Reading Thread/Goals for 2025

[Kirby]

#41 - No One There by Ava Strong
Genre - Mystery

Book one of a series, easy to read. I give it a 3/5 only because there wasn't a lot of depth to it, otherwise the story line was good. To me, it feels like she was just churning it out. I'm not interested in reading the rest of the series.

 

[cayennews]

#34 The Boyfriend by Frieda McFadden. The end was kind of stupid. Good story up to the end.

 

[OKW8297]

27. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawton. I can’t say enough good things about this book. It is.historical fiction based on the life of Martha Ballard, a midwife in Maine during the end of the 18th century and her involvement/investigation of a crime. An excellent book.

 

[Kirby]

#42 - A Beacon of Light by Linda Byler
Genre - Inspirational

This is book 2 in The Long Road Home trilogy. I give it a 4/5. I've ordered book 3.

 

[bobbiwoz]

54/70

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7824322-between-shades-of-gray

A Young adult book recommended to me by a DDiL. 4.5/5

 

[Simba's Mom]

54/70

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7824322-between-shades-of-gray

A Young adult book recommended to me by a DDiL. 4.5/5

I read that also (Between Shades of Gray) and also gave it 4 1/2 stars.

#43-"Resist: A Story of D Day", Alan Katz-short, but interesting story pertaining to World War II.

#44-"The Lost Letters from Martha's Vineyard", Michael Callahan-An actress from Hollywood spends a summer on Martha's Vineyard to recover from a failed relationship, and ends up dropping out of sight from her career and starting a new life. I was attracted to this because I agree that MV can be life-altering. Her story was very interesting.

 

[clappyclaps]

29/30 - To All The Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

I only really read this as I'd heard of the tv show (or film?), so figured it was worth a shot. It was an easy enough read and I should've known with it being young adult, but I found the Lara Jean and her very incomprehensible actions quite irritating. And the lack of a proper ending didn't help either. 2/5

 

[Lumpy1106]

19/20 - Kristin Hannah, "The Women" 5/5 stars - This book is a masterpiece - totally lives up to the hype

20/20 - Mark Manson, "the Subtle Art of not giving a (care)" - 2/5 stars - had to self edit to enter this one. I picked it up because I was looking for an audiobook for my commute and just picked the first one off my Libby account that was "available now". filtering by popularity. The last 1/2 of the book is not bad, the 1'st half totally turned me off. Manson is a comedian turned podcaster, writing a book about how you should approach life - like that somehow makes him an expert. There are some gems of wisdom in here, but most of it seemed really self-serving. Do not recommend.

 

[willowsnn3]

#28/25 Rescue by Anita Shreve
A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila Arsenault is a gorgeous enigma--streetwise and tough-talking, with haunted eyes, fierce desires, and a never-look-back determination. Peter Webster, as straight an arrow as they come, falls for her instantly and entirely. Soon Sheila and Peter are embroiled in an intense love affair, married, and parents to a baby daughter. Like the crash that brought them together, it all happened so fast.

Can you ever really save another person? Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off track, and for the first time in their ordered existence together, Webster fears for her future. His work shows him daily every danger the world contains, how wrong everything can go in a second. All the love a father can give a daughter is suddenly not enough.

Sheila's sudden return may be a godsend--or it may be exactly the wrong moment for a lifetime of questions and anger and longing to surface anew.

 

[cayennews]

#35 The Locked Door by Frieda McFadden. This book was okay. Not her best, but not awful.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Book 79 for the year
Halfway through The Sentence by Louise Erdrich. Great indigenous read.