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Book 22 of 2025

Title: Lessons in Chemistry
Author: Bonnie Garmus
Published: 2022
Format: eBook
Date Started: 3/26/25
Date Finished: 3/27/25
Days to read: 2

I loved this book! I went in pretty blind, which is amazing considering how popular it is. Elizabeth Zott is such an interesting character! The sexist discrimination she faced was so gross, but I’m glad she stood up to it. The intertwining storylines bringing together past and present were so engaging, and I liked that the ending resolved the story but left room for a sequel (fingers crossed)!

Book 21 of 2025

Title: Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
Author: Bob the Drag Queen
Published: 2025
Format: eBook
Date Started: 3/25/25
Date Finished: 3/26/25
Days to read: 2

I was so excited to get this book on release day! 

I love Bob the Drag Queen and this is their debut novel. It was a quick read, and I enjoyed it - the premise was so creative! However, the writing felt a little undeveloped, and the book could have benefited from the characters and scenes being fleshed out a little more. I think Bob shows promise and I hope they write another book!

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Book 20 of 2025

Title: A Rogue of One's Own
Author: Evie Dunmore
Published: 2020
Format: Paperback
Date Started: 3/19/25
Date Finished: 3/24/25
Days to read: 6

This is the 2nd book in a historical romance series set during the British Suffrage movement. I really enjoyed this one - Lucie (the main character) was so ‘real’ in her devotion to her values and belief in making sure women were treated as... well, people. Her love interest (Tristan) had a 

surprising amount of depth, and I really loved him by the end. Such a delightful and fun read!

Book 19 of 2024

Title: Worst Case Scenario
Author: T.J. Newman
Published: 2024
Format: eBook
Date Started: 3/18/25
Date Finished: 3/18/25
Days to read: 1

This was a wild, terrifying, heart wrenching story, and I couldn’t put it down! T.J. Newman has a real talent for writing characters that, when faced with unfathomable situations, behave in a completely realistic way. Her books are also well researched and the technical details read authentically. This is her third book and they have all been so good!! I’m a fan for life.

Book 18 of 2025

Title: We Solve Murders
Author: Richard Osman
Published: 2024
Format: eBook
Date Started: 3/7/25
Date Finished: 3/15/25
Days to read: 9

This took me a while to read because I’m in a bit of a slump, but any other time I would have binged it in a few days. An excellent, twisty murder mystery! Once I got all the characters straight (there were a lot!) I was hooked. I loved that when a character had a hunch or thought about who the murderer was, they ‘kept it to themselves’, leaving me to keep guessing!

Book 17 of 2024

Title: The House of my Mother
Author: Shari Franke
Published: 2025
Format: eBook
Date Started: 3/5/25
Date Finished: 3/6/25
Days to read: 2

I’ve never been a fan of family vlogging (it’s immoral and unethical), so I wasn’t familiar with the Franke family when this story hit the news. The details are horrifying, and reading about it from the perspective of one of the children affected was just so sad. It’s inspiring that even after all she’s been through she’s speaking out for other children forced into vlogging.

Book 16 of 2025

Title: Can't We Be Freinds
Author: Eliza Knight, Denny S. Bryce
Published: 2024
Format: eBook
Date Started: 2/25/25
Date Finished: 3/4/25
Days to read: 8

This is a fictionalized book about the unlikely friendship between Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. I *really* wanted to like this, but it just felt like a slog. It jumped between 1st person (Ella) and 3rd person (Marilyn), which took me out of the story every time it switched, and I questioned how much was based in reality. It wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t compelling enough for me.