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I interviewed author Stephanie James about her book Finally A Vegan. This book was a good introduction to what it is like to decide to make a change to your diet and lifestyle. What do you feel is the biggest […]

I quite enjoyed this book about a woman learning that she wants more out of life than she has previously let herself believe. Iris has been with her boyfriend for six years. They’ve bought a house together. She thinks the […]

Tammy is a lab tech who loves Christmas. She’s devastated when her boyfriend unexpectedly moves out right before the holiday season. She’s even more embarrassed when she accidently starts crying all over her coworker Lawrence. Lawrence has issues of his […]

I loved this book! This story gathered me in from the beginning. Maggie is the protege of a chef at a three star Michelin restaurant. When he dies unexpectedly she thinks she will take over running the restaurant. She is […]

Jane is a woman who is looking forward to starting a new life. She was the famous girlfriend of the lead singer of an up and coming band. Then she caught him cheating and went into hiding. What the press […]

Book Promo Post This book would be great for Foodies Read folks. I love highlighting books that feature food. What can be better than adding in travel, a new start in life, and romance on top of the food? Julie […]

This is the story of renovating a run-down inn in a small British town. The current owners are nearing retirement and haven’t wanted to invest in the inn for a long time. It shows. The food is inedible and the […]

I’ve never watched any of the dating shows that this book is based on but we all know how they work. A bunch of women compete for the attention of a man. The women are pitted against each other for […]

I loved the premise of this book. What would life looked like if all first marriages dissolved after 15 years? What if couples had to prove that they wanted to stay together longer than that? The world building is the […]

I’m enjoying pretend relationship romances lately. This one has the added twist of being set in a location that I haven’t seen before. This is set in the Victorian Era when one of Victoria’s sons married a daughter of the […]

I read a lot of historical romance. I was interested in reading this book because of its focus on the housekeeper of a large house. I tend to enjoy historical romances that focus on ordinary people more than I enjoy […]

I adored Clarissa. She is an imaginative ten year old who has been forcibly separated from her sister and she is NOT HAPPY. Her voice is that of a gifted child. She notices things that the adults around her don’t. […]

I was not aware of the history of this period of the Ottoman Empire. That’s why I jumped at the chance to read this historical fiction account of some of the last Sultans of the Empire written by a descendant […]

I’m not generally a cozy mystery fan but I was drawn to this book because of the racing setting. I love Dick Francis’s books. This book doesn’t dive so deeply into the racing world. It focuses on a group of […]

I spend a lot of my time trying to explain cats to people. This continues to baffle me. I think that cats are perfectly straight forward and easy to understand. I’ve been told that this is likely because I resemble […]

This book pulled me in from the opening pages. Thea married a man who was kind to her father during his terminal illness. Immediately her husband changed. He started beating her for slights real and imagined. She has experience in […]

Hana is a college student in South Korea. Her boyfriend Jin moved to Japan to continue his studies. She planned to go visit him on break but she hasn’t heard from him lately. She goes to Japan as planned but […]

This is an engaging fiction novel that tells stories in two different timelines.  The first is the story of Ivy, an elementary school teacher who decides to take a trip to Morocco that she has always said that she’ll do […]

I jumped on the chance to read this book because of the title.  I love books about food and books with fairies.  Why not combine them? I loved the idea that Polly and Annabelle meet their fairy godmother who is […]

I was interested in this book for the adventure of living in a new country and trying to meet people with the bonus aspect of horses.  For a while the book works as Roxy moves to Argentina with several goals […]