Happy (almost) Spring, readers! I know I’m a little early but I’m very over winter and ready for better weather and all that it brings with it. I’m grateful this ten stack brought me through these last few weeks of winter and for the most part these were some fantastic reads. I don’t often have… Read More 2022 Books: 11-20
“Daisy Jones and The Six” by Taylor Jenkins Reid Daisy is a wild child. She’s everywhere that the beautiful people are on the Sunset Strip in the late sixties getting into everything a teenager shouldn’t be but no one cares about Daisy enough to stop her. Daisy dreams of being a star and by the… Read More Book of the Month: February 2022
Welcome to the first 10 stack of 2022! I started off my new year by setting a goal to read 90 books in ’22 and kicked off January with some great galleys of newly published books. This 10 stack has a little bit of everything – historical fiction, romance, mystery and most of them where… Read More 2022 Books: 1-10
“The Magnolia Palace” by Fiona Davis With her mother by her side Lillian Carter has become the muse of the most elite New York artists scattering her likeness all over the city for all to see but when the Spanish flu takes her mother’s life, Lillian is left floundering. When trouble comes knocking on her… Read More Book of the Month: January 2022
Happy New Year, Readers! When I set a goal of 80 books for this year (10 more than I did last year) I never imagined I would be closing the year with a grand total of 100 books read! I’m so grateful to have had these books to escape to during yet another strange year.… Read More The Booked Mama’s Favorite Books of 2021
“The Splendid and the Vile” by Erik Larson On an unimaginable first day on the job, Winston Churchill stepped into a war. Adolf Hitler had begun his march across Europe, claiming control of countries along the way. In his first year as Prime Minister, Churchill guided Briton through relentless bombings that caused tens of thousands… Read More Book of the Month: December 2021
When I started out the year with the reading goal of 80 books I thought that was ambitious. Well here we are at years end with a total of 100 books read. Some months were better than others. In March I only got to 3 books and I somehow read 14 in August. It was… Read More 2021 Books: 91 and Beyond
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, ’tis the season to curl up with a good book. We have been very lucky to avoid any big storms yet here in Massachusetts but I am sure they are just around the corner. Until then I will enjoy these milder early winter days and get through these last… Read More 2021 Books: 81-90
“A Higher Call” by Adam Makos In the skies over Germany on December 20, 1943, an unlikely alliance was formed. 2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, then twenty-one was flying his B-17 that was miraculously still in the air despite massive damage and a crew that was either gravely wounded or dead when out his window Charlie… Read More Book of the Month: November 2021
“The Ex Hex” by Erin Sterling When 19 year old Vivi experiences a devastating heartbreak she does what every respectable witch would do – she curses her ex-boyfriend. She never expected it to work – after all it was only a joke – but when her ex, Rhys Penhallow, arrives back in Graves Glen nine… Read More Book of the Month: October 2021