Carla Loves To Read

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3 months ago

Saturday Morning for Kids: The Little Prince, The Snow Bear, and Wild Robot #BookReview #Audiobook #MiddleGrade #YA #NovNov2025 #HoHoHoRAT #52BookClub #BeatTheBacklist2025

Welcome to the MG/YA edition of Saturday Morning for Kids, in the evening. I read these books over the last few weeks for…

Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

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3 months ago

What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella @sophiekinsellawriter @sallysmack @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #WhatDoesItFeelLike When this was first released, I got the audiobook right away. But when I learned it was based on her own current experience, something made me pause. It was if I somehow delayed listening to her most autobiographical work of fiction, I could deny reality. Madeleine Sophie Wickham, aka Sophie Kinsella, lost her battle with glioblastoma on December 10, an aggressive form of brain cancer, first diagnosed in 2022. I finally had the courage to pick up this story, somewhat her story, and listen to it in tribute to the woman, the writer whose stories made me laugh out loud.

A tribute! What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella @sophiekinsellawriter @sallysmack @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #WhatDoesItFeelLike #2025AudiobookChallenge #BeatTheBacklist2025 #LibraryLoveChallenge @beatthebacklist @beatthebacklist.com

Carla Loves To Read

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4 months ago

Non-Fiction Novellas: No Ordinary Joe and In the Fields and Trenches #BookReview #NonFictionNovember2025 #NovNov2025 #CoverLover25 #ReadNonFicChal2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025

November is an extremely busy month for reading with three different events. Although I didn't participate in weekly posts, I…

Carla Loves To Read

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4 months ago

NonFiction November: That Librarian and The Happiest Man in The World #BookReview #Audiobook #NonFictionNovember #NovNov25 #ReadNonFicChal2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025 November is a busy month in the reading and blogging world. I am participating in two challenges: Nonfiction November and Novella November. I am also trying to finish reading or listening to books for challenges, so will be double and triple dipping with some of these books. That Librarian fills one book for Nonfiction November, plus a book for the Read Nonfiction Challenge 2025.

NonFiction November: That Librarian and The Happiest Man in The World #BookReview #Audiobook #NonFictionNovember #NovNov25 #ReadNonFicChal2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025

November is a busy month in the reading and blogging world. I am participating in two challenges: Nonfiction November and Novella…

Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

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4 months ago

Her Deadly Touch by Lisa Regan @lisareganauthor @lisaregan.bsky.social @katehandford @hachetteuk @hachetteuk.bsky.social @bookouture @bookouture.bsky.social #DetectiveJosieQuinn #HerDeadlyTouch the setup… Two years ago, five children were killed in a school bus accident, the driver Virgil Lesko impaired by drugs and alcohol. He’s currently awaiting trial and the families are still grieving the senseless loss. Detective Josie Quinn is on the last day of suspension resulting from her last case and visits the cemetery where her ex-husband is buried. She hears a scream from a woman who has happened upon the kneeling dead body of Krystal Duncan, the mother of one of the school bus victims and who was reported missing.

Tragic! Her Deadly Touch by Lisa Regan @lisareganauthor @lisaregan.bsky.social @katehandford @hachetteuk @hachetteuk.bsky.social @bookouture @bookouture.bsky.social #DetectiveJosieQuinn #HerDeadlyTouch #2025AudiobookChallenge #BeatTheBacklist2025 @beatthebacklist

Carla Loves To Read

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5 months ago

Saturday Morning for Kids: The Wild World Handbook: Habitats #NonFiction #Middlegrades #BeatTheBacklist2025 This meme was started by Rae Longest at Powerful Women Readers, but as she is busy with her bookstore, she is not posting as much and asked me to take over. I hope some of you will join in and post those reviews of children's or middle grade books on Saturdays. As I am a grandmother, who loves to read to her grandchildren, a mother who loved to read to and with her children, and a retired teacher librarian, this meme is right up my alley.

