For the July reading challenge and the Summer Reading program, I read the book, "Nine Perfect Strangers", finishing it on 7/28/25. This book was made into a TV mini-series. I watched the first season last year and it was very good. When the second season started and I saw the book would be perfect for the July challenge, I decided to read it. The book was definitely better than Season 2 of the show. Season 2 was very strange. So strange, in fact, that if there is a third season of Nine Perfect Strangers, I probably will not watch it.

You can always count on Katherine Center for a good old fashioned feel good Rom Com. Her latest, THE LOVE HATERS doesn't disappoint. A young women, recently disappointed in love, finds herself drawn to a young man who has similarly had a bad recent past with the opposite sex. Throw in a job in jeopardy, two warring brothers, a coast guard hottie, and a hurricane and you have a few enjoyable hours of reading. What more could you want from a book?

In a small town , Three Pines, Canada, an older woman, a spinster named Jane, is shot dead in the woods by a hunting arrow. She had just had her first piece of artwork accepted into the local art show. Art she hadn't shown to anyone before that moment. Is her death related? who would want her dead ? In a small town where everyone knows everyone, someone is lying. Chief Armand Gamache is called on to investigate. Good character development but a little convoluted in spots.

My new favorite book series. The TV series Tracker is based off of these novels and if you like the show, you will love the books. This one was very exciting with some thrills, twists and turns in the plot. Thre characters have a lot of depth to them and I highly recommend you start at the beginning of the series as their is a continuous undelying story that takes place throughout each of them.

This is the fourth book in The Thursday Murder Club Mystery series. The club consists of a group of friends who live in a retirement community and solve murder cases together. This book has a more somber tone than the first three books, which, despite being about murders, were quite funny. Besides dealing with murder, this book has a lot to say about Alzheimer’s and its effect on the individual, caregivers, and friends.

Part of a series, this was book 4. Light summer read

Everett dives into the very heart of Twain's Epochal odyssey, shifting the central view point from that of the unschooled , often credulous , but basically good-hearted Huck to the more enigmatic and heroic Jim, the Black slave with whom the boy escapes via raft on the Mississippi River.

This is a simple and heart-warming story.

Like other Freida Mcfadden books I was left on the edge of my seat waiting for the twist. I find myself trying to figure out what the twist will ultimately be, but with Mcfadden's books I am always surprised and excited in the end.

This was not a required book in my high school class. I have committed to read one classic novel per month and this is the first one. I appreciated this book I think more as an adult than I would have reading as a teenager. A black man named Tom is accused of a terrible crime against a white woman. Scout’s father, Atticus, is appointed to defend Tom. Through Scout’s point of view, you get to see the small town in the south point of view about race relations and the true bad people who live in the neighborhood, including Boo. Always remember, it would be a sin to kill a mockingbird. I definitely recommend reading or rereading this novel.