Girls At The Bookstore

GOODREADS SUMMARY: Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers. But with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants, packing up the seeds before they are transported to safer ground. Despite the wild beauty of life here, isolation has taken its toll on the Salts. Raff, eighteen and suffering his first heartbreak, can only find relief at his punching bag; Fen, seventeen, has started spending her nights on the beach among the seals; nine-year-old Orly, obsessed with botany, fears the loss of his beloved natural world; and Dominic can’t stop turning back toward the past, and the loss that drove the family to Shearwater in the first place. Then, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman washes up on shore. As the Salts nurse the woman, Rowan, back to life, their suspicion gives way to affection, and they finally begin to ...

Can't-Wait Wednesday is hosted by Tressa at  Wishful Endings  and gives us a chance to highlight books we are patiently waiting to fill up our TBRs with.   ONE GOLDEN SUMMER BY CARLEY FORTUNE pub date: May 6 2025     I fell in love with Carley Fortune's debut Every Summer After. To me it was almost a perfect book, it certainly was a 5 star read. I loved the location, I love the  characters, the premises of the books, the beach... I LOVE beach reads. I look forward to summer every year where I can live vicariously through others who have a cute little beach cottage, heck I even like the run down shacks one sometimes inherited , and the past few summers I look forward to Carley Fortune's newest read! I never anticipated Charlie Florek. Good things happen at the lake. That’s what Alice’s grandmother says, and it’s true. Alice spent just one summer at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen—it’s where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers i...

Top Ten Tuesday  was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to  That Artsy Reader Girl  in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.    Things Characters Have Said ( Maybe a character said something really profound or romantic or hilarious or heartbreaking. You could share witty one-liners, mic-drop moments, snippets of funny dialogue between multiple characters, catchphrases, quotes that have become a part of pop culture–like “May the odds be ever in your favor.”, etc. ) I can't tell you how much I love Jace Wayland, or which ever name you call him by. The thing that struck me quickly was his wicked sense of humor.  I really think that he is the main reason I continued to read 6 books when I am NOT a series reader.  So...ladies and gentlemen I present Jace Weyland and the crap he says... 1 .   "Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?' Ja...

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organize yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment and er… add to your groaning TBR pile! This meme by  Kathryn at   The Book Date I can honestly say nothing has changed from last week when I posted Book Date. It has been crazy here, and I am not going to get into it on this post as I did some explaining on my Sunday post, so ... I did not finish any book.... But I am getting close on all three, which are... VICTORIAN PSYCHO BY VIRGINIA FEITO HUNGERSTONE BY KAT DUNN THE FALL RISK BY ABBY JIMENEZ  I am enjoying all, and I HOPE  nothing else happens around here and I can get these read and start something new by next week!  

 The Sunday Salon is hosted by  Readerbuzz Life here has been very mundane ...VERY. We have been remodeling our downstairs, and stopped for the holidays and have yet to get started again. It seems it is always something. ALWAYS. We have this little room off our living room, I have NO clue what it is for...we call it the damn room, because it can't really be used for a damn thing. Maybe back in 1900 it had use, but we havent figured it out lol. Anyway to stopped there a few days before Thanksgiving, and sine then. I have closed a small booth I had in a store for my business, so I could just work on my website, everything from my booth went in there while I began to put it up. I had to clean out an upstairs bedroom to make that my new space, so things up there are all in the hall. Then this week, my daughter decided to move out of the apartment she had with her boyfriend and move into a house by herself, guess who had to move her? Right me and my husband. In the middle of that, ...

Can't-Wait Wednesday is hosted by Tressa at  Wishful Endings  and gives us a chance to highlight books we are patiently waiting to fill up our TBRs with. ATMOSPHERE BY TAYLOR JENKINS REID pub date: June 3, 2025 I was blown away by Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones. I loved the format that she wrote it in, as if you were reading an interview. Maybe it hit as brilliant because at the time I was still working in the music business, interviewing bands, so it resonated with me. She isn't an auto buy, there have been books by her I didn't necessarily love, but a few I have liked, for instance I really enjoyed Malibu Rising, but again, I related to it in some way having grown up in California around the surfing culture. I also love how she had managed to weave Mick Riva into so many of her books. He made an appearance in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo as one of her husbands and then again in Malibu Rising as the children's absent father. He also has small appearances, o...