pickI just adore this author. Her love of old houses, secrets, and gardens. ❤️ I loved the ending of this one—less grim than some of her other novels. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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The Lake House | 
pickI just adore this author. Her love of old houses, secrets, and gardens. ❤️ I loved the ending of this one—less grim than some of her other novels. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Some days ago, I accidentally found this in my library and put it on my wish list. So it‘s ➕ 1️⃣ and #BookishGoal 48 again. 🤷🏽♀️😄
pickSometimes the journey is better than the destination and for me that was the case with this book. I really liked everything about it until the ending.
When you go to the little free library to drop off (not pick up, for crying out loud) some books because you have alarmingly too many books and find the only Kate Morton you don‘t have on your shelves already (well, that wasn‘t released about a minute ago). Please note: I haven‘t read any of said Kate Morton books. Please also note: I have a PROBLEM. Will no one stop me???
Stack 1/12 for the #BlindDateWithABook Display @BookBabe and I are working on. 😁
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2. Susannah Kearsley
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4. Bed
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pickI love Kate Morton novels and this one has the added benefit of incorporating a mystery. My only criticism is that it goes on longer than feels necessary and the ending is just a little too pat. Given all of that, I love the writing and the characters and the setting. I like the back and forth between the 1930s and the early 2000s. This is a captivating read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickMy first of hers and I had a tough time deciding whether I liked it or not. It hit all the right notes of historical fiction, mystery, multiple POVs, and likeable characters. But it was about 150 pages longer than it needed to be, by the end I was just sad and ready for it to end, and all the loose ends conveniently tied up a little too neatly for me. I loved her writing overall and will definitely try another of hers in the future. 3.5 out of 5!
Finishing this beauty this evening. It has taken me a bit longer to get through than expected even though I'm thoroughly enjoying my first foray into her writing. I think I'm just feeling a bit slumpy right now. TGIF guys!
Classes are officially over. I have a couple of hours to kill before I head to the airport so I'm soaking up the sunshine and 80 degree weather before heading home to gray, snowy Kansas City.
pickI loved it! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I have to admit, in the first few pages I wondered what I had gotten myself into... The writing didn't seem like my thing. But of course she drew me in soon enough and I loved every minute after that!
Because when you're on a business conference, after a long day of classes, you lay in bed with Italian, wine, and a good book.
In Orlando on a yearly conference and just found out classes don't start for another hour so I'm going to crack into my first Kate Morton while eating my breakfast!
I'm enjoying this book so far but Kate Morton doesn't seem to know a lot about breastfed babies... First this bit I read last night, where it's a miracle Eleanor didn't die as an infant, and now a few pages on where an 11-month-old has apparently been weaned off the breast but not onto anything else and isn't ravenously hungry first thing in the morning?
Ugh, my eldest daughter's ballet concert is an introvert's nightmare.
A little bit of reading, and coffee! Had a horrible night with my youngest and anxiously waiting for news on my twin sister who was in early labour last night - nobody's answering my texts!
Decided to get my first Kate Morton from the library. I'm pretty much forcing myself to read my other print book... Hoping I enjoy this one!
Finally starting this beauty. I have a thing with Kate Morton where I can‘t read her most recent book until a new one comes out. I always have to have a book of hers in my TBR. 🤷🏻♀️
pickI really enjoyed this tale of a missing child. Kate Morton is a favorite of mine. I had several theories throughout the book but was wrong each time. I loved the way it wrapped up.
pickThis is the kind of mystery I love. Fantastic setting and character descriptions - I felt immersed. I avoid suspense because I dislike gore and cruelty, so this, lacking both, satisfied me. Just the right level of mystery, suspense, and frustrating, disagreeable, but still empathetic characters for me. I will go back for more of Morton‘s work.
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2. Duran Duran, at least 5 years ago
3. Interrupting people during conversation
4. Nothing right now
5. Just started the tagged book.
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This is now the daily post I do. I‘m swamped and stressed with life and the others require way too much thought.
pickFour books I'm currently reading:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
“The Lake House" is from the #mmdreadingchallenge2018 #lovedit #bestending
I read one of the 55 "Writing Tools" most every night and one of of the "Secrets of the Secret Place" every week.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
And "Writing Picture Books" is a dream of mine. ?
pickReally, this was too long, but I will always happily go on whatever Gothic-tinged family-secret-filled trip that Kate Morton takes me on. (But srsly did we need the Sadie backstory?)
