4/5 Imagine that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. You’ve known your neighbors for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? On a midsummer night, as...
Happy Monday! I’m excited to introduce another new series to you. Welcome to Author Spotlight, a monthly series where the LRH team chooses one author to showcase as well as their work. It’s no secret that I love to read, and I enjoy nothing more than discovering new authors and works of fiction (one...
Books are cool again! Kidding, books were always cool. If you’re like me, you’ve always had a love affair with reading. There’s something so satisfying about cracking open a new book, running your fingers through the smooth pages, and breathing in that new book smell. And reading is fun, too! Recently, I had a...
Pickup Your Copy Here This month’s book review is for A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. About the Book Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse....
In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are. One of my favorite pastimes is settling down with my favorite iced coffee and a new book. I was browsing the new arrivals at Barnes and Noble with my husband, Derrick -another of my favorite pastimes-...
Winter is really starting to get to me. I just found out we are getting ANOTHER 6-10 inches of snow. Enough, already! I need spring: I need warm weather, cute clothes, and the promise of summer. Since it was 20 degrees out today, I spent the afternoon cleaning the house and re-reading one of...
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware’s suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her...