Prairie Man: My Little House Life & Beyond by Dean Butler #BookReview #NetGalley #Citadel #Memoir #LHOTP #Television #50thAnniversary #LauraIngallsWilder

If you're a fan of 1970s television show #LHOTP, you'll want to check out Dean Butler's memoir, #PrairieMan. It's heartfelt and honest, and just the thing I needed to read during this #50thanniversary year. #ARC #NetGalley #BookReview #CitadelBooks

Cast just before his twenty-third birthday, Dean Butler joined Little House on the Prairie halfway through its run, gaining instant celebrity and fans’ enduring affection. Ironically, when the late, great Michael Landon remarked that Little House would outlive everyone involved in making it, Butler deemed it unlikely. Yet for four decades and counting, Butler has been defined in the public eye as…

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Let's Make Bread! A Comic Book Cookbook #BookReview #NetGalley #TenSpeedGraphic #NewBooks

Every wanted to learn how to make bread but were intimidated by the thought? A forthcoming #Comicbookcookbook coming out could help. I found parts of it very useful, especially the visuals. #BookReview #LetsMakeBread #ARC #NetGalley #cookbooks

An accessible and easy-to-follow comic book cookbook for baking delicious breads, featuring a basic universal method, guidelines for maintaining a sourdough starter, and recipes for classic loaves and fun new riffs, from the beloved author of Flour Water Salt Yeast New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ken Forkish adapts his expert bread baking tips and recipes from Evolutions in…

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Dear Readers and Riders: The Beloved Books, Faithful Fans, and Hidden Private Life of Marguerite Henry #BookReview #ARC #Edelweiss

Did you read the classic children's story, #MistyofChincoteague? A new biography explores the life and works of author #MargueriteHenry. #ReadersandRiders is a Really interesting book! #Edelweiss #BookReview #TrafalgarSquareBooks #ARC

The untold story of the bestselling children’s book author and how her most popular titles came to influence generations of aspiring writers and devoted equestrians. In certain circles, her name inspires immediate recognition and pronouncements of a committed admiration that has likely spanned decades. As an author, Marguerite Henry was indeed remarkably prolific, with 59 books published,…

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The Last Hope (Maggie Hope #11) by Susan Elia MacNeal #BookReview #NetGalley #ARC #HistoricalMystery #BantamBooks

#MaggieHope is back for the final volume in the #WWII #HistoricalMystery series. She's met everyone from Churchill to Eleanor Roosevelt and Coco Chanel, who is back in this volume to ask Maggie a big favor. #BookReview #ARC #NetGalley #BantamBooks

Maggie Hope has come a long way since she was Mr. Churchill’s secretary. In the face of tremendous danger, she’s learned espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance. But things are different now that she has so much to lose, including the possibility of a family with John Sterling, the man who’s long held her heart. British Intelligence has ordered Maggie to assassinate Werner Heisenberg, the…

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Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty by Alexander Larman #BookReview #NetGalley #StMartinsPress #ARC

The third book in a trilogy about the House of Windsor is about to be released. #PowerandGlory shows the royal family in the years following WWII up through the coronation of #QueenElizabethII. #BookReview #NetGalley #StMartinsPRess #ARCReview

This book is the conclusion of Larman’s ‘Windsors trilogy’. It will begin with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke of Windsor’s wartime treachery, and will end with the Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. In between, it will depict a monarchy – and a country – struggling to cope with the aftermath of World War Two, in an era where old certainties have been replaced by the rise of…

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The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters by Susan Page #BookReview #ARCReview #NetGalley

When I decided on a career path many years ago, it was to follow the path of #BarbaraWalters. A new in-depth biography looks at the trailblazer in the world of #BroadcastJournalism. #TheRulebreaker #BookReview #NetGalley #SimonandSchuster #ARCReview

Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services and social media half a century later. She was not just a groundbreaker for women (Oprah announced when she was seventeen that she wanted to be Barbara Walters), but also expanded the big TV interview and then dominated the…

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Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack #AudiobookReview #NetGalley #MacMillanAudio #CozyMystery

I just listened to a fantastic contemporary #cozymystery that's also a behind-the-scenes look at publishing world. #EveryTimeIGoOnVacationSomeoneDies is laugh out loud funny, and a good mystery, too! #Bookreview #audiobook #macmillanaudio #netgalley

Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. All that bestselling author Eleanor Dash wants is to get through her book tour in Italy and kill off her main character, Connor Smith, in the next in her Vacation Mysteries series―is that too much to ask? Clearly, because when an attempt is made on the real Connor’s life―the handsome but infuriating con…

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Lucky by Jane Smiley #BookReview #NetGalley #NewBooks #Knopf #HistoricalFiction

A forthcoming book features a young woman named Lucky and her life as a songwriter, starting in the U.S. in the 1960s and up to modern day. Excellent women's fiction! #Lucky #JaneSmiley #knopfbooks #bookreview #ARCreview #Netgalley

Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her uncle Drew took her to the racetrack, where she got lucky—and that roll of two-dollar bills she won has never since left her side. Jodie thrived in the warmth of her extended family, and then—through a combination of hard work and serendipity—she started a singing…

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Off the Air by Christina Estes #BookReview #ARCReview #NetGalley #CozyMystery #MinotaurBooks #NewBooks

What a great debut offering from reporter turned author, Christina Estes. #OfftheAir is a murder mystery with a lot of behind-the-scenes of a news station thrown in, which was just right for this former TV producer. #Bookreview #minotaurbooks #cozymystery

