pick5⭐️ I picked the book up due to seeing the third book in the series being prominent in a number of book groups on Facebook. I was really surprised that I really enjoyed it. I think it was because it just it was an interesting story and was very riveting. #2024 #fiction #psycologicalthriller #contempoary
pick4⭐️ Really liked this one; loved how the author unveiled the story. And I really liked that she chose #1920s Ireland as the setting of the book. Learned about a little about the Irish War of Independence (kinda weird that I am now on season 3 of Downton, which sort of has this as a plot point as well) and really liked the characters. #bookclub #fiction #historicalfiction #war #romance #2024 #timetravel
pick3.5⭐️ A really interesting book; some sections felt longer than they should have. A character study that looks at how war affects people on a daily basis. #2024 #historicalfiction #fiction #canadian #literary #bosnianwar
pick4.5⭐️ Really liked this latest edition of Erik Larson‘s excellent work. While not as gripping as The Splendid and the Vile, he does do justice the months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the first shots of the American Civil War on Ft. Sumter. #2024 #summerreads #nonfiction #history
This is what I am planning to read over the weekend; I‘m very close to finishing The Demon of Unrest and should have it done in the next day or two. I just started The Housemaid on Friday evening and it‘s definitely a book that I will be reading while it‘s light out. The other two books I will probably mostly from. #weekendreads
My August list for #bookspinbingo
pick4.5⭐️ I can‘t remember where I first heard about this book but I am so glad that I did. I haven‘t read this author before, but it probably won‘t be the last, as I really enjoyed the story. I found the tempo to be quite quick and even though there were three different characters, the storylines were never really compromised by switching pov‘s. #2024 #fiction #historicalfiction #wwii #londonblitz
pick4⭐️ I really enjoyed the book and definitely lived up to the hype of the book. If there was one complaint it was that the book seemed a little rushed at the end. #2024 #fiction #canadian #indiginous #contemporary #historicalfiction
so-so3.25⭐️ I thought it was a decent read, but definitely not a favourite. I am trying to expand the scope of the books I read and this is part of that experiment. #2024 #bookreview #romance #fiction #contemporary #summerreads
1. I always loved the name Laura, especially when I saw Laura Ingalls‘ name cards in Little Town.
2.Tagged
#two4tuesday
This was a fairly decent month of reading, as I got 7 books completed. My favourite by far was All the Light We Cannot See, closely followed by The Music of Bees.
At the moment I am working on three books and I am about to start another book. On my nightstand I have The Summer Book Club by Susan Mallery (📖), Enough by Cassidy Hutchinson (📱) and Alice Munro‘s Best: Selected Stories by Alice Munro (📱), of which is a slow but steady for me. I am going to start The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (📖), which should a fairly quick read, as I have read it 3 times ⤵️
1) time with family
2) time with a friend, who I don‘t spend much time with
3) my doctor, who answered my questions at my appointment on Monday morning
4) time spent reading
5) having a decent night of sleep
#5joysfriday
#bookreport & #weeklyforecast
#finished: Finished two books this week and enjoyed both of them.
#currentlyreading: Didn't finish The Maid for a book club meeting but I imagine that I will be able to do so this week. Started Enough on audio and its a little more eyeopening than I expected. Also started The Summer Book Club and I probably can get that completed this week as well. I am just at a standstill with Alice Munro's Best at the moment.
pick3.5⭐️ Was a #bookclub selection for May that I was unable to get to, but managed to read it now and I really enjoyed it. It has some dark elements to the story, but I thought it was quite good and glad that I was able to read it. #2024 #contemporary #fiction #bookreview
pick4.5⭐️ It was a very fascinating read, which was very in-depth about how American evangelicals are becoming more and more extreme and not in a good way. What‘s really important is that the author travels to the various places around the US that are highlighted. Highly recommended. #2024 #nonfiction #bookreview #christianity #evangelicals
4 ⭐️ This was a #bookclub selection and a #reread in April. And I enjoyed it much more this time than I did the first time that I read it. I think it was because I could comprehend it better this time around than I did the first time. I liked the interspersing of newspaper columns with the story. Even though there are some dark themes in this book, I found it to be fairly easy to read. #2024 #bookreview #fiction #greatdepression
Catching up for April and May.
