Michelle’s Comments (group member since Dec 08, 2021)

Michelle’s comments from the On The Same Page group.

Kristine wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Kristine wrote: "Michelle~Best of Luck with your 3rd Challenge! My Dad loved Massie Dobbs and got the entire series. Let me know if you like it, mail the books to you. Just got him..."

Will do!

Jackie wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Time and Again Last on the list, first complete!

This has become a time travel classic. The main character is chosen to participat..."

Thanks Jackie!

The Kate Burkholder series is a fun one. I can't offer any advice on reducing your TBR. I've resigned myself to an infinite TBR. I just want to keep reading until the lights go out.

No worries Alondra. When those tomatoes come in you can sit down to lunch with one of those big books and a juicy tomato sandwich. Perfect!

Thanks Karol!

Checking off visits to Alaska, Arizona, Indiana, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania.

Alissa wrote: "Alondra wrote: "I'll let you know.... in like a year. I have no intention of picking that up anytime soon. smh... LOL

umm yeaaaaaaaaa same lol"

LOL No worries. Obviously I haven't been inspired to check it out either. The first one was just such a mess.

Kristine wrote: "Michelle~Best of Luck with your 3rd Challenge! My Dad loved Massie Dobbs and got the entire series. Let me know if you like it, mail the books to you. Just got him The White Lady, a..."

Actually I read The White Lady earlier this year and absolutely loved it. It was the first Jacquline Winspear that I have read and I decided I needed to check out the Maisie Dobbs series. I'm hoping I will become as big a fan as your dad.

Starting Dogs of War. Way to go Joe!

Checking another off the list. The Hidden One

Formerly Amish Police Chief Kate Burkholder takes on a cold case to prove the innocence of a childhood friend. That this friend is also Kate's lost first love raises the stakes. Before she is finished not only is the friend exonerated but Kate has uncovered an old evil hiding amidst the Amish community.

I don't know why I like this series so much but I do. No matter how unlikely the plot, I always enjoy Chief Burkholder and her cast of characters and the setting in Amish country. This was actually one of the few books in the series where the murder did not happen in Painters Mill. It seems that Chief Burkholder's tough on crime initiative must finally be working. What a relief!

4 formerly Amish female Police Chief stars

Quote I like:

"I'm a cop"
- Linda Castillo, The Hidden One

Alondra wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Time and Again Last on the list, first complete!

This has become a time travel classic. The main character is chosen to participat..."

That's what I kept thinking the entire time. It's been so long since I saw the movie, I could never decide if it was the same story or not. If it wasn't it was very similar.

Kristine wrote: "Michelle~Very Interesting List. Congratulations on Finishing Another! Impressive. Good Luck with Your 3rd List 🥳"

Thanks Kristine!

Alondra wrote: "Alissa wrote: " BOOK 74

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer



2 STARS
Audiobook


Um. Alondra. What the heck happened in this book? L..."

Glad I'm not the only one who wasn't sure what they had read at the end of that book. I thought about it a lot but decided I didn't really want to read book 2. So I got off the merry-go-round. You guys can let me know if it would be worth checking it out.

Time and Again Last on the list, first complete!

This has become a time travel classic. The main character is chosen to participate in a time travel experiment and travels back to New York City just before the turn of the century, finding intrigue and romance. Also finding that time travel is complicated. Not changing the future becomes one of his biggest challenges.

Time travel is always a winner for me so I enjoyed this tale but not as much as I thought I would. I did not feel as connected to the characters as I would have liked. I did enjoy the time travel and that the story didn't stress over the mechanics of it. Dress and live like the past indulge in a little hypnosis and meditation and shazam there you are in the past. Want to go back to the future just go back. Easy-peasy. This is the first book in the series. I will probably pick up the next one eventually. I didn't feel much for the characters but I would like to see how the main character works his way out of the conundrum he created.

3 Livin' in the past stars.

Quotes I like:

“It was an ordinary day, a Friday, twenty minutes til lunchtime, five hours til quitting time and the weekend, ten months til vacation, thirty-seven years til retirement. Then the phone rang.”
― Jack Finney, Time and Again

“Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?”
― Jack Finney, Time and Again

Alondra wrote: "Great idea to get those series read!

So glad that we could enableassist you in your reading endeavors."

Yes! I need your "assistance" so much. I'm not at all addicted to reading. Not me. unn-uh.

Alondra wrote: "Michelle wrote: "This completes this list. I have to say I'm finding it hard to believe. I don't think I have ever finished all 16 books on one of these challenges and this year I have finished all..."

Thanks Alondra! I actually put up a third list. What is happening??!!??

Ioana wrote: "Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram is an important story that needs to be told. But while I appreciated the social comment..."

Even when you give a less than stellar review, you tweak my interest in another nonfiction. You are my best nonfiction resource. If Ioana liked it I better try to get it on the hold list.

Kicking off this list listening to Time and Again.

Ioana wrote: "I haven't read anything by S.A. Cosby, although I have some of his books on my TBR. I think I need another TBR reshuffle 🤣"

I have enjoyed everything that I have read of his. Caution though when I said gritty above I meant it. There is a lot of violence.

Catching up!

#70 Only a Monster This book had the potential to be just another YA Love-triangle Fantasy tale but I'm pleased to report that when the time travel kicked in it became much more interesting. Interesting enough that I will probably pick up the sequel. 3 stars. Audiobook. YA Fantasy-Time Travel.

#71 The Stationery Shop A bittersweet tale of lost love and romance amid revolution. 4 stars. Audiobook. Historical Fiction/Romance.

#72 Someone Like You For RL book club. I am sad to report that this was as close to not reading a book as you can come. It was just a lot of nothing; the characters were all nice, the story was bland and uneventful, everything turned out fine. There were lots and lots of nice words strung together. 2 stars. ebook. Romance.

#73 All the Sinners Bleed This book had too much action and grit to be nothing. S.A. Cosby's tale of the first black sheriff of a small southern town does not disappoint. I'm such a fan of this author! 4 stars. Audiobook. Thriller.

#74 The Light Pirate A young girl adapts to the new world left after climate change and the slow dissolution of civilization. Hope amid the ruins was the theme here. 3 stars. Audiobook. Apocalypse Lit-CliFi

Star Tally 2023

5 stars - 11
4 stars - 32
3 stars - 28
2 stars - 3

Current:
Witch King ebook. Trying to find the time to read this one.
Going Zero Audiobook. Surprisingly good.
All the other books listed above that I'm supposedly not giving up on.