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Way to go, Dawn Michelle. I generally will give a book about one hour if I'm iffy about it before I set it aside.Sometimes I know within the first couple of paragraphs it's not for me! Usually that happens before I buy or check out the book from my library.
Thanks everyone!! Elyse, that was the best comment!! :-)
*JANUARY 2025*1. Colorful Mondays
A Bookmobile Spreads Hope in Honduras
Nelson Rodriguez
Leonardo Agustin Montes
Carla Tabora - Illustrator
Rosana Faria - Illustrator
Laurence Schimel - Translator
1.1.2025
Read Around the World:Honduras
Kindle Fire/Hoopla eBook
5 Stars
2. Murder at King's Crossing [Wrexford & Sloane #8]
Andrea Penrose
1.1 - 1.7.2025
Kindle/NetGalley ARC
4 Stars
3. The JFK Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy - and Why it Failed
Brad Meltzer
Josh Mensch
1.1 - 1.2.2025
NetGalley Audiobook ARC [Scott Brick - Narrator]
4 Stars
4. A Dedicated Man [Inspector Banks #2]
Peter Robinson
1.1 - 1.2.2025
Kindle/RWYO
3 Stars
5. Fantastic Lou
Little Comics from Real Life
Qin Leng
1.2.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley ARC
3 Stars
6. Fearless Women
Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyonce
Elizabeth Cobbs
1.3 - 1.11.2025
Kindle/RWYO
5 Stars
7. Big Changes for Plum!
Matt Phelan
1.3.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley ARC
5 Stars
8. Realm of Ice and Sky
Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
Buddy Levy
1.3 - 1.7.2025
Kindle/NetGalley ARC/NetGalley Audiobook ARC [Will Damron - Narrator]
5 Stars
DNF. Dressed to Drill [Fixer-Upper #10]
Kate Carlisle
1.3.2025 - DID NOT FINISH @10%
Kindle/FLP OverDrive
ZERO STARS
** More mystery and less googly eyes pleaseandthankyou. If I wanted a heavy romance, I would be reading THAT instead of a cozy mystery!! Add in SO. MUCH. Repetition and I knew I was done. I had loved this series, but the last three have been disappointing [for me].
9. Mud, Muck, and Dead Things [Campbell and Carter #1]
Ann Granger
1.3 - 1.10.2025
Kindle/Kindle Unlimited
4 Stars
10. Friends Forever
Mary Murphy
1.7.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley ARC
5 Stars
11. The Lost Ones [The Moonwind Mysteries #3]
Johan Rundberg
Eva Apelquist - Translator
1.8 - 1.10.2025
Kindle/NetGalley ARC
5 Stars
DNF. Damn Glad to Meet You
My Seven Decades in the Hollywood Trenches
Tim Matheson
1.8 - 1.11.2025 DID NOT FINISH @30%
Kindle/NetGalley ARC
ZERO STARS
** WHAT a huge disappointment!!
12. A Copycat Conundrum [The Misfits #2]
Lisa Yee
Dan Santat - Illustrator
1.11 - 1.14.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley ARC
4 Stars
13. The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing [Vish Puri #2]
Tarquin Hall
1.13 - 1.15.2025
Paperback/RWYO
4 Stars
14. The Sinners All Bow
Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Pryne
Kate Winkler Dawson
1.13 - 1.15.2025
Kindle/NetGalley ARC
5 Stars
15. Thorns, Lust, and Glory
The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn
Estelle Paranque
1.13 - 1.16.2025
Kindle/NetGalley ARC
5 Stars
16. Karolina and the Torn Curtain [Zofia Turbotynska #2]
Maryla Seymiczkowa
1.15 - 1.19.2025
Kindle/RWYO
5 Stars
17. Blood and the Badge
The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal that Rocked a Nation
Michael Cannell
1.16 -1.22.2025
Kindle/NetGalley ARC/NetGalley Audiobook ARC [Jonathan Yen - Narrator]
5 Stars
DNF. The Twist of a Knife [Hawthorne & Horowitz #4]
Anthony Horowitz
1.16.2025 DID NOT FINISH 10%
ZERO STARS
** I really enjoyed this series until I didn't ad found myself dreading this book and its awful character from book 2 and Tony's incessant whining...I am done. Such a shame.
18. Devices and Desires [Adam Dalgliesh #8]
P. D. James
1.17 - 1.25.2025
Paperback/RWYO
4 Stars
19. Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
1.17 - 1.23.2025
Jane Austen Reading Challenge
Kindle/RWYO
5 Stars
20. A Rip Through Time [Rip Through Time #1]
Kelley Armstrong
1.20 - 1.26.2025
Kindle/Kindle Unlimited
4 Stars
21. My Mom
Susan Quinn
Sarah Mathew - Illustrator
1.24.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley ARC
5 Stars
22. The Secret History of the Rape Kit
A True Crime Story
Pagan Kennedy
1.23 - 1.24.2025
Kindle/NetGalley ARC
5 Stars
23. Why Taiwan Matters
A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
Kerry Brown
1.24 - 1.26.2025
Kindle/NetGalley ARC/NetGalley Audiobook ARC [Kerry Brown - Narrator]
2 Stars
24. Water Moon
Samantha Sotto Yambao
1.26 - 1.29.2025
Kindle/NetGalley ARC
5 Stars
** This was absolutely gorgeous!!
25. Hell Bay [Barker & Llewelyn #8]
Will Thomas
1.26 - 1.28.2025
Hoopla Audiobook [Antony Ferguson - Narrator]
[304] 10hrs
5 Stars
26. The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime [Sherlock Holmes Bookshop #10]
Vicki Delany
1.27 - 1.30.2025
Kindle/NetGalley ARC
4 Stars
Mod
Elyse wrote: "The Secret History of the Rape Kit sounds intriguing and I just got Water Moon from Illumicrate!"I really ended up loving Water Moon; I think it will be your jam for sure.
The Secret History of the Rape Kit blew me away and everyone should be reading that book.