Saturday Morning for Kids: The Wild World Handbook: Habitats #NonFiction #Middlegrades #BeatTheBacklist2025

This meme was started by Rae Longest at Powerful Women Readers, but as she is busy with her bookstore, she is not posting as much and asked me to take over. I hope some of you will join in…

Carla Loves To Read

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5 months ago

Love at the Chocolate Shop: Melt My Heart Cowboy (1), A Thankful Heart (2) and The Chocolate Comeback (7) #BookReview #FinishingTheSeries2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025 Love at the Chocolate Shop series is one that I started reading several years ago, but never finished. It is made up of 12 Novellas, written by 6 different authors. They are set in Marietta, Montana with characters that appear in each of the books. I have enjoyed this series and am glad I got back to it. I still have 4 more to read, so perhaps Novellas in November might see me binging the rest of this series

Love at the Chocolate Shop: Melt My Heart Cowboy (1), A Thankful Heart (2) and The Chocolate Comeback (7) #BookReview #FinishingTheSeries2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025

Love at the Chocolate Shop series is one that I started reading several years ago, but never finished. It is made up of 12 Novellas,…

Carla Loves To Read

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5 months ago

Thriller Thursday: When You See Me, Final Assignment, Far From True, and Nemesis #BookReview #Audiobook #ThrillerThursday #BeatTheBacklist2025 #FinishingTheSeries2025 It's Thursday again, and I have four reviews to share with you. 3 are full length novels and 1 a novella. teries or thrillers. When You See Me is a backlist D.D. Warren book which I missed along the way. Final Assignment and Far From True are from Promise Falls, a Linwood Barclay series that I started about ten year ago.

Thriller Thursday: When You See Me, Final Assignment, Far From True, and Nemesis #BookReview #Audiobook #ThrillerThursday #BeatTheBacklist2025 #FinishingTheSeries2025

It's Thursday again, and I have four reviews to share with you. 3 are full length novels and 1 a novella. teries or thrillers. When…

Carla Loves To Read

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5 months ago

Summer 2025 Reads: Summer by the Lake and Summer at Firefly Beach #BookReview #BeatTheBacklist2025 I finished my 20 Books of Summer with two books on my original list that I hadn't gotten to. I decided that I was going to read them on my cruise and I did. They were both romance and I enjoyed them both.

Summer 2025 Reads: Summer by the Lake and Summer at Firefly Beach #BookReview #BeatTheBacklist2025

I finished my 20 Books of Summer with two books on my original list that I hadn't gotten to. I decided that I was going to read them on my cruise and I did. They were both romance and I enjoyed them…

Carla Loves To Read

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7 months ago

Thriller Thursday: Don’t Believe a Word, Kills Well With Others, The Night She Disappeared, and The Accident #BookReview #Audiobook #ThrillerThursday #BooksIOwn #BeatTheBacklist2025 It's Thursday again, and I have four reviews to share with you. These four books are either mysteries or thrillers. Don't Believe a Word introduces us to a grown woman who was raised by two sisters, her aunts. It appears she might have been kidnapped as a toddler, so a team of podcasters is helping her to sort out her past.

Thriller Thursday: Don’t Believe a Word, Kills Well With Others, The Night She Disappeared, and The Accident #BookReview #Audiobook #ThrillerThursday #BooksIOwn #BeatTheBacklist2025

It's Thursday again, and I have four reviews to share with you. These four books are either mysteries or thrillers.…

Carla Loves To Read

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7 months ago

#20BooksOfSummer Mini-Reviews: The Summer of Secrets (16) and The Fourth Summer (17) #BookReview #Audiobook #BeatTheBacklist2025 I am continuing to enjoy my choices for 20 Books of Summer. I have now read or listened to 17 books from my list and 11 extras. I am winding down my summer reads and have enjoyed the 28 books that I have read or listened to.

#20BooksOfSummer Mini-Reviews: The Summer of Secrets (16) and The Fourth Summer (17) #BookReview #Audiobook #BeatTheBacklist2025

I am continuing to enjoy my choices for 20 Books of Summer. I have now read or listened to 17 books from my list and 11 extras. I am winding down my summer reads and…

Carla Loves To Read

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7 months ago

Historical Fiction: A Fall of Marigolds and The Book Woman’s Daughter #BookReview #Audiobook #BeatTheBacklist2025 I enjoy historical fiction, especially set during times that were not wars. Both of these books fit that bill, with one set in both 1911 and 2011 in New York City, and the other set in the hills of Kentucky in the 1950s. I listened to both of them and enjoyed the narration immensely. I highly recommend both of these books.

