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    Book Review:: Wild Eyes | Elsie Silver

    June 1, 2025

    What I wouldn’t do to live in a place as beautiful and idyllic as Rose Hill. The first book in this Elsie Silver series is Wild Love,…

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    Book Review:: Birding with Benefits | Sarah T. Dubb

    April 29, 2025

    Is there anything better than having a hunky guy teach you a new hobby? Turns out hanging out in nature for hours at a time with a…

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    Book Review:: Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame | Olivia Ford

    April 8, 2025

    Bake off, but make it bookish! Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame is the cozy adventure of a lithe septuagenarian ready to take a little piece of the…

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    Book Review:: Here One Moment | Liane Moriarty

    March 21, 2025

    Cause of death, age of death. Would you want to know? For some on one fateful domestic flight between Hobart and Sydney the prediction from one of…

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    Book Review:: Colton Gentry’s Third Act | Jeff Zentner

    March 7, 2025

    I haven’t read many (or any?) romance novels based on the male’s point-of-view. Colton Gentry may be the first! For awhile it seemed like everywhere I turned…

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    Book Review:: Intermezzo | Sally Rooney

    February 28, 2025

    I am perpetually entranced by the writing of Sally Rooney. Her prose is simple and sad, poetic and deeply honest. Each of her novels feels like a…

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    Book Review:: Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice | Elle Cosimano

    February 16, 2025

    Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice is the fourth book in a contemporary mystery series starring a romantic suspense writer (and young mother) who has gotten herself into…

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    Book Review:: Where the Black Line Ends | Meagan Williamson

    January 18, 2025

    Where do I start with this one? I went through most of this book expecting it to fall firmly into three-star territory. But then I finished it.…

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    Book Review:: Whale Fall | Elizabeth O’Connor

    January 17, 2025

    In the years between the Great Wars, two unexpected things happen on a remote Welsh island: a whale washes ashore, and two English stenographers arrive. For a…

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    Book Review:: The Memory Library | Kate Storey

    January 10, 2025

    The Memory Library is the story of an estranged mother and daughter coming back together in a moment of difficulty, as they discover that no wound is…

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Emily's bookshelf: read

What the River Knows
The Rule Book
Wild Love
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
The Cheat Sheet
The Rom-Commers
Not in Love
My Not So Perfect Life
First Down
Clean Sweep
Greta & Valdin
The True Love Experiment
Killing Floor
Hate Mail
The Unhoneymooners
This Bird Has Flown
Savor It
Thank You for Listening
This Summer Will Be Different
The Last City


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