Carol J. Perry – The Book Date

Month in Review

October Wrap Up

November 8, 2023 Kathryn

Total books finished this month: 15

Book Ratings

Hart’s Ridge 4 stars
Lucy in the Sky 3.5 stars
In My Life 3.5 stars
Borrowed Time 3.25 stars
Summer Reading 4 stars
My Reading Life 4 stars
Caught Dead Handed 4 stars
Happy Place 3.25 stars
Daisy and Kate. 5 stars
The Perfect Christmas Village. 3 stars
I Can See You. 4.75 stars
Someone to Trust 4.25 stars
A Dish Best Served Hot. 3.7 stars
Bright Lights Big Christmas 3.8 stars
The Wishing Bridge. 3.8 stars

Settings

Martha’s Vineyard USA
Blue Ridge Mountains USA
Nth Carolina USA
Massachusetts USA
Maine USA
South Australia
England
Minnesota USA
London England
Chicago USA
New York USA
Michigan USA

Where did I Get the Books?

My Kindle 4

Audiobook 3

Library 2

For Review: 3

Own Bookshelf:3

New to me authors:

Kay Bratt
Natalie Caña

Top Book for October

By Australian author Meredith Appleyard.

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Looking forward to reading in November

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Review of Reading Goals

I am accomplishing some but others like keep Anne Bogel’s reading journal sort of fell by the way. One I did accomplish was to read #6 in the Louise Penny series.

Linking up with Nicole from FeedYourFiction Addiction.

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 Kathryn

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organise yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment and er… add to your groaning TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn here at The Book Date.

Jen Vincent, Teach Mentor Texts, and Kellee of Unleashing Readers decided to give It’s Monday! a kidlit focus. If you read and review books in children’s literature – picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels, young adult novels or anything in those genres – join them.

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Welcome in. I had a good reading week on the whole. Weather continues to be unsettled, but I guess that’s the order of the season.

We had a general election here on Saturday and there has been a government change, but yet to be fully settled as we wait for the final coalition and of course special votes to come in. However there has been a swing to the right.

Then some of us had a nail biting watch of a game of rugby between NZ and Ireland. Phew! Still hung over. We won – just.

What I read last week:

Enjoyed my reading this week. Caught Dead Handed was free on Audible, Happy Place was okay and I loved Daisy and Kate. I also read another Kay Brett book.

What I am reading now:

A review book

The Perfect Christmas Village

And listening to this, its one I initially left out when I was reading/listening to the series.

Someone to Trust

Up next:

Most likely a review book

A dish best served hot

Last Week’s Posts

Overdue or Die. Allison Brook

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

October 9, 2023October 9, 2023 Kathryn

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Welcome in to another Monday.

Well I am still trying to get out to start cleaning up the garden and plant. But the weather keeps keeping me out of it. I did plant some potatoes on Friday – not many, but at least they are in now. I want to get on further though when I can. At least I can look out my window and the pretty blossom on my neighbour’s tree.

I am watching Suits and have just started Season 4. I might have gone online and got a basic outline of what is about to happen. Not that happy about it!! I have also watched two of the four episodes on Beckham, really good, makes me realise how we need to not be armchair critics.

Oh I also voted on Friday as well. We have elections for government here which ends next Saturday. I like to get in early. We can vote up to two weeks beforehand.

What I read last week:

I got side tracked in reading this week, I ‘d seen these books on my travels through the It’s Monday! posts and put these on my TBR for some time. That came this week. It’s a series but reads more like one book. Light mystery and not much brain power needed, which was what I needed in my reading.

And I finished listening to…

What I am reading now:

Happy Place

Listening to… Caught Dead Handed

Up next:

Possibly … book cover

Last Week’s Posts

Reading Goals for Rest of Year.

The Roaring Days of Zora Lily

September Wrap Up

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

October 17, 2022October 17, 2022 Kathryn

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I seem to have not got much reading done this week. I have continued with my slow and steady read – Emma by J Austen and will finish that this coming week. And then to choose my next. I have also had my turn from the library for The Palace Papers by Tina Brown. I’ll give it a quick read. Just dipping in to what I might find interesting. So much of it is known anyway.

It was my turn to host brothers/sisters/partners Friday evening at my house. Which is very simple – we get fish and chips and sit around and catch up on what’s been happening. One pair had been to England to meet his birth mother, they just contacted her about 2 years ago and now that Covid has lessened my sister and he went over to meet her. So lots to talk about. And of course I needed to tidy the house a bit more than usual – sisters and sister in law you know. Men don’t look, although my brother did say outside was looking tidy!

