I thought this was so adorable. My daughter loves The Golden Girls and found this book to read to my Granddaughter

I bailed on two books in a row. My daughter recommended A Court of Thorns and I am half way through but can not get into it. The same as All The Missing Girls. I must be in a reading slump. Any recommendations for me? I like books that go back and forth between past and present.

Dr Helen Hildreth also known as Gran, is a renowned Psychiatrist who owns and runs a treatment center for the mentally ill. One day she brings home a young girl named Iris to live with her and her two grandchildren Eric and Vi. The children soon become friends and also have a monster club where they hunt for monsters not knowing one of them is a true monster. The ending will surprise you.

Congratulations to @Nessavamusic for reaching 100K Littens #100KGiveaway

Thank you @BarkingMadRun for my #spookysummerswap box. I have wanted this book for a long time and am excited to start it. I hope you like your box as well.

I feel like I just had a dream vacation to Hawaii. Thank you @tdrosebud for my wonderful #staycationintime box. I really enjoyed everything.

This is why my 2022 Reading Challenge is so far behind this year. I had to stop my career to take custody of my two small grandchildren. I am going back to school for Medical Coding (53 years old) in hopes of finding a remote job as a Medical Coder. Classes are over in December, so please keep fingers crossed that this is the right path for me. Are there any other Medical Coders here? If so, please leave me advice

Help!! When is opening day for #spookysummerswap and the #STAYCATIONINTIME SWAP? I lost my emails when my computer crashed.

@Chrissyreadit and @DinoMom just signed up for your #litsyswap #staycationintimeswap

Thank you to @erank58 for my cookbook and recipe notebook you sent me for the #recipeswap #LitsyRecipeSwap

@ErinSueMreads your first package was delivered but the second one will not be delivered until Friday. Sorry that one is coming later. I do t know the reason why they shipped it like that. I hope you enjoy your boxes. #recipeswap

This book had so much hype, so I decided to read it. I guess I am the odd ball, but I could not get into it. It dragged on without much happening. It seemed the same scenario was repetitive just a different year. I am on part two and still not interested. This will be my first bail of the year

Just finished this book today while taking care of my 2 month old granddaughter and drinking my tea from my 10 year old grandson‘s mug. This was a good book about Eva and Remy coming up with a plan to remember the children they helped escape from the awful Holocaust only for Eva to learn there are a more to life than a name. I recommend this book to anyone who loves stories about the Holocaust like I do.

I just signed up for this recipe and book swap.

This weekend I am reading The Book of Lost names. I have heard a lot of good things about this book, so I decided to see myself.

This is Oreo but we call her Kitty 🐈‍⬛ She is my reading buddy today along with my granddaughter

What an excellent book this was. It involves two and o e is during the segregation period and the other is during modern time. Ellie is involved with SCOPE which is an organization that helps black people to vote while Kayla is an architect in modern time. Their lives come together when Kayla finds out about the mystery of her new home.

My new reading buddy. My granddaughter Emily Rose. This was a good book and my first book from this author. I will be reading more from her. As a woman doctor trying to help at the front lines during Word War 1 when women were not allowed to practice medicine, Eleanor had to overcome tough challenges to prove she was just as capable as a doctor as the men. A great historical fiction book.

I had to put this book on hold for now because my dog ate my glasses. When I get them back I will@go back to this book,but for now I need to choose books from my Kindle.

I was hoping to finish this book by the New Year, but I can not get into the story line. It is all over the place. I usually love Kristin Hannah, but this book isn‘t her best. I am on chapter 12. Does it get any better?

What a great book this was. I put off reading this book due to all the negative reviews on Amazon. Readers have said it was awful writing and nothing but a political book. However, I read it with an open mind and fell in love with the story of Elsa and the hardship she went through with her children during the Great Depression and Dust Storms. Elsa proved that a mother‘s love will win against any fight. I most definitely recommend this book.

I loved this book.

a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying with a new college friend

One year later, a writer moves into a cottage Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer‘s favorite area for long walks and it‘s on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads, “DIG HERE.”

Could this be a clue towards what has happened to the missing young couple?

The story takes place overnight in a library when five people get stranded due to a massive snowstorm. Each person has their own dilemma. As the storm rages, they get to know each other in more details They say never judge a book by its cover and the same should goes towards people as well. The only bad part about the story was the use of the GD word quite often. Words like that make me cringe.

So my 10 year old grandson wrote his very first story and I just had to share it with you.

I enjoyed the Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell and decided to try this book. The first half was slow and I didn‘t like the characters. The story picked up in the middle but I also figured out how the story was going to end before I got to it. I do recommend this book if you like mysteries.