*February 2025*27. Ramon Fellini the Dog Detective
Guilherme Karsten
2.1.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
4 Stars
DNF. Songbird
An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie
Lesley-Ann Jones
2.1 - 2.2.2025 DNF @25%
Kindle/NetGalley ARC
ZERO STARS
** This was just so disappointing.
28. Murder in Bloom [The Gardener Mysteries #3]
Rosie Sandler
2.1 - 2.4.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
29. An African History of Africa
From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
Zeinab Badawi
2.1 - 2.6.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
30. The Distant Echo [Karen Pirie #1]
Val McDermid
2.1 - 2.4.2025
Kindle/Carnegie OverDrive
2 Stars
31. Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams
The Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World's Largest Children's Library
Katherine Paterson
Sally Deng - Illustrator
2.2.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
** THIS was a stunning and interesting read!!
32. Thread by Thread
Alice Briere-Haquet
Michaela Eccli - Illustrator
Susan Ardizzone - Translator
Kindle Fire/NetGalley ARC
5 Stars
33. The Quiet One
Yiting Lee
2.3.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
34. An Awkward Way to Die [Barker & Llewelyn #8.5]
Will Thomas
2.6.2025
Kindle/RWYO
5 Stars
35. Old Scores [Barker & Llewelyn #9]
Will Thomas
2.6 - 2.10.2025
Hardcover/RWYO
5 Stars
36. The Mother Next Door
Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
Andrea Dunlop and Mike Weber
2.5 - 2.8.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Andrea Dunlop - Narrator]
5 Stars
37. The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken [Vish Puri #3]
Tarquin Hall
2.5 - 2.9.2025
Paperback/RWYO
5 Stars
38. The Last Tsar
The Abdication of Nicholas ll, and the Fall of the Romanovs
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
2.7 - 2.10.2025
Kindle/NetGalley ARC
2 Stars
39. A Necessary End [Inspector Banks #3]
Peter Robinson
2.11 - 2.15.2025
Kindle/RWYO
3 Stars
40. The Raven Boys [The Raven Cycle #1]
Maggie Stiefvater
2.12 - 2.14.2025
Kindle/RWYO
5 Stars
41. Thousand Cranes
Yasunari Kawabata
Edward G. Seidensticker - Translator
2.11 - 2.12.2025
Kindle/RWYO
2 Stars
DNF. Junie
Erin Crosby Eckstine
2.14.2025 DNF @10%
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
** IF you are going to write HF about a time-frame that has been written about extensively, you need to grab the readers attention from book 1 AND you need to write it in a way that the reader doesn't automatically feel like they have read it before. This was such a disappointment.
42. Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata
Edward G. Seidensticker - Translator
2.13.2025
Paperback/RWYO
3 Stars
DNF. Seven Deadly Sins
The Biology of Being Human
Dr. Guy Leschziner
2.15 - 2.17.2025 DNF @50%
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
** The title of this is V E R Y misleading, the book is very dry and subjective, and I finally had to give up. UGH.
43. The Dream Thieves[The Raven Cycle #2]
Maggie Stiefvater
2.14 - 2.18.2025
Kindle/RWYO
5 Stars
44. The Poisoner's Ring [Rip Through Time #2]
Kelley Armstrong
2.16 - 2.22.2025
Kindle/Kindle Unlimited
4 Stars
DNF. Black Woods, Blue Sky
Eowyn Ivey
2.16 - 2.17.2025 DNF @25%
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
** Y'all. I HATE how many DNF'ed book I had this month, and this one was the hardest of all. I have loved this author's previous books and this was just so...no. Ugh. I was so deeply disappointed.
45. Dear Moon
Inspiration from the Beautiful Wisdom of the Qur'an
Zayneb Haleem
2.17.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
46. The Zealot and the Emancipator
John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
H.W. Brands
2.18 - 2.22.2025
Kindle/FLP OverDrive [This was originally a NG book with NO audiobook; I dumped the book so I had to get it from the library]
5 Stars
47. Blue Lily, Lily Blue [The Raven Cycle #3]
Maggie Stiefvater
2.9 - 2.22.2025
Kindle/RWYO
5 Stars
48. Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower
A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Octavia E. Butler
Damien Duffy - Contributor
John Jennings - Illustrator
2.23.2025
Kindle Fire/Hoopla eBook [This was originally a NG book with NO pictures or text; I dumped the book so I had to get it from the library]
5 Stars
49. Rack, Ruin, and Murder [Campbell and Carter #2]
Ann Granger
2.23 - 2.27.2025
Kindle/Kindle Unlimited
5 Stars
50. The Folly of Realism
How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine
Alexander Vindman
2.23 - 2.25.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Jacques Roy - Narrator]
5 Stars
51. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales [Emily Wilde #3]
Heather Fawcett
2.24 - 2.28.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
2 Stars
** Well THIS was a huge disappointment!!
52. The Raven King [The Raven Cycle #4]
Maggie Stiefvater
2.26 - 2.28.2025
Kindle/RWYO
5 Stars
Mod
Heather Fawcett
2.24 - 2.28.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
2 Stars
** Well THIS was a huge disappointment!!..."
Oh noooooo!!!
Elyse wrote: "Dawn Michelle wrote: "51. Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales [Emily Wilde #3]Heather Fawcett
2.24 - 2.28.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
2 Stars
** Well THIS was a huge disappointment!!..."
Oh noooooo!!!"
