The best part of Johnny Careless by Kevin Wade were the acknowledgements. There was very little I liked about this novel. I didn't care about any of the characters - they were one dimensional - there was no character growth - they just moved along at a snails pace just like the plot.

A young woman meets the famous artist of a painting she adores. She sees something in the painting that most people don't. She learns the story behind painting and gets drawn into the lives of the artist and his friends. I enjoyed the book.

I'm catching up on the Rina Lazarus/Peter Decker series. I fell behind. I love this series by Kellerman.

Magda's best friend Sarah dies and Magda makes a bucket list road trip. She takes Sarah's ashes with her. There are a lot of flashbacks to past experiences and conversations, plus letters and cards that Sarah sent over the years.

A woman inherits a beach house on Fire Island and spends the summer there trying to figure out her life. This book is kind of a sequel to On Fire Island, with some of the characters from that book in this one. It's a cute rom-com. Lots of characters, a love-hate relationship.

20 year old Hal, was drowning in debt after her mother’s death. A glimmer of a hope came to her in the form of a letter of a lost inheritance. She thinks they have the wrong person, but she needed the money, so what is a person to do?

A beautifully written historical novel by one of my favorite authors. Eliza Rivers, 88 years old, tells the story of her childhood growing up on Mayfield, her family's estate/farm to her grand-niece and granddaughter. She wants them both to understand how important it is to her to conserve the land and hopes they will join her in her fight. It is a very emotional story of family, young love, friendship, and betrayal.

In my opinion this was a mediocre book about a woman having a few bad days.

This well-researched novel is based on the true story of how Vincent Van Gogh's paintings were brought into acceptance as worthy art. Vincent's brother, Theo Van Gogh, supported the artist, and was himself an art dealer. One year after Vincent’s death, Theo dies. His wife, Jo Van Gogh, struggles to fulfill Theo's dream of bringing Vincent Van Gogh's art to fame. The expected response to her husband's death was for Jo to return home to live with and be supported by her father. She fights this, and fights against societal norms by trying to instill herself into the all-male world of selling art. She is rebuffed by the men, who don’t believe a woman can possibly understand business. For the sake of her son’s future inheritance, Jo does all she can to promote Vincent’s work and gain an international following for his drawings and paintings.

This is a nice non-fiction book about Abigail and John Adams. Telling the story of their lives, getting some information from letters and journals.