Historical Fiction: A Fall of Marigolds and The Book Woman’s Daughter #BookReview #Audiobook #BeatTheBacklist2025

I enjoy historical fiction, especially set during times that were not wars. Both of these books fit that bill, with one set in both 1911 and 2011 in New York City, and the other set in…

Carla Loves To Read

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7 months ago

Whodunnit – Cozy Mysteries: Off the Air, Fatal Fried Rice, Beyond a Reasonable Stout, and The Icing on the Corpse #BookReview #Audiobook #FinishingTheSeries2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025 Those of you who regularly follow my blog know that I enjoy a good cozy mystery. I have been trying not to add more series, but have many ongoing series on my TBR shelf. Over the last few weeks, I have been trying to catch up on some of them. These four books come from a Scottish Book Shop series, a mature sleuth in a small village, a group of women of various ages in a small village and a magician and her friends who solve mysteries involving homes with secret bookshelves, rooms and passageways.

Whodunnit – Cozy Mysteries: Off the Air, Fatal Fried Rice, Beyond a Reasonable Stout, and The Icing on the Corpse #BookReview #Audiobook #FinishingTheSeries2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025

Those of you who regularly follow my blog know that I enjoy a good cozy mystery. I have been trying not to add more…

Carla Loves To Read

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7 months ago

#20BooksOfSummer Mini-Reviews: An Island Summer (15), The Lost Book of First Loves (11 extra), Booked For Summer (12 extra) #BookReview #Audiobook, #FinishingTheSeries2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025 I am continuing to enjoy my choices for 20 Books of Summer. I have now read or listened to 14 books from my list and 6 extras. I am well on my way to enjoying summer stories and completing this challenge.

#20BooksOfSummer Mini-Reviews: An Island Summer (15), The Lost Book of First Loves (11 extra), Booked For Summer (12 extra) #BookReview #Audiobook, #FinishingTheSeries2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025

I am continuing to enjoy my choices for 20 Books of Summer. I have now read or listened to 14 books from…

Carla Loves To Read

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7 months ago

Historical Fiction: The Island of Sea Women, Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade, and The Medicine Woman of Galveston #BookReview #Audiobook #BeatTheBacklist2025 I enjoy historical fiction, especially books that are set during times that I haven't read a lot about. All three of these books are set during different times in history. All of them are about strong, independent women, which I love.

Historical Fiction: The Island of Sea Women, Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade, and The Medicine Woman of Galveston #BookReview #Audiobook #BeatTheBacklist2025

I enjoy historical fiction, especially books that are set during times that I haven't read a lot about. All three of these books are set during…

Carla Loves To Read

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8 months ago

Romance is in the Air: No More Yesterdays, Mrs. Nash’s Ashes, and The Little Village Bakery #BookReview #Audiobook #BeatTheBacklist2025 Enjoying so many genres means I can mix up my reading. Over the last month, I have read several romance stories. These three were very different from one another with one being romantic suspense, one a romance with an undertone of grief and the last being a story of new beginnings and forgiveness. Although they are very different from one another, I enjoyed them all.

Romance is in the Air: No More Yesterdays, Mrs. Nash’s Ashes, and The Little Village Bakery #BookReview #Audiobook #BeatTheBacklist2025

Enjoying so many genres means I can mix up my reading. Over the last month, I have read several romance stories. These three were very different from one another…

Carla Loves To Read

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8 months ago

Christmas in July 2025: Rosco the Rascal and the Holiday Lights (7), The Nine Lives of Christmas (8), Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells at The Christmas Fair (9) #BookReview #ChristmasInJuly2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025

It's that time again, Christmas in July. My goal is to read between 8 Christmas/Winter…

Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

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8 months ago

The Girls in the Snow by Stacy Green @authorstacygreenwhisenand @stacywhisenand @katehandford @hachetteuk @hachetteuk.bsky.social @bookouture @bookouture.bsky.social #NikkiHunt #TheGirlsInTheSnow the setup… Two fifteen-year old girls in Stillwater, Minnesota have been missing for days. Best friends Madison Malone and Kaylee Thomas vanished one evening on their way to visit a friend. When their frozen bodies are found in a cornfield, FBI Special Agent Nikki Hunt is called in from St.Paul as they might be the victims of the serial killer she’s hunting. It’s the first time she’s returned to her hometown in the twenty years since her parents were murdered. Nikki doesn’t believe the girls were victims of the serial killer but she still wants to investigate the case, even though it’s bringing personal trauma.

