An earring can kill!:)

I almost bailed and don‘t know why but then by page 144 I was in bc there is time travel in this wonderful book! Good characters and the “mean” books and what they could do…😳. I would just want the book of doors and the book of luck!:). Good read.

5 stars and more for me. This should be a high school read! Grace has lost her husband and son and she herself feels done with life. A house on Ibiza is gifted to her and the story takes off. This is my ya/adult Wrinkle in Time. Anyone else feel that? Loved this read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Loved this story that has the best female characters and asks the question “did Shakespeare have a woman and others write for him?” Emilia Bassano is a real person and the authors notes has convinced me…I think we have something to think about with Shakespeare! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Another excellent book by Jodi Picoult.

Liked the premise of this book, liked the intro of readings of each of the couples as they come to Rini‘s Astrological retreat. The story itself and how it was written almost gave me the thoughts to DNF. I made it to the end which was not bad but overall this read was not my cup of tea leaves!:)🍁 🍁 🍁

If you like Dexter and Kay Scarpetta this scary serial killer read is for you. Fast read but man are there some tense situations and the plot twist gets a nod from me. Will read book #2.

Read this in one sitting. Loved how Riley used her mom‘s words from tapes then added her insight. Just a telling of how it was for Lisa Marie to grow up in Graceland. Those sad eyes after her dad passed.😔 So hard to grow up under the legend of Elvis. Priscilla as a mother?😏 The ending got me😢 Addiction is terrible.

Holy moly! Sally is born to a young girl who was kidnapped and kept hidden. They escape captivity and Sally has to learn how to compensate living in a world that views her as strange. Strange until we meet her brother and then I believe Sally may not be that weird! A scary true story. 😳

Another good Stephen King read. Luke is kidnapped and taken to a place where kids with telepathy and telekinesis are molded to “save the world”. Luke and Tim in this read are great characters. Poor Avery! Love Kings books that are scary true!!😳😬

October is scary month and this read fits right in. Who killed the small boys in this small town? Didn‘t they already find the killer? When children are part of the story it‘s beyond scary…😩. Psychologically scary.

My grandfather was Russian and escaped. This story of the Siege of Leningrad brings light to the suffering that has happened in Russia forever. Sisters that want to know why their mother cannot love them. Kristin Hannah‘s books always deliver. The strongest of women survive.

I love this author‘s sci fi books that always include where AI is going and what can be. Mal is an AI that can jump from person to drone to augmented being. In a future war where humans are fighting against the AI enhanced things, Mal leads his new friends to their new way of life. Great characters. Fast fun read that once again makes you think where we may be heading with artificial intelligence. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

WW2, the battle in the Pacific and the college football legends that gave their all to protect our freedoms. The fight on Okinawa and a football game during the war on an island that most of us have never heard of. Easy read compared to some that go into too much military strategy. They were just boys. 😢

#2 in this series, a hurricane may be the best cover for committing a paid for hire killing. Didn‘t see where this was leading but in true Grisham fashion it takes you into the way money is illegally made…pharmaceuticals and the lives of dementia patients…😞. I may have liked this one better than book 1.

First time I dnf‘d it, then the blue edged paperback addition arrived. I loved this read. Loved Oregon Trail and this gaming story is great. Sadie drove me crazy but at the end she redeemed herself, don‘t we all as we mature?! Loved Sam and Marx. Glad I decided that I needed to read what everyone said they loved. It worked this time!:)

I keep reading Ann Napolitano and the books just keep getting better. This is her first book that failed and I give it 5 stars! An Irish Catholic family, loss, the result of Catholic guilt and how women kept quiet in the past. Loved it. Her and Kristin Hannah are my go to authors.

Not as good as the first but this third installment is just another fun read. Oh what Millie faces again…crazy neighbors are out there!

I love time travel and this book is great! Let‘s bring people from the past and maybe the future to fix what we have goofed up all ready in our time…everyone in every timeline is flawed. Love story in a time travel book.. I‘m here for it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Continuation of Brooklyn. I‘m not so sure about the ending, so forlorn. I would have done the same, I‘m not raising that baby!!!😳🤔. Good quick read.

Read this in two days. Not that it was the best book ever but I did need to know where it was taking me. Reality TV, 10 couples take a trip to an exotic island to “win”. If you have watched any reality show we now all know and think, which one did they choose to stir the pot, to be the villain? Loved that she chose a woman scientist to be the fact “finder”. I liked this book, just a fun, who did it and why read.

A list with nine names arrives in the mail and that‘s it. What would you do if your name was on the list? It‘s all good until one by one they die. A fast read is sometimes a good read and I loved the nice neat ending. Never did like Peter Pan! Read it and you will get that.

I like Grisham novels and this one is different for him. Set on an island, Mercer is given the chance to “spy” in order to help find the stolen manuscripts of F Scott Fitzgerald. Good easy read on a beach and the references of classic books is fun. The ending to me seemed rushed and the epilogue…🤔. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ but I may pick up the other two at the library if I need an easy read.