What I read last week:

Just the one book last week that was a little different and I enjoyed. Review to follow later.

The winter garden

What I am reading now:

#2 in a series about a hotel being reestablished, it has its own ghosts and a new owner who is keen to get it updated.

High Spirits

And listening to One Mountain Away from Emilie Richards. A reread and loving it as much as I did the first time, and well… amazing (or not) how much I had forgotten.

Up next:

I thought I had read this, I thought I had a copy. No to both. Maybe I gave it away? Maybe… So … I bought a copy and I intend reading this next.

The Peach Keeper

Last Week’s Posts

Becoming Beth. Meredith Appleyard

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Month in Review

September Reading Wrap

October 2, 2021October 3, 2021 Kathryn

Total books read this month:12

New to me authors:

Ali McNamara
Lucy Parker
Carol J. Perry

Top Book for September

Second one in the series. I am hooked.

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Book that Most Surprised me.

I have had this book sitting on my shelf for awhile now, and kept putting it off because well when a husband and wife are really happy and then she gets terminally ill. Not really calling to me. Yet once I was reading it I was sucked in, in spite of its more serious subject. Still so well written and the characters were great.

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Book that I least liked.

It was a second chance romance, but well, it just didn’t hit the mark with me.

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Looking forward to reading in October

Review of Reading Goal for September

My main goal was to read up my Netgalley review books and catch up on them. I didn’t have that many but I had fallen behind. I caught up and so now I can relax a bit about them. Only 4 I think in the queue.

Libby App at the library. Our library has now switched to this app and it is a lot friendlier. I tried it out and listened to Faro’s Daughter by Georgette Heyer. Not her best book but still good enough.

I cut back my Audible Credits to one a month and I will see how that goes. I still have 8 in hand and some books not listened to.

Main Reading Goal for October

Read some of the more recently acquired books sitting on my print TBR shelf. So a sort of 2:1 ratio. Two print books from my TBR or the library and then one Kindle, be that mine or Netgalley.

Linking up with Nicole from FeedYourFiction Addiction.

Review

Be My Ghost. C J Perry

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021 Kathryn

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Published: Kensington Books
Date: 31st August 2021
Source: Publisher via NetGalley

Maureen’s career as a sportswear buyer hits a snag just before Halloween, when the department store declares bankruptcy. Meanwhile, Finn’s lost his way as a guide dog after flunking his test for being too friendly and easily distracted. Sadly, only one of them can earn unemployment, so Maureen’s facing a winter of discontent in Boston–when she realizes she can’t afford her apartment.

Salvation comes when she receives a mysterious inheritance: an inn in Haven, Florida. A quaint, scenic town on the Gulf of Mexico hidden away from the theme parks, Maureen believes it’s a good place to make a fresh start with a new business venture. But she gets more than she bargained for when she finds a dead body on her property–and meets some of the inn’s everlasting tenants in the form of ghosts who offer their otherworldly talents in order to help her solve the mystery…

What a great start Be My Ghost is to a new series by Carol J. Perry. It was highly entertaining and I know I am going to want way more about Maureen and her team at the new Haven Inn in Florida that she has somehow inherited.

The inn is haunted. Oh yes some ghosts, I know at least one of them is sure to be a recurring character. Then we have Maureen who is newly arrived at the inn and on the whole she feels she has landed on her feet, after a job loss.

However the inn is somewhat run down and is running at a loss. But… Maureen has vast retail experience and my guess is before too long she’ll be managing this inn way better than it has been. Elizabeth the manager, I felt was most likely skimming from the inn.

Of course there is a murder and while I didn’t solve the whole mystery it was fairly easy to pinpoint before the big reveal.

This is a book that just kept me reading, a page turner for sure. Can’t wait to meet Maureen and Finn (dog) again. It will be an auto-read.

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021 Kathryn

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Another Monday! I did much the same, grocery shopping, a visit to a hospital 40 min away to see my sister and take her some audiobooks on my iPod. And yesterday made a group of 8 -9 books to leave to another sister who has taken up reading again now she has is reaching retirement. A visit from a friend on Saturday oh and yesterday I went to the library. Reading and quilting as well. Just an ordinary week! Nothing wrong with them!