2023 has been a busy year! I think I tried to get in a lot of the traveling I missed over the last couple of years. I traveled to Greece and Turkey in the spring, then France and England in June. Both trips were wonderful and we had absolutely perfect weather, mid 70’s the whole…
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Favorite Books of Summer 2023
It’s been a minute! Last time I posted was the end of June when I shared that month’s favorites. I fully intended to do the same with my July favorites, but things just got away from me. To be fair, I was in Tahoe at a long overdue family reunion from July 25th – 31st….
2021 Underrated Gems
It’s that time of year. The year-end lists are going to start popping up all over the place and this blog is no exception. I’m kicking things off with 2021 Underrated Gems. These are books I loved this year, but that didn’t seem to get a whole lot of attention. It’s hard to know why…
Favorite Books from May and June
Happy first day of summer! It’s been a LONG time since I’ve posted here and I’m so sorry about that. I’d planned to post May books at the end of last month, but then my mother suddenly got sick and ended up in the hospital. My siblings and I flew in and were with her…
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller | Review
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller Publisher: Tin House Books Release Date: October 9, 2018 Length: 320 pages Amazon {A Bit of Backstory} Single Sentence Summary When Frances Jellico meets Cara and Peter at a rundown English estate, she finds friendship for the first time in her life, but that friendship quickly turns into something dark…
The Novels of Claire Fuller | Review
Swimming Lessons & Our Endless Numbered Days Last fall I began to notice a lot of buzz around Claire Fuller’s upcoming book, Swimming Lessons. So many had loved her debut novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, and they were eager to read her second. I’d somehow missed Fuller’s debut, so decided to squeeze it in last month. Within…