Books, Booze and Brunch

Note: I know the author socially.  A reread for my book club! Honestly I loved it even more on reread. I thought the agony of the neverendin...

Another vacation book! This one is a perfect post-retirement hockey romance by the author of the Game Changers series, but it's a standa...

What a charming bite sized Christmas novella! This is actually much more in line with what I expected Honeypot to be like - it's two sec...

First book of the year! This is a memoir by an author whose lifting newsletter I've been a reader of for many years at this point. It...

A delightful little novella about what happens with Queen Elizabeth II stops off at the lending library van near the palace and starts readi...

An absolutely delightful gothic manor house murder mystery with bonus gay love story book! I really, really enjoyed what this story did with...

An incredible book. I read this because I wanted to have experienced the book before I saw the movie, and the way the story is told in this ...

Note: I know the author socially.  A delightful little novella, about a girl with magic who accidentally uses it in the most cruel way imagi...

Note: I know the author socially.  A delightful book of short stories, drabbles and visual art in the Temeraire universe! Something like met...

Note: I know the author socially. I have finished the series ;____; this is both great and terrible. As is almost always true of this author...

Note: I know the author socially.  So Victory of Eagles gave me the joy of Temeraire thinking that Laurence is dead; this book gave me Temer...

Note: I know the author socially.  A quietly devastating entry in the series! I simply was not prepared to be fully losing a whole ship and ...

This past year I read and watched a lot of media about World War I, which is an era that I keep thinking about in part because of what we...

What a lovely, kind book about existing in 2025.  This is in many ways a classic chicklit book of the 2000s, but with a contemporary worldvi...

Note: I know the author socially.  Another travelogue part of this series! This one takes place in Australia, and there's a lot of good ...

Note: I know the author socially.  Everything that made the prior book in this series hard makes this book absolutely delicious for me. Laur...

Note: I know the author socially. This is the last of this series that I'm certain I've read before, primarily because it involves a...

This book was mentioned on one of my pop culture podcasts, and historical fiction about a young da Vinci, a Medici and a Cardinal in Rome im...

I initially read the titular short story last spring because I wanted to have read it before seeing the movie based on it, and I enjoyed it ...

Note: I know the author socially. This is when the series turns into a proper travel adventure! The second book in the Temeraire series is w...