Well fellow readers, I have been MIA for almost a year. And what a year it was! On Good Friday I found out I was expecting baby boy #5. On April 30th, our house caught fire while I was home with our boys and we lost everything, nothing salvageable. All those beautiful books were fodder for the flames. Thank God the fire started during the day! We are all safe even if everything else was destroyed. I had baby boy #5 right before Thanksgiving. Then we officially moved into our rebuilt house the beginning of 2025. We have some house projects to still complete, but it is a blessing to have our own home again, even if sparsely furnished. That inflation was not kind!
My reading life this past year did not look at all as I had planned. The trauma from the fire and making sure all my babies were safe caused me to fall into a reading rut. Touching physical books made me nauseous, so I read on my phone until I could get my Kindle replaced. A great deal of those reads were pure fluff that I would not deem review worthy. But as the year progressed, I did read some books that brought me joy. I did not review any, and I need to start a new book log, but here are some standouts:
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers
Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must be Done by Mystie Winkler
A River Between Us by Jocelyn Green
Know and Tell: The Art of Narration by Karen Glass
The Hudson Collection by Jocelyn Green
The Haunting at Bonaventure Circus by Jamie Jo Wright
Night Falls on Predicament Avenue by Jamie Jo Wright
Here's to a new year of reading and reviews!
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