For April, my favourite was Cutting for Stone. It was a reread for me, as I had read it a number of years ago and just loved the book. It is definitely a favourite read for April.
May was a little disappointing, as I only got The Turtle House completed. I really enjoyed that book as well. I haven't posted that review yet, but I will be doing catch up on book reviews this coming week.
#readingbracket2024
#bookreport & #weeklyforecast
#finished: finished 2 books this week; wasn't wowed by them, but they were fairly easy to complete.
#currentlyreading: All the Light is for a book club meeting; the Alice Munro is a #slowbutsteady (didn't read from it this week); The Music of Bees is for a previous book club meeting and it shouldn't take a lot of time to complete it.
so-so3.5⭐️ Thought it was ok; while it was delightful as 84 Charing Cross Road, it wasn‘t nearly as endearing. It was just ok. I didn‘t like this as much as its predecessor. #2024 #bookreview #nonfiction #epistolary #diaryentries #london #uk #travel
pick3.5⭐️ For the most part, I enjoyed this read. There were some things that were a bit far fetched, but I had a good time reading it. Read it for the latest Book Cougars #readalong. #2024 #romance #fantasy #fiction #bookreview
1) I really don‘t have a favourite summer read; I read pretty much the same as I do the rest of the year.
2) I am planning on a road trip from southwestern BC to the Yukon
3) That I have both my mom‘s parents alive (they are 95 & 99).
#wondrouswednesday
#bookreport & #weeklyforecast
#finished: Nothing so far, but I am almost done with The Awakening.
#currentlyreading: The Awakening should be completed fairly soon; Alice Munro's Best is a #slowbutsteady and I am hoping to work and complete The Music of Bees
#upcomingreads: Need to start All the Light and The Maid for book clubs about a week from now; The Essex Serpent is a restart
Happy reading 📚❤️
May was so crazy with me being sick at the end of April/beginning of May (had a sore throat of some kind) and with packing and moving into my new space, that reading became secondary for me and was only able to complete one book last month. Hopefully this month will be more successful. Here is my #bookspin and #roll100 for this month.
What clubs, restaurants, cafes were hopping on a Friday night in May 2020?
Starting to pack up my stuff. 😢 For those that are unaware, I am moving in with my parents for a couple of years to recover from my cancer treatments and surgeries. I have been finding it difficult to keep up with the cooking and cleaning of my current place. So my parents are renovating their primary suite into a studio for me to reside in for reside in. My current place, which is about 950 sq ft, will b rented out in the interim.
#bookreport & #weeklyforecast
#finished: I finished quite a number of books this past week, due in large part to #deweysreadathon that was held on Saturday and the fact that I had two book club meetings last week (finished my other book last week). Reviews of these books will be forthcoming this week.
#currentlyreading: still plugging away at The Kingdom and will be picking up The Essex Serpent again this week (just a really busy reading time)
Finished the March trilogy this morning and got Cutting for Stone completed this afternoon and am onto reading Haven for #deweysreadathon
Am starting the #deweyreadathon with this series. #marchtrilogy #graphicnovels #history #nonfiction #americanhistory #salem #obamainaguration #civilrightsmovement #1960s #johnlewis
4.5/5 ⭐️ As disturbing this book was, I really enjoyed it. I think why I liked it is the brutal honesty that Amanda described her captivity.