Really liked this read. The hype was correct. Good characters, a timeline for every chapter, summer camp, and rich people‘s way of life. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 loves that it was set in 1975…girls had it rough. We all know this! Good mystery with two kids missing in a scary wooded area. 🫣🌲

I did like Kala, Helen and Mush as characters but the different views as you go through this story to find out what happened to Kala did not make me think that something really jaw dropping was going to occur…and it didn‘t. Set in Ireland, this mystery was too uneventful for me and at the end…ok I‘m done. 🫤 I did finish it so three stars it gets. 🫤🫤🫤

Loved this book. Connell and Marianne, the people that we watched, knew or were in school and beyond. At first I was skeptical about what I was about to read but then I couldn‘t stop. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me.

Loved this five star read. Saint and Patch are perfect childhood friends until Patch is taken. Their search for the serial killer that has affected both of their lives is chilling. Save the girls. Loved the short chapters that said it all. 🎨🎨🎨🎨🎨

I‘m glad that Crichton‘s wife allowed Patterson to finish her late husband‘s novel based on a mega volcanic explosion on the big Hawaiian island. It‘s not filled with enough scientific explanations that Crichton would have added but it gives you the dreaded fear of what a giant volcanic explosion would be like. I miss Michael Crichton. 🌋🌋🌋

Small town murder mystery. Margot goes home to Indiana to help her uncle but memories come back of her childhood friend who was taken and killed. With the mystery of her death still unsolved she tries to link a new death to that of her friend. The ending was a bit abrupt to me but maybe since little girls are the ones being taken is why the author ended it to make the reader cringe? It did. 🥺🫣😳🤔

Ok so I love mythology. Was this retelling needed? Now I have read the reviews and I‘m thinking we need to bring back mythology so that we don‘t have to reread stories in a way that are kind of ridiculous? Anyone else feel this way…I did like the story as a whole but the “added” aspects?!

Really loved this book. The inquisition with men in power that would make my blood boil. Loved Luzia who just wants to see the world and to be allowed to pray as she wishes. Don‘t want to love Santangel but I do! Love forever and ever. Good and bad magic makes this a winner for me. 🦂🦂🦂🦂

I liked this Stephen King book. The story of Charlie who saves the life of an older man who has secrets in his shed. The Fairy tale world below takes on a new realm. Clowns are scary and fairy tales are too.

Because the author herself went to rehab this book made sense to me. I would have liked to have read more about the other patients backgrounds but as a whole it‘s a pretty good murder mystery. Can all of those rooms be in that house that they have on the cover? Yep, that bothered me!

Book one, loved the set up of this Norse mythology realm. Loved the strong women Vikings and the Viking men that honor strength and loyalty. The trolls and other monsters in this book are great. Battle scenes for me were a bit long but they are needed and show the strengths of our characters.

Loved the first book and even though I kind of forgot that I read the first this second installment can be read on its own!:) Ceres almost gives up on her daughter who is in a coma until she is taken into a world where the Fae and characters from all of our stories come to life. Loved this read.

Loved loved loved this. If octopuses amaze you this is your setup to learn and then to want to see more. Great pictures. 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙

I had never heard of this author or this book and all I can say is..read it now! Not since the Notebook have I felt such a read. Eugene is living out his life in a home and his past life stories are there to back up his long lost loves. I loved this book!!!!❤️. Just read it!

Did I need this sequel to The Firm? Maybe not but I loved it. Grisham brings back Mitch and Abbey after 15 years and I loved every page. Mitch is “running” again. Go ahead and read it🧑‍⚖️👨‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️👨‍⚖️

Loved this collaboration by these two historical fiction writers. An opera singer, an artist, a botanist and a talented embroider become friends in San Francisco right before the 1906 earthquake. They fight against a cunning mean man that fools everyone. I like that good men were also portrayed. Good history of the first Chinatown that was in San Fran. 🫨🫨🫨🫨

Read this in one day and I never do that! Read some reviews after I read this and am always amazed that when people read they don‘t do it just for entertainment. It‘s a story people!:).Loved the Diana aspect, the setting in Las Vegas, the smarter than a whip foster daughter and even the crypto thugs. a good story with a lot of pop culture thrown in . Same chairs used in Star Trek were used on the Brady Bunch set! I love facts like that!🤩

Reread this and loved it more. If you haven‘t watched the Netflix series cue it up now! Aria Mia Loberti that‘s plays Marie-Laure should have swept every award. Now one of my favorite books of all time.

Loved this science fiction space read. If you have taken an evolutionary biology class this book will be for you. Humans need to find a new place to live, a crazy scientist wants to add a nano virus to monkeys DNA, the spiders “get” and use the virus instead. First in a trilogy!🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️

I like a good James Patterson when I want a light mystery to read. These three new detectives may be a good start to a good series from him. They aren‘t Alex Cross but they have background stories that made this book enjoyable to read…did they solve 4 mysteries that quick? I don‘t care, I liked it.🥸

I love anything by this author. Set in Washington state the Grey family sisters need to protect their ranch, need to find themselves after the loss of their mother, and need to find what makes each of themselves happy. Horses and love and the Innocence Project.

Really liked this find. A brain injury affects Brink into becoming a puzzle master. He then is called into helping solve a murder through being able to see patterns, to solve puzzles and to see beyond natures patterns. Good read. Loved the puzzle aspect, the mystery, the religious history and AI.