This is something that I have been noticing for a long time. Why do all historical fiction covers look the same? What is it about having someone facing away that seems to captivate fans of the genre? Does seeing a cover like this make you more likely to buy it? I saw this display at my local Target, and it made me laugh. Then it made me curious to look at my own shelves at home!
2022 was a pretty good, and eventful, year for me! I had a hysterectomy for medical reasons. I started a new job that I love. My daughter started kindergarten. My best friend had a baby. I got to go on an amazing trip to New York that my husband surprised me with. And I read, a lot. 🙂
I have two really exciting trips coming up – one to New York for New Years Eve, and one to Japan in the summer of 2023! I have been devouring all of the videos and blog posts that I can about these two locations and it has made me very excited about travel in general. So, I thought it might be fun to come up with a list of books where travel is one of the main themes.
Some of these options are a little bit out there, but I found the travel components to be compelling. Here is a list of 15 books about traveling!
So, my shelves have been in the same configuration for quite some time, and with the new year fast approaching, I felt it was time for a change! I came up with 6 new and different ways to organize my bookshelves, and tried them out to see what I liked best!
It’s that time of year again! Have you bought all of your holiday gifts yet? Do you have a bookworm on your list that you aren’t sure what to get? Have you found yourself saying something like, “You’re always reading, so I don’t know what books to get you that you haven’t already read or bought for yourself!”
I have great news for you…you don’t have to buy them books! I have compiled a list here for you, along with some great places to find these things, of gifts that any bookworm is likely to love!
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Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young ~ 352 pages ~ published September 27, 2022 by Delacorte Press
A rural island community steeped in the mystical superstitions of its founders and haunted by an unsolved murder is upended by the return of the suspected killer in this deeply atmospheric novel.
Emery Blackwood’s life was forever changed on the eve of her high school graduation, when the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her best friend, Lily. Now, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence among the community that fractured her world in two. She’d once longed to run away with August, eager to escape the misty, remote shores of Saiorse Island and chase new dreams; now, she maintains her late mother’s tea shop and cares for her ailing father. But just as the island, rooted in folklore and tradition, begins to show signs of strange happenings, August returns for the first time in fourteen years and unearths the past that no one wants to remember.
August Salt knows he is not welcome on Saiorse, not after the night that changed everything. As a fire raged on at the Salt family orchard, Lily Morgan was found dead in the dark woods, shaking the bedrock of their tight-knit community and branding August a murderer. When he returns to bury his mother’s ashes, he must confront the people who turned their backs on him and face the one wound from the past that has never healed—Emery. But the town has more than one reason to want August gone, and the emergence of deep betrayals and hidden promises that span generations threatens to reveal the truth behind Lily’s death once and for all.
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