Join me for my five-book reading wrap-up!
“The Thursday Murder Club”
When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly finds themselves in the middle of their first live case.
As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it’s too late?
“The sun is up, the skies are blue, and murder is in the air”
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(FYI, I bought mine online at the
for a much lower price than on Amazon)
Luna is a farm puppy who loves to dance and has only known a happy, serene life surrounded by her mother, Mutt, and her siblings, and cared for by Gilberto, the son of farmworkers. But now Gilberto and his parents have moved on, and Mr. Thomas, the farmer, doesn’t feel he can take care of a whole family of dogs. He finds new homes for the puppies, not realizing that the man who took Luna and her brother does not have their best interests at heart. Luna and Chief, hungry and scared, are trapped in the smelly barn of a puppy mill—until they take matters into their own paws and find a way to escape. But can Luna and Chief find their way home?
My Thoughts After Reading the Book
I enjoyed this book. You start with a strong female dog named Mutt. Mutt finds herself in a situation in which she saves a cat from a preditor. In thanks, the cat’s owner allows Mutt to stay in exchange for continued protection from this preditor. Mutt befriends the animals on the farm, who all can speak to and understand each other.
Mutt has adorable puppies,, and the farmer can’t care for all of them. Two are adopted into very nice homes, and two are, unbeknown to the farmer, taken to a puppy mill. The conditions are not the best at the puppy mill, and the puppies and their new friend plan an escape.
Aside from the puppy mill owner, there are many good people in this book. There are many twists and turns, but the people and the dogs all intersect in the end.
I gave this book a 3.5/5
Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs—the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store’s overwhelmed shelves.
But when Joey Molina, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore’s upper room, Lydia’s life comes unglued. Always Joey’s favorite bookseller, Lydia has been bequeathed his meager worldly possessions. Trinkets and books; the detritus of a lonely, uncared for man. But when Lydia flips through his books, she finds them defaced in ways both disturbing and inexplicable. They reveal the psyche of a young man on the verge of an emotional reckoning. And they seem to contain a hidden message. What did Joey know? And what does it have to do with Lydia?
As Lydia untangles the mystery of Joey’s suicide, she unearths a long-buried memory from her own violent childhood. Details from that one bloody night begin to circle back. Her distant father returns to the fold, along with an obsessive local cop, and the Hammerman, a murderer who came into Lydia’s life long ago and, as she soon discovers, never completely left. “Both charming and challenging”
“She was all about silencing the past.”
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My Thoughts Before I Read the Book
You know I love books and this book was about a book store and I had heard a few good reviews, so I decided to give it a try.
My Thoughts After Reading the Book
For some reason, I thought this book was going to be a cozy comedy. That is not the case. There is suicide, murder, a denied and suppressed past, and hidden truths. Overall it is a good book. I liked many of the characters, and I also did not know who to trust in this mystery thriller.
My Thoughts Before I Read the Book
I liked the photo and it got good reviews so I decided to order it. I think I bought it from the Book Outlet.
My Thoughts After Reading the Book
Very sweet book. I was tearful, in a good way, at the end of the book. Basically it is about being different and not being accepted because of that difference. The moral of the story is that just because someone is different does not mean they are not wonderful.
Is there a movie?
I could not find a book trailer or a movie related to this book.
In 1893, there’s no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.
But when the Eastwood sisters–James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna–join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women’s movement into the witch’s movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote-and perhaps not even to live-the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive.
There’s no such thing as witches. But there will be.
“But a hell of a lot harder to ignore a witch.”
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My thoughts before reading the book
This book recieved very good reviews and who dosen’t like a good witch story?
My thoughts after reading the book
Is there a movie?
I could not find anything on a movie for this book.
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