One thing I would have liked to have a bit more information on is about her life post captivity, but that was really the only downside to the book. #2024 #bookreview #nonfiction #canadian #bookclub #truestory
pick4/5⭐️ Really enjoyed this #mystery. Characters are well written and the story is very engaging. Looking forward to the second book in the series. Heard about the book through the Thoughts on a Page #2024 #bookreview #contemporary #fiction #thriller
https://bookshop.org/p/books/northwoods-amy-pease/20165287?ean=9781668017265
#bookreport & #weeklyforecast
#finished: I finished A House in the Sky and really liked it (I will be posting a review in the next couple of days)
#currentlyreading: Read quite a bit this past week, as I spent the wee hours of Saturday morning finishing up A House in the Sky. I also spent quite a bit of Saturday reading The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory and feel like this will need a reread at some point. I hope to either finish or continue
pick4/5⭐️ #reread this for one of my #bookclub meetings and really quite enjoyed it. Really liked how the author dealt with grief in the second part of the book, how the four remaining people dealt with their grief. #2024 #historicalfiction #fiction #bookreview #shakespeare
https://bookshop.org/p/books/hamnet-maggie-o-farrell/16519834?ean=9781984898876
I am very much a mood reader this weekend. I really want to finish Cutting for Stone (very close to finishing), but I really need to work on the Tim Alberta book and start Fried Green Tomatoes. Haven is something I could read fairly quickly due to it is length.
Hope you all have a great weekend of reading #weekendreads
Just starting this now. For January, my favourite read was The Authenticity Project. February it was Prequel by Rachel Maddow. And from those two, Prequel is moving on. For March, Hamnet by Maggie O‘Farrell was my favourite. The best of the rest was Killers of the Flower Moon. Looking forward to see what my favourite for April will be.. 🤔 #readingbracket2024
1) an Easter brunch at my grandparents care home on Wednesday morning, Good Friday service on Friday morning, Easter service on Saturday evening, Easter dinner on Sunday.
2) Evidence of Things Unseen
3) The Ramona Quimby series, The Little House series and The Babysitter Club books.
#motivationalmonday
#bookreport & #weeklyforecast
#finished: A very successful week; finished Evidence of Things Unseen and Hamnet. Enjoyed Hamnet more.
#currentlyreading: I am reading quite a bit. Cutting is almost done; Northwoods should be a few reads until I completed; will work on the other three to get them done this week, but I can guarantee nothing.
#upcoming: A House & Fried Green Tomatoes are #bookclub reads and Wolf Hall is a #buddyread.
My plan is to dip in and out of each these books this weekend, hopefully finish one or two of these books. #weekendreads
My plans are:
• finish a number of the books that I am still working my way through
#marvellousmarch #readathon
so-so3⭐️ Book was ok. Things I liked about the book were that it took in an era that isn‘t really explored in #historicalfiction. I liked the characters and she drew you into story. Things that I didn‘t really like was that some of the chapters were really long, with no breaks and that it was a slow read. #2024 #fiction #bookreview #literaryfiction
https://bookshop.org/p/books/evidence-of-things-unseen-marianne-wiggins/951966?e...
so-so3.5⭐️ Read this for #bookclub and while I liked certain aspects about the book, it was just ok. A lot of it felt like it was not exactly plausible, but I think that was the point of the book. It was needed escape from my heavier books. #2024 #fiction #bookreview #reread #historicalfiction
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-100-year-old-man-who-climbed-out-the-window-and...
so-so3.5⭐️ I read this for the most recent #bookcougars #readalong. For the most part I enjoyed the book, but I didn‘t expect it to be as steamy as it was. As I said during the chat session, I enjoyed the historical context of the book, but the rest of the story seemed to be a bit contrived in places. I‘m not much of a #romance reader, but I was glad to dip my toes in this genre. #2024 #fiction #bookreview #historicalfiction #fiction
1. Continue cleaning my apartment in anticipation of my move later this spring and pick up my tamoxifen prescription from the hospital (don‘t like that I can‘t pick it up at my local pharmacy)
2) The Women by Kristin Hannah
3) Historical Fiction
#motivationalmonday
