Borrowed from Library
Synopsis: In a new World War II-set story from the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies Choir, four women compete for a spot hosting a wartime cookery program called The Kitchen Front – based on the actual BBC program of the same name – as well as a chance to better their lives.
Recommend: Yes! Someone on YouTube recommended this book about kitchens/cooking. You could see how these women used their rations in different ways. There are also recipes throughout the book.
Borrowed from library
Synopsis: Rachel Beck finds herself in a predicament. She is fired after a hoity-toity client comes on to her at the hotel where she works. The next job she finds is a hotel manager position, states away. She packs up her cute 3-year-old and goes from Floria to Ohio. When she gets to this “Brewery Chalets”, it becomes clear that the place is ready for guests. She decides to stay and work with Mason Brown, on getting the hotel ready. Will Mason’s past help or hurt their relationship? What will Rachel do when her daughter’s father wants her back into his life?
Recommend: Yes! You can read her other book before or after. It was an easy read where you were rooting for her to make the right decisions for her life.
Book Bought
Husband’s pick of the month! This is the first book in a series so I can see myself reading the next book. Thank you, Daniel!!!
Synopsis: directly from Goodreads:
Two hours outside of Washington, DC is the mortuary for the U.S. government’s most top-secret and high profile cases. America’s most important funeral home. To work there, mortician Jim “Zig” Zigarowski has one rule: never let a case get personal. But when a new body arrives–of young female sergeant Nola Brown, who was a childhood friend of Zig’s daughter–Zig can’t help himself. Looking closely at Nola’s body, he realizes immediately: this isn’t Nola. Indeed, his daughter’s friend is still alive. And on the run. Zig’s discovery reveals a sleight of hand being played at the highest levels of power–and traces back through history to a man named Harry Houdini. “Nola, you were right. Keep running.”
Recommendation: I couldn’t put the book down. It was an easy read, even with multiple time changes and numerous characters. I screamed out loud when it came to one point in the book and there was still another surprise a couple of chapters later. I didn’t figure out the big picture.
Trigger Warnings: A character is emotionally abused as a child. Her foster dad calls her ugly names which will make you cringe.
Book Bought
Synopsis:
Can giving this baby a holiday refuge help heal his reluctant heart?
Taking in a mother and child is the last thing Luke Morgan expects this Christmas as he struggles to keep his tree farm afloat. But when Shayla Coggins and her baby boy are stranded during a snowstorm, he can’t turn them away. Even as Shayla’s little boy draws them together, her dangerous secret comes home…and makes falling in love riskier than ever.
Recommend: Yes! This was such a quick read! So good!
Borrowed from Library
Synopsis: Anna is grieving the loss of her fiance. She decides to get on his boat and float away to everywhere that he had planned to take her that year. At times she is by herself and then also has a professional sailor, Keane to help her out. Will they end up together? Will she grieve the loss of her fiance? Can she do this big thing all by herself?
Recommend: Yes!!! Trigger warnings of talk about suicide. I loved the main character and how she worked on herself and took time to work on herself.
Borrowed from Library
Synopsis: Hannah’s mother has just passed away and she has been recently dumped. She is a Bodyguard for a living, traveling all around the world. She is given the task of being an agent for a well-known actor. Jack, the actor, must come home to be with his sick mother. To watch Jack, they devise a plan to tell the family that they are dating. What happens when they begin to have feelings?
Recommendation: I love a friend to lover trope. Also, a secret dating trope!! I read it in one day!
Borrowed from Library
Synopsis: a graphic novel is about a girl growing up with a mother and father who both were cooks. Her ability to travel at a young age. The book has recipes throughout it.
Recommend: Yes! A woman on you tube said that this was one of her favorite books about food. The bright colors and pictures were wonderful. If you like graphic novels, this would be a good one for you. But, maybe not for middle schoolers unless you want to talk about her cousin who pays playboys in Mexico and reads them throughout their trip.
Reading becomes a pattern 