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

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

Good seeing you here, Dee -- I hope you enjoy it!

LOL Desley. Me too, I just picked a number heedless of the implications.

Ditto, Jackie!

This Tender Land is also very good. And a few others on your list are also on my 2023 reading plan. Good luck, Elizabeth!

I like your list. I have Murder in the Marais but haven't read it, which is silly because when I visited my brother in Paris (good grief 20 years ago), he lived in the Marais. Sigh.

In Cold Blood is good -- groundbreaking journalistically speaking because it was allegedly the first "nonfiction novel," although I think Somerset Maugham got there first. :)

I love it when a plan comes together, Alissa, and even my angst about the damage you and Lindsay do to my TBR can't make me not glad for you....... LOL

Ugh. I haven't read it either yet, but I'm reading "Optimist" tomorrow. End the year on an optimistic note!

I always like to see older published books and classics on people’s lists in this challenge. Brava!

I always like reading your reactions to books, Denise. They tell me exactly what I would want to know from a fellow reader in order to decide if I'm interested in a book or not. Thank you for that!

With pleasure.

because I was living in Daytona and in a bar about a mile away from the speedway when Dale had his accident, and

because it sounds like spring and summer, and that is appealing right now and

because that title is intriguing.

Enjoy!

I know the feeling.

Reading January 1-31, 2023

Goodreads Choice AwardNominee for Best Historical Fiction (2022)
An Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller

Bestselling historical fiction author Kim Michele Richardson is back with the perfect book club read following Honey Mary Angeline Lovett, the daughter of the beloved Troublesome book woman, who must fight for her own independence with the help of the women who guide her and the books that set her free.

In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good.

Picking up her mother’s old packhorse library route, Honey begins to deliver books to the remote hollers of Appalachia. Honey is looking to prove that she doesn’t need anyone telling her how to survive, but the route can be treacherous, and some folks aren’t as keen to let a woman pave her own way. If Honey wants to bring the freedom that books provide to the families who need it most, she’s going to have to fight for her place, and along the way, learn that the extraordinary women who run the hills and hollers can make all the difference in the world.

The Book Woman's Daughter

Kim Michele Richardson

Oh, great picks, Beth!

Wow, Lindsey - what a haul!

Ok, I added you to the matrix: you need to pick for Beth, Desley, and Jackie will now be picking for you.

If you get your shelf up today, I'll add you. :)

Martha, I'm picking for you, which is also on my TBR.

Time to pick -- pairs are posted here.

You're not alone in that, Desley..... I have a couple of outstandings from a couple of months.... I guilted myself into moving them onto the corresponding 2023 color lists.

What a great idea, J & M!

OH! The Way We Live Now - excellent. Doc is also very good! You have some good reads ahead.