I was so sad. I wanted SO MUCH MORE especially since its the last book. :-(
Every month I tell myself I am going to add my books at the END of each week and here we are going into April and I have to now input all the March books. Sigh. Apparently it's just not going to happen! LOL
*March 2025*53. Head Full of Clouds
Joanne Schwartz
Afsaneh Sanei - Illustrator
3.1.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
DNF. The Case of the Missing Maid [Harriet Morrow Investigates #1]
Rob Osler
3.1.2025 DID NOT FINISH @10%
Kindle/Kindle Unlimited
NetGalley Audiobook [Nicol Zanzarella - Narrator]
ZERO STARS
** Well, that narrator didn't work for me and I was so bored I almost fell asleep listening. ERGH.
54. The Secret Detective Agency [Secret Detective Agency #1]
Helena Dixon
3.1 - 3.4.2025
Kindle/Kindle Unlimited
NetGalley Audiobook [Kristin Atherton - Narrator]
4 Stars
55. Giant Love
Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film
Julie Gilbert
3.5 - 3.8.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
3 Stars
56. The Blanket Cats
Kiyosi Shigematsu
Jesse Kirkwood - Translator
Kindle/NetGalley ARC
1 Star
57. The Case of the Love Commandos [Vish Puri #4]
Tarquin Hall
3.1 - 3.3.2025
Hardcover/RWYO
4 Stars
58. Connecting Dots
A Blind Life
Joshua A. Miele with Wendell Jamieson
3.2 - 3.4.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Greg D. Barnett - Narrator]
*NO RATING*
59. How to Solve Your Own Murder [Castle Knoll Files #1]
Kristen Perrin
3.5 - 3.8.2025
Kindle/RWYO
4 Stars
DNF. Gingerbread Danger [Amish Candy Shop #9]
Amanda Flower
3.5.2025 DID NOT FINISH @10%
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
** SO disappointed in this series.
60. A Slash of Emerald [Dr. Julia Lewis #2]
Patrice McDonough
3.5 - 3.9.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
61. Opal [The Raven Cycle #4.5]
Maggie Stiefvater
3.6.2025
Kindle/RWYO
5 Stars
62. The Land Knows Me
A Nature Walk Exploring Indigenous Wisdom
Leigh Joseph
Natalie Schnitter - Illustrator
3.7.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
DNF. Death of the Author
Nnedi Okorafor
3.6 - 3.7.2025 DID NOT FINISH @20%
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
** This was so disappointing; I love this author and wanted to love this, but alas, nope. UGH.
63. The Trouble of Color
An American Family Memoir
Martha S. Jones
3.9 - 3.11.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Martha S. Jones - Narrator]
3 Stars
64. Sin Eater
Megan Campisi
3.10 - 3.15.2025
Paperback/RWYO
2 Stars
65. Blood is Blood [Barker & Llewelyn #10]
Will Thomas
3.9 - 3.13.2025
Hardcover/RWYO
4 Stars
66. Murder at the Orpheus Theatre [Tate and Bell #4]
Irina Shapiro
3.10 - 3.16.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
67. Propaganda Girls
The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
Lisa Rogak
3.12 - 3.13.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Samara Naeymi - Narrator]
5 Stars
68. Bricks and Mortality [Campbell and Carter #3]
Ann Granger
3.15 - 3.19.2025
Kindle/Kindle Unlimited
3 Stars
69. The Quiet Librarian
Allen Eskens
3.16 - 3.18.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
*NO RATING*
** I LOVE this author and was so excited for this and it was just a ginormous disappointment.
70. The Man Nobody Killed
Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York
Elon Green
3.16 - 3.19.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Dion Graham - Narrator]
5 Stars
71. The Dog Across the Lake [Paws & Claws #9]
Krista Davis
3.18 - 3.22.2025
Kindle/RWYO
3 Stars
72. The Bear-Shaped Hole
John Dougherty
Thomas Docherty - Illustrator
3.22.2025
Kindle Fire/FLP OverDrive
5 Stars
** This was a NetGalley book but due to their stupid new reader thingy, I was unable to read this until thankfully my library got it. I am so glad as this is an absolutely gorgeous book!
73. I Am Nobody's Slave
How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free
Lee Hawkins
3.20 - 3.25.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
*NO RATING*
** This had extreme abuse of children in the first half of the book [with no trigger warning] and it was just so difficult to read and finish.
74. The Next One is for You
A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA's secret American Army
Ali Watkins
3.20 - 3.25.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
75. Cocktails and Chloroform [A Rip Through Time #2.5]
Kelley Armstrong
3.20.2025
Kindle/Carnegie OverDrive
4 Stars
76. Disturbing the Dead [A Rip Through Time #3]
Kelley Armstrong
3.20 - 3.28.2025
Kindle/Carnegie OverDrive
5 Stars
77. Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
3.23 - 3.30.2025
Kindle/RWYO
3 Stars
78. The Tell
A Memoir
Amy Griffin
3.26 - 3.27.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
DNF. Hunchback
Saou Ichikawa
Polly Barton - Translator
3.26.2025 DID NOT FINISH @5%
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
** THIS. WAS. AWFUL.
79. The Ride
Paul Revere and the Night that Saved America
Kostya Kennedy
3.28 - 3.29.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Johnny Heller - Narrator]
5 Stars
80. Somewhere Towards Freedom
Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation
Bennett Parten
3.28 - 3.30.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
81. We Are the Scrappy Ones
Rebekah Taussig
Kirbi Fagan - Illustrator
3.29.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
82. I Will Give You My Tail
Tanya Tagaq
Qavavau Manumie - Illustrator
3.30.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
83. Hi, Earth
Jonathan Kunz
Elizabeth Pich
3.30.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
1 Star
DNF. The Pecan Seller
Lupe Ruiz-Flores
3.31.2025 DID NOT FINISH @10%
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
3 5tars
** While the writing in this is excellent, due to worsening eye issues, I am unable to read it. I am very disappointed.
Mod
Elyse wrote: "I also gave Sin Eater 2 stars lol. Death of the Author oh no!!!"I hate that I am not seeing these until a MONTH after they have been posted!! Are you receiving notifications because I am not. UGH!
Anyway, yeah, Death of an Author was just....I absolutely love that author and was so excited about the book and it just didn't work for me. I think I am in the minority though so it could be an awesome book for you!! Fingers crossed!
