“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” C.S. Lewis
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack My rating: 4 of 5 stars Eleanor Dash has made a career writing mystery novels and is struggling with her next book, mainly because she intends to kill off her main character, who happens to be based on a real life man, Connor Smith. …
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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is one of those books that’s been on my TBR list for decades. Mainly because I saw the movie as a kid and it has haunted me ever since. Those don’t always hold up, but Something Wicked definitely did. Still …
Thank you to NetGalley and Alcove press for an advanced copy of this book. All opinions are my own. A book described as “Practical Magic” meets “Gilmore Girls”? Sign me up! I’m not sure that’s how I would describe it, though. Did it have magic? Absolutely. Awkward family dynamics? Sure. A curse about heartbreak? Yup. …
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Clara’s search for her father’s identity leads her to dig into her mother’s past. It takes her back to Nazi Germany, her mother’s history and the porcelain maker of Dachau. As she discovers what her mother had to do to preserve both of their lives, she finds her way to the truth of her identity, …
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Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur My rating: 4 of 5 stars It was the setting that first made me request this book from NetGalley – Cape Cod is one of my favorite places on the planet. A story of siblings with a troubled relationship, their bipolar father, and an unknown young woman who seems to …
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Morgan is happily living her life – two jobs she loves, a house, a best pal roommate. What else does she need? And then Luke Hudson walks into her bar. Things go sideways very quickly – a violent murder and identity theft send Morgan back home to her mother and grandmother in Vermont. Life with …
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer My rating: 4 of 5 stars Finished this a couple days ago – just in time for today’s pub day!Clover is a death doula, someone who helps people through their end-of-life transition. It was a new profession to me, but one that makes sense. She sits with …
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Review of Sally Page’s The Keeper of Stories
I kicked off 2022 reading the January chapter of Emma Howarth’s A Year of Mystical Thinking and made myself a vision board. It was sort of half-assed, but I did it, and put it where I’d see it every time I sat down at my desk. (This year’s is much better…stay tuned for another post …
Because reading 100 books set in France wasn’t enough to keep me busy (ha ha), I’m also reading Stephen King’s works in chronological order. I actually started this last fall, so it pre-dates the French project. I’m a huge Stephen King fan since my first read – The Dead Zone – when I was 13. …
A Cup of Tea and My TBR List 