Great series start! The Girls in the Snow by Stacy Green @authorstacygreenwhisenand @stacywhisenand @katehandford @hachetteuk @hachetteuk.bsky.social @bookouture @bookouture.bsky.social #NikkiHunt #TheGirlsInTheSnow #2025AudiobookChallenge #BeatTheBacklist2025

Carla Loves To Read

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8 months ago

Whodunnit – Cozy Mysteries: The Stolen Letter, The Cream Tea Killer, The Queen of Poisons, and The Library Game #BookReview #Audiobook #FinishingTheSeries2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025 Those of you who regularly follow my blog know that I enjoy a good cozy mystery. I have been trying not to add more series, but have many ongoing series on my TBR shelf. Over the last few weeks, I have been trying to catch up on some of them. These four books come from a Scottish Book Shop series, a mature sleuth in a small village, a group of women of various ages in a small village and a magician and her friends who solve mysteries involving homes with secret bookshelves, rooms and passageways.

Whodunnit – Cozy Mysteries: The Stolen Letter, The Cream Tea Killer, The Queen of Poisons, and The Library Game #BookReview #Audiobook #FinishingTheSeries2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025

Those of you who regularly follow my blog know that I enjoy a good cozy mystery. I have been trying not to add more…

Carla Loves To Read

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8 months ago

Christmas in July 2025: An Alaskan Family Christmas (4), Last Christmas in Paris (2), and The Best Worst Christmas (6) #BookReview #Audiobook #ChristmasInJuly2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025

It's that time again, Christmas in July. My goal is to read between 8 Christmas/Winter books in July, and I am…

Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

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8 months ago

Kit McBride Gets a Wife by Amy Barry @amybarryauthor @evakaminskyaudiobooks @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #TheMcBridesOfMontana #KitMcBrideGetsAWife the setup… The four McBride brothers all live together on their isolated ranch in Buck’s Creek, Montana with their little sister Junebug. She’s feisty and smart but sick to death of having to do all the “female” chores for these burly men and decides she needs a “wife.” Junebug places an add in The Matrimonial News under next to oldest brother Kit’s name. Maddy Mooney moved to St. Louis from Ireland for a better life and has the misfortune of getting a job with a scheming but penniless widow (unbeknownst to her).

Hilarious! Kit McBride Gets a Wife by Amy Barry @amybarryauthor @evakaminskyaudiobooks @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #TheMcBridesOfMontana #KitMcBrideGetsAWife #2025AudiobookChallenge #BeatTheBacklist2025

Carla Loves To Read

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8 months ago

Christmas in July 2025: Coming Home to Glendale Hall (1), Every Day is Christmas (2), and Mountain Mistletoe Christmas (3) #BookReview #Audiobook #ChristmasInJuly2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025

It's that time again, Christmas in July. My goal is to read between 8 Christmas/Winter books in July, and I am…

Carla Loves To Read

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8 months ago

Nonfiction Reviews: The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians, Hello Friends, and The Ozempic Revolution #BookReview #Audiobook #Nonfiction #ReadNonFicChal2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025 I've been enjoying several nonfiction reads this year. I have both read and listened to them. Over the past month I have read/listened to:

Nonfiction Reviews: The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians, Hello Friends, and The Ozempic Revolution #BookReview #Audiobook #Nonfiction #ReadNonFicChal2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025

I've been enjoying several nonfiction reads this year. I have both read and listened to them. Over the past…

Jonetta | Blue Mood Café

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9 months ago

My Darling Jane by Ilsa Madden-Mills @ilsamaddenmills @stellahunternarrator @sebastianyork_official @brilliancepublishing #TheDarlings #My Darling Jane the setup… Jane Darling is working hard to make Cupid’s Arrow, her startup matchmaking business, a success so showing up in sports bars in a toga and angel wings to promote it isn’t beneath her. Running into the annoying Jasper Jannich, New York’s star quarterback and the best friend of her brother-in-law, wasn’t part of her plan. They have a prickly relationship but he decides just for giggles to sign up for her services. And the fun begins! the heart of the story… Despite their bickering, Jane and Jasper have a lot in common.

Cupid’s arrow landed! My Darling Jane by Ilsa Madden-Mills @ilsamaddenmills @stellahunternarrator @sebastianyork_official @brilliancepublishing #TheDarlings #My Darling Jane #2025AudiobookChallenge #BeatTheBacklist2025 @beatthebacklist #FinishingTheSeries2025

Carla Loves To Read

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9 months ago

Thriller Thursday: Who’s Lying Now, That’s Not My Name, Cover Your Eyes #BookReview #Audiobook #ThrillerThursday #BeatTheBacklist2025 #FinishingTheSeries It's Thursday again, and I have three more reviews to share with you. The first is a domestic thriller, the second is a psychological thriller and the last is a crime thriller in a series about a family in law enforcement. I enjoyed them all to various degrees. I listened to all of them, and enjoyed the narration of the audiobooks.

