23 Books {A Bottomless Book Bag}

   Last Christmas in Paris | Gaynor, and Webb | Historical Fiction | 2017 We chose this book for our December book club read without anyone ...

  The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | V. E. Schwab | Fantasy | 2020 When I picked this book for my Book of the Month choice, it sounded like...

5 Stars | When Stars are Scattered | Jamieson & Mohamed |  Memoir & Graphic Novel | 2020 | Grades 3-7 When Stars are Scattered is m...

  3 Stars l The Last Sister l Kendra Elliott l Mystery l 2020 This is a mystery set in the winter in a small town along the Oregon coast and...

This book came out in 2011 and is about the depression era packhorse librarian program started by Mrs. Roosevelt. I loved Giver of Stars by ...

5 stars | The 10,000 Doors of January | Alix E. Harrow This is a debut fantasy historical fiction novel that I will read again! It begins i...

4 stars | The Last Flight | Julie Clark | June 2020 Claire is married to a man who is from a rich and famous political family and he also h...

  5 stars | Westering Women | Sandra Dallas | 2020 The wagon train in this novel is headed to California and is made up of single or widowe...

  The Book of Longings | Sue Monk Kidd | 2020 I was a little fearful reading this book because it is imagining that Jesus was married as a y...

Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler | John Hendrix | Grade 5 - 9 | 175 pages | 2018 This is a memoir about the Lu...

5 stars | Orphan Train | Christina Baker Kline | 2014 This is a historical fiction novel about the life of a young Irish immigrant girl who...

5 stars | The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek | Kim Michele Richardson This is my 3rd packhorse librarian story this year...and I loved thi...

It is time to look at my reading year and declare my favorites!  I had a lot of 4's and 5's this year. I read  about 130  books. Whe...

4 Stars | Christmas at Little Beach Bakery | Jenny Colgan | 2017 Polly lives on a small Cornish Island called Mount Polbearne. It is based o...

The Queen of Hearts | Kimmery Martin | 2018 Set in Charlotte, North Carolina, best friends Zadie and Emma are doctors who encounter a forme...

The Girl with the Louding Voice | Abi Dare | 2020 Adunni is a fourteen year old Nigerian girl living in contemporary times in a rural villag...

What You Wish For | Katherine Center | 2020 This romantic comedy is about an elementary librarian who works in a private school in Galveston...

How To Walk Away | Katherine Center | 2018 Maggie has finished grad school, landed a great job, bought a condo, and is anticipating an marri...

The Christmas Surprise | Jenny Colgan | 2014 I enjoyed being back in the town of Lipton and with Rosie Hopkins and her boyfriend as they nav...

  Winter in Paradise | Elin Hilderbrand | 2018 What Happens In Paradise | Elin Hilderbrand | 2019 Troubles in Paradise | Elin Hilderbrand | ...

  The last three books I read were Book of the Month books. This is a monthly book subscription service that several of my friends have subs...

  Winterfrost | Michelle Houts | 2014 | 4 Stars | Grades 3-5 | 4 Stars I enjoyed this middle grade story about a nisse from Denmark.  Nisse ...

  This is another novella that I listened to while crafting. I kept listening and ended up staying up pretty late in order to finish it. It ...

  Unwrapping Christmas | Lori Copeland | 2007  This   novella was a sweet little story of a woman in Minnesota who gets over her head in hel...

The setting is a small and remote Scottish Island where Christmas time brings cold weather and isolation after a busy summer of tourists.   ...