There are so many things I loved about The Naturalist! First, there's our main man, Professor Theo Cray. He's a computational biologist. So basically he's a little nerdy, very smart, and, because he's now been drawn in to a murder investigation, a bit of a rogue Magnum, P.I. I'm not one for bookish crushes but if I were, he'd be a candidate. Next, there's the plot. What starts out as one dead ...
Mystery/Thriller
Looking Ahead: My February TBR
Happy February fellow bookworms! Looking Ahead is a monthly meme hosted by Tina at Reading Between the Pages. At the start of each month, I’ll be posting my anticipated TBR. Be sure to check out Tina's page and those of the other participants in this meme. I read all but two of the books on my January TBR. I didn't get to The Naturalist or to listening to Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. ...
Review: The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
As my Aunt Betty would have said, "HOLY MARY, MOTHER O' GOD!" Just when I thought I understood what was going on, along came Part 2 and I'm begging for confirmation that my head is spinning in the right direction. The Wife Between Us was exactly what I needed to get me out of my two-book DNF reading slump. It started out a bit slowly which concerned me for the first few chapters but I now ...
First Chapter/First Paragraph: The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea. Each week, participants share a paragraph (or two) from a book they are currently reading or are planning to read soon. Today I'm going to share the first couple of chapters of The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne. I'll be starting this one soon and I'm really looking forward to it! Chapter ...
Blog Tour: Girl Unknown
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Girl Unknown! This book is unique in many ways. The first is that Karen Perry is actually a pen name for two writers collaborating on this book. This is the first book, to the best of my knowledge, that I've read penned by two authors and it definitely worked here. Most of the book is told in the alternating first person points of view of Caroline and ...
Blog Tour and Giveaway: The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
"There are some things in life you can alter - your weight, your appearance, even your name - but there are others that wishing and trying and working hard can never make any difference to. Those are the things that shape up. Not the things we can change, but the ones we can't." Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor. This book is blowing it up all over the interwebs!! ...
Throwback Thursday: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Throwback Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by Renee at It’s Book Talk. Throwback Thursday is an awesome opportunity to share old favorites as well as older books in our TBR. I love this idea as I'm often distracted by all of the shiny, new books I see every day and don't make it back to the ones that have been sitting on my shelves. My pick of the the week is: Sharp Objects by Gillian ...
First Chapter/First Paragraph: The Chalk Man
First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea. Each week, participants share a paragraph (or two) from a book they are currently reading or are planning to read soon. Today I'm going to share the first couple of paragraphs from The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor. I'm participating the blog tour on January 20th and I can't wait to start this ...
Review: Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates
If you're a friend or follower on Goodreads, you may have seen my status update at page 108: "The jury is still out on this one. I'm not a fan of omitting quotation marks and it's moving a little slowly." And this one at page 163: "Okay, now I'm hooked." A brief status update at the end of the book would have looked something like this: "Huh? What the heck?" And that pretty much sums ...
Blog Tour and Giveaway: Little Broken Things
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour of Little Broken Things! I was very excited to read this book based on the blurb. The gorgeous cover certainly did not hurt! I was quickly drawn in by the first few chapters. After all, it's not every day that a sister alters the appearance of a child, assigns her a new name, and drops her off at her semi-estranged sister's house with no explanation. But ...