Thriller Thursday: Who’s Lying Now, That’s Not My Name, Cover Your Eyes #BookReview #Audiobook #ThrillerThursday #BeatTheBacklist2025 #FinishingTheSeries

It's Thursday again, and I have three more reviews to share with you. The first is a domestic thriller, the second is a psychological thriller…

Carla Loves To Read

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9 months ago

Aurora Anderson Mysteries: Fatal Brushstroke, Designed for Haunting, and Ghosts of Painting Past #BookReview #Audiobook #JIAM2025 #FinishingTheSeries2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025 I have had the 4th and 5th Aurora Anderson Mystery books on my TBR for many years. With both the Finishing The Series Challenge and JIAM (June is Audiobook Month) Challenge, I thought this would be a good time to get to these books. I was able to find the first book that I had never read on audible plus, narrated by Vanessa Daniels.

Aurora Anderson Mysteries: Fatal Brushstroke, Designed for Haunting, and Ghosts of Painting Past #BookReview #Audiobook #JIAM2025 #FinishingTheSeries2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025

I have had the 4th and 5th Aurora Anderson Mystery books on my TBR for many years. With both the Finishing The Series…

Carla Loves To Read

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10 months ago

Fantasy Reviews: The Hazel Wood, Tea You at the Altar, and Last Chance to Save the World #BookReview #Audiobook #BeatTheBacklist2025 I don't read a lot of fantasy, but had several on my TBR shelf, and thought it was time to read a few. These are all very different with one being a Fairytale type fantasy, the second set in a different world, and the last one the final book in a trilogy set in the future, so perhaps it is actually Sci-Fi not fantasy.

Fantasy Reviews: The Hazel Wood, Tea You at the Altar, and Last Chance to Save the World #BookReview #Audiobook #BeatTheBacklist2025

I don't read a lot of fantasy, but had several on my TBR shelf, and thought it was time to read a few. These are all very different with one being a Fairytale type…

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10 months ago

Amish Fiction Reviews: Amish Brides, With All Her Heart, Once Upon a Buggy #BookReview #Audiobook #FinishingTheSeries2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025 Earlier this year, I realized that I had a lot of Amish Fiction on my shelves. I wanted to catch up on some series and authors that I enjoy. These are my three latest that I listened to and enjoyed, some more than others.

Amish Fiction Reviews: Amish Brides, With All Her Heart, Once Upon a Buggy #BookReview #Audiobook #FinishingTheSeries2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025

Earlier this year, I realized that I had a lot of Amish Fiction on my shelves. I wanted to catch up on some series and authors that I enjoy. These are my…

Carla Loves To Read

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10 months ago

Thriller Thursday: Till Death Do Us Part, I’ll Never Let You Go, and Famous Last Words #BookReview #Audiobook #ThrillerThursday #BeatTheBacklist2025 It's Thursday again, and I have three more reviews to share with you. The first is a crime thriller, the first in a new Detective series, the second is a PI firm of three well-known names: Holmes, Marple & Poe and is the second in a series and the last is a domestic/psychological thriller, that had me on the edge of my seat.

Thriller Thursday: Till Death Do Us Part, I’ll Never Let You Go, and Famous Last Words #BookReview #Audiobook #ThrillerThursday #BeatTheBacklist2025

It's Thursday again, and I have three more reviews to share with you. The first is a crime thriller, the first in a new Detective series, the second…

Carla Loves To Read

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10 months ago

Nonfiction Reviews: The Pie Lady and I Feel The Cheers #BookReview #Audiobook #Nonfiction #ReadNonFicChal2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025 I've been enjoying several nonfiction reads this year. I have both read and listened to them. Over the past month I have read/listened to: The Pie Lady: Classic Stories from a Mennonite Cook and Her Friends and I Felt the Cheers: The Remarkable Silent Life of Curtis Pride. The first fulfils the prompt for Food, the second is a book published in 2025 that is also a sports memoir and inspirational story.

Nonfiction Reviews: The Pie Lady and I Feel The Cheers #BookReview #Audiobook #Nonfiction #ReadNonFicChal2025 #BeatTheBacklist2025

I've been enjoying several nonfiction reads this year. I have both read and listened to them. Over the past month I have read/listened to: The Pie Lady: Classic…