Like these short reads between my big book reads. 😜. This one is a good setup for the next diary. Love Murderbot.

I started reading again bc of Oprah and yet again she picks a great one. I‘m probably 85% in liking her picks and this one is worth all 715 pages. India, family, love, fear of water, medicine, lepers, 1900-1977. I will read every book by this author. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Loved this read. 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶 Aliens come to Earth and give the directive for humans to survive only if they reach Antarctica in 30 days. Love at first sight, survival, DNA engineering in a read that makes you shiver. 🥶

A murder mystery that is loosely based on a real life murder mystery of a 12 yr old girl in Pittsburgh. When murders are unsolved does the stigma follow everyone involved or related to the victim? Good read. I kept thinking that I was reading true crime.

Love these reads between those “big” book reads. You have to love these Murderbot Diaries. Loved Miki, sad he had to go.

I really liked this read and the history of language did this. That should seem boring but I enjoyed it. The actual story based on London having “magic” in silver to attain their power is based on our real world and at times I kept thinking that this is too close to our real world. The royals, the rich and the educated have an advantage. Love your world and do what makes you happy. Fight the fight is good but will it matter. 🧐

I loved this book and it‘s all about grief. A plane crash occurs and the one survivor, Eddie, has to work his way through why he was the one that made it. Every character in this book has a part of their life that is not always a-ok. Written so clearly that you understand how Edward feels.

This is the first book that I have read in this series and it‘s #12. I‘ll be finding and reading the others when I need a book that uses science, history, and weird facts to make a story seem so realistically possible. James Rollins fills my Michael Crichton reading needs. Love when I find an author that has books that I will have to catch up on.

5 stars and I would give it more. Loved this story about four sisters in Chicago that live as the closest family unit until they all take their deepest wants in the direction that makes them happy. Oprah does pick good reads. Loved everything aspect of this book.

Another book with an octopus as a character and it‘s great! Ro has come to a time in her life where she needs to decide what her next step will be. Her father is missing, her mom is silent, her friend is busy and her latest boyfriend is off to Mars. The only part that scientifically bothered me was the takeoff from Earth directly to Mars. They will take off from our moon. Science! Good read. Very relatable to a lot of families out there.

This one reads like a good soap opera. West Texas setting with a star QB, his best friend who becomes a priest, and a girl that they both care for. Secrets are everywhere. Good read.

This Scarpetta novel is quick but I liked it. Cornell has gone back to writing a story with her coroner Kay Scarpetta in the style in which she started writing this series. Good coroner info and in this one a microwave gun!

I‘ve been trying to find these at my library since reading #1. Finally found them! Love this series. If AI can begin to feel and care will we be safe or sorry? Love Murderbot!:)

Five stars, read this book now. Based on the children left behind from American GIs during the Vietnam War. The children, called bui doi, the dust of life, who were left behind after a terrible war that affected everyone.

Scarier than clowns in a sewer! Real life scary, what would you do when your child is kidnapped and to get them back you need to pay and then kidnap the next child. A page turner bc you know you want to find out how it works and how it ends. Once again, real life scary!

Great science fiction read. Will humans need the change that allows them to add AI parts to their human bodies? In the near future,where technology enhances life,will the addition of AI need to have their rights given?

I loved this book. When an author can take a true fact from history, Agatha Christie did disappear for a bit, then writes a story around that fact so that when you read the story you question yourself if this is fiction, it‘s a great read. I may have to read some Agatha Christie now. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mystery/murder/romance/tragedy.

Loved this mystery/haunted story about Carly who goes to a creepy little town that has a creepy motel to try to find out what happened to her missing aunt. 1982/2017 timelines. Loved it👻

Another must for your kids or grandkids library! Jim is grumpy, Jim Panzee!😜

Moving is done and I can go back to reading…but first I have to start a library for Nora! This is a classic! Poor peach.

I love tennis so this read with a lead woman champion is great. How does she make her characters seem like they actually exist? This is tennis. 🎾🎾🎾🎾 Daisy and Carrie need a book together!😜🎾🎤

Thought I was really going to take to this series. Premise: Adopted daughter finds out that her real parents are serial killers in a creepy weird town. Finished and I cannot go on. Nothing revealed in this first book that makes me want to read on. Happens!

I‘ve listened to his podcast with Leah Remini and have watched their series, the Aftermath. Listened to this and cannot understand how cults can keep people in such restricted ideas. Rinder was brought up into Scientology and was one of the top people below the leader is Scientology. How this cult continues is still a mystery. Hopefully his family will one day see the light! Great memoir to listen to. Tom Cruise secrets abound here!

Set in Hawaii before the bombing of Pearl Harbor a young nurse sets sail for the island of Hawaii. What did people think as the WW2 war machine was moving in the Pacific? Good information with additions of military info that was sent in those days.

Once you get past page 150 you are all in! Two of the same flights land three months apart. Wonder if there were two of you? Loved this concept. Maybe we are in a simulation!

