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: It Ends with Us by Colleen ...
Book Expo 2017
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 ...
Review: The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin
I really enjoyed The Swans of Fifth Avenue and started getting excited about The Girls in the Picture as soon as it was announced. In fact, it was the book I was most excited about receiving at Book Expo 2017. Melanie Benjamin was as much a delight in person, at her in-booth signing, as she is on her social media accounts. She even allowed me to blather on about her kitchen reno (it looks ...
Blog Tour and Giveaway: Odd Child Out
Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for Odd Child Out! This is another book that first caught my attention at Book Expo 2017. Though I hadn't read What She Knew, the first DI Jim Clemo book, I had absolutely no problem at all reading this book as a stand-alone. Odd Child Out drew me in straightaway. It is a very steady page-turner. There are several reasons for this but the first is that this ...
Blog Tour and Giveaway: Caroline: Little House, Revisited
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour of Caroline: Little House, Revisited! As someone who grew up watching Little House on the Prairie and reading the much-celebrated books series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, I was very excited to hear about this book at Book Expo 2017. When I was offered the opportunity to participate in the blog tour, I jumped on it! Caroline's character, in both the book and ...
Review: Give Me the Child by Mel McGrath
"Who was the creature, this mother, wife, psych, who looked like me and sounded like me, but who had never once in a dozen years suspected her husband of cheating, let alone having another child?" Give Me the Child is a page-turner straightway! It's told in the first person by Cat, who learns her husband has another child after a middle-of-the-night knock on the door. The mother of the ...
Review of Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
"Knowing that tree of ghosts is there makes the skin on my back burn, like hundreds of ants are crawling up my spine, seeking tenderness between the bones to bite." It is not very often that I read a book that leaves me feeling completely gutted. Sing, Unburied, Sing drew me in very slowly, but ultimately, very completely. This is a book that will stay with me for a long, long time. At its ...
