After reading The Red Notebook and The President’s Hat I was so, so excited to find out that Antoine Laurain had another book coming out. French Rhapsody is about a letter inviting a band to come in for a meeting with a record later… arriving 30 years after it was sent. We are given insight to the lives of the members of the band, along with some of their spouses or significant others. I think the bones of the story are good…
I really, really enjoyed this French memoir. After the death of Lisa’s mother, who she was very close to, she has a difficult time deciding how her life will look/be now that she is gone. Lisa ends up buying an apartment in Paris and splitting her time between there and New York, where she works for a magazine. Once she decided her life really needs a major overhaul, she quits her job to focus on freelance work and making herself…
All the Little Liars is the latest book to come out in Harris’s Aurora Teagarden Mystery series. It is book 9 and coming out after a twelve-year hiatus. I was so excited to get an advanced copy of this!! Overall, the story wasn’t bad, but I do have a few issues with the book. Firstly, even though book 8 came out in 2004 and it is now 2016, book 9 picks up right after the last one with hardly any…
Oakwood Mystery Series #1 A series of murders in Charley’s hometown leaves the local police department – and the members of the Agatha’s Book Club – at a loss for the motive, killer, or what ties the victims together. Charley’s unusual relationship with a detective on the case makes trying to help him challenging once she discovers that the murders mirror scenes from classic mystery books being read for the Agatha’s Book Club. The Agatha’s book club includes Kitty, Ronnie, Kelly,…
Ever since reading Amy Thomas’s Paris, My Sweet, I have been obsessed with French memoirs. Before that book I had no idea I would be so interested in part of the non-fiction genre. Not all of these are non-fiction, but I wanted to share a few of the Frenchy books that I have enjoyed reading the most. For a more comprehensive list, I have a Goodreads shelf of all the “French” books I’ve read. 1. Seven Letters from Paris. This memoir made…
Well… I booked a trip to Paris for my 30th birthday in January. I have to admit that even before I bought the plane tickets and reserved an apartment I had a running list in my head of things to do on my next visit and as soon as my trip was confirmed I started planning even more. My souvenir list is almost out of control and I still have four and a half months to go. A few of…
Poison or Protect; Gail’s newest novella, most recent release… Here we get to know Presha from the Finishing School series. It is not necessary to have read any of her other books; this is a stand-alone novella, but it makes it so much more fun if you have. Additionally, if you haven’t read any others, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? Presha is a widow four times over and currently working a job for Lord Akeldama in the country. That is…
Letters from Paris is a delightful read. I found myself thinking about the story and characters while away from the book; It felt both homey and exciting at once. Claire has gone to Paris in a sort-of soul search. She has just left Chicago and her boyfriend to go back home to Louisiana, where her mammaw doesn’t have much time left. With her last breath, Claire’s grandmother strongly encourages her to go to Paris in search of answers to a family mystery. Claire…
Strike is the follow-up to Hit, a book about an evil banking corporation taking over the US government. We saw Patsy leave her mom, her only family, to try to get rid of her medical debt. The whole book take the fact that debt, credit, and the medical industry is fucked up and slaps you in the face with it. In Strike, Patsy and Wyatt meet up with a “freedom” group who are fighting against the banks. Unfortunately they turn…
~ *OH MY GOOOSH* ~ I don’t know where this book has been hiding or why everyone on the planet isn’t talking about it, but it is FABULOUS. I had not one second of boredom and many, many fits of giggling. I was a bit surprised at first at how similar it is to Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate series or Delilah S. Dawson’s Blud series (sassy Victorian spinster for the former and Victorian circus for the latter; P.S. Both are great,…