As Charles Ryder went back in time, I was there with him. The characters and the scenery presented a story about an ancestral family in a changing England. But Brideshead is more than that. It shares the story of England and of family, yes. But beyond this it shares the evolution of love to its selfless form: agape.

Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for JK Rowling. In the Cormoran Strike series, as in the Potter series, she draws tangible characters you become invested in. The growing friendship between Cormoran and Robin is a lovely subplot to the murder mysteries. Can't wait for the fifth one, Troubled Blood, coming in September!

My favorite animal tail was the thresher shark. I liked that the scorpion has an armored coat.

This book was good enough to finish but not memorable. It is one in a series that I did not read more of. Its a very typical storyline that you can tell where and how it will go. Good for an easy read to stay busy but not to challenge the mind.

4 stars for an engaging novella by Linda Castillo. In this book a power outage coincides with an Amish "rager" where a hundred or Amish teens(many underage) gather for drinking and partying. Kate Burkholder, Painters Mill Police Chief arrives at the scene and finds that a teenage girl has been assaulted and is unconscious. Kate does solve the case, with help from her small department and he significant other, John Tomasetti, investigator for the Ohio BCI(Bureau of Criminal Investigation). One quote: "It's dark in Painters Mill, Ohio. The freshly plowed fields are as rich and black as dark chocolate. " I read this library book in 1 day.

A short, fun book with the Paw Patrol about the Pups and a trip to the city in a hot air balloon. Phonics book that focuses on short i words (big, city, rip, will, etc)

Fabulous read. A fast passed WW11 account of bravery helping The jews and all the dangerous circumstances that they went through. Also intriguing is the underground Polish resistance.

Excellent fast paced "light" murder mystery. Grabbed my attention from page one. Not a lot of characters to keep track of. Setting a small English village. One in series of murder mysteries by Ann Purser. Plan on looking for more of these light reads.

This book was not as good as Uprooted was but it was still well written. It was written in multiple different view points, which I think added to the story but there were times when it was hard to tell which person was narrating the story. I've also found that while most of her plot lines are well developed, her romance plot lines are not. They feel out of place and like they just put that as an afterthought. It felt abrupt and unnecessary to the plot, and took away from the magic of the story. Overall though it was a good book, and it's good if you ignore the poorly written romance

brand new author to me! did not realize there were other series! cozy mysteries have become a new genre i can enjoy! alot of twists and turns that i was not expecting!