I recently needed to drive eight hours by myself to visit some of my cousins in Illinois. While I had plenty of podcasts that I could listen to, I decided to check out one of the audiobooks offered on NetGalley. None of the Listen Now options appealed to me so
Last year when I was just starting to read ARCs and getting Cozying Up off the ground, I read the first book in the Piddlington Gazette series The Body on the Roundabout. While I liked the book overall, I wasn't too sure about Harry Hedges, the main character.
Part three of my reviews of book and reading tracking apps has four very different apps. As before, all of the trackers were tested for several weeks on laptop, tablet, and phone. If available, my exported GoodReads information was imported into each app. In addition, I added several ARCs (advanced
As I started to work on the next set of tracker reviews, I realized that it would be helpful to talk a bit about the parameters and categories that are popping up as I run each app through their paces. As I mentioned in Part 1 and Part 2, all
In an effort to build traction for Cozying Up, I recently re-joined Threads. I have to admit that I didn't really understand it the first time I tried it. This time, I went in with a more open mind and known community: Book Threads. It wasn'
Getting another book in a series that you love is like your birthday and Christmas all in one. I was thrilled when I heard that the fifth installment of Helena Dixon's The Secret Detective Agency series was coming out and couldn't wait to read it. The
Sometimes, you can judge a book by its cover. Especially when the cover art is a sumptuous as the one for Deb Marlowe’s The Innkeeper’s Intrigue, the second book in the Lockstone Hollow Mysteries series. I mean, just look at it! Set in the Regency period, The Innkeeper’
You may remember my earlier review of Skylar Warren’s cozy mystery Murder With A Side Of Red Beans And Rice. Set in small Georgia town of Willow Bluff, it was the first in The Honeybee Diner Mysteries series. Today, the second book in the series is available. At the
It's time for reviews for another set of book tracking apps. Like the first batch, all of the trackers were tested for several weeks on laptop, tablet, and phone. If available, my exported GoodReads information was imported into each app. In addition, I added several ARCs (advanced reader
Once upon a time, there was only one way to track the books you were reading. You got out a piece of paper or maybe a blank journal and wrote them down as you read them. Now book tracking software and apps are everywhere. Ask what other readers are using
Sometimes you run into books that should be right in your wheelhouse, but somehow aren’t. The Primrose Murder Academy by Stacy Hackney is one of those books for me. The main character of the mystery is Lila Shaw, a recently divorced mother with a recently created investigation agency. In
A question that comes up when potentially choosing a book that's not the first book in a series is will I be able to follow along or will I be lost? For me, the author who was the best at this was Sue Grafton. In just a paragraph