Meanderings and Muses: Loving vs. Hating

I love the positivity of Taylor Swift

Vs.

The hateful ignorance of

You know

Books Read in 2025

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
Them Bones by David Housewright
Summer Light on Nantucket by Nancy Thayer
The Last Carolina Summer by Karen White
Other People’s Summers by Sarah Morgan
Booked for Murder by P.J. Nelson
Maine Characters by Hannah Orenstein
Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts
These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean
The Red Queen by Martha Grimes
Nobody's Fool by Harlan Coben
The Secret Library of Hanna Reeves by Christine Nolfi
All the Signs by Jessie Rosen
The Midnight Estate by Kelly Rimmer
The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth by Barbara O'Neal
Through an Open Window by Pamela Terry
The Safari by Jaclyn Goldis
Our Last Vineyard Summer by Brooke Lea Foster
Propaganda Girls by Lisa Rogak
The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce
These Heathens by Mia McKenzie
The Light on Horn Island by Valerie Fraser Luesse
The Doorman by Chris Pavone
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure by Rhys Bowen
The Rebel of Seventh Avenue by Annabelle Marx
The Violet Hour A Lowcountry Tale by Victoria Benton Frank
Cher: The Memoir (Part 1) by Cher
The Belles by Lacey N. Dunham
The Midnight Hour by Eve Chase
Death is a Caberet by Deborah Morgan
Hunter's Heart Ridge by Sarah Stewart Taylor
All This Could Be Yours by Hank Phillippi Ryan
The Forget-Me-Not Library by Heather Webber
The Bayrose Files by Diane Wald
The Weedless Widow by Deborah Morgan
The Marriage Casket by Deborah Morgan
Four on the Floor by Deborah Morgan
A Paris All Your Own edited by Eleanor Brown
The Engagements By J. Courtney Sullivan
At Home in the World:A Memoir by Joyce Maynard
Under the Stars by Beatriz Williams
The Majolica Murders by Deborah Morgan
My Beloved by Jan Karon
The Saint Laurent Muse by C. W. Gortner
The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time; A Memoir by Jane Bertch
The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods
Apostle's Cove by William Kent Krueger
Falling for Provence by Alison Roberts
Young Fools by Liza Palmer
The Missing Pages by Alyson Richman
The Gourmet Club by Michael A. Kahn
The Sandy Page Bookshop by Hannah McKinnon
The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses Are Empty by Kirsten Mickelwait
The Tattered Cover by Ellery Adams
Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle
A Nice Class of Corpse by Simon Brett
Mrs., Presumed Dead by Simon Brett
Mrs. Pargeter's Package by Simon Brett
Mts. Pargeter's Pound of Flesh by Simon Brett
At Midnight Comes the Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Framed in Death by J. D. Robb
Writers and Liars by Carol Goodman
Just Another Dead Author by Katarina Bivald
The Bones of Point No Point by D.D. Black
The Shadows of Pike Place by D. D. Black
The Fallen of Foulweather Bluff by D. D. Black
The Horror at Murden Cove by D. D. Black
The Terror in the Emerald City by D. D. Black
The Drowning at Dyes Inlet by D. D. Black
The Nightmare at Manhattan Beach by D. D. Black
The Silence at Mystery Bay by D. D. Black
The Darkness at Deception Pass by D. D. Black
The Vanishing at Opal Creek by D. D. Black
The Secrets of Second Beach by D. D. Black
A French Inheritance by Jennifer Bohnet
We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter
Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter
Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter
Dawnland: A Novel by Tess Callahan
The Island Club by Nicola Harrison
The New Book by Nikki Giovanni
The Secret Christmas Library by Jenny Colgan
Park Avenue Summer by Renee Rosen
Edge by Tracy Clark
The Seven Rings by Nora Roberts
The Dark Side of the Moon by Fiona Valpy
Asylum Hotel by Juliet Blackwell
Last Seen by J.T. Ellison
The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave
Served Him Right by Lisa Unger
The Lake House by Kate Morton
Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth

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Friday, August 15, 2025

Loving vs. Hating

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