WOW 4.5 stars - I was completely blown away. Thriller plus Sci-Fi equals one crazy, mind-boggling, addictive and suspenseful ride!! Once I picked it up I couldn‘t put it down. Recursion is a must read especially if you gave Dark Matter a thumbs up.
Excited to hear Netflix has bought the movie rights. I can‘t wait to see it.

#NetGalley #CrownPublishing

📖 I‘ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
🎟 The Shallows
📻 The Beach Boys - Surfin‘ USA

#manicmonday

3 ☆ The Perfect Wife delves into artificial intelligence which was interesting but scary to think if this would ever happen. I loved JP Delaney‘s two prior novels but alas, is not the case with this latest. I‘m in the minority here so please don‘t let my rating detour you from picking this up.

#24B4Monday #readathon
Grand total time: 11hr 10min
@TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @jb72

4.5 stars! A fast-moving psychological page-turner with surprise twists around every corner. Lies, secrets, and one family‘s hidden cover-up you‘d have to see to believe. A jaw dropping revelation at the end tied all the pieces together brilliantly! I recommend to anyone who enjoys a DARK psychological thriller with mystery that has you second guessing yourself to its very end. 🖤
#24B4Monday #netgalley #Bookouture

📚 #24B4Monday #readathon
@TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @jb72

Total time: 3hr 42m
Read: Date Night by Samantha Hayes 4.5⭐️
Up next: The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney

Weekend #libraryhaul 📚

Starting #24B4Monday a little late here but am ready to put my feet up, relax and read. First finishing up an arc of Date Night by Samantha Hayes (enjoying it), then up next - The Perfect Wife. @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @jb72

Thanks for the tag @Eggs 😘 #friyayintro
1. Summer of 69‘
2. Teleportation 🌪
3. Leo ♌️
4. Husband has meetings all morning, so I‘m catching up on social media before I run errands, clean house
5. ♥️

4.5 ★ My first book by Laura Lippman proved to be impressive with intriguing mysteries involving two missing persons and a storyline centering on an interesting female protagonist, and a ghost. All happening during the start of the civil rights era in mid 60‘s Baltimore where racial tension and the separation of class‘s were prevalent. ❥ #netgalley #WilliamMorrow

All the stars!! A coming-of-age epic adventure taking place during the Great Depression. Four orphans runaway from their school and travel along the river in a canoe (put me in mind of Huckleberry Finn) bound for St Louis. I loved this story and can‘t recommend it enough!

#WilliamKentKrueger #AtriaBooks #SimonandSchuster #NetGalley

📖 The Freedom Writers Diary
🎬 Matilda
📻 Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall

#manicmonday

5 ☆ This book brings to light the plight of miners at the largest copper mining operation in the US, the birth of organized unions, and the role women played in this process. I was given much insight into a part of our history I‘ve never known about. Great story! Highly recommend.

#AtriaBooks #NetGalley

1. Chex turtle flavor snack mix
2. I don‘t spend much money anymore, but I splurged and bought a larger outdoor patio table set for more seating.
3. This Tender Land, The Women of Copper Country
4. @JoScho hi Jody 👋🏻😘

#wondrouswednesday

🍇🍷 5 ★ A fabulous book I highly recommend! Set at the century‘s old Maison Chauveau Winery in the Champagne region of Nazi occupied France, The Winemaker‘s Wife is an absolutely delicious concoction of love, secrets, betrayal, and redemption. I read this compelling novel in one sitting, yes it was that good! A 2019 favorite for me.

#netgalley #TheWinemakersWife #GalleryBooks

“Sometimes, we do things we don‘t feel good about to survive. It doesn‘t mean you‘re a bad person.”
His sympathy, his assurance had brought her perilously close to tears. But she couldn‘t cry about this. She had known what she was getting into. No strings.

5 ★ Scandalous and wicked! 🔥
Sugar baby vs sugar daddy? After hearing about this new thriller with it‘s interesting premise I knew I had to read it. Holy Moly what a crazy ride!

A first for me is my holds coming in all at once. #libraryhaul 📚🤓 I‘ll probably never get them all read in three weeks but will give it my best try🤞🏻

Thank you for the cute birthday cards and bookmark‘s Debra and Melissa, I appreciate it so much! 😘 Things will settle down once grandkids go back to school Thursday, planning to get my letters and thank you cards caught up then. #jb #litsylove

🌺 5 bright shiny stars! All the Flowers in Paris is an amazing, heartbreaking, and redemptive story that comes around full circle. Family, survival, incredible sacrifices.. I loved this story.. it has all the intrigue and mystery that made this unputdownable for me. Sarah Jio‘s beautifully written words had me reaching for the Kleenex. I can‘t recommend it enough. Releases Aug. 13, 2019

#netgalley #AllTheFlowersInParis

All the stars!! Written with depth and strong relatable characters, this is an engaging, wonderful story that had me quickly drawn in from the start. Highly recommend to all readers that enjoy women‘s fiction. A 2019 favorite for me!