*April 2025*84. Remember Us to Life
A Graphic Memoir
Joanna Rubin Dranger
Maura Travares - Translator
4.1 - 4.5.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
3 Stars
85. An Excellent Thing in a Woman [Sparks and Bainbridge #7]
Allison Montclair
4.1 - 4.5.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
86. The First and Last King of Haiti
The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
Marlene L. Daut
4.1 - 4.17.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
3 Stars
87. Tough Luck
Sandra Dallas
4.1 - 4.3.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Mia Hutchinson-Shaw]
*NO RATING*
** I had such high hopes for this and it was just so....no. Ugh.
88. Homicide in the Indian Hills [Jane Wunderly #6]
Erica Ruth Neubauer
4.1 - 4.3.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Sarah Zimmerman]
4 Stars
89. The Murder of Mr. Ma [Dee and Lao #1]
John Shen Yen Nee and S.J. Rozan
4.3 - 4.5.2025
Kindle/RWYO
4 Stars
DNF. The Human Scale
Lawrence Wright
4.4 - 4.5.2025 DID NOT FINISH @10%
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
90. A Spirited Blend [Crystals and CuriousiTEAS #3]
Lauren Elliot
4.6 - 4.9.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
3 Stars
91. Rebellion 1776
Laurie Halse Anderson
4.6 - 4.9.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
*NO RATING*
92. Lethal Pursuit [Barker and Llewelyn #11]
Will Thomas
4.7 - 4.9.2025
Hardcover/RWYO
5 Stars
93. The Green Kingdom
Cornelia Funke
Tammi Hartung - Ethrobotanist
Melissa Castrilloh - Illustrator
4.11.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
94. Sand Cakes
Kallie George
Devon Holzwarth - Illustrator
4.11.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
95. The Case of the Reincarnated Client [Vish Puri #5]
Tarquin Hall
4.11 - 4.15.2025
Hardcover/RWYO
4 Stars
96. The Hanging Valley [Inspector Banks #4]
Peter Robinson
4.11 - 4.15.2025
Paperback/RWYO
2 Stars
97. Eternal Flame
The Authorized Biography of the Bangles
Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
4.12 - 4.17.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
2 Stars
98. How to Reach the Moon
Nicolas Schuff
Ana Sender - Illustrator
Laurence Schimel - Translator
4.14.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
** This was a completely GORGEOUS children's book. I loved it so much!!
99. Not-So-Sweetie-Pie
[Weenie, featuring Frank & Beans #3]
Maureen Fergus
Alexandra Bye - Illustrator
4.16.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
100. Anything
Rebecca Stead
Gracey Zhang - Illustrator
4.16.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley ARC
5 Stars
101. The Railway Conspiracy [Dee and Lao #2]
John Shen Yen Nee and S.J. Rozan
4.16 - 4.20.2025
NetGalley Audiobook [Daniel York Loh]
5 Stars
102. The Arts Trail Killer [Shell House #5]
Emylia Hall
4.16 - 4.21.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Kristin Atherton]
5 Stars
103. For a Girl Becoming
Joy Harjo
Adriana Garcia - Illustrator
4.18.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
4 Stars
104. The Rebel Romanov
Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had
Helen Rappaport
4.18 - 4.22.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Jennifer M. Dixon]
3 Stars
105. Children of Radium
A Buried Inheritance
Joe Dunthorne
4.18 - 4.20.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
2 Stars
106. Murder at Gulls Nest [Nora Breen #1]
Jess Kidd
4.21 - 4.25.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
107. Home of the Happy
A Murder on the Cajun Prairie
Jordan LaHaye Fontenot
4.21 - 4.26.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Christine Lakin]
5 Stars
108. Dead in the Water [Campbell and Carter #4]
Ann Granger
4.23 - 4.26.2025
Kindle/Kindle Unlimited
4 Stars
109. Of My Own Making
A Memoir
Daria Burke
4.23 - 4.29.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Daria Burke]
3 Stars
110. Death by the Book [Mercy McCarthy #2]
Lucy Connelly
4.26 - 4.27.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
*NO RATING*
DNF. Ukulele of Death [Fran & Ken Stein #1]
E.J. Copperman
4.28.2025 DID NOT FINISH @10%
Hoopla Audiobook [Cara Swingline]
ZERO STARS
** UGH! ABSOLUTELY not. UGH.
111. The Spendthrift and the Swallow [A Raven and Fisher Mystery #3.5]
Ambrose Parry
4.29.2025
Kindle/RWYO
5 Stars
112. Schemes and Scandals [A Rip Through Time #3.5]
Kelley Armstrong
4.30.2025
Kindle/FLP OverDrive
5 Stars
113. Kate & Frida
A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Books
Kim Fay
4.29 - 4.30.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
114. The Order of the Day
Eric Vuillard
Mark Polizzotti - Translator
4.30.2025
Paperback/RWYO
2 Stars
**This was SO BORING. UGH.
Mod
I hate that I am not seeing these until a MONTH after they have been posted!! Are you receiving notifications because..."
Yeah I'm getting notifications. Sometimes they get glitchy though, it's very annoying. I did get Death of an Author from Aardvark. Who knows when I'll read it though lol.
Mod
Elyse wrote: "Dawn Michelle wrote: "Elyse wrote: "I also gave Sin Eater 2 stars lol. Death of the Author oh no!!!"I hate that I am not seeing these until a MONTH after they have been posted!! Are you receiving..."
I am still not getting notifications and I never think to check back here so I clearly need to make a note to check here.
How annoying. ;-)
Andrea wrote: "Wow that was a great April for you!"Thank you Andrea!! I had some really great reads in April. I highly recommend Murder at Gulls Nest and Kate & Frida; both were such great books.
*May 2025*115. Bright Lights and Summer Nights
Shauntay Grant
Zack Manbeck - Illustrator
5.1.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
116. The Penford Manor Murders [Miss Clara Vale #4]
Fiona Veitch Smith
5.1 - 5.5.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
117. No More Tears
The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Gardiner Harris
5.1 - 5.6.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
2 Stars
** THIS should have been much better than it was. SO disappointed.
118. The Rebel Empresses
Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
Nancy Goldstone
5.1 - 5.8.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
119. Death at a Highland Wedding [A Rip in Time #4]
Kelley Armstrong
5.1 - 5.6.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Kate Handford]
5 Stars
**This series has been such a fantastic surprise for me and I am SO very glad I took a chance on this one! It is absolutely fantastic.
