reading and relaxing in Seattle
Brie Careful What You Wish For is the latest installment in the Grilled Cheese Mysteries, a cozy mystery series centered on grilled cheese restaurant owner Carly Hale, and the alarming number of dead bodies that keep turning up in her small town of Balsam Dell. This time around, Ross Baxter, a local Read the Post
January is usually the month that feels like it drags on forever. After all the December festivities, returning to my everyday routine can feel like a bit of a letdown. Somehow, though, this January didn’t feel like that for me at all. The month flew by, and I can’t believe it’s already Read the Post
Vivian Miller is a CIA analyst tasked with identifying and locating Russian sleeper cells. When she gains access to a potential Russian operative’s computer, what she discovers sets off a chain of events that threatens not only her career, but her family as well. This book was equal parts Read the Post
This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic is Bookish Discoveries I Made in 2025. I fully intended to participate until I realized I only had five items on my list. Can you still join Top Ten Tuesday with only five things? I’m honestly not sure, but instead of forcing it, I decided to do my own version and Read the Post
Alice Law and Peter Murdoch are graduate students at a magic school in Cambridge. When their professor dies in a horrific magical accident, they decide, for various personal reasons, to journey into Hell to retrieve his soul and bring him back. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this book. On Read the Post
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. This week's topic is Goals for 2026. They can be bookish goals, Read the Post
Minerva is a graduate student researching the life and work of Beatrice Tremblay, a lesser-known writer of macabre tales. When Minerva discovers that Tremblay’s most famous novel, The Vanishing, was inspired by a true story, her research takes a darker turn. During the Great Depression, Beatrice Read the Post
Somewhere along the way, the things I love most started being called “granny hobbies.” Knitting. Crocheting. Reading. Journaling. Planning. These quiet, slow activities that don’t revolve around screens or constant productivity. And even though I'm not a fan of the phrase “granny hobbies”, I’ve Read the Post
After wealthy, eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth drops dead at the Autumnal Ball, Beatrice Steele sees the perfect opportunity to put her detective skills to use before someone else ends up dead. I didn’t know what to expect when I pulled this book off my shelf, but it turned out to be a Read the Post
I read 64 books in 2025. My goal was to read 52 books - I figured that was one book per week, and if I went over, then great. Most of my reading happened on the bus, at silent reading parties, and curled up on my couch. I track my reading both on Goodreads and in my own spreadsheet. I love to see Read the Post
