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Good Mourning: Moving Through Everyday Losses with Wisdom from the Other Side
By Theresa Caputo Theresa Caputo is a great medium as well as great author. I always enjoy her writing since she writes very similarly to how she speaks. This book gives you a perspective and soul work on the variety of categories of everyday losses we can experience: loved ones, stability, desire to live, a…
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The Only Survivors
By Megan Miranda This was a very interesting read. I have read this author before and like her style. This one was a little hard to follow with what happened in the past as the style is time lapsing, from past to present. Cassidy is the main character who is I voted on a trip…
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Lightlark
By Alex Aster This was a really cute book. Usually fantasy is not my thing but this had a good balance of fantasy, magic and romance to keep me intrigued. Isla is one of the rulers at the Centennial Games. She has a secret about herself that she tries to protect. She trusts Oro, the…
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One Golden Summer
By Carley Fortune What a great book! Though I didn’t realize it’s the second book in a two-book series Barry’s Bay. I have already put the first on my list. It’s called Every Summer After. Alice is a photographer who has taken the responsibility of taking care of her grandmother for the summer at Barry’s…
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The Runaway Groomsman
By Meghan Quinn What a great story! I’ve read Meghan Quinn before, and she does not disappoint! This book was no exception Fallon is a young woman who leaves her nursing career to take care of her elderly grandfather and his failing hotel cabin business. She meets Sawyer, a screenwriter whose been done wrong by…
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Evil at Our Table
By Samantha Stein, PsyD This was a great book, especially if you are a forensic psychology aficionado like me. Dr. Stein does a great job describing the balance between work and her personal life, balancing the evil criminals that she has met with and identifying their humanness along with their stories. Being that I’m forensically…
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The Last Anniversary
By Liane Moriarty I’ve read Liane Moriarty before and liked what she wrote but this book wasn’t the best. The story was interesting and captivating but there were too many details and secondary stores that made it hard to follow at times. The ending was also a bit disappointing. Sophie inherits a house from Aunt…
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The Book of Candlelight (Secret, Book, and Scone #3)
By Ellery Adams This is the third installment of this series and I love this series so much. Nora is the owner of Miracle Books in Miracle Springs. She and several other small business owners get together to help other community members, solve crimes and gossip. In this installment, two people from the town are…
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
By Garth Stein What a book. I flew through this one. It was an easy read and definitely hard to put down. Written in Enzo the dog’s perspective about his owner’s life with trials and tribulations. Enzo’s owner, Denny, is a race car driver and he experiences all of life’s woes but still perseveres with…
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The Taped
By Kerry Wilkinson What a great book! I loved this!! I couldn’t put it down! I loved the style also. Wilkinson writes the novel intertwined with another “novel” that’s been written about the serial killer the main character is trying to figure out. Eve is cleaning out her father’s house after he passed away, and…
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