October reads

 Everything She Wants by Sarah Alva

Read my daughter's copy

Published in 2018

Romance, LDS, proposals

Recommend: yes

My daughter left this at my house when she was visiting and I picked it up for a quick read. It has the typical LDS vibe romance ingredients, but the characters were not as cringy as some I've read so it was enjoyable. In a nutshell Lucy decides at the last minute to accompany a cousin and her friend to London to escape her boyfriend who keeps proposing to her. While there she meets a handsome pilot and they spend a few days hanging out together in London. She arrives back in the states and has to make a decision about the proposal when, of course, the handsome pilot comes back into her life. 

Bob by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead

Listened to on the Libby App

Published in 2018

Narrated by Nora Hunter and Rob Dircks

Fantasy, junior fiction, Australia, wells, fairy tale creatures

Recommend: yes

Both of these authors have many awards next to their names, including a Newbery Medal winner. Livy is 11 and travels to Australia to spend time with her grandmother whom she hasn't seen since she was 5 on a previous visit. She is reintroduced to "Bob", a green creature she thought was a zombie that has been waiting for her to come back for 6 years. Livy slowly starts to remember her interactions with Bob and picks up her mission to help him find his home as she was doing when she was 5 years old. 

A very sweet fantasy story with lovely characters. 

Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie

Personal copy

Published in 1959

Mystery, Hercule Poirot, boarding school, England

Recommend: yes

I've owned this book for years and wanted to immerse myself in Hercule Poirot's world for a few days. This murder mystery takes place at a girls boarding school in England and the famous detective doesn't enter into the story until the last few chapters. I never tire of Christie's descriptions and plot twists and turns. After I finished reading the novel I watched one of the film adaptations with David Suchet playing Poirot and enjoyed that as well.

Being Henry...the Fonz and Beyond by Henry Winkler

Listened to on the Libby App

Released in 2023

Narrated by Henry Winkler, with some sections by his wife, Stacy

Autobiography, biography, acting, televison, movies

Recommend: sure

I have always liked the Henry Winkler's movies and tv shows. And it seems like he's a nice guy in his private life, which I believe he is after listening to his autobiography. I did have a hard time finishing the book, partly because of the shear number of names he throws out, most of whom I have never heard of, which could be the result of me not watching a lot of movies or tv shows. I liked the sections narrated by his wife, it gave it another depth and point of view. I am glad I finished listening to it, however, because it gave me a look into actors and actresses lives and the complexities that they deal with as they work hard to be in the right places at the right times to get the right jobs to expand their abilities and interests.