Equal parts thought-provoking and entertaining, Emmy Award winning reporter Christina Estes introduces Jolene Garcia in her Tony Hillerman Prize winning debut, Off the Air . Jolene Garcia is a local TV reporter in Phoenix, Arizona, splitting her time between covering general assignments―anything from a monsoon storm to a newborn giraffe at the zoo―and special projects. Stories that take more…

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Death in Venice (Lady Eleanor Swift #17) by Verity Bright #BookReview #ARCReview #NetGalley #Bookouture #CozyMystery

Eleanor Swift is back with another #GoldenAgeMystery, this time in Venice. I love this plucky, independent, forthright heroine and enjoy all her adventures. #DeathinVenice #bookreview #Netgalley #Bookouture #cozymystery #newbooks

Stunning views across the Grand Canal and a hotel suite fit for royalty… Lady Eleanor Swift is having a jolly good time on her Italian vacation, until a gondola ride is cut murderously short! 1924. Lady Eleanor Swift has been on a grand tour around Italy for a month with her butler Clifford. Finally arriving in Venice, she’s thrilled to be attending the famous carnival: all that’s needed is the…

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How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files #1) by Kristen Perrin #BookReview #ARCReview #NetGalley #Dutton #CozyMystery

For fans of #ThursdayMurderClub, there's a new mystery series that you have to check out! #HowToSolveYourOwnMurder is a great dual timeline murder mystery set at a country manor in a small town. #duttonbooks #bookreview #bookstagram #cozymystery

For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club , an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate… Now it’s up to her great-niece to catch the killer.  It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best…

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Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle #BookReview #NetGalley #MagicalRealism #AtriaBooks #ContemporaryRomance #NewBooks

Imagine knowing exactly how long each romantic relationship you have is going to last. That's the premise of a new story by Rebecca Serle featuring a little magical realism and a whole lot of hope. #ExpirationDates #AtriaBooks #BookReview #bookstagram

Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man , she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together. The papers told her she’d spend three days with Martin in Paris; five weeks with Noah in San Francisco; and three months with Hugo, her ex-boyfriend turned best friend. Daphne has been receiving the…

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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt by Edward F. O'Keefe #BookReview #NetGalley #ARCReview #Biography #Presidents

A forthcoming book on Theodore Roosevelt examines the influence of five women in his life and how they helped shape his presidency. #BookReview #ARCReview #womenshistory #presidentialhistory #NewBooks #SimonandSchuster #TheodoreRoosevelt #AliceRoosevelt

A spirited and poignant family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life, especially his mother, sisters, and wives. Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that women ought to be paid equal to men and have the option of keeping their maiden names upon marriage. It’s little surprise he’d be a…

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Secrets of a Scottish Isle (A Jane Wunderly Mystery #5) by Erica Ruth Neubauer #ARCReview #BookReview #NetGalley #KensingtonBooks #NewBooks #Mystery

On an isolated isle off the western coast of Scotland, #JaneWunderly must investigate a secret society where esoteric rituals blur the line between what’s real, what’s illusion, and what’s deadly. #BookReview #NetGalley #ARCReview #KensingtonBooks

On an isolated isle off the western coast of Scotland, spirited American Jane Wunderly must investigate a secret society where esoteric rituals blur the line between what’s real, what’s illusion, and what’s deadly . . . Isle of Iona, 1927: Cast away on a remote locale, Jane’s latest assignment depends on concealing her identity and blending in at an occult gathering. Not even her fiancé,…

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Coming Home by Sawyer Cole Hobson #BookReview #WisconsinAuthor #LGBTQIA #Memoir

A local #LGBTQIA author shares their story of growing up queer n an unforgiving community, and how they found joy and happiness in #Wisconsin. Very good read! #bookstagram #wisconsinauthors #bookreview

Coming from a small, rural town in North Carolina, Sawyer grapples with what it means to grow up queer, where the population of queer people was, to the untrained eye, non-existent. Nuanced with the societal constructs of the gender binary, they deconstruct what it means to be queer in an evangelical Southern family. From growing up being a family proclaimed “tomboy,” to joining the Army under…

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All You Have to Do Is Call by Kerri Maher #BookReview #HistoricalFiction #Feminism #WomensFiction Berkley

#Allyouhavetodoiscall is the fictional story of several women in the days before #roevswade became the law of the land. Interesting #womensfiction for the #prochoice crowd. #kerrimaher #bookreview #audiobookreview #womensrights #feminism #abortionrights

A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women who fought for the right to choose, from the national bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller. Chicago, early 1970s Who does a girl call when she needs help? Jane. The best-known secret in the city, Jane is a women’s health organization composed entirely of women helping women, freeing them from…

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Blog Update: Less is More in 2024! Part Two #BookReviews #BookBlogger #NetGalley #ARCReviews

I'm still reading here and there, but the funk is still alive and well. I've only read one decent book this year! Time for another update of the blog. #Bookstagram #bookblogger #NetGalley #ARCReview #librarylove

A few weeks ago, I returned to blogging after a two-month hiatus. I mentioned the reasons mainly revolved around unrealistic expectations I had set for myself regarding the reading and reviewing of books. Today, I’d like to add a bit more to the conversation. As I mentioned in my previous post, with the increasing number of NetGalley reviews submitted, I became auto approved for several…

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