Jennifer’s Comments (group member since Dec 03, 2021)

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

That does seem to be a pretty tired trope in women's fiction, Bonnie.....

I've read both of her series under the Heather Blake name, the Lucy Valentine under Webber, a few of the Nina Quinn, and the first couple of the standalones she's done lately.

I am! I love Heather Webber.

Man, I need to read that. It's been on my "picked" list for two years. Thanks for the push, Eileen!

Good to know, Denise.

About 30 -thank heaven for long multi-state car trips! The rest I put on my wish list and called it a day.

Wow, Joy! I’m still catching up last month. About midway through August I realized about 60 audible plus books in my list were going to expire today, so I got as many of them done as I could and as a result am behind on everything else.

Good to know that it goes quickly because it is definitely a longer-than-average read. I like your characterization -- Hunger Games but with dragons... LOL!

Rhonda, you are not good for my TBR.

I just pre-ordered that!

I pre-ordered the third already!

Thanks for the heads-up, Lindsey!

Making reasonably good progress: I've read 15 so far and started a 16th.

1 Merrily We Roll Along
2 The Power of Yes: A Dramatist Seeks to Understand the Financial Crisis
3 Sabrina Fair
4 Stuff Happens
5 Barrymore: A Play
6 The Columnist: A Play
7 The Normal Heart
8 The Destiny of Me
9 Cheaper by the Dozen
10 Small War on Murray Hill.
11 Fatal Attraction
12 The Youngest: A Play
13 Cause Celebre
14 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City: A Play
15 Jack Straw: A Farce in Three Acts
16 Golda's Balcony: A Play
17. Return engagements: A new comedy
18. Special Occasions: A Play in Two Acts
19. As Is: A Play

Great timing!

I recently read and found it interesting, so I'll nominate it.

I've been on vacation and am late posting my picks:

At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities
Heather Webber

A mysterious letter. An offer taken. And the chance to move forward.

When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend, she thinks she’s being haunted. The listing—a job as a live-in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama—is the perfect chance to start a new life. A normal life. Ava has always been too fearful to even travel, so no one’s more surprised than she is when she throws caution to the wind and drives to the distant beachside town.

On the surface, Maggie Mae Brightwell is a bundle of energy as she runs Magpie’s, Driftwood’s coffee and curiosity shop, where there’s magic to be found in pairing the old with the new. But lurking under her cheerful exterior is a painful truth—keeping busy is the best way to distract herself from the lingering loss of her mama and her worries about her aging father. No one knows better than she does that you can’t pour from an empty cup, but holding on to the past is the only thing keeping the hope alive that her mama will return home one day.

Ava and Maggie soon find they’re kindred spirits, as they’re both haunted—not by spirits, but by regret. Both must learn to let go of the past to move on—because sometimes the waves of change bring you to the place where you most belong.

Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros

Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die

Rhonda, I like your picks! If the second one is something personal to you, I wish you love and luck. Been there.

...and oversized libraries!