Bring a snack, a beverage, or just some good ol’ conversation. I will be on YouTube doing LIVE reading and productivity sprints August 4-6, 2023.

The Villa by Rachel Hawkins: A delectable gothic, suspense, thriller novel with complex characters, sure to mislead you in the best possible way.

Wow. So, I sat down and went through the ebook selections for books released this week, and as of today, there are way more than I had expected to choose. My ‘Library Book Bag’ is now 43 books longer. It would have been 44 if my NetGalley request was denied for the 2023 ARC of For Lamb by Lesa Cline Ransome. It has taken me some time to decide how I want to share my digital ‘Library Book Bag.’ Because the length of this post can vary and quickly become pic and link-heavy, for easy navigation I will format the…

Veronica G. Henry’s The Foreign Exchange is reminiscent of a cozy mystery with Haitian voodoo elements.

There’s an old saying that for every death, a new person is born. There may be some truth to that. Maggie experiences great losses after the birth of her son and vows that she will stick closer to him than she did before. He’s her only surviving blood-relative. Would you react the same?

Scrolling through social media has its perks. Now and then I stumble on something that inspires me to share my thoughts and experiences with you all. The post that inspired this blog post is from the Grand Central Publishing Facebook Page and it poses this question: If you could read a book for the first time again, what book would you pick?

Happy Hump Day and welcome to the WWW Wednesday post for January 18, 2023!

Mrs. Wiggins was a good time, but there were some things that I noted that may be goofy to some and useful to others. Follow me further…

Remember when I said I had Darknesses on my nightstand and needed to read it soon? Well, I finally did it; it was quite an adventure. Darknesses by Lachelle Seville is a sapphic, gothic, Dracula-inspired novel that has had traction in the book community circles I follow. I chose the book purely by faith in the readers that suggested, and as usual, I didn’t know what I was getting into. That’s nothing new. Now, having finished the book, I wish I would have asked them why they enjoyed it.

What do you get when you combine a missing person, vampires, blood-siphoning butterflies, and caterpillars galore? You get Direwood by Catherine Yu.

What do loogies and Final Destination have in common? Nothing much. They just make me uncomfortable. I want to pick your brains about your levels of discomfort, so let’s talk about it!

Maggie’s upright world which she’s carefully curated, suddenly tilts on an unbalanced plane. Talk to me! Will Maggie tell Hubert about Claude? Will Claude tell his parents about him and Daisy? What do you think will happen next?