When I Should Be Studying

Reasons For Reading This Book: My mom and sister-in-law have been trying to get me to read Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister for months. I was finally able to get my hands on the library copy. I knew from talking with them that the story was about a mother going back in time after her son commits a crime. Both of them said they enjoyed the book and could not wait to discuss it with me when I finished. My mom also said that she listened to the audiobook twice, so I had a feeling this book would require concentration so that I fully understood all that was happening.    Content of This Book: It is midnight on Halloween, and Jen is anxiously awaiting her 18-year-old son, Todd's, to return home. After arriving past curfew Jen watches through the window as her happy and funny son stabs a total stranger. Jen does not know the victim nor does she know why Todd has committed this violent act. But in this moment she nows her life, and Todd's, has just changed. With her son...

Reasons For Reading This Book: The Berry Picked by Amanda Peters came across my social media from a few different book Instagram accounts. One I know posted about it is @halpreads. I have like most of the books that I have taken as a recommendation from Emily, so I trusted her again for this one. I read the book description, was semi-interested, so I checked it out from the library.   Content of This Book: It's July 1962 and the A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia has just arrived back in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. A few weeks into summer four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Being the last one to see Ruthie leaves Joe distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.  In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotectiv...

Reasons For Reading This Book: I read When We Were Enemies by Emily Bleeker in participation with  The Readheads Podcast Book Club  for the month of May 2024. At the time of reading and reviewing this book I was favoring historic fiction books so when I learned that historic fiction was a large portion of this book I was excited. I believe the trouble it took me to get this book is indicative of how my experience and overall feelings ended up being for the book. It was a Kindle only book so I had to purchase it instead of checking it out from the library and had to read electronically which is not my preference, as I work on a computer all day long. I read the book description before starting it and was drawn to Vivian’s rise to stardom.   Content of This Book: Vivian is the daughter of Italian immigrant parents who came to Indiana to give their daughters a better life. Its 1943 with her mother in a hospital and her father injured and unable to work, Vivian takes it upon...