Monday, February 26, 2024

First Reads February 2024

 This month: 

  • Suspense - A Friend in the Dark 
  • Romance - Hypnotized by Love
  • Short Story Thriller - Rule of Threes
  • Historical Fiction - When the World Goes Quet 
  • Fantasy - The Canopy Keepers
  • True Crime - the Waltham Murders
  • Family drama - Hurt Mountain 
  • Psych Thriller - Dont Forget Me
  • Contemporary Fictiono - Blank 

 Taking out the thrillers and crime books, it's down to When the World GOes Quiet and The Canopy Keepers.  I'm a little tired of war fiction,so it's going to be The Canopy Keepers this month. 

Thursday, January 18, 2024

First Reads January 2024

 January is another two-book month, with ten to choose from. 


  • Almost Surely Dead (Mystery)
  • the Bad Weather Friend (thriller)
  • County Line (Historical fiction)
  • Last night (Domestic thirller)
  • We Ate the Dark (Horror)
  • Mayluna (women's fiction)
  • This Impossible Brightness (book club fiction)
  • The Young of Other Animals (Family drama)
  • The Real Deal (contemporary fiction)
  • Hurt for Me (dark romance)

Well some of these are easy to weed out - horror, thriller, and dark romance, for a start.  This Impossible Brightness is in the "dystopian fiction" category, so it's out too.  

 Decision: The Real Deal and Mayluna

 

Friday, December 22, 2023

December First Reads

 December's choices 


  • True Crime - The Amish Wife
  • Romance - The last phone Booth in Manhattan
  • Police Procedural - The Lies You Wrote
  • Women's Fiction - Olivia Strauss is Running Out Of Time
  • Military Sci Fi - Scorpio
  • Psychological Thriller - Sleeping with Friends 
  • Historical Fiction - Split 
  • Crime Thriller - The Seventh Girl 
  • Short Memoir - Two Women Walk Into a Bar

So, no kid's book this month.  Nope to the short read,  and to the thriller/crime books.  Split looks good, and I may need a translated book for next year's Read Harder.

Thursday, November 30, 2023

November First Reads

 November's First Reads

  1. Night Owl (thriller)
  2. When We Were Enemies (hist fict)
  3. Pleae Tell Me (psych thriller)
  4. Never Meant to Stay (romance)
  5. Salt & Broom (hist fantasyy)
  6. The Last Caretaker (book club fic)
  7. Same time next year (short story)
  8. Daughters of Block Island (suspense)
  9. Leave it ToUs (womans fiction)
  10. Simon says Good Night (picture book)

 Leaving out the short story and anything thriller,s uspense, or romance, cuts down the choices.  I went with Salt & Broom - I like fantasy, and it's a retelling of Jane Eyre.  I've never read Jane Eyre, but my son has read it four times, and highly recommends it.  

Thursday, October 19, 2023

October First Reads

 October is another two-book month.  

Choices:

  • The Spy Coast (thriller)
  • The Lover (short story)
  • Lights Out (suspense)
  • The Village Healer's Book of Cures (Gothic historical fiction)
  • Recipe for Second Chances (romance)
  • All the Little Raindrops (psych thriller)
  • House Moms (contemporary fiction)
  • City People (domestic drama)
  • The Rise (short crime fiction)
  • THe Night Raven (middle grade fiction)

The short stories are last choice just because of the price.  Taking out most of the horror/thrillers and stuff, I'm left with The Night Raven, and I guess All the Little Raindrops.  

Thursday, September 28, 2023

September's First Reads

 September books: 

  • Woke Up Like This (coming-of-age romance)
  • Just Stay Away (Thriller)
  • The Witch's Lens (Historical fiction)
  • Penelope in Retrograde (women's fiction)
  • These Still Black Waters (suspense)
  • A Night at the Tropicana (short story)
  • Fortune (Domestic drama)
  • The Heartbreak Years (memoir)
  • Deadlands (Speculative fiction)

Scratch the suspense, thriller, short story, and probaby the domestic drama.   After reading the descriptions, looks like The Witch's Lens is the most interesting one, but the bar is pretty low here. 

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

August first Reads

 For August:

  • Hist Fict - Don't Foreget to Write
  • Women's Fiction - Starfish Sisters
  • Suspense - Salthouse Place
  • Domestic Suspense - The Shallows
  • Thriller - Malibu Burning
  • Book club fiction - Morning in this Broken World
  • Short Read Family  Drama - The Scenic Route
  • Sci Fi - Androne
  • Police Procedural - Redemption

 One of the suspense books mentions a cult, the other one is about a vicious murder.  Nope.  Also not interested in arson & wildfires, or feisty widows, or a 43 page novel about van life.  Or a "kidnapping thriller" novel, although it might be interesting if the library gets a copy.  The Most interesting ones are Don't Forget to Write and Androne - and since the library is getting Androne, I'm getting Don't Forget to Write.