Thank you NetGalley and Harper Muse for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. From the outside, it doesn’t look like Nub and Minnie have much in common. He’s an elderly drunk who works as a laborer for the government, and she’s a high school student working at Waffle House to … Continue reading Kinfolk
This month has flown by! How many books did you read in August? I finished 13 this month - 7 audio and 6 print books. Let's take a look back the reviews of those books - click below to visit the reviews: 5 Stars Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng … Continue reading August Recap & September Reading Plan
Thank you NetGalley and Harper Muse for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. Clarrie and Sid just discovered their son has been taken, but by whom they don’t know. This young couple – she a maid and he a newspaper worker – are trying to get their life together in … Continue reading The Butterfly Collector
It's the last New Release Tuesday of August! Can you believe the month is almost gone? Are you all stocked up on good reads for the Labor Day weekend? Here's some coming out today that you should add to your TBR stack! You can order your copies by clicking the images below. All That We … Continue reading New Release Tuesday – 8/29/2023
Robert Langdon is somewhere he never thought he’d ever see – the Vatican archives rooms. He and Vittoria Vetra are in the race of their lives – quite literally. They have just a few hours to find the location of a weapon of mass destruction, created by Vittoria and hidden by the thief somewhere in … Continue reading Angels & Demons
One full week of back to school under our belts! Are you getting into a new routine? I'm finding my time to read and write a little easier to work in now! This week, we have 3 more great books to discuss, plus the recap of August (and preview of September!). To grab your copy … Continue reading What To Read This Week
Sallie Kincaid’s picture is on the front page of the paper with the words “Queen of the Rumrunners” under it. That’s dangerous – if you aren’t working with Sallie, you’re probably with the government looking to enforce prohibition, or worse, with the other bootleggers who want her out. After Sallie’s father passed, her family and … Continue reading Hang The Moon
Wednesday evening, I attended another author discussion – this time at the beautiful Marcus Jewish Community Center in Dunwoody, GA. For those of you not familiar with Atlanta, Dunwoody is just to the north of Atlanta proper and outside the Perimeter ring of I-285. The MJCCA is a great local resource for cultural arts like … Continue reading Book Discussion: The Invisible Hour
For Matthew Emerzian, Mondays aren’t full of dread or fear – they are full of hope. Years ago, Emerzian found Every Monday Matters after having a mental health crisis on a Monday morning. To him, his whole world was ending, but what came out of those few hours was so much more: a non-profit working … Continue reading You Matter
Today I want to give you a behind the scenes look at how I choose the star rating for each of our reviews! The image above is the grading rubric (think college term paper grading) I've been using the past few months. It takes into account 5 categories: how do I feel about the book … Continue reading Star Score Card
