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    Review: Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe

    by Joli August 23, 2022
    by Joli August 23, 2022

    What an incredibly captivating story. I highly suggest adding this one to your TBR list! Read on for my full review of Last Summer on State Street.

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    Review: The Couple at Causeway Cottage by Diane Jeffrey

    by Cathy August 17, 2022
    by Cathy August 17, 2022

    Have you ever read a book that gave you the shivers? A creepy thriller you just couldn’t put down? That’s exactly how I felt about The Couple at Causeway Cottage by Diane Jeffrey.

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    Review: The Peacock by Isabel Bogdan

    by Cathy June 24, 2022
    by Cathy June 24, 2022

    Take a dilapidated castle in the Scottish Highlands, add a peacock gone rogue, a group of bankers on a team building trip, an overwhelmed psychologist, a housekeeper with a broken arm, and an ingenious cook, get Lord and Lady Macbeth …

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    Review: Upgrade by Blake Crouch

    by Joli May 29, 2022
    by Joli May 29, 2022

    I first read Blake Crouch for book club when we picked up Dark Matter, then again when we read Recursion. Although I don’t ever pick up this genre (sci fi) on my own, I ended up really falling hard into …

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    Review: Little Pieces of Me by Alison Hammer

    by Joli May 17, 2022
    by Joli May 17, 2022

    When Paige Meyer gets an email from a DNA testing website announcing that her father is a man she never met, she is convinced there must be a mistake. But as she digs deeper into her motherโ€™s past and her …

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    Book Review: The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin

    by Becky February 18, 2022
    by Becky February 18, 2022

    The Summary August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitlerโ€™s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and drawn curtains that she finds on her arrival are not what she …

  • Book ReviewsFiction

    Review: Come As You Are by Jennifer Haupt

    by Joli December 12, 2021
    by Joli December 12, 2021

    Thank you so much to Jennifer Haupt for sending me Come As You Are! The synopsis appealed to me right away and I’m so glad I decided to read this one. Summary Set against a backdrop of Seattle in the …

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    Review: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

    by Joli November 10, 2021
    by Joli November 10, 2021

    Great Circle was not what I expected, but I did end up liking it! Read on for my full review and find out what I didn’t expect. The Synopsis Spanning Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, …

  • Book ReviewsHistorical FictionMemoir/BiographyTranslated Lit

    Book Review: Divine Lola: A True Story of Scandal and Celebrity

    by Cathy September 8, 2021
    by Cathy September 8, 2021

    An enthralling biography about one of the most intriguing women of the Victorian age: the first self-invented international social celebrity.

  • Book ReviewsCrime/MysteryFiction

    Hell and High Water: A Maeve Malloy Mystery Book Tour

    by Cathy November 4, 2020
    by Cathy November 4, 2020

    About Hell and High Water โ€ข Paperback: 282 pagesโ€ข Publisher: Level Best Books (March 31, 2020) Alaskan attorney Maeve Malloy isnโ€™t sure sheโ€™s cut out to be a lawyer. All she wants is to be treated like everyone else. Hiding her past, she …

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