120. We Carry the Sun
Tae Keller
Rachel Wada - Illustrator
6.3.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
121. Lizzy Longlegs [Band of Bugs #3]
Kai Luftner
Wiebke Rauers - Illustrator
Tim Mohr - Translator
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
122. Murder Ballads
Illustrated Lyrics and Lore
Katy Horan
5.6 - 5.7.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
2 Stars
123. Ghosts of Iron Mountain
The Hoax of the Century, It's Enduring Impact, and What it Reveals About America Today
Phil Tinline
5.7 - 5.11.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
124. The Beast of Littleton Woods [Lady Hardcastle #12]
T E Kinsey
5.7 - 5.10.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Elizabeth Knowlden]
5 Stars
125. Millie and the Midnight Hedgehog
Bernadette Watts
5.8.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
2 Stars
**The two stars are for the absolutely gorgeous illustrations, which while gorgeous, is not enough for me to recommend this book. It was one of the most depressing and sad children's books I have ever read [even more than The Giving Tree]. I have no idea what this author was thinking. SO SO SO sad [with a very strange ending].
126. How to Seal Your Own Fate [Castle Knoll Files #2]
Kristen Perrin
5.8- 5.11.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
2 Stars
**THIS was one absolutely, unexpected disappointment. UGH.
127. Trespassers at the Golden Gate
A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco
Gary Krist
5.9 - 5.13.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
128. The Tree That Was a World
Yorick Goldewijk
Jeska Verstegen - Illustrator
Laura Watkinson - Translator
5.10.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
4 Stars
129. Dance with Death [Barker & Llewelyn #12]
Will Thomas
5.12 - 5.16.2025
Print Book [HC]/RWYO
3 Stars
130. The Birds of Christmas
Based on a European Folktale
Olivia Armstrong
Mira Miroslavova - Illustrator
5.12.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
4 Stars
131. Return to Sender
Vera Brosgol
5.12.2025
NetGalley Audiobook [Michelle H. Lee]
3 Stars
132. The Acid Queen
The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Susannah Cahalan
5.12 - 5.17.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
3 Stars
133. At Last She Stood
How Joey Guerreno Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom
Erin Entrada Kelly
5.13 - 5.14.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
4 Stars
134. Paris Undercover
A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal
Matthew Goodman
5.14 - 5.19.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
*NO RATING*
135. Two Weddings and a Murder [Lady and Lady's Maid #9]
Alyssa Maxwell
5.15 - 5.19.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
136. The Isolated Seance [Irregular Detectives #1]
Jeri Westerson
5.17 - 5.19.2025
Hoopla Audiobook [Noah James Butler]
3 Stars
137. Blood in the Water
The Untold Story of a Family Tragedy
Casey Sherman
5.18 - 5.21.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Casey Sherman]
5 Stars
138. The Case of the Elusive Bombay Duck [Vish Puri #6]
Tarquin Hall
5.20 - 5.23.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
DNF. The Lost Queen
Aimee Phan
5.20.2025 DID NOT FINISH @10%
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
DNF. High Achiever
The Incredible True Story of One Addicts Double Life
Tiffany Jenkins
5.20.2025 DID NOT FINISH @20%
Kindle/ECLS OverDrive
ZERO STARS
DNF. Detective Aunty [Kausar Khan Investigates #1]
Uzma Jalaluddin
5.20 - 5.22.2025 DID NOT FINISH @43%
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
** WHAT a ginormous disappointment. I was really excited about this book as I used to live "next door" to Scarborough [I lived in Don Mills for 7+ years], and knew so many of the landmarks she talks about, but in the end, the story, for me, was boring, I found that I just did not care about anything that was going on *OR* any of the characters [and there certainly wasn't any real mystery here; just a lot of angst, anger and sadness], and I found that I was doing everything but actually reading this book, so I must unfortunately, not finish this one. As I was truly excited about this one, I am very disappointed.
139. Black Tunnel White Magic
A Murder, a Detective's Obsession, and 90's Los Angeles on the Brink
Rick Jackson
Matthew McGough
5.22 - 5.29.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
DNF. The Ideological Brain
The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
Leor Zmigrod
5.22.2025 DID NOT FINISH @10%
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
** This was W A Y above my pay-grade. WHOOSH.
140. The Cat Who Saved the Library [The Cat Who...#2]
Soskue Natsukawa
Louise Head Karwai - Translator
5.23 - 5.25.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
2 Stars
** One of the bigger disappointments of this reading year. Sigh.
141. Written in Stone [Scottish Bookshop #10]
Paige Shelton
5.24 - 5.28.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
142. The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy
5.26 - 6.6.2025
Print Book [PB]/RWYO/Summer Reading
4 Stars
DNF. Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies [The Vacation Mysterie #1]
Catherine Mack
5.26.2025 DID NOT FINISH @10%
Kindle/Kindle Unlimited
ZERO STARS
**UGH UGH UGH.
143. Before We Forget Kindness [Before the Coffee Gets Cold #5]
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Geoffrey Trousselot - Translator
5.28 - 5.30.2025
FLP Audiobook [Kevin Shen]
3 Stars
144. The Last Secret Agent
My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines
Pippa LaTour
Jude Dobson
5.28 - 5.31.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Jilly Bond]
5 Stars
I did okay in June, but felt myself doing other things [movies, sleeping] instead of reading. Some of it was because of the heat, some because of being yanked off my pain meds, some of it is because my Mom is declining much quicker now and its just awful, some because life is just so... I am hoping July is better.
