Celebrating Books and Reading
Tif Marcelo
Mainly because its well written and I went along with the fun story. Light, fun reading. That said there were a number of books that could have filled this spot for July.
Ignore all I could and ought to read and just read what I feel like.
Read slowly.
Linking up with Feed Your Fiction Addiction
Published: Kensington
Date: 27th July 2021
Source: Publisher via NetGalley
Before quilter Martha Rose can tie the knot to Crusher, she has to track down his missing first wife…
Oh dear! Just as at last Martha is ready to plunge into saying yes to marriage to Crusher, it is discovered he was married years ago because of an act of kindness.
Who is Martha? Well first and foremost a quilter. But also in recent years she has become a bit of a sleuth when it comes to murders and such like. She is a bit unorthodox in her methods, although fairly orthodox in her Jewish faith, and I love her Sabbath get togethers with family.
There has been one murder, before the story starts. Hadas, sister of the murdered person, owner of a business, and to be honest not that likeable, makes her appearance. Oh and she is the “wife” from long ago for Crusher. On the other hand, Fanya who arrives with her was a lot of fun and I so hope we see more of her.
As usual Martha gets herself involved in some unlikely situations, and eventually with lots of assistance I might add, from her family and friends, solves the mystery and enables her life to move forward.
This book felt a little different to the previous ones, I never felt Martha was in any danger and while there were a few red herrings I’d worked out the guilty party early on. I didn’t mind that and thoroughly enjoyed all the quilt talk in this book. If this book appeals to you, don’t start with it, go back to the first one and start there.
Hope you all had a good week. I had a visit from Miss 8 year old. I asked her what she wanted to read next. When she mentioned a series and I didn’t know what she had and what she didn’t, we looked on Goodreads. Then I let her be, while I chatted with her mother and grandmother.
Next day I was surprised to see someone on Goodreads liked that I wanted to read Matilda by Roald Dahl! “What!” I laughed when I saw about three books had been added to my TBR list on GR that Miss 8 year old wanted to read!
And listening to
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Angeline Boulley
I had some really good books that could be right in this spot, but this one for me just pips them out.
Read another book or at least give it the 25 page test to decide whether I keep going or not. from Sorting My TBR: April – Stay or Go
I did look at one and gave it a few page test and then put it in the bag for the book fair. And it has been dropped off!
Linking up with Nicole from FeedYourFiction Addiction.
A week of much the same as other weeks! I watched the moon eclipse here between 10:30 pm and 11:30pm with a clear starlit sky, its always good when there is no cloud cover for something that only comes around every so often.
Enjoyed all these. The Queen of Hearts was a audiobook. Review for The Stepsisters this week and now I want to read more of Georgette Heyer.
One off my print TBR shelf.
And I have started listening to The Missing Sister by Lucinda Riley. (23 hrs plus) I nearly returned it to Audible because a bit of it is set in New Zealand and the narrator does a terrible NZ accent that is like a parody. I managed to calm down and talk myself into staying with it. I was going to head out and buy the book instead!!
Hope you are all doing well. I had a good week of sunshine and some Autumn tidy up and cleaning. Today I have rain, but as we haven’t seen any for weeks I am hoping it will revive the garden a little.
A great week for reading. Loved them all. So pleased A Bad Day for Sunshine sat on my shelf for so long so now I don’t have to wait too long for #2 in July.
My next book for review.
Welcome to another week of reading. For me it is beginning to feel like Autumn and I know so many of you are ready to go right into Spring!
I throughly enjoyed Just Like That and Picnic in Someday Valley. Light Over London was good but a little slow moving.
Well here we are in March, hope you are all okay. It is great to be able to visit around readers’ blogs to see what you are doing and how you are.
I am fine, finding our summer weather just a tad hot for me! Covid wise it’s fine although when we find a case everyone in the country has levels upped. So on Saturday night an alert on my phone told me we were going to L2 where I am which means no groups bigger than a 100. So that cut church out for Sunday as we just don’t have it when we go to L2. In Auckland they are in L3 because that is where the breakout is. They have no school, work at home etc. I guess most of you are familiar with that. It is at this stage only for 7 days. Next Sunday might find me at church again!!
And just starting to listen to
Every read was really good. All books that are “me”. Hard to choose a top book but for its exploration of heart transplant issues and a good story with great characters this one just tops the others.
Read What I Truly Enjoy. Enjoyed every book and only read what I wanted to read.
Use the Library and only buy when I need to. Library : 5
That is a satisfactory amount. I did buy some for later reading because the library doesn’t have them. The Residence was one on Kindle that I bought – forgot to check if the library had it. Oops that would be 5 books bought!!
Read Own print and Kindle shelves: 3 paperbacks off my own shelf which is good. Would have liked to read at least one Kindle one!
Linking up with Nicole from FeedYourFiction Addiction.
Well what a week. I enjoyed watching the pomp and pageantry of the Inauguration of the 46th President of the USA. It was on early morning in my time zone, and while I usually wake early, that day I was so annoyed to wake later than usual and just miss the swearing in of Kamala Harris but got there for Joe Biden. Because I’ve read books by both of them I felt I knew a little about them.
After all that and jumping out of bed out of sleep I was rather dopey for the rest of the day and didn’t get much done! I had lots of favourite parts but especially loved that gifted young woman poet.
I did get quite a bit of quilting done this week even if my reading was slight!
I finished listening to an audiobook and read one review book. Slow reading week!
And I’ve just started listening to Barack Obama’s book A Promised Land. It will be a long haul but enjoyed the first few hours so far.
