I enjoyed reading and listening on audible this book. I enjoy light reads and plots revolving around water and summer during the summertime. I enjoyed this love story between Frankie and George. It's nice when to good people come together in a relationship.

Catherine Ryan Hyde is one of my favorite authors, but I found it very difficult to get into this book. I put it down several times and went on to read other books before finally finishing it. It's about a journalist, Amelia, who is a recently divorced mom of Jaden, a seven year old boy. She takes him to Mexico to track down E.L. Swann aka Ella, who wrote a very famous novel 30 years before and then vanished. The book is about Amelia and Ella's relationship and Ella's relationship with Jaden whom she sees as her muse. I did not find the novel as complelling as Hyde's other works, such as Michael Without Apology.

Teenaged Lola goes missing one night after meeting with her boyfriend Drew. Drew becomes the prime suspect in the case. Meanwhile a tip line call leads Drew, his cousin Max and friend Autumn to a small town in Oregon to investigate the lead. Finally a search is put together by police and the teens are believed to have substantial evidence to find Lola. Can Drew find Lola before something bad happens to her? Is there a serial killer that has gone unnoticed in Oregon for years? Read and find out.

Tilly Nightingale learns from Alfie Lane, the owner of Book Lane, a local independent book seller, that she has a gift from her recently deceased husband waiting at the store. Of course Tilly is not ready for the news but Alfie explains to her that the gift is actually twelve books. Deceased husband, Joe, was a less than enthusiastic reader. He stipulates in his instructions that Tilly collect one book per month from the store throughout the coming year. Each book is different and the first work is Matilda by Roald Dahl. Tilly had been named after Matilda. Tilly’s parents also named Harper, their other daughter, after author, Harper Lee. Mom and Dad seeded Tilly’s love of books and reading. The story includes not only the list of books that are from a wide variety of genres but also explains how each work spurred Tilly and her sometimes cohort, Harper, to embark on a variety of new adventures. It was an inspirational and enjoyable book for me and I am happy I found it.

The story opens when bones are discovered in a bleak, desolate windswept marsh of Norfolk. The police call on Dr.Ruth Galloway a resident and professor of archaeology, to try to approximate the age of the bones. The bones are those of a young girl and seem to be many years old. The police are baffled since they are trying to use these bones as clues to solve the recent disappearances and possible murders of young girls in the area. The salt marshes are a bleak setting and match the dark tone of this mystery.

PJ Halliday had a lot of tragedies in his life. Then he reads that the husband of his high school crush died and he decides to take a road trip to see her and win her back. And he is joined by his daughter and hi deceased brother's grandchildren. And a cat, Pancakes. This book is funny and heartwarming, and has a surprise in the end.

Colette Marceau is a young teen living in World War II era France at the start of the novel THE STOLEN LIFE OF COLETTE MARCEAU by Kristen Harmel. She lives with her mother, father and younger sister and is managing to live as well as can be expected in troubling times. One terrible night everything changes. The story follows Colette through the next eight decades of her life with many flashbacks and an equal number of secrets hidden and revealed. With a large cast of characters in both the United States and France, both upstanding and criminal, the plot is somewhat unbelievable, but readable non the less. The background and atmosphere were truly interesting.

THE GUEST LIST by Lucy Foley is not so much a who-done-it as it is a what-was-done-to-whom. The setting is a very posh wedding taking place on a very isolated island off the coast of Ireland. What could possibly go wrong? The guests are easily familiar types and everyone was a back story. When the book opens the reader has already been told that one of the merry makers won't make it off the island alive. But who? Had I been there there were many people I would bump off - starting with the bride and most of the groomsmen ... But who did the author have in mind to kill? And why? This was a very enjoyable read. I didn't pick the correct person for the corpse or the murderer even after I knew who was killed! Will read more from this author...

This book was fun to read with it's history and the spicy chapters. A good read.

Excellent piece of writing. Ingenious. More has a wonderful sense of humor, and is clearly able to reflect on himself and his own society.