It's Monday! What Are You Reading? August 18, 2025 #IMWAYR

       

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are! 

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Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. 

Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

The September House

by Carissa Orlando

print from my TBR shelves

Published September 2023

Death Row

(Alibis Collection #1)

by Freida McFadden

audio-book borrowed from Amazon

Published June 2025

Finding Emma

(Finding Emma #1)

by Steena Holmes

audiobook gifted from author

Published March 2012

What I recently finished

Where Light Lingers

by Ashley Farley

eARC for review

Pub date ~ September 2

Please Don't Lie

by Christina Baker Kline & Anne Burt

e-book from my TBR shelf

Pub date ~ September 1

Hush

(The Seaside Saga #25)

by Joanne DeMaio

e-book for review

Published August 4, 2025

The Vacation

 by Kathryn Croft

audiobook borrowed from Audible

Published July 2025

What I am going to read next

The Road to Yesterday: A Memoir

by Maryellen Donovan

print ARC for review

Pub date ~ September 9

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? August 11, 2025 #IMWAYR

      

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are! 

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Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. 

Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

Where Light Lingers

by Ashley Farley

eARC for review

Pub date ~ September 2

The September House

by Carissa Orlando

print from my TBR shelves

Published September 2023

The Vacation

 by Kathryn Croft

audiobook borrowed from Audible

Published July 2025

What I recently finished

Open Bar

by Dan Schorr

print ARC for review

Pub date ~ August 12

The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson

by Ellen Baker

e-book from my TBR shelves for a challenge

Published February 2024

Abandoned in Death

(In Death #54)

by J.D. Robb

audio-book from my TBR collection

Published February 2022

What I am going to read next

Hush

(The Seaside Saga #25)

by Joanne DeMaio

e-book for review

Published August 4, 2025

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Release Day! The Vacation by T.M. Logan ~ My Thoughts #TheVacation #NetGalley

Congrats Tim
on the release today of
The Vacation!

The Vacation by T.M. Logan

Print & e-book, 384 pages
Published July 21st 2020 by St. Martin's Press

In The Vacation, a captivating thriller from T. M. Logan, the bestselling author of Lies and 29 Seconds, four lifelong friends on a luxurious vacation come face-to-face with an explosive secret.

It was supposed to be the perfect vacation, dreamed up by Kate as the ideal way to turn 40: four best friends and their husbands and children, spending a week in a luxurious villa under the blazing sunshine of Provence.

But there is trouble in paradise.

Kate suspects that her husband is having an affair—and that the other woman is one of her best friends. One of these women is willing to sacrifice years of friendship and destroy her family. But which one?

As Kate closes in on the truth in the stifling Mediterranean heat, she realizes—too late—that the stakes are far higher than she ever imagined. And someone in the villa may be prepared to kill to keep their lies hidden.

My thoughts about The Vacation ~~ 

(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first line.)

First line—"We drove north, away from the coast."

Four best friend and their families housed together for a week in a beautiful place that includes a pool. Sounds like the perfect vacation, right? What could go wrong? 

Well, just about everything, it seems. Combine a bunch of secrets and lies, plenty of tension, squabbling adults, a few bratty kids, some teenage angst for good measure and you have a week that is anything but the perfect vacation.

It starts out relaxing and peaceful enough and then things start to ratchet up. With each turn of the page, the reader gets drawn into the drama. This story took twists and turns that I wasn't anticipating—but then, that's to be expected with books by this amazing and creative author. 

The Vacation is an exciting thriller that kept me on the edge of my seat. And an ending that I thought about long after I closed the cover.

I received The Vacation from the publisher via NetGalley and this is my honest opinion.

About the author

Tim’s thrillers have sold more than 750,000 copies in the UK and are published in 15 countries around the world including the USA, South Korea, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Romania and the Netherlands.

His debut thriller Lies was one of Amazon’s biggest selling e-books of 2017 and was followed by 29 Seconds in 2018. His latest thriller, The Holiday, was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick for summer 2019 and spent ten weeks in the Sunday Times paperback top ten.

His next novel, The Catch, is about a father who becomes convinced his daughter is about to marry a man with terrible secrets. The Catch will be published in the UK on 11th June 2020.

Tim was born in Berkshire and studied in London and Cardiff before becoming a national newspaper journalist. He lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children, and writes in a cabin at the bottom of his garden. ~ Goodreads

Connect with Tim

Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? July 13, 2020

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

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Take care. Stay safe and healthy everyone.

And remember to wash those hands!!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

The Wife Who Knew Too Much
by Michele Campbell
Pub date 7/28

The Perfect Secret
by Steena Holmes

Narrated by Erin deWard & Christina Traister

What I recently finished

The Vacation
by T.M. Logan
Pub date 7/21

What You Wish For

by Katherine Center

Pub date 7/14

What I am going to read next

The Friendship List
by Susan Mallery
Pub date 8/4

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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