Hello and welcome to Thinking Out Loud Thursday! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you link up below to let us know what you're thinking out loud about today. On the first Thursday of the every month, I reflect back on the books I read the previous month. So, let's look at what I read in October ~
This was the selection for one of the book clubs I'm in and it was a wonderful read! It's cheap to purchase on Kindle and totally worth it! I found this psychological thriller to be a real page turner and I blow through it really quick. It had plenty of twists and turns I didn't see coming.
‘Thank you for agreeing to be our wedding planner. Theo is on his way,’ Madison says as we meet to plan her dream wedding. The moment her fiancé enters the room, a newborn baby in his arms, my whole world shifts and I grab hold of my desk to stop myself from falling.
Theo shakes my hand as he introduces himself, but I already know who he is. He’s my husband. The man I thought had died five years ago.
‘Lovely to meet you, Eva,’ he says, carefully avoiding my frozen stare. I’d recognise his smooth voice anywhere.
I want to scream, ask him why he’s doing this to me. But I know just how good a liar my husband is. And he knows my darkest secret. I can’t risk him destroying everything I’ve worked so hard for.
At the end of the meeting, I watch the happy little family walk away, and I don’t miss Theo’s eyes staring at me just a second too long. He knows I’m onto him. But only I know what I’m going to do next…
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Night Circus was our library book club selection of the month. I'm the one who picked it and, to be honest, it wasn't a great pick. Hardly anyone liked it, including me. It had a lot of words that just kept going on and on. Have you read it? Did you like it?? Maybe I missed something.
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.
The Gingerbread Bakery by Laurie Gilmore
Dream Harbor book 5 was a good little read and I enjoyed it. Nothing hugely literary about this series, but great to curl up and read for fun. By the way, book 6 it titled The Daisy Chain Flower Shop and is due out in May of 2026.As owner of her beloved Gingerbread Bakery, Annie Andrews should have a love life to match her business; sugary and sweet. But instead, she’s locked in a game of words with the irritatingly upbeat bar owner down the street.
Mac Sullivan has everything he wants, except the girl he dreams of. It’s easier to argue with Annie than get her to talk to him but with Jeanie and Logan’s wedding coming up, they're about to spend a lot more time together.
As the snowflakes fall and with romance in the air, will Annie see that the one she loves to hate might just be her perfect match after all?
Framed by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey
Oh my goodness - this book is a real eye opener! It's scary to think how many innocent people may be incarcerated! This book highlights a few cases John Grisham and Jim McCloskey explored. Could be a good book for the guys on your Christmas list.
John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it’s his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system.
A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse.
Impeccably researched and told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of winning freedom when the battle already seems lost and the deck is stacked against you.
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