2012: Ending Radio Silence

I didn’t intend to enter radio silence… Sometimes it just happens, you know? This has been a really weird reading year for me. I don’t feel like I’m reading less, but my pace is way below normal. I have 15 books in the queue to be reviewed, but that still only puts me at 36 books. 36 books after half a year? Unheard of! I

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2012: #21 – Chesapeake Blue (Nora Roberts)

Title: Chesapeake Blue Author: Nora Roberts Series: Quinn Brothers #04 Format: Audio Length: 9 hrs 18 min Release Date: November 4, 2002 Publisher: Jove Categories: romance Source: personal copy Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Back of the book: Seth Quinn is finally home. It’s been a long journey. After a harrowing boyhood with his drug-addicted mother, he’d been taken in by the Quinn family, growing

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2012: #20 – Ninepins (Rosy Thornton)

Title: Ninepins Author: Rosy Thornton Format: ARC Paperback Pages: 320 (2012 total – 4,969) Approx. Word Count: 96,000 (2012 total – 1,374,983) Release Date: April 16, 2012 Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd Categories: general fiction, women’s fiction Source: ARC from author Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Back of the book: Deep in the Cambridgeshire fens, Laura is living alone with her 12-year-old daughter Beth, in the

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2012: #19 – False Impression (Jeffrey Archer)

Title: False Impression Author: Jeffrey Archer Format: Hardback Pages: 384 (2012 total – 4,649) Approx. Word Count: 115,200 (2012 total – 1,278,983) Release Date: March 07, 2006 Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Categories: suspense Source: personal copy Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Back of the book: Why was an elegant lady BRUTALLY MURDERED the night before 9/11? Why was a successful New York banker not surprised

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