Sparkly Green Earrings
“Every mother knows the reason Robert Frost took the road less traveled is because he wasn’t traveling with children who needed to go to the bathroom every thirty minutes.”
A Killer’s Code
“If you’re watching this, I’m dead. And others will be soon if you don’t act fast.”
Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full
“God made me a mother because he jealously and rightly desires praise for his own name, and this is how he saw fit to do it. God aims to glorify himself through my family, and we all get carried along by his grace.”
Like Mother, Like Daughter
“I did what I do best: I made the problem go away.”
The Vanishing Half
“You can escape town, but you cannot escape blood. Somehow, the Vignes twins believed themselves capable of both.”
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
This was a rare ‘did not finish’ book for me.
Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Here are the books to check out that are releasing in 2025!
The Best Books of 2024
My top 20ish books from 2024!
2024 in Review
All the 79 books I read this year!
December Reads 2024
Knocked off for more of my reading challenge and finished with a fun Christmas mystery! Happy New Year!
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
“A woman covered in blood who doesn’t remember how it got on her. And a man decapitated… by a piece of paper.”
Recursion
“What do you cling to, moment to moment, if memories can simply change? What, then, is real? And if the answer is nothing, where does that leave us?”
Crying in H Mart
“Within 5 years, I lost both my aunt and my mother to cancer. When I go to H Mart I’m searching for memories. I’m collecting the evidence that the Korean half of my identity didn’t die when they did.”
Tactics
“If we disqualify legitimate discussion, we compromise our ability to know the truth, and error can thrive without restraint.”
Thieves’ Gambit
“Know your exits, pick the best one. That was my thing, wasn’t it? Always knowing the best way out.”
Shelf Reflection’s Reading Challenge for Kids 2025
Inspired by my daughter, together we created a 2025 Reading Challenge for Kids! Check it out— lots of fun printables to help the kids track their progress.
November Reads 2024
I read a lot of thrillers this months!
The Anxious Generation
“It is very difficult to construct a meaningful life on one’s own, drifting through multiple disembodied networks.”
The Fury
7 friends on an isolated Greek island and one of them ends up dead! The narrator tells us this is a whydunit, not a whodunit…
Moonflower Murders
A classic whodunnit with the same book within a book style of Horowitz’s previous book, Magpie Murders.