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

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

Wow -- with a recommendation like that, I added it to my TBR, Lindsey.

See? We're practically twins! I went into bath and body works in October in a fit of, I don't know, sudden onset insanity? And wound up with enough bath soap and candles to last me two years because they were on sale!!

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Sales are different!"

"Sales are different" is what has me with 10K books on my kindle and almost 5K in my audible collection. IT'S A SICKNESS!

Actually I need to update that. I'm at 126. But for purposes of this challenge (2nd round) I'm now back at two.......

Starting over again............ Audible had a site-wide sale and I caved like a mining disaster.

Get a hanky out before you read Hummingbird.

I've heard that about that series. Her Irish Village series is good, though.

I'm looking forward to it.

It's supposed to hit 90 here next week. Second week of March!

Heh. I just spent the last hour doing the poll for all 27, so I think this time anyway we'll do this poll and a run-off of the front-runners if we don't have a clear winner by the 10th. It was confusing enough to put them into a poll the first time! LOL

SO....... We have a lot of nominations and no rule in place (that I'm aware of) of any book HAVING to be seconded in order to be considered (someone correct me if I'm wrong?) -- I'm going to poll on all of them, and unless there's a very clear winner, we'll do a run-off poll for the frontrunners in a couple of weeks and arrive at a winner that way.

I'm going to leave off 84, Charing Cross, since it was recently read at LOABA, but I'll throw in Duchess of Bloomsbury Street.

Yeah, JJ is wreaking a swath of destruction across several of our TBRs.....

From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth.

Her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her on the TV news…

Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It’s what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes is a few heart-wrenching seconds to upend Kit’s world. Live coverage of a club fire in Auckland has captured the image of a woman stumbling through the smoke and debris. Her resemblance to Josie is unbelievable. And unmistakable. With it comes a flood of emotions—grief, loss, and anger—that Kit finally has a chance to put to rest: by finding the sister who’s been living a lie.

After arriving in New Zealand, Kit begins her journey with the memories of the past: of days spent on the beach with Josie. Of a lost teenage boy who’d become part of their family. And of a trauma that has haunted Kit and Josie their entire lives.

Now, if two sisters are to reunite, it can only be by unearthing long-buried secrets and facing a devastating truth that has kept them apart far too long. To regain their relationship, they may have to lose everything.

When We Believed in Mermaids / Barbara O'Neal

Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by.

Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life’s complexities all by herself. No matter—she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection.

But Molly’s orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself dead in his bed. Before she knows what’s happening, Molly’s unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. She quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception, one she has no idea how to untangle. Fortunately for Molly, friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black—but will they be able to find the real killer before it’s too late?

A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different—and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.

The Maid / Nita Prose

Lance, I'm choosing for you because the big joke where I work is that if you've been there long enough, you know whose name should be on every new policy....

and because I'd like to read that myself.

Yes, if she hasn’t picked for you by the time I get home from work (2-ish today) then I will make the pick.

Jackie wrote: "Jennifer, Here are the 5 I have chosen for you.

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I have knocked out four (don't know if I'll get the last one knocked out tomorrow but I will try...) -- "An Ordinary Life" was quite moving. "Matriarch" -- I have been torn about Queen Mary but came to admire her a lot more after I read this! I liked "The Second Mrs Astor" but wish it had gone farther into her life after "Astorhood." And "Poisoned Prose" was a fun entry to a series I very much like.

Off to "Southern Bred and Dead" tomorrow, I hope!!

Thanks for the picks!

Joy D wrote: "Finished my 3rd of 3 for February and absolutely loved it!
Thanks, Jennifer!

The Master by Colm Tóibín - 5* - My Review"

Guess it's time for me to move that up on my list.....

Joy D wrote: "I plan to read:
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This is a very esoteric choice -- I'll be curious to see what you think. It's a little hard to tell what it's about from the book page although I think I got some idea by scrolling through the reviews.

J.J. wrote: "
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22 Murders sounds fascinating. It may well have to go on my TBR.