Showing posts with label hard copy from library. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hard copy from library. Show all posts
Thursday, January 9, 2025

'Til Heist Do Us Part To Have and to Heist #2 Sara Desai

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The group is back together again. Like many heist movies, there are some additions to the crew. And, like many heist movies, the additions a...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Flashpoint by Catherine Coulter

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Characters from previous books return in this one. The first is Lady Elizabeth Palmer. She was caught in a plot that would have killed any n...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

The Lazy Genius Kitchen by Kendra Adachi

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This was an okay book. Definitely branches off of Adachi's first book and her podcast about being a lazy genius. There is an idea of zon...
Saturday, November 9, 2024

The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi

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I listen to the Lazy Genius podcast and thought I might read Adachi's books. I like reading about ways to simplify life, especially if I...
Friday, November 8, 2024

Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte

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I can't remember why I put this on my TBR list. It's fine (telling you how to better organize your self and your life by using techn...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

Give and Take by Adam M. Grant

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If you really thought about it, you might assume that people who hog all the glory or keep all the money for themselves are the only ones wh...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Murder at the Merton Library by Andrea Penrose

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Wrex receives a note from a friend of his brother's, asking him for help. But when Wrex arrives at the college, the friend is already de...
Monday, September 9, 2024

Grit by Angela Duckworth

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The title pretty much says it all. If you have stick-to-it-tive-ness, it will generally take you farther than innate skill. Duchworth's ...
Friday, August 9, 2024

Slow Productivity by Cal Newport

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Technology was touted as making our lives easier but that is often not what has happened. Instead, we are working harder than ever, often, w...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

The Summer Escape by Jill Shalvis

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When Anna Moore finds a coin in a collection of her dad's things, she doesn't expect Owen Harris to show up, accusing her father of ...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

Murder at an English Séance by Jessica Ellicott

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Big things are happening in this book. Beryl has her plane and is enjoying flying to her heart's content. Edwina has finished her book a...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Tastes Like Shakkar by Nisha Sharma

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Have we read books before where the two best friends of the hero/heroine from the first book fall in love? Why, yes, yes we have. But have t...
Sunday, April 28, 2024

The Summer Book Club by Susan Mallery

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As is usual in Mallery books, three women find their matches. Of course, for Paris, that new man is actually an ex-husband. They broke up ye...
Monday, March 4, 2024

Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie

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 Nurse Amy Leatheran has just finished a position with a nice young family and decides to stay in Iraq with an archaeological dig. Famous ar...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens by Andrea Penrose

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Charlotte and Wrexford are getting married. That means that they are incredibly busy with wedding plans and the social twirl of being a newl...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

Atomic Habits by James Clear

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A coworker of mine was talking about this book so I picked it up. It was an interesting premise, boiling down to four steps to develop bette...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch by Sarah Hawley

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Calladia Cunnington is proud of her physique. She's strong and really quite bad ass. Just because her mother and a former boyfriend trie...
Sunday, February 4, 2024

My Murder by Katie Williams

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I saw this on the Books We Love  list for 2023 and thought it looked interesting. We meet Lou who is a clone but who has all the memories of...
Thursday, January 4, 2024

The Witch Is Back by Sophie H. Morgan

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Emmaline Bluewater was engaged to Bastian Truenote until the day he ran away. He didn't even leave a note for her, just for his parents....
Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

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I saw this book on the 2023 NPR Best Books and it was worth the read. It took me some time to appreciate the story as the first week is some...