This is book 17 in the Detective Michael Bennett series. These books are fast-paced, engaging and never disappointing.

Super cool design concept! Two anonymous teens write notes to each other in an old science textbook in the school library. They become friends and solve a big town mystery along the way.

For a relatively short book, The Things We Never Say packs in plenty of wonderful characters, lots of food for thought and emotion in a small town New England town. Artie Dom is a high school history teacher who loves all his students and has a gift for opening up conversations among his them that otherwise might not be addressed openly. Artie has a loving wife and son, longtime work colleagues, extended family and what he considers his one true friend, yet he grapples with profound loneliness. Just a warning, some very current political and world issues are mentioned in Strout’s work with strong opinions. Artie and his best friend never speak of sensitive political topics with each other.

I enjoyed this story a lot. There were times, many times, where the book was very difficult to believe, even for a work of fiction. But there were characters you could root for, and even though this was a ripped from the headlines style story, with predictable reveals, I enjoyed the read.

It took me the better part of four years but I finally finished the 14th and final book of The Wheel of Time. This final entry is essentially 1,000 straight pages of The Last Battle, an event the series had been building towards since book 1 and it delivers in the best way possible. The series is hard to recommend just because of how insanely long it is, but it's absolutely one that is worth reading at least one time through for fantasy fans. Robert Jordan's worldbuilding was second to virtually none, and the series has one of the most memorable main casts of characters you are ever likely to get out of this type of series. Brandon Sanderson did about as well as you could reasonably expect, given he was tasked with finishing someone else's life's work. It took me forever, and the series is definitely not without its flaws but I don't regret reading it for a second.

Elsie is 81 and lives in a quiet neighbourhood. She has a past that’s hidden from her curious neighbors. For fifty years she hid her childhood trauma. Now it’s time to tell her story. A little bit of everything

A wonderful read if you like art history.this book is for art lovers and those who want to learn more the time of the art’s creation, through the eyes of a child

This is a cute "let's pretend we're dating" rom-com. Great summer read.

THE PROVING GROUND by Michael Connelly 5 stars is not enough. The perfect book to start the Summer Reading program 2026 Some novels are good – The Proving Ground was PERFECTION. I was spellbound.

This was more romance than mystery. I'm not a fan of romance and don't read it often so maybe I'm not used to it, but the romance portion was impossible to believe. The attraction made zero sense, and very one sided until the bitter end. It was such a forgone conclusion they end up together that they didn't need to focus on it so much and the book could've been more thrilling. I am disappointed.