Happy Friday! Positivity Wave #84 (January 21, 2022)

Hello and Happy Friday! It is a time to spread some positivity amongst all the doom and gloom on social media and in the news. Please feel free to join in with your own Positivity post.

Stolen From Her Mother by Rachel Wesson #BookReview #Audiobook @Bookouture @wessonwrites

Happy Publication Day to Rachel Wesson on the book birthday for Stolen From Her Mother. This is an emotional, Historical Fiction book that I definitely recommend.

Thrillers I Enjoyed: First Blood by Angela Marsons, The Third Victim by Phillip Margolin #BookReview #Audiobook #BeatTheBacklist2022 #2022AudiobookChallenge #FinishingTheSeries2022 @Bookouture @MacmillanAudio

Three challenges I am working on this year are Beat the Backlist, Finish the Series and an Audiobook Challenge. These books fit all three of those and were very enjoyable, a win/win for me.

Stacking the Shelves (January 23, 2022) 📚💖

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Marlene of Reading Reality. It’s all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, books for review from authors, Netgalley, Edelweiss or publishers,  gifts or books you won. If you click on the covers, it will take you to Goodreads. 

Find the Girl by Helen Phifer #BookReview #BlogTour @Bookouture @helenphifer1

Happy Publication Day to Helen Phifer on the book birthday for Find the Girl, the fifth book in the Detective Morgan Brookes series. I loved this book and recommend it to those who enjoy a good Crime/Police Procedural Story. You don’t have to read them all to enjoy this one, but this series is quite good, I do recommend it.

Top Ten Tuesday! 2021 Releases I Was Excited to Read But Didn’t Get To (January 18, 2022) #TTT

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish and is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post. 

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (January 17, 2022) 📚📚

Welcome It’s Monday! What are you Reading? It’s hosted by Kathryn from Book Date, this is a weekly event to share what we’ve read in the past week and what we hope to read, plus whatever else comes to mind.  I have several books on the go, and some others I hope to get to, so here goes.

Two Crime Thrillers: The Sorority Murder, Twenty Years Later #BookReview #Audiobook #2022AudiobookChallenge @HarperAudio @HarlequinBooks @KensingtonBooks @recordedbooks

Two cold case crimes, two crime thrillers. One book uses a podcast to gather new information and witnesses, the other is an investigative journalist trying to solve a 20 year old crime for her television show. Both use retired law enforcement to help, but they are very different, yet both enjoyable and entertaining.

Spell the Month in Books – January 2022

Reviews From the Stacks

Spell the Month in Books was originally created by Jana @ Reviews from the Stacks. Last year, I tried to read the books I used to spell the month, but that was quite difficult. I am not doing that this year, but just highlighting books that are either on my TBR or ones that I read and enjoyed.

I am going to try and use a theme each month. For January, I am going to try and use books set during the winter. If I have read the book, a link to my review will be posted as well. Clicking on the cover will take you to Goodreads.