Author: jgalvinwhite

Hello and happy Wednesday!

It’s hard to believe that there are only two days left in April…which means it’s time for me to share the books I read this month.

After having such a big reading month in March, I should have known that April would be the complete opposite in regards to reading.

Well, this month I read one book and one short story…but they were both good!

{As always, book summaries are from Goodreads…}

The Book Woman’s Daughter:

Summary:

In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good.

Picking up her mother’s old packhorse library route, Honey begins to deliver books to the remote hollers of Appalachia. Honey is looking to prove that she doesn’t need anyone telling her how to survive, but the route can be treacherous, and some folks aren’t as keen to let a woman pave her own way. If Honey wants to bring the freedom that books provide to the families who need it most, she’s going to have to fight for her place, and along the way, learn that the extraordinary women who run the hills and hollers can make all the difference in the world.

Quick Thoughts:

Last month, I read Book Woman of Troublesome Creek which had been on my TBR list for quite some time. When Tanya shared that the third book in the series was coming out soon, I wanted to get to reading the first two! This book, just like the first, didn’t disappoint.

Just like with the first book, I appreciated the setting of Eastern Kentucky, and I love reading historical fiction. Honey Lovett, just like her mother Cussy, is a force to be reckoned with. She makes the best of her situation, stays true to her values, and paves a way to figuring out her future.

I can’t wait to read The Mountains We Call Home.

Rating:

Leave it Up To Love:

Summary:

Ready for her big break after publishing her first novel, Lila Everwood has two fresh book ideas and dreams of quitting her barista job. She’s hopeful about her future—until her writing catches her literary idol’s attention in all the wrong ways.

Elizabeth Lancaster, the queen of regency romance, hasn’t written a word in three years. Her publisher’s solution? A ghostwriter. Specifically, her favorite coffee server. It’s either brilliance or madness—and her literary agent son Grady thinks it’s definitely the latter.

As the ideas begin to fly, so do the sparks—between Lila and Grady. And, as Lila’s and Elizabeth’s worlds collide, the two writers must lean on each other, learning something vital in the In life, love, and publishing, sometimes you have to write your own happy ending.

Quick Thoughts:

There’s hardly a KWH book that I haven’t read. As a matter of fact, I counted…and I’ve read ten of her books. It’s not a summer without a KWH book, and I can’t wait to read Summer State of Mind. That being said, I don’t know that I’ve ever “reviewed” a short story, but I appreciate that she put this one out to tide us over until her latest novel is released.

This was a quick and great read. I liked the premise, the characters and the short story line. Even with the abbreviated plot, there’s lots of dialogue, characterization and plot development.

Rating:

I’m hoping for more reading in May…but of course, who knows how much time I will have during May-cember!

That being said, it’s hard to believe that soon I will put together my summer reading list!

Do you have any summer book suggestions for me?

Happy reading,