Books Are Always Good Company

Read Together: February 2025 Strawberry Fields for Never, by Kate Watson In my post titled, "Coming Soon", I shared about a few books we were about to get started on, and this was one of them. I'm not going to get into this one too much, because we all agreed that it was pretty much Strawberry Fields... Never Again!  Let me be fair... if you like wicked cheesy Hallmark movies, please start reading this book right now. Zero judgement! We chose (okay, I humbly admit to choosing this one!) this book for a couple of reasons. A fellow book lover, who I follow on Instagram, promotes closed door romances. We're all different on how much "spice" we prefer in a book, and I don't think any of us girls are particularly looking for spice. Sometimes, we're even intentionally avoiding it. But it doesn't mean we don't want to read a beautiful love story, or even a rom com. This closed-door romance recommendation seemed perfect, AND we'd be supporting an...

Read Together (sort of) February/March 2025 My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry By: Fredrik Backman Fredrik Backman, you have yet to disappoint! This book was not recommended by anyone, just on my personal TBR list. This book has two others that connect characters together, so I figured if we fell in love with some of those characters, we might not have to say goodbye at the end of this read! This was my third Fredrik Backman novel, and I'd put it up there in my second place of the three (A Man Called Ove would be my first, Anxious People would be third). We all loved it but had different takes on certain things. Sidenote : The title of this book is long, so we all referred to the book as "The Grandmother Book" Or sometimes just, "Grandmother."  I said above that we read this book together, but it was a little scattered. I started this one before Karyn and Heather, which was not the intention.  Heather was put on a waiting list at her library, Ka...