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