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Government drone by day and book lover and geek girl by night! I review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and NetGalley.

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Why Change is Hard

Switch by Chip Heath

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So this is the first of the books I had to read for my training this summer. I have to say that “Switch” was my favorite just because it really gets down into why change is hard for people and organizations. And it shows how small changes can build into such big successes. I am at an organization right now going through some upheaval since our boss was let go after our employee feedback survey and overall morale dropped over three years. Of course looking […]

There Was Once A Girl Named Isabelle

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

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Wow this book was perfection. I laughed, held my breath, cried a bit, and cheered. Donnelly did such a wonderful job with this book I can’t wait to read more from her. “Stepsister” follows what happens after Cinderella (Ella) is locked away and her two stepsisters remove parts of their feet (Tavi cutting away her heel and Isabelle her toes) and are found out by a bird singing in a tree. What follows is the two girls and their mother are shunned by their village […]

The Hallmark Movie Channel Wouldn’t Take On This Book

The Lucky Dress by Aimee Brown

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This book was so bad. I don’t even know what to say. Brown jumps around between present day and past timelines and all it did was make me hate the main character (Emi) even more. At one point something happens that had me wondering if the author had just watched a lot of Hallmark movies and said, yes, I will try to replicate that. And honestly, even Hallmark wouldn’t make this movie. The motivations of all people was out of whack. We got an antagonist […]

Awful

The Good Bride Guide by Matt Dunn

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Wow. I don’t know what to say about this book. Oh yeah, I do. This was terrible. A terrible main character who wants to get married for some really ridiculous reasons who seems to be stalking a woman who is tied to another character he knows. I didn’t laugh once while reading this, though I was told this was supposedly humorous. The main character (Ben) really just needs to be by himself, because even though he is a struggling artist with a terrible place to […]

I Wanted This Book to End So Badly

A Traitor to Memory by Elizabeth George

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This was my least favorite of George’s reads. It went on forever. The two narrative styles did not fit. I already guessed at who did what and it was a long winding road to get there. The Webberly thing read as ridiculous after a while. Lynley is even more of an ass in this one. It felt like a lot of things happened without a lot of police work to get people to where they needed to go. I liked the book focusing on memory […]

The Fallout

In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner by Elizabeth George

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Not too much to say except that reading about the fallout from Haver’s actions in the last book drove this one a lot. Havers is still with the force, but demoted. Lynley feels as if Havers was not properly punished for what she did and is reluctant to work with her again. Through a new case though (the investigation into two young people who are found murdered) Havers works mostly with Winston Nkata in this one. So we get to see a new dynamic between […]



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