January has been a light reading month and that's OK because it was a fun travel month! I also had 10 sick days and only finished one book during that time. Mostly I watched trash TV. I only finished 4 books. Three were good enough and one, Yours Truly, wasn't good enough to recommend. What good books have you read this month? DNF: Fresh Water For Flowers by Valerie Perrin - This is supposed to be a great book but I couldn't get into it. It might have been because I was not feeling well and distracted by travel. Maybe I'll give it another try later. ![]() The Sweet Blue Distance By Sara Donati, Read By Kate Reading TLDR: A sweeping saga installment in the Into The Wilderness series. In 1857 Carrie Ballentine takes an offer to move to New Mexico Territory to be a nurse and midwife. She needed to get away from her family and past and this was a great opportunity. Her brother travels with her and about half of the book covers the challenging trip. Once she arrives in New Mexico, she discovers that the doctor has not been totally honest with her about her work or his family. It's an adventure story of the time and it's a love story as Carrie builds her new life in New Mexico. If you like westerns and/or family sagas, I think you will like this one. ![]() The Silent Sisters By Robert Dugoni, Read By Eduardo Ballerini TLDR: the 3rd installment in a fast paced international espionage series. This is the 3rd book in the Charles Jenkins series. This was our road-trip-to-Denver book. There were "seven sisters" in Russia. These were female US assets working deep in the Russian government. In the last installment Jenkins barely made it out of Russia trying to bring out some of the assets. Just when he's getting settled back with his family, he's asked to return for the last 2 of the seven sisters. On his first night in Moscow he accidentally gets involved in an altercations outside of a bar. That results in the dealt of the son of the head of a brutal organized crime group. Now he's being chased by the police, the mafia and Russian agents. Like all of the Dugoni books, it's very fast paced. I did have a little trouble keeping up with the Russian names but it was worth the ride. ![]() Yours Truly By Abby Jimenez, Read By Kyla Garcia and Zachary Webber TLDR: If you like the fake dating trope you might like this. I didn't like anything about it. Brianna and Jacob are ER doctors with the emotional maturity of teenagers. These people are in their 30s and have more baggage and anxiety than a 13 year old. Brianna is newly divorced and Jacob's girlfriend broke up with him and is marrying his brother. Brianna's brother needs a kidney transplant quickly. They meet when Jacob starts working in the same ER as Brianna. They meet in a broom closet where both go to hide from the stress of work. This is my first problem with the book. Neither of these people would last a day in an ER department. That whole setting was stupid. Jacob is trying to get through all the ex-girlfriend/brother wedding activities with his outrageously multi-cultural and woke family. Brianna agrees to fake date him to help him through. It's a giant cliche from beginning to end. I read a previous book from Jiminez, Just For the Summer, and it was sweet. I thought this one would be a nice, easy read while I was sick. Instead, it was outrageously annoying. ![]() The Wide Wide Sea By Hampton Sides, Read By Peter Noble TLDR: This one is for true history lovers. This is the book that Chris and I picked for our trip from Richmond to Tucson. It's a long one at 15 and got us through 3 days. It's the story of Captain James Cook's final voyage to search for a Northwest passage. The book is really interesting and it was all new information for me. I don't know if I ever learned much about Captain Cook. I did think it could have been edited a bit but all-in-all it was very interesting. The narrator has some really interesting mispronounciations.
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Kristin F
1/31/2025 03:44:48 pm
I always love reading your book recommendations! So Thank you. I am confused about something - I had to look up TLDR, and according to google, it means too long, didn't read. You had that acronym on a couple of books that it sounds like you 'read'. ?
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The Silent Sisters sounds good I will need to check on that one -I have mainly been reading short WWII books from kindle unlimited and other not really in depth books lately. I just got started on a new one that is about 12 hours of reading it says - I've just started so not sure where it is going to go - it is called "More of Us to the West" and it is a series - if I stick with this first book and find it good I will go on to the others I did get this as a kindle unlimited also. I didn't really review the next books much but I think it has to do with time travel - so it might get interesting or down right stupid
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Mary Anne
2/1/2025 06:03:53 pm
I'm happy to see a new Sara Donati book because she's a favourite author for both the RC and I. Nothing much of interest in books for me this month, at least nothing that stands out enough to be memorable.
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