*JUNE 2025*145. The Diva Poaches a Bad Egg [Domestic Diva #18]
Krista Davis
6.1 - 6.5.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
DNF. Austen at Sea
Natalie Jenner
6.1 - 6.3.2025 DID NOT FINISH @30%
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Rupert Graves]
ZERO STARS
** I tried. I really, really tried. If this is Austen at Sea [people who love and read Jane, not actually the author herself on a boat], WHY are the characters putting on a play based on a HENRY JAMES BOOK and not one of Jane Austen's?? And that was just one of the many conundrums I experienced in the 30% I read. So disappointed as I love this author.
DNF. Alive Day: A Memoir
Karie Fugett
6.4.2025 DID NOT FINISH @5%
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
** If I had really known what this was about, I'd not have accepted it [I was invited to read/review this by the publisher] and honestly, that is on me. I cannot read this.
DNF. The True Happiness Company
How a Girl Like Me Falls for a Cult Like That
Veena Dinavani
6.1 - 6.4.2025 DID NOT FINISH @45%
Kindle/NetGalley
3 Stars
"Everyone wants to live. Some of us just don't know how."
Veena Dinavani
**I *KNEW* what this one was going in, but I had no idea just how it was going to affect me, which was very negatively. I actually highly recomend this book because it is both well-written and well-narrated [by the author], but only if you don't struggle with depression and/or have been in a cult. This is one that I am really disappointed that I could not finish, but my mental health just would not allow that to happen.
146. No Paw to Stand On [Bookmobile Cat #12]
Laurie Cass
6.1 - 6.4.2025
Kindle/RWYO
3 Stars
147. The Granddaughter
Bernhard Schlink
Charlotte Collins - Translator
6.4 - 6.7.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
2 Stars
148. A Change in Habit
Leaving Behind My Husband, Career, and Everything I Own to Become a Nun
Sister Monica Clare
5.6 - 6.10.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
149. Fierce Poison [Barker & Llewelyn #13]
Will Thomas
6.5 - 6.7.2025
Print Book [HC]/RWYO
4 Stars
150. One Final Turn [Electra McDonnell #5]
Ashley Weavery
6.6 - 6.10.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
151. The Fairbanks Four
Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement
Brian Patrick O'Donoghue
6.8 - 6.12.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Chris Henry Coffey]
2 Stars
152. Original Sin [Adam Dalgliesh #9]
P. D. James
6.8 - 6.19.2025
Print Book [PB]/RWYO
2 Stars
153. Cat's Eye
Margaret Atwood
6.9 - 6.24.2025
Print Book [PB]/RWYO
2 Stars
154. A Botanist's Guide to Rituals and Revenge [Saffron Everleigh #4]
Kate Khavari
6.11 - 6.19.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Jodie Harris]
eBook - 3 Stars
Audiobook - 4 Stars
155. Whack Job
A History of Axe Murder
Rachel McCarthy James
6.11 - 6.14.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Jennifer Pickens]
5 Stars
156. The Sailing of the Intrepid
The Incredible Voyage of the Navy's Most Iconic Aircraft Carrier
Montel Williams LCDR USN, Ret.
David Fisher
6.15 - 6.21.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
157. Queen of All Mayhem
The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the West
Dane Huckelbridge
6.15 - 6.22.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [George Newbern]
4 Stars
158. Meet the Kellys
The True Story of Machine Gun Kelly and His Moll Kathryn Thorne
6.20 - 6.23.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Wendy Tremont King]
2 Stars
159. The Mummy of Mayfair [Irregular Detectives #2]
Jeri Westerson
6.23 - 6.30.2025
Hoopla Audiobook
4 Stars
DNF. Bear Witness
The Pursuit of Justice in a Violent Land
Ross Halperin
6.22.2025 DID NOT FINISH @10%
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
160. This Dog Will Change Your Life
Elias Weiss Friedman
6.23 -- 6.29.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
161. We'll Prescribe You a Cat [Book 1]
Syore Ishida
E. Madison Shemoda - Translator
6.23 - 6.29.2025
Kindle/RWYO
2 Stars
DNF. My Beautiful Sisters
A Memoir of Courage, Hope, and the Afghan Women's Soccer Team
Khalida Popal
6.24 - 6.25.2025 DID NOT FINISH @30%
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
162. Don't Look Back, You'll Trip Over
My Guide to Life
Michael Caine
6.26 - 6.28.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
Mod
Dawn Michelle wrote: "I did okay in June, but felt myself doing other things [movies, sleeping] instead of reading. Some of it was because of the heat, some because of being yanked off my pain meds, some of it is becaus..."I'm sorry, Dawn Michelle. You are going through a really tough time with your mother. I'm kinda in it with you, as my mother moved to assisted living last October, and we are seeing a noticeable decline month-to-month although she is being very well cared for. Mega hugs to you as you deal with your mom's situation.
Andrea wrote: "I'm sorry hunny, sounds like you have a lot on your plate right now. When things are touch it's easier to do things that don't require concentration. Thinking and praying for you and your mom."Oh Andrea, thank you so much!! Your kind words are a real balm to me today!! Thank you friend, thank you!!
Karol wrote: "Dawn Michelle wrote: "I did okay in June, but felt myself doing other things [movies, sleeping] instead of reading. Some of it was because of the heat, some because of being yanked off my pain meds..."It is just such a rough thing isn't it? I am so glad I can be at home with her because its better for her right now, but as her only caregiver, I am, quite often, exhausted.
I am sorry that you too are going through this as well; my heart and thoughts are with you!!
*JULY 2025*163. juneteenth
Ralph Ellison
6.26 - 7.4.2025
Print Book [PB]/RWYO
2 Stars
DNF. An Amateur Sleuth's Guide to Murder
[Bainbridge Island #1]
Lynn Cahoon
7.1.2025 [DID NOT FINISH @10%]
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
164. The Place of Tides
James Rebanks
7.2 - 7.5.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
<>** THIS IS A SIMPLY GORGEOUS BOOK!!!