Loved this first novel by Katy Hays. Anne gets an internship at the Met in NYC. She is learning how to live away from home and is immersed in the history of tarot cards. I love that I had to look up items that I didn‘t know and the ending is perfect. Fate and fortune are part of life.

Listened on audio and I think that was a good choice for me. Time travel in which Jen goes back in time to find out why her sons gets involved in crime. Only 10 hrs and with all of the facts, audio was the best choice I believe. Don‘t change what you think may not help anyone.

Everyone needs to read a bit of Nicholas Sparks now and then. Two stories, love and despair. I couldn‘t figure how he was going to end it but once again it happened and the ending was just right. Love and heartbreak are the same feeling.

I hated the first three pages and then loved this book. Did the editor do that? Eva and Shane are well known writers who for a week when they were teens found each other. Their new careers and their new lives take off. Can they fit each other back into letting themselves feel loved? Good read! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Loved this story. Wanda is born during and named after one of the many hurricanes that keep ravishing Florida. A dystopian story that could have gone too much into climate change and the changes that we see here on Earth as we survive. Loved the characters and the way it shows how important people are in our lives. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Well shit! Why did Leslie have to leave us so soon? I love memoirs read by their authors and this one needs to be listened to bc no one can emphasize his stories like Leslie could. Loved this. He seemed so happy with where his life was and was so astonished of how he became an instant follow on Instagram by many of us during the pandemic. He is a storyteller.

My friend chose this book for me. One of the youngest on Schindler‘s List, Leon tells his story about surviving the Holocaust. A good book for middle school/high school readers. Most have seen the movie but this explains the before and after of that terrible time. Schindler was a hero.

A Quirky book and I loved it! Twins that catch on fire and two “weird” friends who come from two opposite families. Love>Money.

It‘s cold everywhere so this book fits in!:). Shea had a traumatic even in her youth, Beth has lived with a past that has haunted her for 40 years. Can they relate and become friends? Good spooky mystery that goes back to the 70s. How did we all survive without cell phones to report things?🥴. Good read.

A short cute book about a schister and a tree that spoils his get away plan. A good short read for the busy holiday season.

Loved this book. Young love and the history/science of beekeeping. Gender identification in a story that allows the reader to see how identification in society is seen. I had no idea what this story was about and I loved that. I love Jodi Picoult books.

Good thriller. Rebecca and Brian marry. Rebecca works her way into the FBI, Brian raises their kids until he decides to become a coder for the govt. Can a marriage survive when you both have jobs where secrets are necessary? Good read.

You can send in a DNA sample to find your true match. Throw in a serial killer and this is one good read. Science is usually the answer but maybe following your heart is the correct choice. Great read, will be reading more by this author.

Wow! Brooklyn is the setting and a horrific act of gentrifying takes on a whole new scary reality for Shelby. Every character and thought is written by this author through race, greed and idealisms. Wow! Page337, “Funny how much race matters until it doesn‘t.”

Ledger and Kenna. Both lost a friend and one bad mistake and a horrible accident determine the lives of a family who have lost a son. Colleen Hoovers books are always a good read.

Great read for spooky season. Millie just was released from prison and needs a job. Nina hires her to take care of her household. Crazy circle of events leads to an attic that has a story of its own. 🤫

I wait to read Nicholas Sparks when I am in a slump and I know that a good story is coming my way. Every time I read one, I feel it. Cancer, adoption and a love story. Maggie and Bryce forever.

This debut takes one fact in history, an eclipse in 1914 Russia and tells a story of the peril of Russian Jews before WW2. She mixes Einsteins relativity with the story of Miri who has been educated to become a surgeon. Science with history with a love triangle. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I started out thinking that this book had a Hunger Games vibe. Was reading along and then by page 300 I didn‘t care what happened. 🥴. I think I needed a human connection in this story and that was not taking place. It‘s just not for me..half reading happens.

I have no idea where I found this book but I am glad that I did. For Spooky season, a young girl is cursed by her mom in 1895. In present day 2012, Helen meets a man who she seems to know but whom she cannot place. Reincarnation through a curse. Loved this read. A love story through the ages with a hint of witchery.

Historical fiction of two icons who both became entwined with the world of Aristotle Onassis. Facts are given with the fictional story written of what may have happened when an opera star and an ex First Lady end up in this billionaires life. If only social media existed then!

I just keep reading her books and every one of them is different and each has a different take on relationships. This one is personal to the author about her abusive dad…she wrote it with the intention of making you think that it always seems easy to the onlooker that leaving an abusive relationship is easy.

Just found this author and now I have all of her other books to read. Historical fiction based on the lives of the 3 people who first entered King Tuts tomb. That curse is for real. 😳. Good historical background at the end. Stroke recovery with Eve, one of the three that took antiquities from the tomb.

I love when I find a book that I have never heard about and I love it. Great YA read. 12 girls all with individual problems are sent to a school in Maine. Loved the darkened chapters that gives the reader the backgrounds on how their troubles began. Very good ending. For YA and parents!

Tik tok convinced me to read it and I did love it. Bree finds Archer and with both of their tragic histories they make a great story. Tiktok@kboltreads!:). Just read it! I did and liked it.😁