“Everyone needs things that serve no greater purpose than to make them happy.”― Kelley Armstrong, A Stitch in Time Goodreads Synopsis: Thorne Manor has always been haunted… and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt's house, where she visited William Thorne, a boy her... Continue Reading →
Top Five Wednesday 5/3/23
Top Five Wednesday is a Goodreads group that posts new bookish prompts every week. This week's Topic: May 3rd: MAY You Please Read This…? To celebrate a new month starting, let’s share some recent recommendations of books we have absolutely loved! After all, May is a great time to ask if they’ll read titles we’ve... Continue Reading →
My Favorite Read of April 2023: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass Goodreads Synopsis: In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three... Continue Reading →
Throw Back Thursday Book Review
Welcome to my weekly post where I look back at some of my four and five star reads before I started Nicole's Nook. Today's book: Snow White Red-Handed by Maia Chance Publishers: Berkely Prime Crime Publication Date:November 4, 2014 Date Read: September 3, 2016 My Rating: 4 stars Favorite Quote: Goodreads Synopsis: Miss Ophelia Flax... Continue Reading →
My Favorite Read of March 2023:Thin Ice by Paige Shelton
"I knew I was keeping it together by only the thinnest of threads, but that was better than not keeping it together at all." Paige Shelton, Thin Ice Goodreads Synopsis: Beth Rivers is on the run - she's doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. Known to the world as... Continue Reading →
My Favorite Read of February 2023: The Happily Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
“This was just a season, and there's beauty in all seasons. Even if you are looking forward to the next one.” Abby Jimenez, The Happy Ever After Playlist Goodreads Synopsis: Two years after losing her fiancé, Sloan Monroe still can't seem to get her life back on track. But one trouble-making pup with a "take me... Continue Reading →
My Favorite Read of January 2023: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
"Imagine if all men took women seriously. Education would change. The workforce would revolutionize.." — Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry Goodreads Synopsis: Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s... Continue Reading →
My Favorite Read of December 2022: The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner
"Sometimes what you want is given to you in a way that is so very different from how you had pictured getting it." — Susan Meissner, The Last Year of the War Goodreads Synopsis Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a... Continue Reading →
Favorite Read of November 2022: How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
Life can be generous. It can heal the heart and whisper that it’s always possible to start again, never too late to make a difference. It asserts that there are many, many things worth living for. And one of those things—one of the most unexpectedly joyful things of all—is penguins.-Hazel Prior, How the Penguins Saved... Continue Reading →
Favorite Read of October 2022: Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
Words matter, in fact. They're not pointless, as you've suggested. If they were pointless, then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history. If they were just words, we wouldn't write songs or listen to them. We wouldn't beg to be read to as kids. If they were just words, then stories wouldn't have... Continue Reading →