This was an okay book that my daughter recommended to me. Nora tries to commit suicide due to her depressive life. Instead of dying, she is caught in between worlds know as the midnight library where she has a chance to review her book of regrets. She also gets to choose different lives to live based on books and must make a decision on which life makes her the happiest and wants to continue living in or ultimately dying for good.

This really was a great book by Kristin Hannah. As with her other books you know something major is about to happen but it still feels like a rollercoaster of emotions. This story was about the 30 year friendship of Tula and Katie and the ups and downs of the friendship. Even though I knew how it would end, it left me in tears. Definitely a must read book but not on your lunch break when you have to answer coworkers questions why you are crying.

CeeCee walker is your typical 16 year old whom falls in love with what she thinks is a perfect older guy only to get involved with a kidnapping of a pregnant woman. When things go terribly wrong, CeeCee has to change everything about her life to protect the life of a baby she now has to raise. When life catches up to her, CeeCee must choose right from wrong even if it means loosing everything she fought for.

This was a good book but the characters were getting me confused. Next time I read a large book like this I will keep a book journal with the characters names. I loved how the story was told by different characters from past and present.

My book haul for today.

Someone doesn‘t want me to read this book tonight

So our library is finally open and I wanted to support them after a year of being closed to the public, so this is my first library book this year 😃

When I first started reading it, all I could think of how very similar it was to Verity by Colleen Hoover. While I continued reading it I kept thinking this is exactly like Verity so I knew how it would end. However I did get confused if Victoria was just as bad or was innocent because I couldn‘t stop thinking how it compared so much to Verity so I gave it three stars.

I read this book in one night. I couldn‘t put it down with the twists it had. I also felt sorry for Hannah and learned more about mental illness than I thought I knew.
Hannah knows there's been a mistake. She doesn't need to be institutionalized. What happened to her roommate at that summer program was an accident.
Then Lucy arrives. Lucy has her own baggage, and she's the perfect project to keep Hannah's focus off all she is missing at home.

After artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her home on the Connecticut coast, she doesn‘t know who she can trust. But her well-connected husband, Griffin―who is running for governor―is her prime suspect.

I give this book 4 stars. Even though I figured out who the antagonist was early on, the story plot made me want to keep reading to see what happened at the end. there were surprising twists to keep the plot interesting

I got this book from ThriftBooks. It is going to be my next read but may take awhile since vacation is over with. Hope it is as good as the reviews say it is.

After the end of her marriage, Kate has retreated to her parents‘ home on Lake Superior to pull herself together only to discover the body of a murdered woman washed into the shallows. Tucked in the folds of the woman‘s curiously vintage gown is an infant, No one can identify the woman. Except for Kate. She‘s seen her before. In her dreams.

Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive

When you are reading a story based in your state and a chapter is set in your home town and the restaurant the author wrote about is where you ate at not to long ago

1 The Family Upstairs
2. Psychological
3. Stephen King

The book is highly recommended if you like twisted novels. Libby turns 25 and inherits a mansion in London where she learns about her families past including what happened to the three bodies found in the home that were all dressed in black and upstairs a 10 month old baby crying in her crib. This book was hard to put down.

So fitting that this quote fits what is happening in this World today.

This was a very good book. Finn dies in a car accident and watches over her family and friends as each learn to deal with her death and their inner struggles of guilt.

Couldn‘t get into the book. I put it aside for another try later.

Just a random post but I Realized it is so much easier to read from my kindle when at work. I seem to read more.

It has been two months working the front line and trying to adapt to a new norm; but in between hectic work schedules and trying to teach an 8 year old, I have been able to start a new book even though there are days I can read only two pages or none at all. I do have to admit I have read more Childrens books than anything lately. Here is to hope that life gets back to normal but hey isn‘t that what life is all about?

I have a lot going on in my life from getting custody of my eight year old grandson to working all the time that I have only read two books so far this year. I want to read but feel what is the use anymore? I found this article so maybe it will help with this reading slump.

maggiiiemayyy.com/reading-slumps/

I didn‘t realize how much I like Jodi Picoult until I came home from a book sale and realized they were all by her.

Why is choosing your next book always so hard?

Cilkas Journey is part two of The Tattooist of Auschwitz. After surviving the Concentration Camp Cilka is sent to a prison in Siberia. Cilka must do things she doesn‘t want to including sleeping with guards in order to survive. Cilka gets the attention of a female doctor who teaches her to be a nurse where she meets a man named Alexandr who teaches her that she can love. Although the story is part fictional it is still a good story