Category: Book Reviews

• Kids Series for Everyone

  During a recent visit from my husband’s parents, I found my father-in-law reading my daughter’s book Bad Kitty for President by Nick Bruel. It’s a middle-grade reader and my daughter is eight years old. My father-in-law has a Ph.D. in physics and always brings a bag full of books when he visits. But he liked…

  Amy S.

  January 20, 2025

  Book Reviews, Kids and Teens, Recommendations

  BadKittyForPresident, BadKittyGetsAPhone, BadKittyGoesOnVacation, BadKittyKittenTrouble, BadKittyMakesAMovie, Bandit, BanditAndChile, Bingo, BlueHellerPup, Bluey, Chile, Cocomelon, DiaryOfAWimpyKid, DollyPartonImaginationLibrary, FamilyFrolic, GregHeffley, GustavHolst, Hammerbarn, JeffKinney, Jupiter, NickBruel, Omelette, PresidentialElection, Sleepytime, TheLongHaul, ThePlanets, UncleMurray, UncleMurraysFunFacts, Work, YogaBall

• Wine & Words: Transcending Distractions 

  Table for Two by Amor Towles Imagine sitting across the table, having a conversation with a close friend. It is just the two of you, facing each other. It is the most fundamental level of human interaction that we possess. There are no cell phones. No screens blaring the bright lights of a latest football…

  sbarillari

  January 13, 2025

  Book Reviews, Recommendations, Trending, Wine & Words

  AmorTowles, Casablanca, DirtyMartini, Distractions, Martini, PhiladelphiaStory, RulesOfCivility, TableForTwo

• Here Are 25 Books Publishing in 2025 To Add To Your TBR

  By: Briana Gagnon It’s January 2025! How??? I’m still processing 2024 … yet here we are! 2025 looks super promising when it comes to new book releases, with many to rival those we loved so much in 2024. I have started to plan my 2025 TBR (to be read) with the hope that I’ll read…

  brianarusselllibrary

  January 6, 2025

  Book Reviews

  2025Books, AbbeyJimenez, AirBorne, AtmosphereALoveStory, BillGates, BlackInBlues, bookish, books, BradMeltzer, CarlZimmer, CharmaineWilkerson, ChimamandaNgoziAdichie, ChristBohjalian, CraigThompson, DeathOfTheAuthor, DreamCount, EmilyHenry, EverythingIsTuberculosis, FreidaMcFadden, GeraldineBrooks, GinsengRoots, GoodDirt, GradyHendrix, GreatBigBeautifulLife, HopeTheAutobiography, ImaniPerry, IsabelAllende, JohnGreen, JohnMensch, JohnScalzi, Librarians, MarkTwain, MemorialDays, MichaelLuo, MyNameIsEmiliaDelValle, new books, NnediOkorafor, NonFiction, OnyxStorm, PopeFrancis, PopularAuthors, RebeccaYarros, RonChernow, SamanthaSotoYambao, SayYou’llRememberMe, SourceCode, StephenGrahamJones, StrangersInTheLand, SunriseOfTheReaping, SuzanneCollins, TaylorJenkinsReid, TBR, TheBuffaloHunterHunter, TheCrash, TheJackalsMistress, TheJFKConspiracy, WaterMoon, WhenTheMoonHitsYourEye, WitchcraftForWaywardGirls

• Have Yourself a Mysterious Christmas

  Ah, there is nothing like a little mystery, murder, and mayhem to get you in the Christmas spirit. If you don’t know what I mean, you must never have read The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries: The Most Complete Collection of Yuletide Whodunits Ever Assembled. This short story collection, alternately heartwarming (a few Scrooge-type characters…

  Mary

  December 23, 2024

  Book Reviews, Recommendations

  AChristmasCarol, MysteriousBookshop, MysteriousChristmas, SirArthurConanDoyle, TheBigBookOfChristmasMysteries

• The Coziest Season

  It’s that time of year again, the days are getting shorter, the nights are getting colder, and many of us are preparing to hunker down for a long, tedious winter season. But what if instead of kicking and screaming our way into winter, we joyfully tuck ourselves in for a deliciously slow and cozy few…

  Cate T.

  December 9, 2024

  Book Reviews, Recommendations

  AlexanderMcCallSmith, AWizardsGuideToDefensiveBaking, BeforeTheCoffeeGetsCold, Can’tSpellTreatsonWithoutTea, Cozy, Cuppa, DreamHarborSeries, EmilyWildesEncyclopaediaOfFairies, EvieGaughan, HeatherFawcett, HisashiKashiwai, JesseQSutanto, LaurieGilmore, Legends&Lattes, MaryAnnShaffer, RebeccaThorne, SarahBethDurst, TheCinnamonBunBookstore, TheGuernseyLiteraryAndPotatoPeelPieSociety, TheHouseInTheCeruleanSea, TheKamogawaFoodDetectives, TheNo1LadiesDetectiveAgency, ThePumpkinSpiceCafe, TheSpellshop, TheStoryCollector, TJKlune, TKingfisher, Tomes&TeaCozyFantasies, ToshikazuKawaguchi, TravisBaldree, VeraWongsUnsolicitedAdviceForMurderers, Winter