It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

This meme is hosted by Kathryn at Reading Date.

Books I completed over the past two weeks are:

A Peculiar Combination by Ashley Weaver
My Caravaggio Style by Doris Langley Moore
Hooked by Sutton Foster
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
The Marriage Game by Sara Desai
The Cartographer's Secret by Tea Cooper

Bookmarks are still living in the middle of:

Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Ultimate Visual History of the World by Jean-Pierre Isbouts
National Grographic Ocean by Sylvia Earle
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Murder on Mustique by Anne Glenconner

Reviews posted this week:

nothing
Books still needing to have reviews written (as opposed to the ones that are simply awaiting posting):

What You Wish For by Katherine Center
The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Initiates by Etienne Davodeau
You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle
The Arctic Fury by Greer MacAllister
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson
Austenistan edited by Laaleen Sukhera
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Love Is Blind by Lynsay Sands
Refining Felicity by M.C. Beaton
Queenie by Candace Carty-Williams
Our Darkest Night by Jennifer Robson
Sea Swept by Nora Roberts
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
More Confessions of a Trauma Junkie by Sherry Lynn Jones
Inlaws and Outlaws by Kate Fulford
The Belinda Chronicles by Linda Seidel
Jane in Love by Rachel Givney
Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
The Wind Blows and the Flowers Dance by Terre Reed
Lovely War by Julie Berry
A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
Dear County Agent Guy by Jerru Nelson
This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
Nice Girls Finish First by Alesia Holliday
Cosmogony by Lucy Ives
Heartwood by Barbara Becker
My Own Miraculous by Joshilyn Jackson
Duchess If You Dare by Anabelle Bryant
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
After Francesco by Brian Malloy
When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson
Assembly by Natasha Brown
The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Henriette Roosenburg
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
Silence by William Carpenter
The Ghost Dancers by Adrian C. Louis
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Brother Sister Mother Explorer by Jamie Figueroa
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump
One Night Two Souls Went Walking by Ellen Cooney
The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
Other People's Children by R. J. Hoffmann
Inheritors by Asako Serizawa
Why Birds Sing by Nina Berkhout
When Stars Rain Down by Angela Jackson-Brown
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
Love in Color by Bolu Babalola
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed
Plutocracy by Abraham Martinez
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen
The Secret, Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
The Earl Not Taken by A. S. Fenichel
The Stone Sister by Carolyn Patterson
The Colour of God by Ayesha S. Chaudhry
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
The Baddest Girl on the Planet by Heather Frese
A Recipe for Daphne by Nektaria Anastasiadou< br /> The Portrait by Ilaria Bernardini
The Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
The Hummingbird's Gift by Sy Montgomery
The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslian Charles
A Trick of the Light by Ali Carter
The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories by Caroline Kim
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Mona at Sea by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light by Helen Ellis
Miseducated by Brandon P. Fleming
No Hiding in Boise by Kim Hooper
The Truth and Other Hidden Things by Lea Geller
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Modern Jungles by Pao Lor
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda
The Third Mrs. Galway by Deirdre Sinnott
Mr. Malcolm's List by Suzanne Allain
All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
The Restaurant Inspector by Alex Pickett
The Other Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
Circe by Madeline Miller
Julie and Romeo Get Lucky by Jeanne Ray
All Sorrows Can Be Borne by Loren Stephens
The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey
You Belong Here Now by Dianna Rostad
We Learnt About Hitler at the Mickey Mouse Club by Enid Elliott Linder
A Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton
Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild
Death of a Diva at Honeychurch Hall by Hannah Dennison
Murder in the Piazza by Jen Collins Moore
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
The Secrets of Wishtide by Kate Saunders
The Very Nice Box by Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett
Murder in Chianti by Camilla Trinchieri
In Love with George Eliot by Kathy O'Shaughnessy
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff
The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis
Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
Miss Dimple Disappears by Mignon F. Ballard
You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl by Celia Rivenbark
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Boat Runner by Devin Murphy
Cheese, Illustrated by Rory Stamp
A Peculiar Combination by Ashley Weaver
My Caravaggio Style by Doris Langley Moore
Hooked by Sutton Foster
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
The Marriage Game by Sara Desai
The Cartographer's Secret by Tea Cooper

Review: National Geographic Ocean by Sylvia Earle

I have always loved the water. When I turned 40, my parents offered me the gift of a scuba class. It remains the best gift I've ever been given. There's something about being underwater that feeds my soul in a way that nothing else comes close to. I feel right there. I am at home. More than that, it is my home. And indeed, the ocean is the birthplace of life for all of us. Without it, there would be no life on Earth. In National Geographic Ocean by Sylvia Earle, just how important the ocean and the health of the ocean is to all of us is made crystal clear.

