Showing posts with label B.A. Paris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label B.A. Paris. Show all posts

Sunday, August 8, 2021

Lovely Books and Things - 8.8.21

Lovely Books and Things
My Weekly Books and Films Update


Linking up with:
Sunday Post (details)
Mailbox Monday (details)

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HAPPY THINGS:

1. Morrocan restaurant with belly dancing show
2. Preparing TBR pile for my Summer theme event (here)
3. Team Lab: Continuity at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco - this immersive art exhibit introduces the concept of ultrasubjective spaces.

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Library:
The Last Resort
by Marissa Stapley
Mystery, Thriller | Published: 2019 | Goodreads


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Virtual Author event: hosted SFPL
See archive of this (here)

The Passenger
How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship
by Chaney Kwak
Memoir, Travel, Survival | Published: 2021 | Goodreads


Virtual Author event: hosted by Novel Suspects
See archive of this (here)

Let's Talk Murder Books: Women in Crime Fiction Panel
The Therapist
by B.A. Paris
Thriller | Published: 2021 | Goodreads

Local Missing Woman
by Mary Kubica
Thriller, Mystery | Published: 2021 | Goodreads

Hollywood Hack
by Kellye Garrett
Mystery | Published: 2019 | Goodreads

A Game of Cones
by Abby Collette
Mystery, Cozy | Published: 2021 | Goodreads

Virtual Author event: hosted by Third Place Books
Check out their calendar for future free author events (here)
All's Well
by Mona Awad
Literary, Horror | Published: 2021 | Goodreads -giveaway offer thru 8/16/21

Virtual Author event: hosted by Green Apple Books
Check out their calendar for future free author events (here)

Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost
by David Hoon Kim
Literary, Paris | Published: 2021 | Goodreads

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Monday, September 12, 2016

Fall Reading Challenge 2016

Fall Reading Challenge
September to December 2016
sponsored by BookSparks
@booksparks #FRC2016
signup & details (here)

The 3rd BookSparks University Fall Reading Challenge sponsored by BookSparks starts September 12!
JOIN in this month!

I LOVE BookSparks reading challenges - so signing up again :-)

Reading list: my picks (complete list here)
Review links go live after posted.

Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris

Course Title: ‘Til Deceit Do Us Part

Department: Psychological Thrillers

Description: Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace – charming, elegant, enviable. But Jack and Grace are inseparable. She never answers the phone, meets you for coffee or leaves the house with anything. Can we ever truly know what goes on behind closed doors?

Amazon | Goodreads

We Are Unprepared by Meg Little Reilly

Course Title: Survival Training

Department: Climate Fiction

Description: Author Meg Little Reilly’s work as President Obama’s deputy communications director, spokesperson for the US Department of the Treasury and with the Environmental Defense Fund shines in this extremely timely, global warming-inspired debut novel. Just months after settling into their new rural home, hipster, Brooklyn couple Ash and Pia face an impending superstorm that splits their tight-knit community and exposes the cracks in their marriage.

Amazon | Goodreads | my review -DNF

London Belongs to Me by Jacquelyn Middleton

Course Title: Theatre Writing 101

Department: British Literature

Description: Broken from an unexpected betrayal, Alex Sinclair couldn’t jump on a plane to London fast enough. But when a wealthy rival fueled by ambition and jealousy threatens her career and a fledgling romance, Alex once again questions her self-worth and is left wondering if London is where she truly belongs.

Amazon | Goodreads

The Next by Stephanie Gangi

Course Title: Ghost Stories 101

Department: Paranormal Studies

Description: Is there a right way to die? If so, Joanna DeAngelis has it all wrong. As she travels beyond memory, beyond desire, she is transformed into a fierce female force of life, determined to know how to die, happily ever after.

Amazon | Goodreads

Unexpected Love by Kristy Kryszczak

Course Title: Sex and the City 101

Department: Women’s Fiction Studies

Description: Ready for a SJP-replay? Settle in with this debut novel about Inez, a freelance beauty writer living in NYC who’s navigating life in her thirties and the complicated romances she gets pulled into along the way.

