Hello, October! September was a busy month for me with the Jewish holidays, which required a lot of prep work. Luckily, I managed to get it all done with Mom’s help, and the holidays were really nice. My sister even flew in to be with us, and to […]
The Vanishing Place Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A shocking murder in the New Zealand bush—and the witness who looks all too familiar—draws a woman back to the very place she swore […]
The summer months went out with a bang, literally, since my neighbors think that 5 hour firework shows should be had at least once a month. I was able to attend a Korean culture fair on Labor Day weekend with some friends, and it was a really fun […]
I finished July with 19 ARCs left to be read. Happy Saturday! I am so ready for autumn and everything that comes along with it: the scent of woodsmoke in the air (from fireplaces, not wildfires), the leaves changing color, chilly weather, switching from capris and sandals to […]
A Mother’s Guide to the Apocalypse Thank you to Redhook, Oliver Wehner, and Oriel Voegele for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. If you knew the world was ending, how far would you go to protect the people you love? How […]
We Are All Guilty Here Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. The first thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent series. Welcome to North […]
On Her Own A moving, page-turning story of two families in crisis that melds the clock-ticking tension of Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me with the “issue-driven” gravity of Jennifer Haigh’s Mercy Street. Watching her Russian immigrant mother, Irina, struggle to put food on the table, […]
Joy Moody Is Out of Time Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, and Macmillan Audio for providing me ARCs of this book in exchange for an honest review. From the author of the beloved novel Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder comes another quirky and irresistible new crime novel […]
High Season Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, and Macmillan Audio for giving me access to both a digital and an audiobook version of this in exchange for an honest review. Never speak of that summer. On a beautiful summer’s night twenty years ago, troubled seventeen-year-old Tamara […]
It felt like July went by so fast! I had a pretty laid-back month, even if my weeks have been busier now that I have to drive Mom and accompany her to all of her appointments, and I’m currently working on updating all of her providers to include […]
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