Celebrating a love of all things reading and writing
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: Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan Publishers: G.P. Putnam's Sons Publication Date: January 1, 2005 Date Read: Before I joined Goodreads in 2008 My Rating: 4 stars Favorite Quote... Continue Reading →
Top Five Wednesday is a Goodreads group that responds to weekly bookish prompts. This week's topic: April 5th: Platonic Friendship “Friendship is worth celebrating.” While many of us may love romance, let’s take some time for today’s prompt to feature some of our favorite non-romantic friendships we’ve read about in fiction! #1 Harry, Ron and... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. April 4: Indie/Self-Published Books (submitted by Nicole @ BookWyrm Knits) I... Continue Reading →
Since I started the blog, this has been the most exciting month for new releases. Five authors were featured in my favorite books of the month, and two were my favorite reads for the year. I've included links to those posts. All but two of these books are from authors I've read. April 4 Goodreads... Continue Reading →
"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 →
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: Four of a Kind by Valerie Frankel Publisher: Ballantine books Publication Date: February 7, 2012 Date Read: August 31, 2016 My Rating: 4 Stars Favorite quote: "The choices we made,... Continue Reading →
Top 5 Wednesday is a Goodreads group that shares weekly prompts on bookish topics. This week's topic is 5 Star predictions. These are five books which I already own that i think will be five star ratings. Synopsis: In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week's topic: March 28: Books for People Who Liked Author... Continue Reading →
Welcome to my weekly post where I share some of the great books I read before starting Nicole's Nook. Today's Book: Soy Sauce for Beginners by Kirsten Chen Publisher: New Harvest Publication Date: January 1, 2014 Date Read: December 27, 2016 My rating: 4 stars Favorite Quote:“One cannot refuse to eat just because there is... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Today's topic: March 21: TTT Rewind (Pick a previous topic that... Continue Reading →
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