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.

 

[bobbiwoz]

37/50 “The Choice” by Nicolas Sparks, 4/5. How far will you go to keep the hope of love alive? What a decision!

 

[Needsanap]

I am at 36/50.

It’s been so long since I posted I couldn’t list them all. I hope to try better

 

[willowsnn3]

#13/25 Lila by Marilynne Robinson
I didn't realize this was the third of a four book series.
It was pretty good tho as a stand alone.

 

[bobbiwoz]

38/50.” When Death Draws Near” by Carrie Stuart Parks. The third in the series. I skipped parts about handlings snakes. 4/5

 

[bobbiwoz]

39/50
“My Name is Emilia del Valle,” by Isabel Allende.

For the reading challenge, I needed to real a book that was published this year. A cousin told me about an interview she listened to with Isabel Allende about her new book. Part of the book is set in CA the late 1800, and the book continues in Chile. During revolution the book describes horrors only found in wars, and afterwards it continues in Chile, and comes to a resolution. 4.5/5

 

[MGMmjl]

13/32 - Hidden in Smoke by Lee Goldberg

Description:
"After dozens of Hollywood apartment buildings erupt in flames during a single night of terror, arson investigators Walter Sharpe and Andrew Walker are assigned to catch the serial torcher and end his spree. But then a catastrophic fire destroys a major freeway, crippling the city and forcing Sharpe and Walker to take on another massive case.

Desperate for help, they know exactly who to call: homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone. Together the four detectives must quickly figure out whether the freeway disaster was a tragic accident…or the work of a mastermind with a horrific plan.

As the investigations collide, an old foe with a revenge scheme enters the fray, igniting a race against time to stop a conspiracy of deception, corruption, and murder."

This is book #3 in the Sharpe and Walker series. I really enjoyed it, and it was another good entry in the series.

 

[cayennews]

#18 Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter. This was a stand alone book. It was good, but things seemed to fall into place too easily.