Sylvia Earle is a major figure in the ocean world and she's focused her entire life on the ocean. Who better to write about this vast and amazing place? Her knowledge, combined with the absolutely amazing photographs taken by talented National Geographic photographers, makes for a comprehensive and impressive coffee table sized book. The book, while focused on the ocean as its primary topic, also discusses air/wind, fresh water, land, and more, because on this Earth ecosystem of ours, everything is intimately, inextricably connected and no one system can be divorced from any other. It is, indeed, this enduring balance, one that we humans are endangering, that maintains all of life on this beautiful blue planet.

The book covers the creation and history of the ocean(s), how it functions, the animals and organisms living in it (including a gorgeous fold out section showing some of the amazing creatures that live in the deep blue of the ocean), the technology--high and low--that we humans have used to explore and learn about this ever surprising and still relatively unexplored place, the outsized and terrible impact we are having on its failing health and the climate as a whole, and finishes with atlases of the oceans. The text is important and informative, although it can sometimes read a bit like an introductory class textbook. The photographs are as awe inspiring as you would expect coming from Nat Geo (and they make me want to slip on scuba gear right now). Earle does not hide or sugarcoat the alarming changes in the ocean in recent decades, almost all of which are human driven. She is absolutely an advocate for this stunning, powerful, unbelievably vast, and yet fragile source for sustaining all of life on Earth. This book is a beauty. It is a lesson. And it is visual wake-up call for us to protect and cherish our ocean. As Earle has made clear, we should want to, but we also don't have a choice. We have to.

For more information look at the book's Goodreads page, follow the rest of the blog tour, look at the reviews for others' thoughts and opinions on the book, and purchase here.

Thanks to Trish from TLC Book Tours and publisher National Geographic for sending me a copy of this book to review.

Waiting on Wednesday

This meme was hosted by Breaking the Spine and is meant to highlight some great pre-publication books we all can't wait to get our grubby little mitts on. I'm choosing to continue the tradition even though she has stopped.

Love, Lists and Fancy Ships by Sarah Grunder Ruiz

The book is being released by Berkley on November 23, 2021.

The book's jacket copy says: Sometimes a yacht, a bold bucket list, and a kiss with a handsome stranger are all a person needs to dive into the deep end of life.

For the last year, yacht stewardess Jo Walker has been attempting to complete a bucket list of thirty things she wants to accomplish by her thirtieth birthday. Jo has almost everything she's ever wanted, including a condo on the beach (though she's the youngest resident by several decades) and an exciting job (albeit below deck) that lets her travel the world.

Jo is on track until the death of her nephew turns her life upside down, and the list falls by the wayside. But when her two nieces show up unannounced with plans to stay the summer, they discover her list and insist on helping Jo finish it. Though the remaining eight items (which include running a marathon, visiting ten countries, and sleeping in a castle) seem impossible to complete in twelve weeks, Jo takes on the challenge.

When she summons the courage to complete item number five--kiss a stranger--and meets Alex Hayes, all bets are off. As her feelings for Alex intensify and Jo's inability to confront difficult emotions about her family complicates her relationships, she must learn to quit playing it safe with her heart before she loses what matters most.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

This meme is hosted by Kathryn at Reading Date.

Books I completed over the past two weeks are:

Miss Dimple Disappears by Mignon F. Ballard
Wicked Bugs by Amy Stewart
You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl by Celia Rivenbark
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Boat Runner by Devin Murphy
Cheese, Illustrated by Rory Stamp

Bookmarks are still living in the middle of:

Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Ultimate Visual History of the World by Jean-Pierre Isbouts
National Grographic Ocean by Sylvia Earle

Reviews posted this week:

Ultimate Visual History of the World by Jean-Pierre Isbouts

Books still needing to have reviews written (as opposed to the ones that are simply awaiting posting):

