Blogging catch up November reads

November is always a busy month. Whilst I managed to find the time to read, I didn’t blog any of the titles I read. I enjoyed the first magical mystery bookshop and so in November I read the next title in the series Prose and Cons. It’s the annual wine and food festival in Cascade Springs and the bookshop puts on an Edgar Allan Poe reading. Just before the reading starts, one of the Red Inkers, the weekly writing group that meet at the bookshop is found dead. All of the writing group are suspects. It’s such a cozy read, I can’t wait for the next book in the series to be released next year.

Next I read The impossible girl by Lydia Kang. This was a Once Upon a Book Club title for October. I personally never would have picked this for myself, but I loved it. Part historical fiction, part medical mystery. This book is set in the 1850s in New York when grave robbers stole bodies for medical students to practice on. People with medical anomalies are dying suddenly. Cora was born with two hearts, can she protect herself? Such a thriller! As with all the Once Upon a Book club titles, this one came to life with the cleverly selected gifts.

For something a bit different, I enjoyed the Summer beach read The Identicals. Two twin girls are separated from each other and one of their parents when their parents get divorced. One sister lives on Nantucket with her mother and the other sister lives with her father on Martha’s Vineyard. When  the girls father passes away. The girls swap islands and try to find themselves. I loved this Elin Hildebrand novel, won’t be my last that I read.

The year I turned forty had been sitting on my shelf for a while, and so I blew off the dust and was not disappointed. I actually was a bit surprised at the plot line as I didn’t realise it was a time travel book. I may not have picked it up to read had I known this. Three friends go to Vegas for their fiftieth birthday. At a hypnotist show, they have the opportunity to travel back in time to when they were forty and recorrect the way their lives turned out. If they are not happy at the end of the year they can go back to the way things were at 50. An interesting read.

 

The last book for the month was Danielle Steel’s The House. It’s been a long time since I read Danielle Steel. This book was an enjoyable read as tax lawyer, Sarah has been managing the tax affairs of a 99 year old wealthy client for many years. When he passes away, Sarah rethinks her life and makes some risky decisions.