Thank you @TheSpineView for the #Two4Tuesday tag! 🤗
1️⃣ I am a fan of both but lately sunrises from the plane ride to Hilo have become my favorites. So pretty in the clouds! ⛅️🌅🧡
2️⃣ Tagged is #7 in the Secret Book & Scone Society:
Books, Friendship & Mystery
Play along if you want to! 💛
pickBook #7 in the series. Quite a good mystery, it much less on the personal front. Although the personal stuff we do learn is quite good.
Powell's book haul!
I went in last night to pick up the tagged and Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium then kept going...
I want to read Jesus and John Wayne during Nonfiction November and they had a used copy - score! And then I found a sale edition of Wells' #7 Murderbot (now need 5&6 🤣)
I have been collecting these pretty paper mill press classics and Emma and Persuasion were half price, so had to grab them!
pickJuly 2024 Book #7
This is my second book by this author and I can say that I love the way she writes, how places are described and how characters are developed. This story has multiple timelines and it has, mystery, a murder, , family drama, a touch of paranormal or fantasy. It is so atmospheric I didn‘t feel the 585 pages in this slow pace reading because I was immersed in the story. It worked for me 4⭐️
pickI know... I‘m super late but I want to include books I read in my Litsy profile and GR🤷🏽♀️
July 2024 book #4
Second book in this trilogy. It has some twists and action but I still think that this story could be just a duology or a big one book. 2.5:3⭐️
pickThis is such a great series! I read the first six then set it aside for a couple of years, and just picked up #7 - I‘m so glad I did! Miss Zukas is such a unique individual, and quirky Ruth (her antithesis) is the perfect friend for her! A murder at a homeless mission and 2 love interests, along with an announced audit at her library, Helma‘s life is getting complicated!
I highly recommend this series & it is one to start from the beginning 😊
so-soMixed feelings with this one. It is not a great mystery story and it has some religious content which is not my thing. However, I liked the gothic atmosphere how it was described. There were something in the story tone that I liked. Those music scenes were delighted you, could felt that love for the music. But the mystery was in some aspects absurd. Vivienne voluntarily enter into an asylum to know more about ...(cont) ⬇️ 2.5/3⭐️
pickA beautiful but sad story about this couple who lost contact during the war. They will meet again but in special circumstances and you will see that encounter in the first chapter. Then, the story goes to the past to know how Lanka and Josef met and what happened to them. It is emotionally intense. Reading about Prague and Terezin made me remind my visit to those places a couple of years ago. 4⭐️
pick#booker #longlist 7/13
I liked this, but didn‘t love it.
I liked it for its unusual concept and style - following 8 girl boxers as they compete in Reno.
I didn‘t love it because there wasn‘t enough depth to make me care about the characters, and they all seemed to blend into one. It started well, but got rather repetitive as it went on.
I don‘t think it will make my personal shortlist but I think the judges might like it.
