All Books Considered

  "Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine , that spotlights upcoming releases that you are eagerly anticipating. Today, I am waiting on:   The Wanderers by Meg Howrey From Goodreads : Station Eleven meets The Martian in this brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them—and their families—changed forever. In four years Prime Space will put the first humans on Mars. Helen Kane, Yoshi Tanaka, and Sergei Kuznetsov must prove they’re the crew for the job by spending seventeen months in the most realistic simulation every created. Retired from NASA, Helen had not trained for irrelevance. It is nobody’s fault that the best of her exists in space, but her daughter can’t help placing blame. The MarsNOW mission is Helen’s last chance to return to the only place she...

The Chosen (Fredrika Bergman & Alex Recht #5) by Kristina Ohlsson Blurb from Goodreads : The brand new thriller featuring Investigative Analyst Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht of the Stockholm police. On a cold winter's day, a pre-school teacher is shot to death in front of parents and children at the Jewish Congregation in Stockholm. Just a few hours later two Jewish boys go missing on their way to tennis practice. A heavy snowstorm hits Stockholm and the traces of the perpetrator are few and far between. Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht are faced with one of their toughest challenges ever as they hunt for a killer that seems as merciless as he is effective. The leads in the investigation are many and diverse but in the end they all point to the same place: Israel. Someone or something called the Paper Boy keeps popping up in the police investigation. But who was he really? And could he possibly have...

Number of Books Read I am trying, friends but man, things are really grim for the U.S. Also, trying to not spend all my time obsessing over news caused me to read 23 books (including so many (comfort) re-reads but not including one DNF)!  Re-Reads!                                Highest rating Not including re-reads, these were both 4 STARs!!     Lowest rating Just one DNF! Best read of the month Book which surprised me the most Even though I read nothing but glowing reviews, I will still so charmed by this one! Fictional crush of the month ...