Review: How to Have a Killer Time in D.C. by Sam Lumley

How to Have a Killer Time in D.C. (Oliver Popp’s Travel Guides to Murder #1) by Sam Lumley My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/m Blurb: A young, gay, autistic travel writer takes a head-spinning detour when murder and romance unbalance his well-planned life and career in this fun, quirky debut mystery . . . For twenty-four-year-old Oliver Popp, autism is just another fact of life. As long as Oliver sticks to a comfortable itinerary planned well in advance, he gets by just fine as a staff writer for Offbeat Traveler magazine. But […]

Posted June 18, 2025 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 6 Comments

Review: Reclaim Your Mind by Jay Vidyarthi

Reclaim Your Mind: Seven Strategies to Enjoy Tech Mindfully by Jay Vidyarthi My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Nonfiction Self Help Blurb: In our ever-connected world, inner peace isn’t about rejecting technology—it’s about having a better relationship with it. You need boundaries, but that doesn’t mean you should feel guilty every time you pull out your phone. Reclaim Your Mind offers a middle way: a balanced, mindful approach to everyday tech. With relatable anecdotes and short, easy-to-follow exercises in every chapter, Reclaim Your Mind provides seven key strategies to help you use technology wisely. You’ll learn to develop awareness of your […]

Posted June 16, 2025 by Lola in Non-Fiction / 6 Comments

Sunday Post #652

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. What happened this week? Another week of preparing for our upcoming move. This week we bought the paint for our next house, I am happy with the colors we bought. It was a bit tough to make so many decisions about which exact hues we wanted and compare the different hues, but […]

Posted June 15, 2025 by Lola in Sunday Post / 8 Comments

Review: Scales of Honesty by Laura Greenwood

Scales of Honesty (The Egyptian Empire) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Alternate History Urban Fantasy/ Mythology/ Paranormal Romance Age Category: New Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Being a priestess for the goddess of truth and justice is not for the faint-hearted. Taia always thought she and fellow Ma’at Blessed priest, Metjen, were inseparable. When he starts avoiding her, she questions whether their bond is as strong as she thought it was. A big festival to celebrate the temples in London comes with a test of Taia’s devotion and the goddess of truth and justice is not […]

Posted June 13, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Mythology, Review, Romance / 6 Comments

Review: The Silence of the Library by Miranda James

The Silence of the Library (Cat in the Stacks #5) by Miranda James narrated by Erin Bennett My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: It’s National Library Week, and the Athena Public Library is planning an exhibit to honor the centenary of famous novelist Electra Barnes Cartwright-creator of the beloved Veronica Thane series. Charlie has a soft spot for Cartwright’s girl detective stories (not to mention an extensive collection of her books!). When the author agrees to make a rare public appearance, the news of her whereabouts goes viral overnight, and series […]

Posted June 11, 2025 by Lola in Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Review: Fatality at the Festival by Beth Dolgner

Fatality at the Festival (Nightmare, Arizona #8) by Beth Dolgner narrated by Petrea Burchard My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: m/f Blurb: Crystals, corn dogs, and crime in Nightmare, Arizona Olivia Kendrick is excited about Nightmare’s annual arts and crafts festival until a vendor winds up dead inside his food truck. Locals and festival artists alike disliked the corn dog seller, but who had enough motive to murder him? The supernatural community at Nightmare Sanctuary Haunted House must pull together to help gather clues, from a siren on a spy mission to […]

Posted June 9, 2025 by Lola in Fantasy, Mystery, Review / 4 Comments

Sunday Post #651

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. What happened this week? This week was tiring and tough. In last week’s Sunday Post I mentioned that we have a new house and a lot of this week was focused on that. We mostly focused on cleaning out and packing stuff as we got the moving boxes and could start with […]

Posted June 8, 2025 by Lola in Sunday Post / 8 Comments