What You Wish For by Katherine Center
The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Initiates by Etienne Davodeau
You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle
The Arctic Fury by Greer MacAllister
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson
Austenistan edited by Laaleen Sukhera
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Love Is Blind by Lynsay Sands
Refining Felicity by M.C. Beaton
Queenie by Candace Carty-Williams
Our Darkest Night by Jennifer Robson
Sea Swept by Nora Roberts
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
More Confessions of a Trauma Junkie by Sherry Lynn Jones
Inlaws and Outlaws by Kate Fulford
The Belinda Chronicles by Linda Seidel
Jane in Love by Rachel Givney
Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
The Wind Blows and the Flowers Dance by Terre Reed
Lovely War by Julie Berry
A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
Dear County Agent Guy by Jerru Nelson
This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
Nice Girls Finish First by Alesia Holliday
Cosmogony by Lucy Ives
Heartwood by Barbara Becker
My Own Miraculous by Joshilyn Jackson
Duchess If You Dare by Anabelle Bryant
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
After Francesco by Brian Malloy
When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson
Assembly by Natasha Brown
The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Henriette Roosenburg
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
Silence by William Carpenter
The Ghost Dancers by Adrian C. Louis
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Brother Sister Mother Explorer by Jamie Figueroa
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump
One Night Two Souls Went Walking by Ellen Cooney
The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
Other People's Children by R. J. Hoffmann
Inheritors by Asako Serizawa
Why Birds Sing by Nina Berkhout
When Stars Rain Down by Angela Jackson-Brown
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
Love in Color by Bolu Babalola
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed
Plutocracy by Abraham Martinez
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen
The Secret, Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
The Earl Not Taken by A. S. Fenichel
The Stone Sister by Carolyn Patterson
The Colour of God by Ayesha S. Chaudhry
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
The Baddest Girl on the Planet by Heather Frese
A Recipe for Daphne by Nektaria Anastasiadou< br /> The Portrait by Ilaria Bernardini
The Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
The Hummingbird's Gift by Sy Montgomery
The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslian Charles
A Trick of the Light by Ali Carter
The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories by Caroline Kim
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Mona at Sea by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light by Helen Ellis
Miseducated by Brandon P. Fleming
No Hiding in Boise by Kim Hooper
The Truth and Other Hidden Things by Lea Geller
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Modern Jungles by Pao Lor
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda
The Third Mrs. Galway by Deirdre Sinnott
Mr. Malcolm's List by Suzanne Allain
All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
The Restaurant Inspector by Alex Pickett
The Other Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
Circe by Madeline Miller
Julie and Romeo Get Lucky by Jeanne Ray
All Sorrows Can Be Borne by Loren Stephens
The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey
You Belong Here Now by Dianna Rostad
We Learnt About Hitler at the Mickey Mouse Club by Enid Elliott Linder
A Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton
Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild
Death of a Diva at Honeychurch Hall by Hannah Dennison
Murder in the Piazza by Jen Collins Moore
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
The Secrets of Wishtide by Kate Saunders
The Very Nice Box by Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett
Murder in Chianti by Camilla Trinchieri
In Love with George Eliot by Kathy O'Shaughnessy
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff
The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis
Belgravia by Julian Fellowes
Miss Dimple Disappears by Mignon F. Ballard
You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl by Celia Rivenbark
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Boat Runner by Devin Murphy
Cheese, Illustrated by Rory Stamp

Monday Mailbox

This past week's mailbox arrivals:

National Geographic Ocean by Sylvia Earle came from National Geographic and TLC Book Tours for a blog tour.

It's no secret that I feel most myself in the water so this book, gorgeous as all Nat Geo books are, is my perfect pairing and I'm looking forward to reading all about the ocean.

A Three Dog Problem by S. J. Bennett came from me for me.

The sequel to The Windsor Knot, in which the Queen solves a murder, was definitely enjoyable so I am looking forward to reading this next one and to see how Elizabeth R. solves the several crimes at issue, including another murder.

If you want to see the marvelous goodies in other people's mailboxes, make sure to visit Mailbox Monday and have fun seeing how we are all doing our part to keep the USPS and delivery services viable.

Waiting on Wednesday

This meme was hosted by Breaking the Spine and is meant to highlight some great pre-publication books we all can't wait to get our grubby little mitts on. I'm choosing to continue the tradition even though she has stopped.

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

The book is being released by Grove Press on November 30, 2021.

The book's jacket copy says: It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.

Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.

Monday Mailbox

This past week's mailbox arrivals:

The Cartographer's Secret by Tea Cooper came from Harper Muse.

