Best Books of 2025 – Chapter 5
I have found that I love to read books about the woman behind (or beside) a famous man and many of these books have made my “best of” lists over … Continue Reading Best Books of 2025 – Chapter 5
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I have found that I love to read books about the woman behind (or beside) a famous man and many of these books have made my “best of” lists over … Continue Reading Best Books of 2025 – Chapter 5
Having read and thoroughly enjoyed Renee Rosen’s book Let’s Call Her Barbie, I gave Park Avenue Summer, another of her books, a closer look when it came up on my … Continue Reading Best Books of 2025 – Chapter 4
Having previously read a few years ago a most enjoyable novel about a family winery (Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave), this title, The French Winemaker’s Daughter by Loretta Ellsworth … Continue Reading Best Books of 2025 – Chapter 3
I don’t know if this has ever happened before but the first three books that I read in 2025 all made my “Best of” list. Last week, you learned about … Continue Reading Best Books of 2025 – Chapter 2
Once again, I am happy to ring in the new year with what for some of my regular readers has become their favorite series of posts—my favorite books that I … Continue Reading Best Books of 2025 – Chapter 1
Let me first start off by saying that based on the title of this post, if you are not interested in learning more about the story of Barbie, feel free … Continue Reading Getting to Know Barbie
I’ve done it again. I’ve gone and read another car book—one to add to the multitude of car books that I have already read and of which I have previously … Continue Reading AMC – Gone but Not Forgotten
My daughter and son-in-law previously gave me for Christmas a non-fiction book about the 1927 Dole Derby, the Race to Hawaii by Jason Ryan. This was a story I had … Continue Reading Best Books of 2024 – Epilogue
I once again must credit BookBub with bringing this book to my attention by an author I did not know. Several years ago, I read a very interesting non-fiction book … Continue Reading Best Books of 2024 – Chapter 4
It is rather unusual for one author to make my “best of list” with three different books in a single calendar year but Rebecca Serle has done it. Before I … Continue Reading Best Books of 2024 – Chapter 3
It was my wife who told me about this book. I had never heard of the author or the title, Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, but when she … Continue Reading Best Books of 2024 – Chapter 2
I am happy to ring in the new year with what for some of my regular readers has become their favorite series of posts—my favorite books that I read from … Continue Reading Best Books of 2024 – Chapter 1
Whenever I come across an interesting looking book on my daily BookBub by an author I have never heard of, I usually read the reviews, and this often drives my … Continue Reading Best Books of 2023 – Chapter 4
This was an author I was not familiar with but when Falling by T.J. Newman showed on one of my daily Bookbub e-mail messages, I was intrigued by the short blurb. … Continue Reading Best Books of 2023 – Chapter 3
Another discovery through my daily BookBub e-mail, it was the book cover of The Codebreaker’s Secret by Sara Ackerman that caught my eye and prompted me to explore this book further … Continue Reading Best Books of 2023 – Chapter 2
Happy New Year! Now celebrating its 11th annual edition, I thought I would begin the New Year by posting around New Year’s Day my favorite books that I read from … Continue Reading Best Books of 2023 – Chapter 1