Valentine’s Day is upon us. The stores are filled with regular shaped candy in heart-shaped boxes and heart-shaped candy in regular shaped boxes. For us book lovers, it is time to talk about romance novels. This is the perfect topic for me to write about, since I only read romance novels when a book group requires it. Therefore, I am always surprised by the wide variety of types of romance novels out there: Sports Romance – love a jock Regency Romance – love a duchess […]

Groundhog Day is supposed to make us think about spring being right around the corner, but thanks to Bill Murray, it instead makes us think of reliving a part of our lives. I am one of those people who rarely rereads a book–why read something you have already read when there are so many books you haven’t read? However, I know I am in the minority. Many readers go back to their favorites and reread them again and again. It is comforting, you know you […]

I started 2023 with high hopes. I would read 100 books, I would do a Quarter Cannonball, and I would complete the cool Passport challenge (see Passport challenge wrap up). Instead, I posted fewer reviews than ever before (although I did read 100 books). However, it was a great Cannonball year for me. I wrote Cannonball diversions throughout the year. I had fun cohosting a couple of Cannonball zooms (and participating in a few others). Most of all, I made great connections with my fellow […]

It is that super busy time of year. So much shopping, wrapping, cooking, baking, decorating, and celebrating to be done. Hopefully, you also have some time to read, even if it is under the mistletoe. So here is our holiday diversion. Take a book title and add “under the mistletoe” I will get you started: The Whispers Under the Mistletoe by Heidi Perks (shown in the photo) The People We Keep Under the Mistletoe by Allison Larkin Someone Else’s Shoes Under the Mistletoe by JoJo […]

The holidays are just around the corner. It may only be the beginning of November, but the stores are already decorated and playing holiday music. So let’s talk about book giving for the holidays. In Iceland they celebrate something called Jólabókaflóð (which means Christmas Book Flood.) The tradition, which started during WWII, is to give each other books on Christmas Eve. Families then spend the evening reading with a warm drink by a cozy fire. That sounds like heaven to me! Some people follow this […]

All too soon summer is over, time for us to reflect on our summer reading. Did you get to all the beach reads you wanted? Did you complete a summer reading program at your local library? Did you tackle a book that has been on your TBR list forever? Did you read any of the “hot” summer titles? Did you follow any celebrity summer reading lists? Well, enough about you, here is my summer reading in a nutshell. I once again participated in my local […]