4 ★ I‘m so excited to hear about Joshilyn Jackson‘s new step into the thriller genre and this book didn‘t disappoint. I love a good mystery and was pulled into its twisty game of cat + mouse right from the start. Hoping she continues with a second.

1. Integrity

2. Selfishness and bigotry

3. Dena, we‘ve been friends since the 4th grade 💕😊

4. Tagging anyone that wants to play - thanks for the tag Sherri! 💛🌻

#wondrouswednesday

Thank‘s friends for thinking of me on my birthday. This means so much to me!! ♥️😘
@lovesbooks87 @Morr_Books @robinb @jas16
@mynameisacolour @BookwormAHN

#jb #litsylove

5 ★ I loved this heart touching, emotional and inspiring journey of Ginny‘s unbreakable love for her child. Her resilience fighting against everything she‘s been told to accept was timeless. Some content was especially sensitive bringing me to tears. Amazing story! I highly recommend. ❥

📖 Jaws by Peter Benchley
🎬 The Shallows
📻 Once Bitten Twice Shy - Great White

#ManicMonday

4 ☆ Because You‘re Mine is very thought-provoking filled with tragedy, flawed characters and twists. There were many “ah-ha” moments, as things aren‘t what you think they are or appear to be. The ending was quite startling and unexpected.. seriously WOW. I love when books have a finish like this one did.

Releasing August 6, 2019

1 -Tagged
2 -Skinny Minny (grandparents pet name for me)
3 -Hot wings or those little rye party pizzas
4 -Cleaning bedroom, yard work and hoping to get a little reading in.
5 -one

#FriYayIntro

Who‘s the good girl?
Who‘s the bad girl?

I loved the intriguing mysteries in this story and couldn‘t read fast enough to find the answer.

With a whole slew of good/bad characters and the unpredictable storyline this was highly entertaining. Chalk one up for another fabulous novel from Mr. Robotham! 4.5 ☆

1 -To find me on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8880660-tammy
2 -Yes and love connecting with them. I‘ve gotten sidetracked w/life and health issues and haven‘t done so well about keeping up. I need to catch up!
3 -Gardening, decorating, sewing, trying new recipes
4 -Quilting

Thanks for the tag @Eggs 😘
#hellothursday

5 ☆ A feisty female antagonist, impossible to put down!! Josie‘s my new favorite female hero, love her. And finding this is ALSO part of a series, a huge plus in my book. A sinister, twisted game of cat & mouse, dark buried secrets, lies, murder. The suspense had my stomach twisting in knots. This was one intense wild ride that I didn‘t want to end!! 🖤

I received a copy from the publisher on NetGalley.

#HumpDayPost
Thanks for the tag @wanderinglynn 💖🤗

Never have I ever:
*returned a library book late
*not returned a borrowed book from anyone
*finished the Harry Potter series
*read a George R.R. Martin book

Tagging @eggs @JoScho and anyone else that wants to join along!

Thanks for the tag @Eggs 💖😘

1. Grease I‘m going back quite a few years here 😉
2. 27
3. Solitaire
4. Litsy definitely! 💖
5. Tagging @tracey38 @julesg @cobwebmoth

#WondrousWednesday

4.5 ★ I love a great crime fiction novel with a relatable strong female antagonist, a BONUS is this story addresses heavy issues straight off our front page. I was quickly absorbed into the high society scandals, human trafficking, murder, a possible serialist + the good old boy mentality of bad men that wear a badge; I devoured it in one sitting.

📖 The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian
🎬 Airplane!
📻 Aerosmith - Leaving On A Jet Plane

#ManicMonday

4.5⭐️ for this smart, twisty read w/a strong female protagonist determined to uncover the truth about her friend‘s death while discovering other cover-up‘s. With the BIG mystery behind Sadie‘s death, unpredictable characters + lies at every turn, I enjoyed it‘s slow suspense building up to a shocking end, who knew!

#24B4Monday
Total finish time: 26hr 22min

I received your postcard, thanks for thinking of me Misty! 🌻😘 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

An amazing story that drew me in right from the start - 4.5 stars!

#24B4Monday #readathon @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @jb72

Time: 20hr 56min

5 ☆ Book two of Crimson Lake 👍🏻 I love this Aussie series 🖤

#24B4Monday #readathon @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @jb72

Time: 14hr 13min

☀️😎💦 An enjoyable light & funny story that follows Brooke & Mindy Lemon, aka The Lemon Sisters. It‘s about sisterly ties, repairing broken family relationships, seeking change and the on-again/off-again relationship w/steamy tryst‘s between Brooke & ex-flame Garrett. A 4🌟 fun in the sun read for me (that can also be read as a stand alone)

#24B4Monday #readathon @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @jb72

Time: 11hr 11min

This was such a heart-wrenching story it had me tearing up. I had no idea the Spanish flu pandemic was so devastating. Highly recommending.

