Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. This week, I’m looking forward to reading Lisa Wingate’s upcoming release, The Book of Lost Friends. Her previous novel Before We Were Yours was an emotional but fabulous read, so I’m looking forward to becoming thoroughly engrossed in this one as well. It releases next Tuesday, 7 April 2020.
Welcome, reader friends. We’re nearly at the end of my Looking forward to… series of posts discussing all the fabulous reads coming your way in the first half of 2020. Today I’ll be sharing the general fiction and time-slip titles that will be releasing, but before I do, a quick note about what you will and will not find in this list.
In this case, general fiction simply means fiction that isn’t written for a specific genre (romance, suspense, etc). It may still contain some or all of those elements, but the story is primarily about a character’s literal or figurative journey.
Happy Tuesday, reader friends, and welcome to the first Top Ten Tuesday for 2020, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl.
Last week we looked back at some of my favourite reads for 2019, but this week we’re talking about our most anticipated reads for the first half of 2020. This is always a particularly difficult post for me, because how do you possibly narrow down six months worth of reading into your ten most anticipated reads?
Welcome back, reader friends! It’s time for Part IV of my annual Emoji Files celebrating my best reads of 2019. If you’ve missed my previous posts for 2019, make sure you check out The Swoony Awards, Got Me in the Feels, and The WOW Awards.
The Take Me Away Awards go to those books that were truly immersive reads, carrying me away to different times and places with authentic historical, sensory, and cultural details. Through these stories I’ve travelled all over the world and beyond and experienced castles, asylums, and so many things in between.
Hello again, reader friends! Welcome to Part III of my annual Emoji Files celebrating my best reads of 2019. If you’ve missed either of the posts to date, you can check out The Swoony Awards and Got Me in the Feels.
Today I’m presenting the WOW Awards for those books that kept me riveted with high-intensity action, pumping adrenaline, plot twists, or just some good old-fashioned suspense. And it’s not every year (in fact, not any year so far) that there is an opportunity to include a whole series, but that’s what I’m starting with this year.
Happy new year, reader friends! Yesterday I began posting my annual best-of series of posts, which I’ve dubbed The Emoji Files, since I group my favourite reads of the year according to the emotional impact they had on me. Yesterday was the Swoony Awards, so if you missed that, make sure you check it out here.
Today, I’m going to be introducing you the reads that really ‘Got Me in the Feels’. These are the books that made me really emotionally invested in the story, often (but not always) to the point of tears.
After Aggie Dunkirk’s career is unceremoniously ended by her own mistakes, she finds herself traveling to Wisconsin, where her grandmother, Mumsie, lives alone in her rambling old home. She didn’t plan for how eccentric Mumsie has become, obsessing over an old, unsolved crime scene–even going so far as to re-create it in the dollhouse.
Mystery seems to follow her when she finds work as a secretary helping to restore the flooded historical part of the cemetery. Forced to work with the cemetery’s puzzling, yet attractive archeologist, she exhumes the past’s secrets and unwittingly uncovers a crime that some will go to any length to keep quiet–even if it means silencing Aggie.
Welcome, reader friends! Christmas is fast approaching, and if you’re anything like me, you’re still searching for the perfect gift for some of your family and friends. 😬 Last year, my dear friend Rel (from Relz Reviewz) and I put our heads together to give you some great recommendations to make your Christmas shopping a little bit easier, and we had so much fun we decided to do it again! As a result, here is Katie & Rel’s Novel Gift Guide for 2019!