DNF. The Listeners
Maggie Stiefvater
7.1 - 7.2.2025 [DID NOT FINISH @20% ]
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
**WHAT a huge disappointment!!
165. Past Reasons Hated [Inspector Banks #5]
Peter Robinson
7.1 - 7.5.2025
Kindle/RWYO
3 Stars
166. Righteous Strife
How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union
Richard Carwardine
7.2 - 7.20.2025
Kindle [Print Book]/NetGalley
5 Stars
** THIS arc had NO ToC [it is 934 pages in the kindle] and I could not deal with that, so thankfully, my library had a physical copy and I used that. I was so grateful.
167. Freedom Ship
The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea
Marcus Rediker
7.4 - 7.9.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
DNF. The Whitechapel Widow [Emma Langley #1]
Emily Organ
7.6 - 7.8.2025 [DID NOT FINISH @30%]
Hoopla Audiobook [Eilidh Beaton]
ZERO STARS
** SO. MUCH. ICK.
DNF. Serpentine [Serpentine #1]
Cindy Pon
7.9.2025 [DID NOT FINISH @20%]
Own/Kindle
ZERO STARS
**WHAT a waste.
168. The Mystery of the Blue Train [Hercule Poirot #6]
Agatha Christie
7.6 - 7.9.2025
Print Book [PB]/RWYO
4 Stars
169. Abscond
A Short Story
Abraham Verghese
7.9.2025
Kindle/RWYO
5 Stars
170. Crow Call
Lois Lowry
Bagram Ibatoulline - Illustrator
7.10.2025
Kindle Fire/Hoopla eBook
5 Stars
171. Stowaway
Karen Hesse
Robert Andrew Parker - Illustrator
7.10 - 7.14.2025
Print Book [PB]/RWYO
3 Stars
172. Lincoln's Lady Spymaster
The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War
Gerri Willis
7.10 - 7.13.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
173. Sonia Speaks Up
Shannon McClintock Miller
Mel Darmawon - Illustrator
7.10.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
174. The Gravedigger's Almanac [Leopold von Herzfelt #1]
Oliver Potzsch
Lisa Reinhardt - Translator
7.10 - 7.16.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Rupert Bush]
eBook - 3 Stars
Audiobook Narrator - 1 Star
175. Lights [Sheets #3]
Brenna Thummler
7.13.2025
Kindle Fire/Carnegie OverDrive
5 Stars
176. When Sharks Attack with Kindness
Andreas J. Colmenares
7.16.2025
Kindle Fire/FLP OverDrive
5 Stars
177. The Second Chance Convenience Store
Kim Ho-yoen
Janet Hong - Translator
7.15 - 7.19.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
178. Their Accomplices Wore Robes
How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System
Brando Simeo Starkey
7.14 - 7.3.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
3 Stars
179. Unfamiliar
Volume #1
Haley Newsome
Kindle Fire/Carnegie OverDrive
2 Stars
180. Heart of the Nile [Barker & Llewelyn #14]
Will Thomas
7.17 - 7.22.2025
Kindle/FLP OverDrive
5 Stars
DNF. The Bone People
Keri Hulme
7.21 - 7.24.2025 [DID NOT FINISH @35%]
Print Book [PB]/RWYO
ZERO STARS
** I have been waiting Y E A R S for an audiobook for this book because a friend had recommended this book so highly and I couldn't read read it [the narrator for the new audiobook is absolutely perfect and I hope I can listen to her again], so having to DNF is a huge disappointment, But I REFUSE to read about willful child abuse. I cannot and will not do it. Such a disappointment.
181. Flora and Ulysses
The Illuminated Adventures
Kate DiCamillo
K. G. Campbell - Illustrator
7.26 - 7.8.2025
Print Book [PB]/RWYO
3 Stars
182. The Story of ABBA
Melancholy Undercover
Jan Gradvall
7.24 - 7.27.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Ian Hallard]
2 Stars
DNF. Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crime [Savvy Summers #1]
Sandra Jackson-Opoku
7.20 - 7.22.2025 [DID NOT FINISH @40%]
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Karen Chilton**}
Zero Stars
** SHE was the best part of this whole book; what a waste of a fantastic narrator!!
183. Dinner with King Tut
How Rogue Archaeologists are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
Sam Kean
7.23 - 7.30.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
184. Shade
A Tale of Two Presidents
Pete Souza
7.19.2025
Print Book [PB]
5 Stars
185. Blood Mary
A Graphic Biography of Mary Tudor
Kristina Gehrmann
Ivanka T. Hahnenberger - Translator
Elowyn Castle - translator
7.20 - 7.21.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
4 Stars
186. The Big Snowdown
Katy Hudson
7.22.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
187. Ew, Its Beautiful
A False Knees Comic Collection
Joshua Barkman
7.24.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
4 Stars
188. The Monster in the Lake
Leo Timmers
Bill Nagelkerke - Translator
7.25.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
189. Mayhem at the Museum
Hannah Brückner
Laura Watkinson - Translator
7.26.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
4 Stars
DNF. Mailman
My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home
Stephen Starring Grant
7.24 - 7.26.2025 [DID NOT FINISH @35%]
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
190. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
Karina Yan Glasser
7.30 - 7.31.2025
Kindle/Carnegie OverDrive
4 Stars
191. The Big Empty
Kirbi Fagan
7.27.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
192. Fly Like a Bird
Olga Ptashnik
7.28.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
193. Our Corner Grocery Store
Joanne Schwartz
Laura Beingesson - Illustrator
7.29.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
194. Camping in the Wild [Life in the Wild #8]
Nicholas Oldland
7.30.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
195. The World Entire
A True Story of an Extraordinary World War 2 Rescue
Elizabeth Brown
Melissa Castrillón - Illustrator
7.31.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
196. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [Hitchhiker's Guide #1]
Douglas Adams
7.31.2025
ECLS Audiobook [Stephen Fry]
2 Stars
August 2025197. The Nature of the Beast
[Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #11]
Louise Penny
7.30 - 8.3.2025
Kindle/RWYO
5 Stars
198. Tea with Jam and Dread [Tea by the Sea #6]
Vicki Delany
8.1 - 8.5.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
2 Stars
DNF. The Knowing
How the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Continues to Echo Today
Tanya Talaga
8.1.2025 [DID NOT FINISH @10%]
Kindle/NetGalley
*NO RATING*
199. Righting Wrongs
Three Decades on the Frontlines Battling Abusive Governments
Kenneth Roth
8.2 - 8.8.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
200. THE HOMEMADE GOD
Rachel Joyce
8.1 - 8.5.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
2 Stars
201. Death and Glory [Barker & Llewelyn #15]
Will Thomas
8.1 - 8.5.2025
Hoopla Audiobook [Antony Ferguson]