#24B4Monday #readathon @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @jb72

Time: 6hr 6m

4.5 ☆ I love a great Southern family drama. As luck would have it this is the authors first novel so of course I knew I had to read it. Two timelines with love, family loyalty, coming-of-age, adultery, racial tensions, lies, murder and cover-ups.
If you enjoy historical Southern stories don‘t pass this one up!

Today‘s #libraryhaul and #24B4Monday stack. No plans this weekend it‘s all about reading. I‘m being brave here with my goal to finish four books by midnight Sunday.

Good luck to everyone participating!🤞🏻📚🤓

#readathon @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65 @jb72

I struggled through the 1st half - I felt the characters were indistinguishable from another. The 2nd half was a whole different ballgame - I couldn‘t put it down! I can relate to the issues they faced in their workplace, even felt angry at times + can see why this book resonates with so many. I loved the mystery behind their CEO‘s death + twists surrounding it.

#HelloSunshine

Thanks Sherri! ❤️😘

1 Ha I would be up to my eyeballs in sand with my grandkids continually running through it (we‘re remodeling + I have the grandkids weekdays until school begins Aug 15)
2 Litsy, Goodreads and AccuWeather
3 Fresh veggies and fruit
4 Natalie 💥 4th of July!
5 Tagging @robinb 👋🏻❤️

#wondrouswednesday

A fun lowcountry tale that‘s delightful to read. Not only was it a good story, I loved the information on bees. From Holly and her sweetness and love for her neighbor's children to her crazy sister and cranky mother, I loved how the story flowed and kept me intrigued.
If you need a quick and easy summer read, this is it. 🐝

📖 Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
🎬 Marley and Me
📻 Who Let the Dogs Out - The Baha Men

#manicmonday

Be careful what you wish for. THIS DREAM HOUSE IS ANYTHING BUT for Stella & Jason.

4 devilish 😈😈😈😈 disturbing stars! How far would you go to be a Good Samaritan? What line would you be willing to cross?
Jess Ryder has written a clever psychological thriller with lies, betrayals & murder all surrounding Stella‘s dream home—Westhill House.
With dual storylines & unreliable characters this was a puzzler for me as it kept me guessing to the end.

5 ☆ YES, yes, yes! I‘m so excited to see CoHo‘s move into the thriller genre with this trauma-induced tale which is a he** yeah to thrill seekers. Shocking, check. Disturbing, check. It scared the bejesus out of me!! Verity‘s a must read. I was fastened to my seat the whole crazy way. 🖤

4.5 ☆ Out of the Easy is one of those books you read that makes you feel like you experienced something amazing. It has all the seediness and raw grit of the French Quarter underbelly that I haven‘t read before now. That alone made this unputdownable for me. 🎺🦹🏼‍♀️🦐

4.5 ☆ This is my 1st Katherine Reay novel and what a lovely read it turned out to be. It‘s centered around three women and a cherished small-town independent bookstore named Printed Letter Bookshop.
It overflows with many wonderful things—reconnecting with loved ones, having hope, trusting another and creating lifelong friendships. It‘s a great story!

☀️🌊 A quick S U M M E R Y novel giving you all the feels of the Cape‘s sand dunes, beaches and sea. It centers on post-graduate Eve who‘s trying to find herself during time spent as the famed NYorker writer Henry Grey‘s assistant. I love all the mentions of classic/fict books + adored librarian Alva.
Karen Dukess‘s first novel is well-written w/an imaginative storyline + intriguing characters (all less than perfect) making this a 4 ★ pick for me.

4.5 ☆ My third and favorite so far of Beatriz Williams!! I loved the WWl/WWll historical settings & was fascinated w/the Duke and Duchess of Windsor‘s over the top lifestyle. With two likable main characters that alternated between Elfriede during the turn of the 19th century + Lulu in the 1940‘s w/spies, marriage + murder I was completely engaged from start to finish. I enjoyed the intriguing dual storylines and wasn‘t quite ready for it to end.

5 hot and fiery stars!! 🔥 Say No to the Duke is the 4th novel in The Wilde‘s of Lindow Castle series and (yesss!) is the first book in this series with a female lead character—Lady Boadicea (Betsy) Wilde. A wonderful story all around but very unique with the issue of PTSD addressed. I especially enjoyed the pokes of fun and steamy love/hate relationship going on between Betsy and Jeremy! Can be read as a stand alone.

*Released June 25

5 ☆ Crazy, addictive and entertaining, Lock Every Door is everything I expected in a Riley Sager novel and MORE.. loved it and highly recommending! 🖤