A double stranded narrative, this one about a young woman who disappears in 1880 while looking for her missing father and also about her niece, who in 1911, finds the map that might lead her to her the fate of her missing aunt and grandfather looks gripping.

A Wedding at the Jane Austen Dating Agency by Fiona Woodifield came from me for me.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put Jane Austen in the title and I'm a complete sucker. But this sounds cute and fun even without the Austen reference.

Before My Actual Heart Breaks by Tish Delaney came from me for me.

I don't often read books that refer to the Troubles in Northern Ireland so I am super curious about this one, especially as it's called a love story.

An Exhibit of Madness by Kerry J. Charles came from me for me.

Featuring a museum curator investigating a murder in the art world, this sounds fascinating.

My Caravaggio Style by Doris Langley Moore came from me for me.

I can't wait to read this story of an author who claims to have found Lord Byron's lost memoirs but is instead writing them himself in a case of serious literary fraud. It's right up my street!

If you want to see the marvelous goodies in other people's mailboxes, make sure to visit Mailbox Monday and have fun seeing how we are all doing our part to keep the USPS and delivery services viable.

Waiting on Wednesday

This meme was hosted by Breaking the Spine and is meant to highlight some great pre-publication books we all can't wait to get our grubby little mitts on. I'm choosing to continue the tradition even though she has stopped.

O Beautiful by Jung Yun

The book is being released by St. Martin's Press on November 9, 2021.

The book's jacket copy says: Elinor Hanson, a forty-something former model, is struggling to reinvent herself as a freelance writer when she receives an unexpected assignment. Her mentor from grad school offers her a chance to write for a prestigious magazine about the Bakken oil boom in North Dakota. Elinor grew up near the Bakken, raised by an overbearing father and a distant Korean mother who met and married when he was stationed overseas. After decades away from home, Elinor returns to a landscape she hardly recognizes, overrun by tens of thousands of newcomers.

Surrounded by roughnecks seeking their fortunes in oil and long-time residents worried about their changing community, Elinor experiences a profound sense of alienation and grief. She rages at the unrelenting male gaze, the locals who still see her as a foreigner, and the memories of her family’s estrangement after her mother decided to escape her unhappy marriage, leaving Elinor and her sister behind. The longer she pursues this potentially career-altering assignment, the more her past intertwines with the story she’s trying to tell, revealing disturbing new realities that will forever change her and the way she looks at the world.

With spare and graceful prose, Jung Yun's O Beautiful presents an immersive portrait of a community rife with tensions and competing interests, and one woman’s attempts to reconcile her anger with her love of a beautiful, but troubled land.

Review: Ultimate Visual History of the World by Jean-Pierre Isbouts

If you are looking for a beautiful and informative coffee table book for your history buff, look no further than National Geographic's Ultimate Visual History of the World. Filled with gorgeous pictures, fascinating archaeological finds, maps, and more and accompanied by easily understandable text, the book spans from prehistory to today showing human history throughout the ages. It is broken into different ages: bronze, iron, discovery, modern, etc. Each section showcases the major advancements of the era, the changes in the human condition (rise/fall of cities, inventions, war, cultures, faith, and so on), and just how these things remade, and continue to remake, our world.

The text is illuminated and enhanced by the chosen images. Much of the information will be on things that interested readers learned in a world history class but if it's been a while since they've been in a class, it is a concise reminder of previous learning. I thoroughly enjoyed the early chapters for refreshing my memory on the things I learned in geology and history of life classes in college many years ago. And it is fascinating to see so clearly the way that our history, the history of the entire world, all the people on all of the continents, is one large tapestry woven together rather than disparate civilizations in a vaccuum. The book pulls everything into one piece, rather than examining it as seperate occurrences, so that it is clear how all of history has built upon that which came before. There is, of course a lot toward the end of the book, given that we know our own recent past the best, and it remains to be seen how what we are experiencing today will change the world, but it is important to see ourselves in the continuum of humankind's history as this book clearly shows. It's a beautiful and ambitious book that can and will keep the reader immersed for hours.

For more information look at the book's Goodreads page, follow the rest of the blog tour, look at the reviews for others' thoughts and opinions on the book, and purchase here.

Thanks to Trish from TLC Book Tours and publisher National Geographic for sending me a copy of this book to review.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

This meme is hosted by Kathryn at Reading Date.

