Avid reader. Amateur photographer. San Francisco Bay Area native. Food lover. Boston Terrier fan.

I'm currently reading My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (Fredrik Backman), my March/2015 selection in the Book Girls' Guide ICYMI challenge.

Up next: The Perfect Marriage (Jeneva Rose) and The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon), more nominees for my 12 (25) in 2024 recommendations from Facebook friends. And if there's time in April, Mademoiselle Chanel (C.W. Gortner), a second candidate for the Book Girls Guide's April ICYMI reading challenge.

After that we'll see what grabs me.

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Here's what I've read recently...

April 2024:
Betrayal: My Story of Marital Deception, Heartbreak, and Choosing Forgiveness: Year One (The Wife)
Bellweather (Connie Willis)
Kiki Man Ray (Mark Braude)

Q1 2024:
Ben's Bones (Joseph C. Gioconda)
The Good Girl (Mary Kubica)
The Fortune Hunter (Daisy Goodwin)
Blue Angel (Francine Prose)
Legends & Lattes (Travis Baldree)
Small Town Christmas (Olivia Miles)
The Boys in the Boat (Daniel James Brown)
American Prometheus (Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin)
The Hollow Places (T. Kingfisher)
Relatively Guilty (William McIntrye)
Wild (Cheryl Strayed)
The Violin Conspiracy (Brendan Slocumb)
Calling Me Home (Julie Kibler)
The Echo of Old Books (Barbara Davis)

Q4 2023:
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (Allan Gurganus)
A Quiet Life (Ethan Joella)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
Forever Young: A Memoir (Hayley Mills)
Under Fire: 13 Rules for Surviving Cancel Culture & Other Crises (Wesley Donehue)
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I (Tracy Borman)
The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Laurie R. King)
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
Out of the Night that Covers Me (Pat Cunningham Devoto)
Beauty & the Beast: Lost in a Book (Jennifer Donnelly)
Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
Cosmic Christmas (Max Lucado)
Identity: Why It Doesn't Matter What You Think About Yourself (Robert Fritz & Dr. Wayne Scott Andersen)

Q3 2023:
The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah)
The Eighty Dollar Champion (Elizabeth Letts)
Alice I Have Been (Melanie Benjamin)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
The Reading List (Sara Nisha Adams)
Nineteen Minutes (Jodi Picoult)
The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)
Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Kim Michele Richardson)
Britt-Marie was Here (Fredrik Backman)
Educated: A Memoir (Tara Westover)