Reading Thread/Goals for 2025

[melk]

17/30 The Summer Guests by Tess Gerritsen

The second book in The Martini Club series, centering on a missing teenager at a Maine lake. The Martini Club, aka a group of retired CIA who now live unobtrusive lives in the Maine town, use their collective skills to help the police chief with the crime.

I enjoyed this book as much as the first one. It has plenty of red herrings that keep you guessing.

 

[RangerPooh]

12/15 Missing in the Falls, A Sweetwater Falls Mystery #2. Elle Gray

 

[wishiwasindisneyjen]

38/104: Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister
A woman's husband leaves a cryptic note and disappears, later he commits a horrible crime. A book full of secrets and impossible situations. I felt like it took a long time to get to the point but well written, easy read. 3

39/104: The Favorites by Layne Fargo
A complicated love story set in the competitive world of figure skating. Loved it. 4

40/104: DK Top 10 Las Vegas by DK Eyewitness Travel
Travel guide for Las Vegas

41/104: More or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova
A novel about a woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder that becomes a stand-up comedian. I didn't finish this book. During her manic cycles it was just too difficult for me to read due to experiences in my life. Very well written, just not for me.

42/104: Carless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams (Audio Book)
Memoir by a former employee of Facebook that discusses all the nasty behind the scenes issues that were pretty mind blowing yet not unexpected. I listened to this book, which was read by the author and I found it fascinating and disturbing. Highly recommend. 4

43/104: Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
Thriller about an author whose wife disappears, then he moves to a tiny Scottish Island and starts to see her everywhere. 3

44/104: The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose
Second book in a series (after The Perfect Marriage). We now find the protagonist re-married after her previous husband was sentenced to death in the previous book. Her new husband makes the same mistake as her last husband and now will pay the price for it. Super fast paced read, twist not quite as good as the first book but still great. 4

45/104: Plane Insanity by Elliott Hester
Outrageous stories of air travel by a former flight attendant. 3

 

[Kirby]

#18 - Grace in Strange Disguise by Christine Dillon
Genre - Inspirational
I enjoyed reading it and give it a 4/5.