Review: The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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First book pick of 2022

 A few months back, I was lucky enough to get my hands on this book a few months before it was published.  It wasn't my first Julia Kelly book, but it became my favorite Julia Kelly book. 

 This book introduces us to Lily, a young woman that doesn't want to be in the last group of debutates, but her grandmother and mother demand it so she must.  We will follow Lily on the journey of parties, presentations, and dances, a typical debutante life until her world turns upside down by a family secret.  I love books like this, you know the ones, where you expect something and the story gives you something so different.  

This is an excellent read for the start of those 2022 reading challenges.

Fellow book nerds END-OF-YEAR stats

 Hello to you fellow readers.  

I have created an end-of-year book stat sheet for you.  This features your top 10 books of the year and your final reading stats. 

 If you didn't keep up with your reading stats and want to in 2022, don't worry, I will be posting tips and tricks soon. I have been keeping a book journal since 1996 and I have changed it many times and finally, I have the perfect stats book for me.  More on that later....even if you aren't interested in stats, you might be interested in your top 10 books of 2021.  

Download a copy of the stat sheet here. 

Review: Empowered Embroidery: Transform sketches into embroidery patterns and stitch strong, iconic women from the past and present

Empowered Embroidery: Transform sketches into embroidery patterns and stitch strong, iconic women from the past and present by Amy L. Frazer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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Review: Without You

Without You by Anthony Rapp
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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2022 Reading Challenge

 Every year I try to do a challenge of my own to get me out of a reading box, but also to just have some fun trying to fit a book into categories.  Over the last few years, I have made my own to distribute to friends.  My challenges have just one requirement, that you do what you want with it.  If you don't like a category, you mark it out and insert your own.  If you don't like how I worded something, you reword it.  If you wish to use one book for three categories, you do so.  It is your challenge, your reading life, I am just there, I hope, for inspiration.  

Don't forget to come back here each month in 2022 and get my MUST READ book of the month, book reviews, and maybe some free bookmarks you can print or download.  My summer reading challenge will come out around April and will be full of fun reads for your all summertime adventures.  

Thanks so much to you all that followed along with me in 2021. I hope you had a wonderful reading year and I am hoping you stick around for next year.  

2022 Reading Challenge--download the challenge here

The last book pick of 2021

 This month's book was an easy pick for me. I read every single book that Gill Paul writes! She is creative, entertaining, and somehow picks topics that are so very interesting.  

This book is called The Collector's Daughter and it is about Evelyn Herbert.  Evelyn's father is an archeologist that is on a team desperately wants to find the tomb of Tutankhamun.  On one fateful day, Evelyn happens to be in attendance on the hunt when they find it!!  The tomb was erected to have curses put on anyone who disturbs the burial place.  The team abandons all superstitions, each member takes a token home before they tell the public they have found the tomb.  Fast forward through time and you can see how the "curse" affects each of the team members. The book takes place over the course of about 50 years, and they are 50 wild years.