Author: elzaread

Ten Books I recommend to THE OTHERS

Greetings you guys! Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. We’ve skipped a couple of weeks, but today we just feel like having some fun. Every week Jana will give us a prompt and then you just go along with it, or tweak it as you see fit (not sure if that’s in the fine print, I just made that part up). Today’s prompt is Books I recommend to others the most. Our rendition: Books I recommend to THE OTHERS. Yes, I am aware there are thousands of books out there dealing with the others, but these are just a few that we’ve read and we’ve tried to cover a broad variety of readers. A ghost for every reader, you may say. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James – he story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories ’round the fire on Christmas Eve. One of the guests tells about a governess at a country house plagued by supernatural visitors. But in the hands of Henry James, the master of nuance, this little tale of terror is an exquisite gem of sexual and psychological ambiguity. Only the young governess can see the ghosts; only she […]

Posted May 9, 2023
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#TagMe for Murder by Sarah E. Burr

#TagMe for Murder by Sarah E. Burr Series: Trending Topic Myteries #2 on April 25th, 2023 Genres: Cozy Mystery Pages: 327 Format: ARC Source: Great Escapes Tours Buy on Amazon Goodreads When murder trends too close to home, social media influencer Coco Cline will have to swipe through a sea of trolls to tag a killer. After cracking her first case, Cordelia “Coco” Cline’s life is finally getting back to normal—or as normal as life can be when you have over three million followers online. With a thriving business, a devoted boyfriend, and her two besties living right up the street, Coco is set to have the most fun summer of her life until Larry and Rosalynn Dunmer move into the condo next door. Coco and her friends do their best to avoid the confrontational duo, but when a party at a swanky new wine bar brings everyone together, things become less than neighborly faster than a celebrity-themed hashtag goes viral. Larry levels some super shady threats toward Coco and her BFF Jasper, which could have dire consequences for their multimedia empires. Just as Coco begins to wonder if she’ll have to spend the rest of the summer looking over […]

Posted May 8, 2023
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The Sunday Post #93

Greetings you guys! It’s May – It’s May – the crazy month of May! All over the world, the weather doesn’t know what it wants to do in May. It’s just MAYbe weather. Maybe it will rain, maybe it will sunny, maybe, it will windy. Alas, no use in worrying about the weather. So let’s see – who watched the Coronation of King Charles III? We did and I have to say, it was lovely seeing the old folks playing dress-up. No use in growing old if you can’t do it with a sense of humor. Everything else was magical and regal. Fit for a king. How’s life been treating all of you? We are well! Mommy is still working her ass off (am I allowed to say it like that on here?), but that’s okay, she is enjoying it and as with most things in life, I know the new business will start settling down and we will fall back into a comfortable rhythm. I guess we can blog a bit more, but the bits of free time she has at the moment, is spend on us and on reading. We still read up quite a storm and we’ve […]

Posted May 7, 2023
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The Forgotten Palace by Alexandra Walsh

The Forgotten Palace by Alexandra Walsh Published by Boldwood Books on April 12th, 2023 Genres: Historical Fiction Pages: 365 Format: ARC Source: Boldwood Blog Tours Buy on Amazon Goodreads In an underground labyrinth a lost soul wanders, waiting for revenge, waiting for love… London 1900 Alice Webster has made the worst decision of her life. When her Aunt Agatha offers her the chance to go on a Grand Tour she jumps at the opportunity to get away from the glare of scandal. Heading off to see the world as the century turns, Alice begins to believe her broken heart can be healed, and a chance encounter on a train bound for Paris changes everything. When their journey takes them to a Cretan house thick with history, and the world-famous dig at Knossos, stories from the past begin to echo through Alice’s life. London Present Day Eloise De’Ath is meant to be a grieving widow. But if people knew the truth about her late husband, they’d understand why she can’t even pretend. Needing to escape, Eloise heads to Crete and the house her father-in-law Quinn left her, and slowly Quinn’s home begins to reveal its mysteries. In his office Eloise discovers […]

Posted April 19, 2023
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The Last Message by Catherine Hope

The Last Message by Catherine Hope Published by Headline Review on April 11th, 2023 Genres: Romance Format: ARC Source: Caffeinated PR Buy on Amazon Goodreads A message meant for another. A love meant only for her. If you love Holly Miller’s The Sight of You, Rebecca Serle’s In Five Years and Nicholas Sparks, you won’t want to miss the breathtaking love story of the year that will grip your heart in every way. …………………………………. This year I am sending my last message to you. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to forgive myself, and I will never forget you, but I have to find a way to let you go. When Lizzie is woken in the night by a text message clearly not meant for her, she is intrigued and haunted by the words she sees. After losing her beloved twin brother, she knows something of grief and the struggle to rebuild a life. Nick, a widower for three years, is haunted by the disappearance and presumed death of his wife. When these two lonely hearts are drawn together, an unexpectedly deep and powerful emotional connection is formed. Perhaps finally this is the chance for both of them […]

