I wanted to post this earlier but just lost track of time. New York Times teamed up with PBS NewsHour and created a new Book Club. They do monthly fiction and non-fiction that help make sense of the world. It is called Now Read This. Here is the website: https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/now-read-this Their Book Club pick for Read more
Here is a list of other picks for this club: April 2022: Along For the Ride by Sarah Dessen March 2022: Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn Feb 2022: Sweet Magnolias: Feels Like Family by Sherryl Woods December 2021: Stay Close by Harlan Coben October 2021: Passing by Nella Larsen
Review: 4.5 stars Summary: Following her husband’s suicide, Anna decides to take their boat and go on their already planned vacation. She knows that she cannot sail a boat through the Bahamas without help. She hires Keane to assist her part of the trip. She tells Keane that there will be no romance. It is Read more
Review: 3 stars Summary: Book #2 in the “Out of my mind” series. This book takes place about a year after book #1. We see Melody wanting to go away to camp like her other friends from school. She researches what camps she would be able to attend. And her mother agrees to take her. Read more
Review: 3.5 stars Summary: Jess decides to leave her life behind and move with her half-brother in Paris. He has an apartment there. She goes to his place only to discover that he is not there. The neighbors in the apartment complex are all acting odd. What happened to her brother? With a slew of Read more
Here is a complete list of their books so far.
Here is a PDF with all of her books. This also includes her YA selections. Happy reading!
Here is a list of all their books. This is a printable PDF and only of the main picks. Here is some book club data too. Historical Fiction 53 Contemporary Fiction 60 Thriller 59 Romance 29 Fantasy 22 Sci-Fi 13 Literary Fiction 65 Memoir 22 Mystery 24 YA 13 Suspense 1 Short stories 7 History Read more
A full printable list of her books are below. This is a printable PDF.
Come back all April long for more Book News. Netflix is adapting The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Liz Tigelaar will star * YES!!!!!!!!!!!!* HBO is adapting IT by Stephen King but into a prequel series. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer is being adapted with Andrew Garfield, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sam Worthington, etc. Read more
Rating: 4 star review Summary: A memoir about the personal life and career of Paul Holes. He worked on a lot of high-profile cases. One of the most notable cases was the EAR or Golden State Killer. He also talks about how his career affected his personal life. I am labeling this as a memoir Read more
Rating: 4 star review Summary: A year after 9/11, we follow Shirin as she navigates an America school. She is Muslim and just trying to do your average teenager stuff while also dealing with racism. Review: The one thing that I liked the most was the characters in this book. The main character is just Read more
Rating: 4 star review Summary: Book two of a series. A single mother loses her job in Florida. In order to get a fresh start, she moves to Ohio with her daughter to work in a hotel. When she arrives, she meets a man who has struggles of his own. He is starting a hotel Read more
https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/now-read-this Go here for an updated list of Book Clubs by celebrities or public websites! 🙂 I will be updating my celberity book guide. Even though this is not a celebrity book club… it is a public book club! Happy reading, Book Nerds!
Rating: 3.5 to a 4 star rating Summary: A modern re-telling of Beauty and the Beast. Part two of the “Meant to Be” series. Each book in the series is written by a different author and a new fairy tale. They are both stand-alone books. This book is about Isabelle who works at a publishing Read more
I got this today as book mail! Thanks to celadon books for my arc of Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin! I really enjoyed her other book called Saint X! It says it is a cross between The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and anything by Margaret Atwood! It comes out June 2022!
Rating: 4 stars Summary: A therapist, Avery, has her license taken away. She now practices as a consultant. She takes on the case of Marissa and Matthew. Marissa cheated on her spouse and would like Avery’s help to help her marriage. As Avery goes through her 10-step processes for her therapy, she starts to uncover Read more
Rating: 4.5 star review Summary: A famous musician, Greta, mother passes away. She is grieving in her own way. Greta and her father really have not bonded. He has always questioned her life choices. Greta and her mother were always close. Her mother always supported her musician lifestyle. Greta’s father and mother were supposed to Read more
I will update this all March long. Memoirs: Claire Foy (Facebook whistleblower) memoir: Deborah Birx (COVID-19 Task Force- former during Trump’s administration) is penning a book Outlander prequel series for Starz Notes for an Execution by Danya Kukafka will be adapted into a TV series Flatshare by Beth O’Leary will be on Paramount + Harold Read more
For a complete list of books, click on this checklist.
How to upload a receipt for your Rewards for Penguin Book Club if you bought it from BOTM (Book of the Month)? This is what I do… I either go to the app and take a screenshot from my phone. You will need to make sure that you are screenshotting the amount of money (even Read more
People keep asking me about books about Ukraine. I am going to do a list of books about/set in Ukraine. Snegurochka by Judith Heneghan Grey Bees by andrey Kurkov Red Famine by Anna Applebaum Baba Dunja’s Last Love by Alina Bronsky The House with the Stained-Glass Window by Zanna Sloniowska East West Street by Philippe Read more
For a complete list of all their books, click below!
Click below for a complete list of her books!
Click below for a complete list of all of her books:
Click above for the complete list of main picks only. Book Data: Historical Fiction 52 Contemporary Fiction 60 Thriller 59 Romance 29 Fantasy 21 Sci-Fi 13 Literary Fiction 64 Memoir 22 Mystery 23 YA 13 Suspense 1 Short stories 7 History 5 Historical Romance 1 Horror 12 Narrative Non-fiction 4 Legal Thriller 9 Non-fiction 11 Read more