Books I completed over the past week are:

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff
The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis
Belgravia by Julian Fellowes

Bookmarks are still living in the middle of:

The Boat Runner by Devin Murphy
Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Miss Dimple Disappears by Mignon F. Ballard

Reviews posted this week:

nothing :-(

Books still needing to have reviews written (as opposed to the ones that are simply awaiting posting):

What You Wish For by Katherine Center
The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Initiates by Etienne Davodeau
You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle
The Arctic Fury by Greer MacAllister
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson
Austenistan edited by Laaleen Sukhera
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Love Is Blind by Lynsay Sands
Refining Felicity by M.C. Beaton
Queenie by Candace Carty-Williams
Our Darkest Night by Jennifer Robson
Sea Swept by Nora Roberts
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
More Confessions of a Trauma Junkie by Sherry Lynn Jones
Inlaws and Outlaws by Kate Fulford
The Belinda Chronicles by Linda Seidel
Jane in Love by Rachel Givney
Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
The Wind Blows and the Flowers Dance by Terre Reed
Lovely War by Julie Berry
A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
Dear County Agent Guy by Jerru Nelson
This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
Nice Girls Finish First by Alesia Holliday
Cosmogony by Lucy Ives
Heartwood by Barbara Becker
My Own Miraculous by Joshilyn Jackson
Duchess If You Dare by Anabelle Bryant
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
After Francesco by Brian Malloy
When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson
Assembly by Natasha Brown
The Walls Came Tumbling Down by Henriette Roosenburg
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
Silence by William Carpenter
The Ghost Dancers by Adrian C. Louis
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Brother Sister Mother Explorer by Jamie Figueroa
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Everywhere You Don't Belong by Gabriel Bump
One Night Two Souls Went Walking by Ellen Cooney
The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
Other People's Children by R. J. Hoffmann
Inheritors by Asako Serizawa
Why Birds Sing by Nina Berkhout
When Stars Rain Down by Angela Jackson-Brown
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
Love in Color by Bolu Babalola
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed
Plutocracy by Abraham Martinez
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen
The Secret, Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams
The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
The Earl Not Taken by A. S. Fenichel
The Stone Sister by Carolyn Patterson
The Colour of God by Ayesha S. Chaudhry
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
The Baddest Girl on the Planet by Heather Frese
A Recipe for Daphne by Nektaria Anastasiadou< br /> The Portrait by Ilaria Bernardini
The Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
The Hummingbird's Gift by Sy Montgomery
The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti
The Paris Library by Janet Skeslian Charles
A Trick of the Light by Ali Carter
The Prince of Mournful Thoughts and Other Stories by Caroline Kim
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Mona at Sea by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light by Helen Ellis
Miseducated by Brandon P. Fleming
No Hiding in Boise by Kim Hooper
The Truth and Other Hidden Things by Lea Geller
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Modern Jungles by Pao Lor
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda
The Third Mrs. Galway by Deirdre Sinnott
Mr. Malcolm's List by Suzanne Allain
All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
The Restaurant Inspector by Alex Pickett
The Other Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
Circe by Madeline Miller
Julie and Romeo Get Lucky by Jeanne Ray
All Sorrows Can Be Borne by Loren Stephens
The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey
You Belong Here Now by Dianna Rostad
We Learnt About Hitler at the Mickey Mouse Club by Enid Elliott Linder
A Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton
Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild
Death of a Diva at Honeychurch Hall by Hannah Dennison
Murder in the Piazza by Jen Collins Moore
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
The Secrets of Wishtide by Kate Saunders
The Very Nice Box by Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett
Murder in Chianti by Camilla Trinchieri
In Love with George Eliot by Kathy O'Shaughnessy
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffrey Stepakoff
The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis
Belgravia by Julian Fellowes

Monday Mailbox

This past week's mailbox arrivals:

On the Bright Side by Nell Carter came from me for me.

Second chance stories really appeal to me so this one about a barrister and a dance teacher/single mom is right up my alley.

The Pavilion in the Clouds by Alexander McCall Smith came from me for me.

The young daughter of a Scottish tea plantation owner in Ceylon suspects her governess' intentions leading to confrontation and gunshots. Years later she sets out to discover the truth of her past. This is a stand alone and it sounds great, right?

If you want to see the marvelous goodies in other people's mailboxes, make sure to visit Mailbox Monday and have fun seeing how we are all doing our part to keep the USPS and delivery services viable.