Posted April 18, 2023
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Blog Tour & Excerpt: An Accomplished Woman by Suzan Lauder

An Accomplished Woman by Suzan Lauder Series: Cecilia’s Mismatches #1 Published by Meryton Press on March 28, 2023 Genres: Regency Romance Pages: 158 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Audra Hales is a lady of many perfect accomplishments—at least she believes so. It is no wonder: she has mirrored her great friend Cecilia, the newly minted Lady Hoxley, so how could her talents not be worthy of the highest praise? A self-described matchmaker, Cecilia has brought Audra to Bath—where balls and excursions abound—with the intention of matching her with the gregarious Lord Garner Tremaine. Though he seems an affable and talented gentleman, his brother, the marquess, is quite the opposite. As head of his family, Everett Tremaine, the Marquess of Vernon acts on behalf of his father, the duke, who remains secluded from Lady Hoxley’s guests. With his obligations, Everett has no time for foolish temptations such as Miss Hales…so why does he constantly find her thrown into his path? Meanwhile, Audra has conjured all sorts of wild imaginings concerning the frustrating marquess, and every time she encounters him, he leaves her breathless rather than answering her questions! After all, what is ailing the mysterious duke? Could the marquess be a villain […]

Posted April 13, 2023
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Ten Animal Titles that has NOTHING to do with Animals

Greetings you guys! Welcome to another edition of Top Ten Tuesday. As always, TTT is hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt is Books with Animals in the title or Books with Animals on the covers. Those of you who know our blog, will know that we’ve done over and over again. Of course I always try to fit TTT to fit me and therefore animals in titles or animals on the covers, have been covered excessively. So for today, I will once again take the prompt and tweak it slightly. Let’s talk about books with animals in the title, but it has nothing to do with said animal. “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why.” They are an unlikely pair: George is “small and quick and dark of face”; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a “family,” clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California’s dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can […]

Posted April 11, 2023
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The Sunday Post #92

Greetings you guys! How’s your Easter Weekend so far? Ours are just fabulous. We’ve been doing nothing much but reading and sleeping and watching TV. Absolute bliss… The first term of the year is done and dusted and school will restart on Tuesday again. Not that my Mommy had any holidays (except for the Easter Weekend). But that’s okay! My Mommy had a really good first term and although she really works her damn ass off, she loves it and all the kids love it as well. And I guess that’s what it’s all about. There will be time again for serious blogging. Yes, we do miss the almost daily chit chat here on the blog, but we’ve decided to do what we can, when we can. At least we still read quite a bit! And all things do have a positive side to it. We don’t buy any new books and we take on very few review books at the moment. Just until we know we are going to have more time for blogging again. If you’ve missed any of our recent ARC reviews, we’ve added links to the covers below: On […]

Posted April 9, 2023
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Weekend Book Friends #37

Greetings you guys! It’s April and the first time we get to take part in Friday Link up! This year has been super busy so far, but I’ve decided to stop complaining about the fact that we hardly get to the blog at all, and just be thankful for every spare minute we have. Of course we’ll spend it with you! How have you all been doing? Anybody else as busy as an ant gathering for winter? It’s Easter Friday, so that means we have a long weekend and my Mommy are finally settling down with a few great books and we even set aside some time for blogging today. It’s also April and April means that we read Titanic. No, not huge piles of books (we wish!), but literally books on the Titanic. Every year we try to read one during the first two weeks of April to commemorate the historical, but still tragic event. This year, we are reading this one: We are about 10% in, but so far we really are enjoying it. Let’s see what my fellow weekend readers will think of this one. Our first stop is with @ Reading is my Super Power for First […]

Posted April 7, 2023
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Madame Pommery – Creator of Brut Champagne by Rebecca Rosenberg

Madame Pommery – Creator of Brut Champagne by Rebecca Rosenberg Series: Champagne Widows Published by Lion Heart Publishing on March 21, 2023 Genres: Historical Fiction Pages: 400 Format: ARC Source: The History Quill Book Club Buy on Amazon Goodreads A Champagne Widows Novel Champagne, France, 1860. Madame Pommery, an etiquette teacher and orphanage founder, loses her husband and is forced to support her family. With no experience, the forty-year-old widow decides to make champagne. Her unique vision is to change it from a sweet dessert beverage to a dry, crisp wine to be enjoyed anytime. When champagne makers refuse to teach her their craft, she forges ahead on her own and secretly begins the excavation of champagne caves under the Reims city dump. Soon after, her son and her entire crew are conscripted to fight the Franco-Prussian war, leaving Madame Pommery alone to struggle with her champagne dreams. After Napoleon and a hundred thousand French troops are captured, the Prussians invaded France, and Prussian General Frederick Franz occupies Madame Pommery’s house as his army headquarters. Undaunted, Pommery uses her secret wine caves to hide the Francs-Tireurs, resistance fighters for France, while she plans to build a spectacular castle winery above […]

Posted March 31, 2023
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