A new month, new books to discover! As those of you who participate in Stacking the Shelves on Saturdays or Sunday Salon or Sunday Post on Sundays know, these blogs offer a wealth of new books to explore. Every. Week. So, I'm trying to limit myself to only ONE book from any blog (not always possible). Here's some of what caught my eye this month. In order to keep these lists manageable, I think I'm going to have to split them and do 2 a month! Or stop Top 10 Tuesday. But that

Each month I share books I've come across that I MUST read so they get added to my TBR list. Here are the books I added this month: The Invisible Library #1 by Genevieve Cogman Genre: Fantasy Published 2014, 320 pages Added because: recommended by Anne at #ModernMrsDarcy Synopsis: this Library is a mysterious one that collects books from many realities and their book spy is assigned to an alternate London to retrieve a dangerous Grimm book - adventure and troubles ensue A D

Every month I share the books that have caught my attention enough to be added to my TBR list. I find books in a variety of ways (probably like most of you). I hear about them on one of the book podcasts I listen to, from a Goodreads buddy, from a Facebook group list, from a friend, #BookRiot, #BookBub, or another book blogger. The sources are never ending - as is my list! Here are the dozen books that made the cut this month: Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden Genre:

Ahhhh....reading in the year of Covid and political unrest and upheaval. It was SO easy to get distracted by the news and world events. BUT, in spite of it all, I enjoyed a robust reading year and often found my refuge in reading. I had a few duds, but overall I feel like it was a very good year of reading. Joining 5 (yes, count 'em, 5) reading challenges certainly helped diversify my choices (you can see my challenge results in the tab at the top of the page) - I read some f

As we enter the last quarter of the year with so much stress and strife, I find that I retreat more and more to reading. I read all over social media how the stress of the political climate, or the restrictions from Covid, or recovery from a natural disaster in your area, make many readers turn away - they can't concentrate. I'm thankful it's the opposite for me. I'm able to tune out the world and sink into the world created by the book I'm reading. Here are the 25 books that