Book Review All the Perfect Days by Michael ThompsonAdult Fiction | Magical Realism It’s been a long time since I’ve devoured a book in a single sitting, but this magical realism novel was just the read to break that streak! Charlie Knight is a small-town doctor with a plan to escape. He dreams of something […]
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April 2025 Mini-Challenge It’s time for our annual APRIL FOOL’S DAY mini-challenge. (Don’t worry, we promise not to rickroll you all this year!) Instead, these April 2025 prompts were inspired by a popular running joke in The 52 Book Club Facebook group. Can you guess what it might be? How do mini-challenges work? Mini-challenges are
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Book Review The Mother Next Door by Andrea Dunlop and Mike WeberNonfiction | True Crime | Memoir No bond is more sacred than that between a mother and child. And no one is more sympathetic than a mother whose child faces a life-threatening illness. But what if the mother is the cause of the illness?
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Book Review The Queens of Crime by Marie BenedictMystery | Historical Fiction Agatha Christie has long been one of my favourite authors. Her work evokes memories of my teen years, borrowing paperbacks from my mom’s Christie collection and trying to piece together “whodunnit” before Poirot or Miss Marple do. So, when I heard about Marie
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Book Review The Dark Library by Mary Anna EvansMystery | Historical Fiction | Gothic Secrets are rampant in the small town of Bentham-on-Hudson, but perhaps nowhere more so than Estella Ecker’s childhood home, Rockfall House. Returning home and taking up a teaching position at the local college, Estella searches for answers to her mother’s mysterious
Book Review The Resistance Painter by Kath JonathanHistorical Fiction | Dual Timeline Last year, two of my top historical reads for the year just happened to feature the Polish Resistance during WWII. The Warsaw Sisters by Amanda Barratt and The Keeper of the Hidden Books by Madeline Martin were both breathtaking and poignant, and opened
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March 2025 Mini-Challenge Who’s ready for some spring cleaning? We know your TBR pile is overflowing with incredible reads. The only problem? That TBR pile keeps growing! But, not to worry, because this March mini is here to help you “spring clean” your TBR and cross three of those books off the list! For this
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Book Review How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty by Bonny ReichertMemoir | Culinary Do you ever try new books solely based on recommendations from other authors? How to Share an Egg first caught my eye thanks to the endorsement by Ruth Reichl (another culinary author I can’t get
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Book Review Follow Me to Africa by Penny HawHistorical Fiction I’ve absolutely adored Peggy Haw’s past books (The Invincible Miss Cust and The Woman at the Wheel) and was so excited to see another biographical fiction about an influential, and perhaps lesser-known, historical woman. Follow Me to Africa explores the life of Mary Leakey, a
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Book Review Dinosaurs Lift the Flap by Taffy TalesChildren’s Board Book | Flap Book For the past four years, we’ve had a bit of a dinosaur invasion happening at our house. With a four-year-old who is absolutely obsessed with dinos, the kids’ room is packed with Jurassic toys and reads. So when I saw this
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