Books have always been a big part of my life. I love to read them, talk about them, evaluate them and write about them. I have been keeping a webpage for many years. Initially, my page was hosted under the name of www.leapfrogma.com., which can still be visited for earlier book reviews.
As the years have gone by, technology has changed and so has my website. The pages ahead are my most current book reviews, designated by year and type of book. I have also highlighted the latest books which I have read. Be sure to click on the book titles to get my full review.
If you have enjoyed my blog or have any comments, suggestions or reactions, I would love to hear from you. Please email me.
On an entirely different topic, at the bottom of this page, I am including a link to day trips that we are taking in the Florida area…..another way of learning about the happy things in life.
2017
Fiction, Non Fiction and Audio
- Saints for All Occasions
- Lions
- Maine
- Love and Other Consolation Prizes
- The Angry Wife
- Little Fires Everywhere
- The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
- Beneath a Scarlett Sky
- The Last Mrs. Parrish
- Lilac Girls
- Forty Autumns (2-18 memoir)
- America’s First Daughter-Audio
- The Hamilton Affair-Audio
- The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane-Audio
- Glass Houses-Aiudio
2018
Fiction and Non Fiction and Audio
- Loving Eleanor
- BookShop on the Corner
- The Music Shop
- The Tender Bar- memoir
- The Story of Arthur Truluv
- Bettyville-memoir
- Destiny of the Republic-non fiction (3-18)
- Only Time Will Tell (3-18)
- Sins of the Father (4-18)
- The Girl With Seven Names (3-18, memoir)Audio
- The Address (4-18) Audio
- Best Kept Secret (5-18)
- The Flight Attendant (5-18) Audio
- Love and Ruin (5-18)Audio
- The Female Persuasion (5-18)
- An American Marriage (6-18 Audio)
- The One in a Million Boy (6-18)
- The Irish Girl (6-18)
- Beartown (7-18)
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (7-18)Audio
- 17 Carnations (7-18)
- Us Against You (7-18)
- The Great Alone (7-18 audio)
- The Lost Letter (9-18)
- The Stars are Fire (9-18)
- Clock Dance (audio 9-18)
- The Tuscan Child (9-18)
- And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer (9-18)
- The Trust (10-18)
- The Son (9-18 audio)
- The President is Missing (10-18 audio)
- Carnegie’s Maid (audio 10-18)
- Florida (10-18)
- Stella Bain (audio 10-18)
- Pachinko (10-18)
- Next Year in Havana (11-18)
- The Girl From Berlin (11-18, audio and ebook)
- The Wife (12-18, audio and ebook)
- Where the Crawdads Sing (12-18)
- Asymmetry (12-18)
2019
Fiction, non fiction, audio and ebook
- Kingdom of the Blind (1-19)
- Between You and Me (1-19)
- The Ragged Edge of Night (2-19, audio)
- Night of Miracles (2-19)
- Blood Brothers: Strange Relationship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill (2-19)
- Daughter of Molokai (3-19)
- Rebecca (3-19 audio)
- Becoming (4-19,audio)
- The Arsonist (4-19)
- Flight of the Sparrow (4-19)
- Rebecca’s Tale (5-19)
- Island of the Sea Women (5-19) audio
- Mrs. DeWinter (5-19)
- Lost Roses (5-19)
- Black Water Lilies (5-19) audio
- The Diplomat’s Daughter (6-19)
- The Room on Rue Amelie (6-19) audio
- That Churchill Woman (7-19) audio
- The Guest Book (7-19)
- City of Girls (7-19)
- Meet Me at the Museum (8-19)
- Copperhead (8-19)
- Clementine (8-19)
- Chances Are (8-19)
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz (9-19)
- The Lost Carousel of Provence (10-19)
- A Better Man (10-19)
- The Other Einstein (10-19)
- The Only Woman in the Room (10-19)
- Dusk on Route 1 (10-19)
- The Huntress (11-19)
- Olive Again! (11-19)
- The Dutch House (11-19)
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McKee Botanical Gardens Visit March 2018
San Francisco Visit April and June 2018
Four Arts Society—Isabelle DeBorchgrave Exhibit April 2018
Fort Myers and Sanibel April 2018
Winter Park May, 2018
National Navy Seal Museum May 2018
Moody Beach,Maine Summer, 2018
Palm City, Florida 2014…...
Heathcote Botanical Gardens Dec. 2018
Norton Museum Feb. 2019
McKee Botanical Gardens….again. Feb. 2019
Bok Tower and Gardens March,2019.