4 Stars
202. Rainbow Fish and the Great Escape
Marcus Pfister
David Henry Wilson - Translator
8.1.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
203. A Spoonful of the Sea
Hyewon Yum
8.2.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
204. 9 Little People
Regina Feldmann
Martina Stuhlberger - Illustrator
8.3.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
205. My Grandma and Grandpa Rock!
Pat Benetar and Neil Geraldo
Tiffany Everett - Illustrator
8.4.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
206. Chloe and the Bossy Cloud
A Children's Book about OCD
Natasha Daniels
Anjali Singh - Illustrator
8.5.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
207. Super Business!
[Simon and Chester #6]
Cale Atkinson
8.6.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
4 Stars
208. Murder at the Wham Bam Club {A Psychics and Soul Food Mystery #1]
Carolyn Marie Wilkins
8.6 - 8.8.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
209. The Chalice of the Gods
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Senior Year Adventures #1
Rick Riordan
8.6 - 8.8.2025
Kindle/RWYO
4 Stars
210. The Little Ghost Quilt's Winter Surprise
Riel Nason
Byron Eggenschwiler - Illustrator
8.7.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
4 Stars
DNF. A Flower Traveled in My Blood
The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
Haley Cohen Gilliland
8.6 - 8.8.2025 [DID NOT FINISH @20%]
Kindle/NetGalley
*NO RATING*
211. The Road that Made America
A Modern Pilgrim's Journey on the Great Wagon Road
James Dodson
8.9 - 8.13.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
212. Moon Bear
Clare Helen Welsh
Carolina T. Godina - Illustrator
8.8.2025
Print Book [HC]/RWYO
5 Stars
213. 12 Little Elves Visit Michigan
[Little Elves #11]
Trish Madson
Sasiwimon Sunthonwiknan - Illustrator
8.9.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
4 Stars
214. Seven Secret Spellcasters [Kitchen Witch #7]
Lynn Cahoon
8.9 - 8.12.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
DNF. I'll Look So Hot in My Coffin
And Other Thoughts I Used to Have About My Body
Carla Sosenko
8.9.2025 [DID NOT FINISH @20%]
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
215. The Convenience Store by the Sea
Sonoko Machida
Bruno Navasky - Translator
8.10 - 8.15.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
2 Stars
216. Midwinter Murder
Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery
Agatha Christie
8.9 - 8.12.2025
Print Book [PB]/RWYO
3 Stars
217. The Night Giant
Lorenzo Coltellacci
Lorenzo Sangio - Illustrator
8.10.2025
Kindle Fire/NetGalley
5 Stars
218. Murder on Platform Four [Tate and Bell #5]
Irina Shapiro
8.13 - 8.16.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
2 Stars
DNF. Where the Forest Meets the Stars
Glendy Vanderah
8.14.2025 [DID NOT FINISH @15%]
Kindle/
ZERO STARS
** The narrator for this was a 100% NO GO. I am so disappointed.
219. In Pieces
Sally Field
8.16 - 8.20.2025
Print Book [HC]/RWYO
5 Stars
220. Dear Miss Lake [The Emmy Lake Chronicles]
AJ Pearce
8.14 - 8.18.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
** I have loved this series so much and am so sad that it is over.
221. The Devil Reached Toward the Sky
An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
Garrett M. Graff
8.16 - 8.23.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
222. For Duck's Sake [Meg Langslow #37]
Donna Andrews
8.17 - 8.21.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Bernadette Dunne]
5 Stars
223. The Blue Castle
L.M. Montgomery
8.19 - 8.23.2025
Kindle/RWYO
5 Stars
224. The Fate of the Generals
MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines
Jonathan Horn
8.22 - 8.27.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
225. The Misplaced Physician [Irregular Detectives #3]
Jeri Westerson
8.22 - 8.25.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
5 Stars
226. Persuasion
Jane Austen
8.23 - 8.26.2025
Kindle/RWYO
5 Stars
DNF. The Art of a Lie
Laura Shepherd-Robinson
8.24.2025 [DID NOT FINISH @15%]
Kindle/NetGalley
ZERO STARS
227. Down to the Bone
A Missing Family's Murder and the Elusive Quest for Justice
Caitlin Rother
8.25 - 8.28.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Christina Delaine*]
2 Stars
* THIS was a fantastic narrator and truly one of the best things of this book.
228. Agents of Change
The Women Who Transformed the CIA
Christina Hillsberg
8.27 - 8.30.2025
Kindle/NetGalley/NetGalley Audiobook [Christina Hillsberg*]
2 Stars
* This is a case of just because you can doesn't mean you should. YIKES.
229. American Poison
A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Rattled for Environmental Justice
Daniel Stone
8.28 - 8.30.2025
Kindle/NetGalley
4 Stars
230. Bayou Book Thief [Vintage Cookbook #1]
Ellen Byron
8.27 - 8.31.2025
FLP Audiobook [Amy Melissa Bentley]
10hrs [304]
3 Stars
231. The Long-Lost Locket [Waldameer Mystery Files #1]
David Gorman
8.31.2025
Kindle/RWYO
4 Stars
No goals for me this year - well, I do have a goal; no more waiting until 100 pages in to quit a book I am not feeling it. :-)
May all your books be awesome!