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Hello all. I have chosen my picks of the best books of 2023 and here is my reading list for the New Year! Feel free to share this post widely since the books on this list make great holiday gifts! Included are the Booker Award Winner, the Writers Trust Award winner, new fictions from Atwood, Dewitt, Rushdie, Vermette and King. It is going to be a fantastic year of reading- enjoy!!!! This bookis ever the bridesmaid as it shortlisted for Writers Trust and the Booker - and it is SHORT! For the literary slower reader on ur list   de Witt is a master storyteller evoking great characters that stay with readers long after they finish the last page. this book is for the bookish reader on your list. It is as much about reading as it is anything else. This is the family epic romance mystery for the reader on your list that wants to be absorbed by drama coloured with intrigue.  This years’s Booker Prize Winner. Irish author. A must read to anyone who reads the latest and greatest! This N...

Happy New Year! 2022 was a terrific reading year, and 2023 is promising to be just as good! I am looking forward to new publications from Atwood and Salmon Rushdie and others. Not sure I will read Spare unless as a beach read. Call me a snob. I admit to it! Excited to read through this year's Book Circle Picks. Hope you are too! Here's a to a great year of reading ahead!  This is the 2023 Reading List full of Award Winners and some obscure but brilliant texts that will chill your blood and endear your hearts! Enjoy!

Hello Everyone, In every darkness there is light and the incredible books that have been turned out during Covid is splendid proof. Lockdown lead to much creativity and as a result we have a stellar line up for this year's Book Circle! Each was selected based on Prize winning, or buzz, or being one of my favourite authors... I am very excited to dive into these. Any will make an amazing holiday gift. Enjoy! In no particular order here they are:

Happy New Year all! I haven't posted in some time as I have been heads down as most people: trying to survive the lockdown, the virus, constant changes to work conditions, etc.  But I am back to blogging in 2021 now that 2020 is done - and good riddance too! Most of 2020 was a write-off of course, but a some great things did come out of the year: some great books! I have started a Book Circle with some friends for 2021. We will read a book every month and pass it on until we have worked through 12 titles. It is a great way to keep reading when all you want to do is binge Netflix and eat Pot of Gold Chocolates on the couch.  I am excited to read all of these books and encourage those of you who read any/all of them to respond with your comments/opinions on the selections.  Here is my TOP Twelve list of reads for 2021 made up primarily of books published in 2020 in no particular order. Happy Reading! #1 is Hamnet & Judith , by Maggie O'Farrell.  #2 is The Glass Hot...