Title: Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life Author: Sutton Foster Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Release Date: 10/12/21 Genre: Memoir Age Range: Adult Rating: ★★★★ Publisher’s Summary: From the 2-time Tony Award-winner and the star of TV’s Younger, funny and intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane while navigating the highs and lows of family, love, … More Review: Hooked by Sutton Foster
Title: As Seen on TV Author: Meredith Schorr Publisher: Forever Release Date: 6/7/22 Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Range: Adult Rating: ★★★★ Publisher’s Summary: Emerging journalist Adina Gellar is done with dating in New York City. If she’s learned anything from made-for-TV romance movies, it’s that she’ll find love in a small town – the kind with harvest festivals, … More ARC Review: As Seen on TV by Meredith Schorr
Title: Love from Scratch Author: Kaitlyn Hill Publisher: Delacorte Press Release Date: 4/5/22 Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Range: Young Adult Rating: ★★★★ Publisher’s Summary: This summer, Reese Camden is trading sweet tea and Southern hospitality for cold brew and crisp coastal air. She’s landed her dream marketing internship at Friends of Flavor, a wildly popular cooking channel in … More ARC Review: Love from Scratch by Kaitlyn Hill
Title: Caramel Pecan Roll Murder Author: Joanne Fluke Publisher: Kensington Books Release Date: 2/22/22 Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Range: Adult Rating: ★★★ Publisher’s Summary: In this scrumptious cozy mystery from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Joanne Fluke, baker Hannah Swensen is tempted by a high-profile tournament in Lake Eden that quickly turns … More ARC Review: Caramel Pecan Roll Murder by Joanne Fluke
I completed my goal of reading 100 books in 2021 just under the wire! I read many books that I loved this year, and here are my favorites. Let me know below if you read any of them and enjoyed them as well. You Have a Match by Emma Lord Summary: A new love, a … More My Favorite Reads of 2021
I am proud to say that my husband and I have taken our Hanukkah cooking especially seriously this year. Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen and Molly Yeh of Girl Meets Farm are my go tos when it comes to recipes for Jewish holidays, and they did not let us down with their Hanukkah recipes. Latkes … More Hanukkah Cooking with the Kellys
Title: You’ve Reached Sam Author: Dustin Thao Publisher: Wednesday Release Date: 11/9/21 Genre: Romance Age Range: Young Adult Content Warnings: grief, death, divorce/separated parents, racism, car crash Rating: ★★★ Publisher’s Summary: Seventeen-year-old Julie has her future all planned out—move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city, spend a summer in Japan. But then Sam … More ARC Review: You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao
Release Date: 11/19/21 Where to Watch: Netflix (and some limited movie theaters) Starring: Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin De Jesús Director: Lin-Manuel Miranda Summary: On the cusp of his 30th birthday, a promising young theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City. Rating: ★★★★★ I first read the script of … More Review: tick, tick…BOOM!
Title: Weather Girl Author: Rachel Lynn Solomon Publisher: Berkley Release Date: 1/11/22 Genre: Romance Age Range: Adult Content Warnings: depression, anxiety, teen parenthood Rating: ★★★★★ Publisher’s Summary: A TV meteorologist and a sports reporter scheme to reunite their divorced bosses with unforecasted results in this charming romantic comedy from the author of The Ex Talk. Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the … More ARC Review: Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Title: Three Coins Author: Kimberly Sullivan Publisher: Kimberly Sullivan Release Date: 10/22/21 Genre: Romance Age Range: Adult Content Warnings: drug addiction, mentions of anorexia, divorce, use of date rape drugs Rating: ★★ Publisher’s Summary: One Eternal City. Three women. Three wishes. Three coins. Emma, an American expat living in Rome for twenty years, can’t count on her ex-husband to help out … More ARC Review: Three Coins by Kimberly Sullivan
Bubbling up with Helena 