A Belle in a Bookshop

The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella As I sat down to make my recommendation today, I was having a hard time. One goal with this year’s blog is to not repeat authors. That is already proving to be difficult; as I have weekly combed through […]

Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell “ The dead have never bothered me. It’s the living that I fear. ” About six or seven years ago, I borrowed a bunch of books from a friend who had an impressive library. Most of the books that I borrowed, […]

The Little Lady Agency by Hester Browne ”Gentlemen! No Little Lady in Your Life? Call the Little Lady Agency: Everything organized, from your home to your wardrobe, your social life to you. No funny business or laundry.” I have so many friends who claim they […]

The Music Maker Series – Inharmonic by A.K.R. Scott ” Nadja’s eyelids fell shut once more as his breath washed over her. The room spun, threatening her ability to remain standing. She slid one hand down across the hard plane of his chest. She could […]

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes “ …I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could […]

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness ” It begins with absence and desire.  It begins with blood and fear.  It begins with a discovery of witches. “ I usually seem to have the luck to stumble upon serial books at the end,  when all of […]

Something Blue by Emily Giffin ” I ripped out a page and wrote: “Steps to Becoming a Better Darcy.” I thought for a second, replaying Ethan’s speech. Then I wrote: 1. Go to an ob-gyn in London and prepare for motherhood! 2. Be more healthy, […]

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ” “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been complied and recompiled many times over many years and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travelers […]

Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig “He was alone; he would always be alone. Rhett could endure being unloved. He could not live without loving.”  There are few books that I read that pull me in and keep me a willing prisoner. Few books can […]

The Mortal Instruments – Book 1 City of Bones by Cassandra Clare “Clary glanced at the spot where the boy had disappeared from, and said nothing. There wasn’t even a smear of blood there – nothing to show that the boy had ever existed.  “They […]