First Reads - April 2024

 This month: 

1. Margaret Atwood short story 
2. The Alone Time (psych thriller)
3. The Letters We Keep (coming of age romance )
4. Vacation Rental (domestic suspense)
5. Their Last Resort (romance)
6. Bootlegger's Dauther (hist fict)
7. My Favorite Terrible Thing (mystery)
8. A Light through the Cracks (memoir)

The Bootlegger's Daughter is the one for this month. 

First Reads March 2024

 This onth: 

• Lost Letters of Aisling (Hist fict)
• Matterhorn (Thriller)
• Lovers at the Museum (bonus short read)
• Friends in Napa (Friendship drama)
• What is Love? (Romance)
• The Monstrous Misses Mai (Fantasy/occult horror)
• Family Reservations (book club fiction)
• The Lies Among Us (family drama)

I ended up going for What is Love, and will watch out for Lost Letters of Aisling at the library.   And the bonus short read, by Isabel Allende, was free too. 

 

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. 

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