Farm Boots by Lisl H. Detlefsen
If you have a shoe feetish, I mean fetish, then this is the boots for …. I mean book for you. Okay, Farm Boots by Lisl H. Detlefsen is not an adult book, but it does have some really cute boots for the characters to wear in this rhyming book. Each person has a specific boot for a specific job and for lots of play. Here we see boots for mud, boots for puddles, boots for riding and boots for mucking out the stalls (make […]
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
I will admit that I have been avoiding this book since it was published, but especially after I read a Sherlock fanfic one time* that was a riff on Life After Life, and which is one of the most emotionally traumatizing fics I’ve ever read, so by association I was pre-traumatized by this book. Also, one time I read the first Jackson Brodie mystery and I thought it was boring, so I thought this would be boring too. Happily, wrong on all fronts! *If you […]
Flying Solo by Linda Holmes
This was a comforting novel wherein a search for the provenance of a wooden duck is essentially a metaphor for a search for the meaning of life – particularly one lived by a single woman over 40. The opening chapter describes how Laurie would escape her home – loving, but full of the noise of her four brothers (two older, two younger) – and remove herself to the comfort of her Great Aunt Dot’s home. Dot would make space for Laurie, allowing her peace […]
The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
500 Miles From You by Jenny Colgan
The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan
First. I have been the worst reviewer this year. I kept meaning to sit down and write, because I have read more books than ever this year, but life just kept getting in my way. As it does. And yet, here I am, in week two of a positive Covid test, and I’ve finished binging all the shows (SIDE NOTE: how had I slept on For All Mankind for so long?). No time like the present to get started. A few weeks ago, I saw […]
Prime Meridian by Silvia Morena-Garcia
I Have Always Been Me: A Memoir by Precious Brady-Davis
Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard
An assortment of books that have been on my kindle for a while – half read and now finally finished Prime Meridian More of a novella, this is set in a near future where humanity is starting to head to Mars, but much of our current issues are are still there. The heroine, Amelia, doesn’t have much money. She scrapes a living with various tasks and dreams of being an astronaut. She had a relationship with an artist who turned out to be wealthy, but […]
It’s in his kiss by Jill Shalvis
It’s been a while. Not because I haven’t been reading, but trying to write an internal audit assessment and changing jobs made me avoid writing much else in the last few months. So a mad dash to document what i have read. Starting with this one. It’s a later entry into the Lucky Harbour series- a romance series set around a small seaside town in the Pacific Northwest with a high concentration of beautiful people getting together. This one features Becca, a travelling young woman […]