Website

In the Heart of Texas: A Novel by Ginger McKnight-Chavers

Course Title: Pop Culture Conversations

Department: Women’s Fiction Studies

Description: In the Heart of Texas is a wry, humorous commentary on the complexities of race, class, relationships, politics, popular culture, and celebrity in our current society. Jo Randolph, the “poor man’s Halle Berry,” has successfully avoided waiting tables since leaving Midland, Texas, but 24 hours of poor decisions in Hollywood send her back home to lay low and reconnect with her roots.

Amazon | Goodreads

Small Admissions: A Novel by Amy Poeppel

Course Title: Keeping Up Appearances

Department: Women’s Fiction Studies

Description: A young woman is unexpectedly thrust into the cutthroat world of New York City private school admissions as she attempts to understand city life, human nature, and falling in love.

Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Stacking the Shelves - 6.18.16

Stacking the Shelves
hosted by Tynga's Reviews (details)

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

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BOUGHT:

Lady Jane
by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, Brodi Ashton
-Historical, Humor, Retelling, YA
Amazon | Goodreads


=====> Kepler's Books presented Jodi Meadows, Cynthia Hand and Brodi Ashton along with their latest book collaboration at Redwood City Public Library. It was fun to hear how they met and the writing process for the book. They read an excerpt from the book in character, hence the head gear.


Murder on the Quai
(An Aimée Leduc Investigation)
by Cara Black
-France, Mystery
Amazon | Goodreads
=====> Also got this tote for a pre-order :-)


From BEA:

GOT some YA...

The Lovely Reckless by Kami Garcia
-Romance, YA | Amazon | Goodreads

The Secret Diary of Lizzy Bennett by Natasha Farrant
-Jane Austen theme, YA | Amazon | Goodreads

This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills
-Romance, YA | Amazon | Goodreads

GOT some Fantasy...

The Littlest Bigfoot by Jennifer Weiner
-Fantasy, MG | Amazon | Goodreads

The Secret Keepers by Trenton Lee Stewart
-Fantasy, MG | Amazon | Goodreads

When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin
-Fantasy, MG | Amazon | Goodreads

GOT some Thriller...

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
-Thriller | Amazon | Goodreads

Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
-Thriller | Amazon | Goodreads

Only Daugther by Anna Snoekstra
-Thriller, Mystery | Amazon | Goodreads


UNBOXING:


=====> Exciting! my first Chatterbox win which is part of the Keep Turning the Pages Goodreads group (here).

JUNE box includes:

- Enchanted Islands by Allison Amend (with discussion guide and a note from author)
- Neon sunglasses
- Tropical flower candle
- Luggage tag
- Tropical Umbrella drinking straws

Enchanted Islands
by Allison Amend
-Historical, WWII
courtesy of Doubleday Books -Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads

Inspired by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway, Enchanted Islands is the dazzling story of an independent American woman whose path takes her far from her native Minnesota when she and her husband, an undercover intelligence officer, are sent to the Galápagos Islands at the brink of World War II.

Born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1882 to immigrant parents, Frances Frankowski covets the life of her best friend, Rosalie Mendel, who has everything Fanny could wish for—money, parents who value education, and an effervescent and winning personality. When, at age fifteen, Rosalie decides they should run away to Chicago, Fanny jumps at the chance to escape her unexceptional life. But, within a year, Rosalie commits an unforgivable betrayal, inciting Frances to strike out on her own.

Decades later, the women reconnect in San Francisco and realize how widely their lives have diverged. While Rosalie is a housewife and mother, Frances works as a secretary for the Office of Naval Intelligence. There she is introduced to Ainslie Conway, an intelligence operator ten years her junior. When it’s arranged for Frances and Ainslie to marry and carry out a mission on the Galápagos Islands, the couple’s identities—already hidden from each other—are further buried under their new cover stories. No longer a lonely spinster, Frances is about to begin the most fascinating and intrigue-filled years of her life.

Amid active volcanoes, forbidding wildlife and flora, and unfriendly neighbors, Ainslie and Frances carve out a life for themselves. But the secrets they harbor from their enemies and from each other may be their undoing.

Drawing on the rich history of the early twentieth century and set against a large, colorful canvas, Enchanted Islands boldly examines the complexity of female friendship, the universal pursuit of a place to call home, and the reverberations of secrets we keep from others and from ourselves.



Currently flipping through: from the library

My Little French Kitchen
by Rachel Khoo
-Cookbook, France
Amazon | Goodreads

=====> Crème brûlée is one of those fancy desserts I love to eat and not dare to make.

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