Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 4
With 29 stories, 624 pages, and a recommended reading list, the Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 4 is definitely worth its $13.99 cost. This collection includes the gamut of subgenres within the field. Hard science, soft space opera, spacemen, aliens, and robots populate these pages. I’m positive thatContinue Reading
Healthy Habits Suck
“The majority of North Americans eat too much processed food, don’t sleep enough, drink too much, and are overweight.” Why? Because Healthy Habits Suck! Healthy behavior goes against our caveman instincts to rest, avoid pain, seek pleasure, and live in the now. To override those instincts, you must find moreContinue Reading
Succeed with Social Media
If you have a product or service that you wish to sell, you must know how to Succeed with Social Media. Here are some tips from the book: Use the 80/20 rule. Spend 80% of your time not selling your product but instead provide information about your product’s subject area.Continue Reading
Pretty Revenge
Jordana is a celebrity wedding planner being interviewed on a morning news show. She is also the person who ruined Kerrie’s life eighteen years ago. Kerrie is unemployed and in a mundane relationship when she decides to enact her Pretty Revenge by applying to be Jordana’s assistant. It was funContinue Reading
Upcoming, the apocalypse
This four-day weekend I’m challenging my book selection skills by pre-rating three apocalyptic thrillers, reading them, and seeing if I was right in my initial assessment. I choose my books on NetGalley and Edelweiss+ through what interests me at the time. Some I select months in advance of the publishingContinue Reading
We Went to the Woods
Five millennials try to live off the grid with horrible results in We Went to the Woods. Mack has a secret that caused her to be unemployed and shunned by the world. When she meets Louisa at a high society fundraising party as a bartender, she meets Louisa’s friends, Chloe,Continue Reading
Toxic Toffee
Bailey, Aiden, and the rest of the village of Harvest Ohio return in Toxic Toffee, the fourth in the Amish Candy Shop cozy mystery series. It’s a week before Easter when the village’s self-appointed marketer, Margot, convinces chocolatier Bailey to make a six foot toffee bunny for the town square.Continue Reading
High Heaven
David is having a bad day. First, he confesses his love to a co-worker. Her response is that she is engaged to the very co-worker that encouraged him to express his love. Second, he is crushed by a falling piano. High Heaven is the story of how even heaven disappointsContinue Reading
Paranoid
Rachel has PTSD after a teenage game of tag turns deadly for her half-brother, Luke. Twenty years and a divorce later, she feels people are following her and that objects are being moved in her house by intruders. Is it real or is she just being Paranoid? Luke’s death wasContinue Reading
Hangry
Hangry is an empowering read letting woman get back their mojo by using a personalized diet and exercise plan. No one wants to be an Hangry B*tch. This book will describe why woman feel tired all the time, have sleep issues, and feel overwhelmed. Spoiler partial answer: we are overwhelmedContinue Reading
Black Jersey
You are racing on a bicycle in the Tour de France. It’s your first race as a professional earning 50 euros a week (or almost $57 American). Not enough to support this expensive sport but enough to enter the race. If you win the yellow jersey (first place) in evenContinue Reading
Left Fur Dead
The author of Left Fur Dead had me at “telepathic rabbit”. Jules runs a rabbit rescue on her farm in rural New Hampshire with a yarn store on the premises. Walking with Jules one snowy morning, her pet rabbit, Bun, finds a dead body. The body is Arty, the localContinue Reading
Last of Will
Greer is a self-described “dumb teenager” at the mature age of fifteen. In the Last of Will, she breaks the fourth wall by asking “I still can’t fathom how you got in here to watch this train wreck unfold. Seriously, I don’t recall sending out invitations. But since you’re here,Continue Reading
Time After Time
Take one part Benjamin Button, one part Age of Adaline, and one part a history of Grand Central Station. Stir together and you have Time After Time. Joe is a leverman in 1937 in New York’s Grand Central Station. When he meets Nora, a confused young lady without either luggageContinue Reading
Essential Vegan Air Fryer Cookbook
Seventy-five yummy recipes are included in Essential Vegan Air Fryer Cookbook. I’ve had an air fryer for years that I have used solely for potato and carrot fries. However, the recipes in this cookbook might make me leave the air fryer on the counter. There is something here for allContinue Reading
First Mistake
Why wait for Reese Witherspoon’s stamp of approval? If you don’t snap up this jaw-dropping domestic thriller immediately, that would be your First Mistake. Alice had the perfect marriage with Tom and their daughter, Sophie. They were starting an interior design company together. Then he died. Now, Alice is marriedContinue Reading