Nevermore: Nettle & Bone, Kamogawa Food Detectives, Greenlights

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

To save her sister and topple a throne, Marra is offered the tools she needs if she completes three seemingly impossible tasks with the help of a disgraced ex-knight, a reluctant fairy godmother, and an enigmatic gravewitch and her fowl familiar.

 

Okay, but not great.     – MH     4 stars  

 

The Kamogawa Food Detectives  by Hisashi Kashiwai

Down a quiet Kyoto backstreet,“food detectives” Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the proprietors of the Kamogawa Diner, through ingenious investigations, recreate dishes from a person's treasured memories, which hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness.

  It's a good book – very descriptive.     - MS     4 stars

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction. 

Listened to the audiobook -  absolutely delightful.     -CW

 

Other Books Mentioned

Julie of  the Wolves  by Jean Craighead George

The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future by Franklin Foer

All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit by Stephen M. Cohn

Until  August  by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Short Stories by Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

Home  How-to-Handbook: Electrical by Rick Peters

They Included Me: A Five-Decade Teaching Career by Jerry L.  Jones

The Bone Garden: the Chilling True Story of a Female Serial Killer by William P. Wood

 

New Books

A Quantum Love Story by Mike Chen

The Book of Doors:  a Novel by Gareth Brown

Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America by Barbara Mcquade

Nevermore: Nettle & Bone, Absolution, The Rhine, Lessons in Chemistry

 Reported by Rita

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
To save her sister and topple a throne, Marra is offered the tools she needs if she completes three seemingly impossible tasks with the help of a disgraced ex-knight, a reluctant fairy godmother and an enigmatic gravewitch and her fowl familiar.

This sci-fi fantasy is a really fun read! – CW        4.5 Stars        

Absolution by Alice McDermott
Sixty years after they lived as wives of American servicemen in early 1960s Vietnam, two women reconnect and relieve their shared experiences in Saigon in the new novel by the author of The Ninth Hour.

A wonderful book about friendship. - DC    5 Stars

 

The Rhine : Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps by Ben Coates
The Rhine is one of the world's greatest rivers. Once forming the outer frontier of the Roman Empire, it flows 800 miles from the social democratic playground of the Netherlands, through the industrial and political powerhouses of Germany and France, to the wealthy mountain fortresses of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. For five years, Ben Coates lived alongside a major channel of the river in Rotterdam, crossing it daily, swimming and sailing in its tributaries. In The Rhine, he sets out by bicycle from the Netherlands where it enters the North Sea, following it through Germany, France and Liechtenstein, to its source in the icy Alps. He explores the impact that the Rhine has had on European culture and history and finds out how influences have flowed along and across the river, shaping the people who live alongside it. Blending travelogue and offbeat history, The Rhine tells the fascinating story of how a great river helped shape a continent.

 Full of history and interesting information, this book is highly recommended. A good travel guide. – WJ  5 Stars

 

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.

This book made our reader laugh-out-loud. Elizabeth’s dog, Six-Thirty, named after the time of day she found him, is the best character! – VC  4 Stars

 

Also Mentioned:

The Secret Recipe of Ella Dove by Karen Hawkins

Trust by Hernan Diaz

The Echo of Old Books  by Barbara Davis

A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross

Beartown by Fredrik Backman 

Us Against You
by Fredrik Backman

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: The Member of the Wedding  by Carson McCullers

A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

A Matter of Life and Death: Inside the Hidden World of the Pathologist by Sue Armstrong

The Pioneers: the Heroic Story of the Settlers who brought the American Ideal West by David G. McCullough

The History of Bees by Maja Lunde

New Books:

The Lost Tomb: and Other Real-life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas J. Preston

 Around the World in 60 Seconds: the Nas Daily Journey: 1,000 Days, 64 Countries, 1 Beautiful Planet by Nuseir Yassin

 

New to Us:

The Star Garden: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine by Nancy E. Turner