Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Do Not Disturb by Freida McFadden

Quinn is on the run after killing her abusive husband, but a snowstorm sees her hiding out in a nearby hotel instead of making it to Canada as she'd planned.

3.5 stars. 

Friday, December 19, 2025

Twice by Mitch Albom

 On her deathbed, Alfie's mother tells him he has the power to repeat events twice, essentially a do-over.  Through his notebook, we learn of all the times he relived things and how that worked out for him.

4 stars.

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

My Friends by Fredrik Backman

 Audio.  13.25 hours.

Read by Marin Ireland.

Louisa meets an artist who bequeaths her a picture he painted as a teenager.  When the artist's friend brings her the painting, she hears the story of the lives of the artist and his friends.

4.5 stars.


The Rules for Disappearing by Ashley Elston

 Audio.  9.25 hours.

Read by Alexa Elmy.

Meg and her family are in pulled from their lives and put in witness protection and nobody will tell her why until one night when a gun is fired near her and memories flood back.

This was good in an angsty teenage way.

4 stars.

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

The Black Wolf by Louise Penny

Continuation of The Grey Wolf. 

Gamache and company stop a plot to coerce the US into invading Canada.

This just felt like too much.  I had to force myself to finish it.

3 stars.

Thursday, December 4, 2025

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

Audio.  14.5 hours.

Read by Julia Whelan.

The story of Elsa Wolcott Martinelli who marries into a farming family on the Texas panhandle in the 1930s.  The depression and the Dust Bowl encourage her to take her two children west to California where she hopes to find a better life for them all.  Heartbreaking tale.

Subtracted a half star for descriptions of the animals suffering.

4 stars.

Return of the Spider by James Patterson

 Alex Cross revisits some of his earliest homicide investigations and finds his old nemesis Gary Soneji may have started killing earlier than he knew.

This felt like old school Patterson.  Much better than the stuff he's been churning out with co-authors.

4 stars.