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Jumped into this series starting with this one, #4. A great new series with a great female lead for me to keep on reading! (Last night was only night nice enough to sit outside. Rest of weekend says 🌧️☔🌧️

Gorgeous writing. No extra embellishment needed just piercing and stunning use of language/words.

"He was only nine but had already mastered the dialect of damaged American fathers." (After being told to speak English and to look at him when he was talking, on the bus to school)

This was wonderful! I gave it 5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 A perfect summer book. It kicked off my #20BooksofSummer

Loving this so far! What a perfect summer read! #20BooksofSummer

Isn't this a great cover too?

Never really did get into this at all. 😞

This was not bad. I felt like there was a bit too much going on inside and I didn't like the big shift in story at the end or its abrupt ending. So yeah, just okay.

My dear goodness! The descriptions and depictions of women in 1952 were quite something! She sure wasn't pretty but boy could she keep a clean house! 😳

I'm kicking off my #20BooksofSummer (and the GR Group Reading With Style seasonal challenge) with the chunky EAST OF EDEN! I bought this beautiful Penguin Orange Collection edition years ago at the Penguin Shop in Toronto, but I heard only fantastic things about the audio narration. So I fired up my Audible again and will have ~27 hours of it to treat my ears. 🙂 (So far so good, it sounds like I'm watching an old movie)

This was my May reading. Mediocre at 7 books. I chalk a lot of that up to reading the beast Lethal White! The only book this month to earn a 5-star. I loved it. My favourite of the series.

The two I didn't like at all were Sleepless Night (2-stars) and This Must Be the Place (3-stars). I gave The Wonders of Daniel Green 3-stars as well because I just liked, not loved it. The rest are 4-star reads but Lethal White was the clear winner here! 😉

I'm having a dilemma. Which book do I start the #20BooksofSummer, Reading with Style and Reading Women challenges with?

Do I start with one of the classics? This stack of great Canadian fiction? Or the other two which sound really great too?

I need help deciding! Which one would you choose?

Finally!! A night where we can actually sit outside and enjoy the patio! A beautiful night out here! Extinctions with a local white wine called Big Bluff White from Viewpointe Winery. Blissful!!

Great collection of short stories. Most felt distinctly Canadian.

After searching and searching, I've settled on this for my audiobook.

I'm going to start reading this tonight. #ebook #kobo

I'm.working on finishing this collection. Great short stories - not a dud in the pile yet! #CanLit

Was stuck waiting for a train to pass and this sign was making me twitch!! My husband would not pull over, and put me on his shoulders so I could remove an O. 😂

Going to finish this one in paper because I cannot stand one more minute with the audio. The narrators are not good (for me) and I'm.starting to hate on the book because of it. I have 200 pages left and would really rather be reading something else. 😕

Loved it. 5-stars for this one because it's my favourite of the series. Now impatiently waiting for the next instalment. (Same for Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley series!)

So I was only able to get so far in listening to this one before it was due back to the library. Luckily I bought the hardcover as soon as it came out, so I'm finishing in paper format. Only 450 pages left! 🤣

Not that great for me. 😏

So happy the weather guys were wrong!! They said it was going to be a crap long weekend and it's not! It's beautiful outside and I'm thrilled to be able to get patio reading done!!

This is a novella I should be able to complete today. It will also get me back on the #ReadingWomen challenge wagon!

This is my next library book. Am I in the mood for it though? It's 560 pages of densely typed pages. I want to read it. But do I want to read it Now?

It's disturbing though that we continuously repeat history, destroy human spirit and yet human spirit always rises. If you close your eyes to the dates in the book (1901) it could be that you're reading about current affairs.

I'm going in....

A wonderful piece of storytelling! A lot of Greek mythology which I'm not 100% knowledgeable about, but it didn't take away from how much I enjoyed this one. Sometimes reminded me of Songs for the Cold of Heart which is a great thing!

This has been very good so far (only on page 22)

A good story but I felt there was a lot going on inside it! ⭐⭐⭐

I only have 7 days to listen to this behemoth! That would require plenty of driving around! Good thing I have the hardcover to finish when my borrow expires. There's no way I can finish it in audio in a mere 7 days? But having Robert Glenister's voice in my ears again is fantastic!

Listening to this starting today. CDs so I don't have to fight with my Bluetooth disconnecting! 👍

Starting this one ....

Alrighty, I'll give it a 3.75 star rating. While this is filled to the brim of every overused trope, plot device and twists - chock full!! - those pages were turning quickly. I burned through this one and wanted to find out how it ended, even though I knew already. It was a good book club book but I've got to be done for a long, long time with the thriller/suspense books! 😊😊

I'm on page 58 (of 345) and I have a strong suspicion I know exactly how this is going to go. I need to put those thoughts aside and just read it though. Give it a chance, give it room to breathe. Please don't be as predictable as I think I see it being. 🙏

A great rom-com story. If you need a happy read, this is a good one. Reminded me of Leap Year with Amy Adams and a mix of When You Were Sleeping and The Proposal with Sandra Bullock. 😊😊

Enjoying sitting outside tonight! Still finding out what the readers of Broken Wheel are recommending while sipping on a Pelee Lighthouse Riesling. 👍😊 Hubbie's beer is Czechvar.

Our in-person picked this one for our June meeting. I'll be reading it soon, as soon as I finish The Broken Wheel book.

So my audio borrow expired and others were waiting, so I'll finish with my paper copy. It was a very good audio!

This one, and #4 It Begins in Betrayal are my favourites in this series. I love the people in King's Cove and they delight me to no end.

Cracking the new Winslow case with my favourite fictional friends - Lane, Darling and Ames.

Really good one! Lots of foreboding and atmosphere. A tension filled thrilling ending. I shed a tear even at the end, which I thought was quite beautiful, but I won't say for whom I shed that tear. Might give too much away. 👍

Right? How can this not turn out to be an awesome read?

Library hold came in! Lots of others want to read it too so I have 7 days only to read.

This is going well in audio for me!

Oh man I bailed on this one 😟 Disturbing scenes and disturbing language - words I couldn't dismiss because thats how they talked before. The more I read the less I was enjoying. So I called it quits.

Naomi at Consumed by Ink gave this one high marks and it sounds like something I definitely need to read.

This was really great! A great new series by Jennings with a fantastic female character, Charlotte Frayne, and featuring Detective Murdoch.

New in today from the library.

This was ok. Not as great for sure as Truth in Advertising. This is a scathing take on the sad state of our lives today consumed by social media and fake shaming news. It's also a whine about the downfall of the poor old white man? I loved the humour in TIA more than the darkness and millennial blaming rant in TTM