Book Club Picks – Rachel Reads & Reviews

Book Club Picks

Contemporay Romances

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid Pro hockey star Shane Hollander isn’t just crazy talented, he’s got a spotless reputation. Hockey is his life. Now that he’s captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he won’t let anything jeopardize that, especially the sexy Russian whose hard body keeps him awake at night. Boston Bears captain Ilya Rozanov is…
The Taylors Double Review

Cruel Summer by Elizabeth Eulberg The Taylors — Teffy, Tay, TS, and Taylor — have survived their first year of high school and can’t wait for summer to start. But the drama doesn’t go away just because they want it to. It turns out that Teffy’s been keeping a massive secret from her parents. Tay’s…
Fall Nonfiction

My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business by Dick Van Dyke Much like Betty White, and Dolly Parton, Dick van Dyke is an American icon representing the best of us, and his autobiography delves past his wholesome image to honestly discuss his struggles with balancing his career and marriage, his alcoholism and some…
1,000th Post

One thousand posts after four years of hosting this blog. What a ride. It’s been a joy to get to interview some of my favorite authors, share my thoughts on new books, challenge myself to try new genres and start a book club with my friend. I also want to take the time to thank…
Book of the Month: A Fortune of Sand

Marjorie Lennox is the youngest daughter of a powerful automotive dynasty, a family known for money, not manners. Artistic, impulsive, and always slightly out of step, Marjorie has long been dismissed by her controlling father and self-absorbed siblings. But when she secretly applies to an exclusive arts program funded by an elusive benefactor, she sees…
Summer Romances

Let It Shine/Let Us Dream by Alyssa Cole Sofronia Wallis knows that proper Black women don’t court trouble by upending the status quo, but it’s 1961 and the Civil Rights movement is in full swing. Sofie’s spent half her life being prim, proper, and reserved—as if that could bring her mother back—but the nonviolent protests…
Book of the Month: Where the Crawdads Sing

“For years, rumors of the ‘Marsh Girl’ have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She’s barefoot and wild, unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten,…
Absolute DC

FBI Agent John Jones has a problem. His brain has been infected by an alien consciousness calling itself “the Martian,” and its perception of reality is utterly incomprehensible to the human psyche. Now he must navigate this new status quo, all while balancing the deeply grounded and important duties of his day job! Deniz Camp…
Summer Historical Fiction

Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L.…
Summer Anthologies

If you could live inside one Taylor Swift song for a day, which would you pick? In this shimmering anthology, thirteen best-selling and acclaimed authors do just that, reimagining some of Taylor’s most iconic songs as love stories. Whether you’re in an era of fairy lights and folktales or diss tracks and dance floors, here’s…