Readers, Welcome to my blog (formerly Birds, Blooms, Books, etc). I'm entering a new decade taking on the challenge of moving from Maryland after living there 46 years and learning about my new home here in New England in the Live Free or Die state - New Hampshire. Join me as a write this new chapter of my life.

Books Read 2025

Here are the books I read in 2025.  

1. The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose

2. I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon

3. The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

4. The Child by Fiona Barton

5. Gather by Kenneth Cadow

6. The Rose Code  by Kate Quinn

7. The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson

8. The Author's Guide to Murder by B. Williams, L. Willig, & K. White

9. The Orphans of Mersea House by Marty Wingate

10. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet S. Charles

11. The Thirteenth Husband by Greer Macallister

12. Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz

13. The English Wife. by Lauren Willig

14. Murder in Highbury by Vanessa Kelly

15. The Midnight Feast. by Lucy Foley

16. The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy

17. The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

18. Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

19. Death of a Heretic by Peter Tremayne

20. The House of Unexpected Sisters by Alexander McCall Smith

21. Harriet Tubman by J.M. Wiesen & Rita Daniels

22. The Oxford Inheritance by Ann A. McDonald

23. The Color of Cattle by Alexander McCall Smith

24. Under the Paper Moon by Shaina Steinberg

25. Memorial Days - A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks

26. North Woods by Daniel Mason

27. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

28. Mrs. Queen Takes the Train by William Kuhn

29. The Right Sort of Man by Allison Montclair

30. The Last Mona Lisa by Jonathan Santlofer

31. Hatchett by Gary Paulsen (read aloud to granddaughter)

32. Shoot Star by Cynthia Riggs

33. Secrets of the Lighthouse by Sante Montefiore

34. Deadly Nightshade by Cynthia Riggs

35. Caroline, Little House Revisited by Sarah Miller

36. The Cranefly Murders by Cynthia Riggs

37. The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza

38. The Cemetery Yew by Cynthia Riggs

39. We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes

40. Jack in the Pulpit by Cynthia Riggs

41. The Silence of the North by Olive Fredrickson

42. Look for Me by Beth Hoffman

43. The Secret Life of Sunflowers  by Marta Molnar

44. Indian Pipes by Cynthia Riggs

45. The Booklover's Library by Madeline Martin

46. Open Season by Archer Mayor