Wow what an awful photo! I’ll have to turn down the kindle brightness next time 🤦🏻♀️😬 these were the buddy reads I finished this month and I squeezed in Baby Teeth with hosted by ashleylovesreading0728 and minnesota_mailer after I took this photo ! The stand outs were The Most Fun We Ever Had, The Reckless … Read more
“The waiter delivers their hamburgers and milkshakes.” p.83 💛 • Loved the October pick which was also my bookofthemonth pick! 4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for this historical romance that was set in post Civil-war Spain, a time period I wasn’t all that familiar with. I really enjoyed the way Sepetys weaved stories of what it was … Read more
“Men in sagging pants with their heads bent together,murmuring, ducking into corner stores that sold POBOYS SHRIMP OYSTER.” p.4 • Powerful and told completely from the heart. This memoir is beautifully written and is a story that needs to be told. 4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love Jesmyn Ward’s writing and to hear her words share … Read more
“Donna High Hawk appeared from the kitchen, wearing a white apron and a white headwrap, and carrying a chipped, white bowl filled with Cream of Wheat.” 3% • This book…… I’m speechless but I will tell you that I had 2 colleagues put it in their shopping carts the day I told them about it … Read more
“When she finally got smart and found a stick thin enough to wedge in and push the paper out, she discovered it was not an envelope at al but a folded receipt from May that listed one Coke and one Big League Chew.” -32%. 💚 • This book was about 2 families and how one … Read more
I have a strange habit – when I love a book so much , I can’t seem to get it together to post about it. I read Pachinko last year and then immediately lent it out to my niece and when reunited with it, I realized I needed to post about it! I wanted to … Read more
“…We’d meet at Ralph’s for coffee and doughnuts before work.” P.44❤️ • This one was a winner for me. Banned Nobel prize winning book and smuggling it out of the country for publication as an act of political rebellion? Yes! I was equally interested in the dual storylines going on in this book – they … Read more
“I washed them out and made us tea, plucking the hot tea bags out with my fingers in the absence of a spoon.” p.12 ❤️ • Read this last month with the group moderated by bookedwithshelfies and I loved it!! Queenie felt so real to me. I’ve been Queenie at times in my youth. I … Read more
“Six weeks away from this stuffy apartment and my mother’s disinterest and my father’s eye rolls when she poured herself a third glass of Chardonnay.” -P. 36 💙 • Loved this one! My first by but not my last! Read this with group last month with ashleylovesreading0728 and minnesota_mailer ! This was a thriller, for … Read more
“The buttery scent of croissants tempted Dani, teasing her senses with the memory of bread, but she refrained.” P.301 • I doubled down on buddy reads last month for this one and joined 2 for the same book! One hosted by secretreadinglife and with booksandmargs ❤️ Waffled between a 3 and 3.5 star ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 for … Read more