I can’t knit or crochet worth a hoot but sure do enjoy reading cozy mysteries centered around those hobbies. We are settling in nicely this round of cozy mystery book bingo. Week 2 was a cozy with a cat on the cover. Perfect opportunity to start this 3 book series and read a book off my own bookshelf.
Lia has moved to Crandalsburg after the death of her husband and has found a way to get to know the community and sell the creations from her old community. She sets up at the Crandalsburg Craft Fair every weekend. Her best friend runs the fair and comes under suspicion of her ex-husband’s death when he is found in the barn that holds the fair. As Lia tries to help find the real murderer her daughter returns home and agrees to help.
I am already a fan of this series and am disappointed it is only 3 books. If you like Peggy Ehrhart’s Knit and Nibble series I think you will like this as well. A cozy series set in a quaint cozy town, filled with “grandma” hobbies, and friends.
Dinner at the Night Library upon first glance looks like a light and easy read but once you get to the end you realize how deep the story goes.
Otoha has accepted a position with the Night Library in the outskirts of Tokyo after being fired from her local library. An unfair firing. Once at the Night Library she finds a group of eclectic people with stories of their own. They all have one thing in common: they are hiding from something in their past. What they don’t realize is there is one person who believes in them…the anonymous library owner.
This could have been a quick read but I’m glad I read a chapter a day and thought on it. Each chapter seemed to have a life lesson hidden in it if you really looked. Was it a life changing read? No. Was it enjoyable? Yes. Did I learn from reading it? Yes.
Liv was widowed several years ago and became the guardian of her dead husband’s daughter. She has recently left her loved job so her “daughter” can stay in high school and graduate with her friends.
An old friend is cleaning out a family home and needs books taken off his hands. Liv agrees to do so and in return finds an old dream awakening in her would. A dream to own a bookstore. With the help of friends, old and new, she learns how to receive help and open her heart again.
This is book two in the Haven Ridge series but can be read as a standalone with zero issues. I would not characterize this book as a clean Christian romance but a clean no spice romance. Plenty of heated kisses and desires. No foul language.
I have come to enjoy my time in Haven Ridge, Colorado and look forward to completing the trilogy with The Larkspur House.
All the stars! One of the best books I have read. It pulls you and you have to claw your way out to do all the adult things that is part of life.
Be honest with yourself and admit you have at one time or another wanted to crawl into the book you were reading and escape the world around you. I know I have. At different times in my life for different reasons.
Alix has had the morning from heck. Everything that could go wrong has. Someone has stolen her identity, she loses a job, and then her humble couch in a friend’s apartment. She goes to the place where she feels safe…the library. There she opens a door and enters The Astral Library. While here she will learn the magic of writers, their books, and how other forms of creativity provide safety for those who need it.
I am not a political person and for sure don’t discuss it on my socials or book worlds. Reading is my sanctuary and safe place but you better be dang sure I will turn into a fiery monster if you try to stifle my access to books. I will always be a proponent of letting children read what interests them. Let them come to you and ask questions and LEARN! I am so thankful my mama never said you can’t read that for whatever reason. She would read with me and we would discuss. I like to think that is why I am open minded on some things and why I never had the urge to be rebellious. I was loved by an educated woman. Not because she had many degrees (she only completed one semester of college) but because she read. She fueled and feed that love into me.
I am so excited that my library @bcplinsta is hosting a reader event with Kate Quinn in April. It will be an honor to hear a literary great discuss her novel. We determined last night at our monthly Friends of the Library meeting that I will in fact be kidnapped because of books. I didn’t read the program notes I just signed up because author event. I didn’t realize we will get a book that night as part of our attendance until my friend April told me. 😆
Sophie is the result of an affair between a servant and an earl. When her mother passed he kept her on as a ward but when the earl remarried his new wife wanted nothing to do with her. She became the free maid of the ladies of the house.
On one particular perfect night her fairy godmother swoops in and dresses her for the masquerade ball being held at the Bridgerton home. There she has a few beautiful hours resulting in a dance with Benedict Bridgerton. As the bells roll midnight she runs away and he is only left with a memory and a glove.
Two years later their paths cross and only Sophie knows who he is but he doesn’t know she is the woman he has searched for in life and his dreams.
This is a slow burn romance that has the right amount of spice. The ending is a delight.
Suzanne has been asked to host on donut cooking exhibit on the town’s grand home kitchens. The head of the event, Peg, has ruffled more feathers than a molting robin including Suzanne’s. Unfortunately Peg met her demise with her favorite doughnut. Now Suzanne must clear her name.
This is book two of the Donut Shop mystery series. It is your true cozy mystery. Amateur sleuth in a small town who involves herself in the investigation. So far it is an enjoyable series. After many chapters there is a donut recipe. Good thing I don’t like to fry things or I’d be in trouble.
A great ending to the trilogy. We can all survive hard things and rebuild. You must have faith in your own strength and resilience.
Irene and her sons have moved to the island are ready to move forward. Each must learn to find what makes them happy. No road is easy but the steep climb is worth the speed bumps.
I know it’s not possible as EH has retired but I would love a book with grown up Maia. I think she her future life would surprise us all.
This is the better of her two series I have read but it’s not a stellar series.
Cookie Chanel is coming to KY to help provide vintage hats during the Derby and while here she runs into a dead man. A jockey for the Derby. Why was he killed and who did it?
I really wanted to like this one more since it takes place in Kentucky at Derby time. It fell flat. The main premise was Derby hats and that storyline was rarely mentioned! You have the weird storyline of the B and B. I get it she needed a place to stay but why was the owner so cuckoo? You have a strange love triangle which I will state maybe if I had read the books between 1 and 5 it would make sense.
This series is not one I will continue unless I have nothing else to read.
1 book donated/given to others 6 books (kindle/physical) of my own read
B Borrowed from friend/family L Library KO Kindle Owned O Physical Owned EL E-library (Libby/Overdrive/Hoopla) AB Audiobook KU Kindle Unlimited NG NetGalley ARC Advanced Reader Copy
This was the perfect book to sink my toes into with the return of winter the last couple of days. The description of the sand, sun, and heat sounds absolutely perfect at this moment.
We return to the island with Irene and her grown sons. Each has an agenda of their with the same idea, to move on from Russ’s betrayal and subsequent death. Friendships have the possibility to turn into something more but does anyone have the strength to move forward.
I really enjoyed the diary entries from Rosie’s point of view. You know what she is doing morally wrong but being blinded by love can skew your feelings. In all of this Maia is the one hurt the most by the deception and deaths of both her parents.
I am deeply invested to see how this saga unfolds. Again another cliffhanger at the end that makes you automatically pick up the next book.
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