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Top Ten Tuesday: Unread Books on My Shelves I Want to Read Soon
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I love my local libraries and they’re such a great resource for so many things. Plus, there’s this beautiful thing called a holds list. Trouble is, I work full-time and have a family, so I don’t always get through books as fast as I’d like sometimes. This, in turn, leads me to play this game I like to call hold list roulette. I keep clicking ‘deliver later’ because I’m either not in the mood for that particular book or because I’m buried in ARCs, group reads, or other things.
Too bad there’s not a payout for finally borrowing that book you’ve pushed back fifteen times.
Here’s a list of the oldest books on my holds list.
Insurgency by Jeremy W. Peters. April 3, 2022
Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutano. August 31, 2022
Cultish by Amanda Montell. September 11, 2022
Up to No Gouda by Linda Reilly. January 22, 2023
The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez. November 18, 2022
It’s One of Us by J.T. Ellison. February 16, 2023
Thief in the Night by KJ Charles. June 28, 2023
The Only Purple House in Town by Ann Aguirre. July 18, 2023
Forget the Alamo by Bryan Burrough. November 9, 2023
And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling. May 10, 2023.
What’s been lingering on your TBR, just begging to be read?
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A Moment I Wish I Could Relive
Top Ten Tuesday: Our Recent 5-Star Reads
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For this week’s freebie topic, I’ve decided to highlight the books that the reviewers here at Long and Short Reviews have recently given five stars.
We don’t rate books that highly very often, so kudos to all of the authors who have earned this honor!
I included their genre or genres in parentheses as well.
This post was written a few weeks in advance, but I gathered up as many recent examples as I could find in our queue.
1. The Excitements by CJ Wray (Fiction)
2. Slaughterhouse by K.A. Lugo (Suspense/Mystery)
3. The Fog Ladies: Date with Death by Susan McCormick (Mystery)
4. Sally Mitts Finds a Home: The Story of a Shy Shelter Kitten by Shain Stodt (Children’s)
5. Dreams of Drowning by Patricia Averbach (Mystery, Paranormal)
6. All Rhodes Lead to Here by Mariana Zapata (Romance)
7. The Devil and Mrs. Davenport by Paulette Kennedy (Mystery, Paranormal)
8. Dogboy vs. Catfish by Luke Gracias (Mystery)
9. The Perfectly Fine Neighborhood edited by Kayleigh Dobbs, Stephen Kozeniewski, and Wile E. Young (Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Horror)
10. Embracing Amelia by Elaine Violette (Historical Romance)
For the fellow reviewers reading this post, how often do you give out five star ratings in your reviews?
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Books on my TBR the longest
Top Ten Tuesday: Picture Books About Rain
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One of my favorite moments as a Long and Short Reviews blogger and reviewer happens when review requests for picture books are submitted to us.
I try to request as many of them as I can because it’s wonderful to see what’s new in that genre and because I deeply enjoy spreading the word about the many beautiful picture books out there.
While I haven’t read any of these picture books yet, they do fit this week’s April Showers theme and they all look adorable.
If you’ve read any of them, please feel free to share your thoughts.
1. Hooray for Summer! by Kazuo Iwamura
2. The Day It Rained Watermelons by Mabel Watts
3. Stormy Night by Salina Yoon
4. A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman
5. Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema
6.That Sky, That Rain by Carolyn B. Otto
7.Chirri & Chirra: The Rainy Day by Kaya Doi
8. McBroom the Rainmaker by Sid Fleischman
9. Rain Makes Applesauce by Julian Scheer
10. Pika Bunny and the Thunderstorm: Conejito Pika Y La Tormenta by Wendy Gilhula
March Book of the Month Poll Winner ~ The Fog Ladies: Date with Death by Susan McCormick
The Fog Ladies: Date with Death by Susan McCormick
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Genre: Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, Contemporary
Rating: 5 Stars
Reviewed by ChamomileThe Fog Ladies are at it again, spunky senior sleuths and an overstressed young medical resident solving murders from their elegant apartment building in San Francisco. They join a senior dating group, and romantic intrigue soon turns to murder. Graham Parselle, lady killer extraordinaire, plunges off a cliff on a Senior Singles outing. Did one of his dates pitch him over? Or is Olivia Honeycut’s new beau to blame?
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An Interesting Story about Family or a Friend
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