#idratherbereading #morethan500pages
When your birthday card from your aunt has a note in it about the book you recommended and lent her 🙌
pickLittle late with this but it‘s amazing what you can get done when you are home from school for 2 days with conjunctivitis! #makemereadit. Theses are all books friends have loaned me that are way passed their due by date. Help me return them to their rightful owners.
pickA solid three stars. A good summer read that holds your interest without taxing your heart or your brain. I never try to solve a mystery or plot line. I‘m much more interested in going on the ride an author wants me to take. However, at 80% of the way through this I‘d figured out the upcoming plot twist and outcome. Weird.
I‘m not a big fan of historical novels, but that some of the narrative is contemporary and the descriptions of the Cornwall setting have propelled me forward.
Friday afternoon traffic on I-95 in Massachusetts heading north to New Hampshire. Hubby is driving. Good thing I brought extra books. 😬
1. On the couch with the all-star game in the background
2. Just finished The Lake House. So good!
3. Normally I just browse my kindles & see what strikes me. There‘s plenty choose from.
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Library Summer Reading stack!
✔️Children‘s Book (Heartbeat)
✔️Book About Music (1000 Perfect Notes)
✔️Play (Wilde)
✔️Historical Fiction (The Lake House)
✔️Audiobook (Outlandish Companion)
Essay (Tell Me How It Ends)
Book Made Into a Movie (Book Thief)
Musician Biography (Walk to Beautiful)
Published in 2018 (Summer Wives)
Set in the Mountains (Those Who Wish Me Dead)
Natural History (Planet Earth)
Tagged book lent to my aunt ✔️Recommend a Book!
Having a hard time getting into this one. I've heard great things about it from others, so I'm hoping it picks up and piques my interest.
Let's talk our #summerreads #TBR lists! I've decided to make a #lakesidereads list ☺️ And what better one to start out with than @katemortonauthor's The Lake House?! What's on your #summerreading list? Do you have more than one kind of list?
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pickKate Morton writes beautifully evocative cozy mysteries usually involving old houses, lush gardens and family secrets. Perfect vacation read. 💚🦋💚
Spending the week at a lovely lake house on Lake Keowee with appropriate reading material. 😊
1. Unplugging at a house on the lake up north, hoping to put a good dent in The Count of Monte Cristo.
2. Looking forward to the lake house and move past the stressful week.
3. I have many, but i will say Tucson, and Paris, of course.
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5. 88. Summer has finally come 😁🌞
pickI quite liked this. There are a lot of perspectives and a lot of jumping around in time, which usually don‘t bother me, but even when in the past, I really had to pay attention to the start of the chapters (which outlined what time period we were in), as we even jumped between the 1930s and earlier than that. Cont in comments.
#Aprella #day12 #EnglishHouse After a really bad case,Detective Sadie Sparrow is taking a break at her grandfathers Cornwall cottage when she comes across a crumbling English House on a lake with an overgrown garden.Curious, she learns it was abandoned after the disappearance of a baby boy in the 1930s.Now an old lady,the owner,Alice Edevane, the boys sister, writes Detective novels & tries to forget the past. Until Sadie starts asking questions.
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TODAY‘S PROMPT: ENGLISH HOUSE
LOVE Kate Morton‘s books.
This is an English estate set in Cornwall, England.
Ms. Morton knows how to keep her readers interested and not want the book to end. Twists and turns seem to be Ms. Morton's trademark along with marvelous, surprise endings. And what a spectacular ending THE LAKE HOUSE has. You will love it!!
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pickA fun read with a good twist at the end that made for an interesting book club discussion.
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My pick for Day 13: #BeautifulWriting is #KateMorton‘s #TheLakeHouse. Her writing has a way of transporting you. If you have read her novels, I am sure you know what I mean. If not, I highly recommend you read this one. 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #JPBookReview | #ReadingResolutions
“Her father had once said that the poor might suffer poverty, but the rich had to contend with uselessness, and there was nothing like idleness to eat away at a person‘s soul.”
I read and loved #TheLakeHouse by #KateMorton a couple years before I joined #Litsy. 📚 I absolutely love her beautiful writing style. 📝 I still have yet to read her other novels, but I want to eventually—once I finish a few other books at the top of my #TBR. If you like beautiful writing, nice character development, and reading a cross between #literaryfiction and #mystery, this is the book for you! 💙📚#ThrowBackThursday - #TBT
pickThis was so good! It touched on some of my favorite elements; an old mansion, beautiful gardens, family history, and mystery. The writing was just gorgeous. I think it would have been a 5⭐️ read for me if I had read the physical book instead. Lots of characters and movement between time was a test of my ability to focus on an audiobook. 🧐
pickHard to get into with the jumping back and forth. But it was a great read!
pickLoved it - a perfect, clever, well-crafted mystery! Her best that I‘ve read since House at Riverton. The big reveal was totally unexpected and gave me chills! You may think you‘ve figured it out about halfway through, but then everything shifts... not as predictable as it may seem! 5/5⭐️
