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I squeezed in quite a few books in August, thanks in part to several days off in Cape Cod at a lovely house my sister rented (I accidentally...

My favorite books in July were A Wartime Marriage - also published as Escape from Bucharest , a better title because the book is more of an...

I made good progress on my 20 Books of Summer  in June: eight read and reviewed, and I am in the middle of the ninth. My favorite books thi...

Two books stood out for me in May: Lady Tremaine , a retelling of Cinderella, which read more like historical fiction than fantasy (probably...

My best reads in April were The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl and three rereads - Spring Magic by D.E. Stevenson (the ultimate in comfort rea...

The Sea Child , set in early 19th century Cornwall, was my favorite book this month because of the way it blends historical romance, an atmo...

Several books I enjoyed this month - I reread the first book about Fiona Griffiths, which I appreciated in a different way having read the w...

A new year and all my library holds arrived at once, so I even had to return a few without reading! Two mysteries were my favorites this mo...

You’ll have to wait a little longer for my Best of 2025 list (I'm having a hard time narrowing it to ten) but here is my December readi...

This month I especially enjoyed The Correspondent (fiction), The Proving Ground (suspense), The Jazz Barn (nonfiction), and Searching for ...

This month's reading mostly focused on books published 100 years ago for the 1925 Club.  However, it was fun to see Lisa Scottoline and ...

September was a varied month beginning with a long but absorbing read of  The Spring of the Ram , second in Dorothy Dunnett’s Niccolò series...

My favorite August books were the two historical fiction novels - Niccolò Rising , which I had carried unread to Bruges and back in May (I s...

The Kitchen Front and The Demon of Unrest turned out to be my favorite books this month and, as always, I enjoyed a Vera Stanhope mystery ...

June was a varied month of reading and I particularly enjoyed The Eights , with its depiction of the early years of women at Oxford, and Dea...

Three books really stood out this month. I had to go to multiple shops in London to find the new book about Maeve Kerrigan, The Secret Room...

This post is much later than usual because of my trip to England, Belgium, and the Netherlands! I didn’t get much reading done once I got o...

My favorite books this month were The Lost Passenger , which is much more than a Titanic story, a reread of The Heart Speaks Many Ways , and...

Although February is a short month, there were some outstanding reads, especially The King’s Messenger , Slow Bomb at Dimperley , and The Sp...

I read 14 books in January: all fiction but one, including three audiobooks and two rereads. The God of the Woods and Frozen River are h...