When this book was first chosen for one of the book clubs I’m in, I was very on the fence about it. I am just not a fantasy reader. I’ve tried and can never get absorbed into the words like I can with other books. Man, did this book change that for me. The House... Continue Reading →
Books I Want to Read April 2022
How are we already at April? Is it just me or has 2022 already kind of flew by. I feel like I say that every year though. Time goes so fast, unless it's when you want time to go fast and it goes as slow as a snail trying to win a track race. So... Continue Reading →
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
My dear friend Mary recommended this book to me and if you have met her or ever get to read some of her work you know that she has the gift of storytelling. She doesn't see the world like so many of us do. She see's a trampoline and instead it's a school for kids... Continue Reading →
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan
I'm just going to start this post by saying this book could easily be my top read of 2022. I'm predicting that now. We've only just started March and that is how much I loved this book. It's a book that I believe everyone should read at some point in their life. An absolutely incredible... Continue Reading →
Books I Want to Read March 2022
March has finally arrived! Spring is just around the corner (she says while it is a balmy 20 degrees without windchill this fine Chicago day and knowing that the universe is going to say HA about it being spring and dump a foot of snow on a random day in March or April). Ah Spring.... Continue Reading →
The Gown by Jennifer Robson
I, like many other Americans, love anything that has to do with the royal family. It's such a foreign concept (pun intended) to us that I think we can't help but grasp on anything revolving around them. I think there's always been an interest in them but it wasn't until Princess Diana that people really... Continue Reading →
This is How it Always is by Laurie Frankel
I feel like I say this a lot but I just wanted to give this book a hug, which is an incredibly weird way to start this post I know. I literally texted a friend of mine at 30 pages in to the book on how much I loved this book and just wanted to... Continue Reading →
The Night Portrait: A Novel of World War II and da Vinci’s Italy by Laura Morelli
Art has never really been something that I've been super into. I mean I like to look at it, especially street art, but majority of the time I have no idea what I am even looking at or could tell you anything about the piece. In art class growing up I was definitely there just... Continue Reading →
Verity by Colleen Hoover
Disclaimer: This book does has some disturbing scenes. I felt like I had to put this disclaimer in for this book cause HOLY COW! This book was insane. Insanely good but still definitely insane. Was it my best idea to read this book while house/dog sitting all by my lonesome. Definitely not. Yet here I... Continue Reading →
Books I Want to Read in February 2022
I thought this would be kind of an interesting post to start doing right before the beginning of a new month. I personally get a lot of my book ideas from other people saying this is what they're reading at the current moment. It helps broaden my horizons for books that I might not have... Continue Reading →