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Is She Really Going Out With Him?

April 17, 2025

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Because we’re all still recovering from any number of financial upheavals, be it taxes or the stock market I’m sticking with easy reading that pays off. Is She Really Going Out With Him? has a very similar premise to Monday’s book—a single woman at a media company forced out of her professional comfort zone in an effort to save her job. Also, in both cases it involves the world ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: England, rom-com, vacation reading

Back After This

April 15, 2025

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In Back After This Cecily is a podcast producer at a small media company. When she learns the company is struggling and many on her team could be laid off  she agrees to be the subject of a series about using a dating coach to find love. Not just any coach but an Instagram lifestyle influencer who potentially brings much needed advertising in the form of big sponsors. What is ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: rom-com, vacation reading

Count My Lies

April 4, 2025

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Sloane can’t help herself—she’s a compulsive liar. When she sees a handsome man at the park helping his hurt daughter she immediately offers her services as a nurse. She’s actually a manicurist, but in Count My Lies this is just the first strand of a web she spins to get the life of her dreams. From this seemingly unplanned meeting Sloane slowly insinuates herself in the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: mystery, suspense, vacation reading

March Reading Recap

March 31, 2025

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Hello, fellow readers! I’m not sure I’ll get to say this again, but despite a completely miserable and toxic month in the news, my March reading was calmly solid. I only had one book I didn't finish, am fully immersed in a fabulous fantasy series, and read six books that were successful (3.5 stars or above).   I have a bit of an unusual situation with this book. ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature Tagged: book clubs, mini-reviews, vacation reading

Witness 8 by Steve Cavanagh

March 26, 2025

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I’m switching gears from heart-warming to heart-pounding with Witness 8 the latest in the Eddie Flynn mystery series. When the body of a wealthy woman is found dead in her home in an exclusive Manhattan neighborhood it leaves the rest of the neighbors stunned that such a thing could happen. That the murderer turns out to be one of their own, a renowned pediatric surgeon, is ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Manhattan, mystery, thriller, vacation reading

The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis

February 13, 2025

stolen queen

A novel that includes the Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum, Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, and ancient Egypt is not one I’m likely to miss out on. Fiona Davis’s The Stolen Queen follows two women and two timelines right up until they intersect on the night of the Met Gala in 1978 when a priceless Egyptian heirloom is stolen. Charlotte Cross is a young woman who refuses ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: fashion, historical, mystery, vacation reading

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