Immortal Desire

 

Title: Immortal Desire

Author: Maggie Shayne

Publisher: Berkley Sensation

 
ISBN: 9780425217481

Thoughts:  Engaging, yet somewhat predictable, paranormal romantic suspense novel and novella with good character development and backstories.

Rating: 3/5

Magic for Liars

 

Title: Magic for Liars

Author: Sarah Gailey

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

 
ISBN: 978075222002

Thoughts:  Contemporary fantasy that will appeal to fans of PI mysteries and family dramas.

Rating: 4/5

The Last Flight

 

Title: The Last Flight

Author: Julie Clark

Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark

 
ISBN: 9781728215723

Thoughts:  There were some great twists, but nothing truly shocking as I expected.

Rating: 3/5

The Printed Letter Bookshop

Title: The Printed Letter Bookshop

Author: Katherine Reay

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

 
ISBN: 978075222002

Thoughts:  Charming story of three women finding themselves in a bookshop.

Rating: 4/5

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

 Title: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Author: V. E. Schwab

Publisher: Macmillan

 
ISBN: n/a

Thoughts:  The perfect Faustian story with for the modern age.

Rating: 5/5

Treasure Island

 

Title: Treasure Island

Author: Robert Lewis Stevenson

Publisher: Atheneum

 
ISBN: 9780684171609

Thoughts:  Some parts bored me, some confused me, but none excited me, but not badly written.

Rating: 2/5

The Smallest Lights in the Universe

 

Title: The Smallest Lights in the Universe

Author: Sara Sager

Publisher: Crown

 
ISBN: 9780525576259

Thoughts:  A meandering memoir of grief with a healthy dose of astrophysics.

Rating: 3/5

Empty

 

Title: Empty

Author: Susan Burton

Publisher: Random House

 
ISBN: 9780812992847

Thoughts:  I can only imagine how hard it was for Burton to share her story, but as it is not one often told, it is good she did.

Rating: 4/5

Stacking the Shelves: 11/8-11/21

 

 Got at a Yard sale:

 

Marivaux: Three Plays by Stephen Wadsword, trans

The Troop by Nick Cutter

Celestina's Burnings

 

Title: Celestina's Burnings

Author: Annemarie Schaivi Pedersen

Publisher: Literary Wanderlust

 
ISBN: 9781942856436

Thoughts:  The historic aspect was good, but the story needed a lot more polishing and the sprinkling of random italicized Italian words got a little annoying.

Rating: 2/5

Notes on a Silencing

 

Title: Notes on a Silencing

Author: Lacy Crawford

Publisher: Little, Brown

 
ISBN: 9780316491556

Thoughts:  It is mind-blowing what Crawford went through and how it is still being covered up.

Rating: 4/5

The Couple Next Door

 

Title: The Couple Next Door

Author: Shari Lapena

Publisher: Pamela Dorman

 
ISBN: 9780735221086

Thoughts:  There were twists, but not as intriguing as I thought they would be; plus, the title is misleading and the end seemed bad-horror-movie-ish.

Rating: 2/5

Once I Was You

 

Title: Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

Author: Maria Hinojosa

Publisher: Atria

 
ISBN: 9781982128654

Thoughts:  This memoir took a while for me to get into, but I truly learned a lot of about the state of immigration in the US.

Rating: 4/5

Transcendent Kingdom

 

Title: Transcendent Kingdom

Author: Yaa Gyasi

Publisher: Knopf

 
ISBN: 9780593215319

Thoughts:  Amazing character-driven story of family binds, addiction, science, and religion.

Rating: 5/5

The Complete Peanuts Vol 1

 

Title: The Complete Peanuts Vol 1: 1950-1952 Dailies & Sundays

Author: Charles M. Schultz

Publisher: Fantagraphics

 
ISBN: 9781560975892

Thoughts:  I found I like the very early strips and characters much better than the later ones.

Rating: 4/5

Stacking the Shelves: 10/18-11/7

LibraryThing Early Review:

 

The Window by Kellista Rae Keaton

 

Got at a Yardsale:

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

 

Mother Land

 

Title: Mother Land

Author: Leah Franqui

Publisher: William Morrow

 
ISBN: 9780062938848

Thoughts:  It took me a while to get into this, but I was smitten by the end, which was exactly as it should have been

Rating: 4/5

The Glass Hotel

 

Title: The Glass Hotel

Author: Emily St John Mandel

Publisher: Random House

 
ISBN: n/a

Thoughts:  Fast and engaging character-driven read, but one of the characters in the audio narration sounded very off.

Rating: 4/5

The Gun King

 

Title: The Gun King

Author: John H. Richardson

Publisher: Amazon Originals

 
ISBN: n/a

Thoughts:  Explains the problem with gun shows, and good piece of journalism, but it was just missing something.

Rating: 3/5