Thought I’d do the #20TBRbookChallenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf and post 1 book per day for 20 days. No particular order. No explanations. Just covers. 12/20 Mable Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds by Lois Palken Rudnick #BookSky #BookChallenge

Thought I’d do the #20TBRbookChallenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf and post 1 book per day for 20 days. No particular order. No explanations. Just covers. 11/20 Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup #BookSky #BookChallenge

Thought I’d do the #20TBRbookChallenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf and post 1 book per day for 20 days. No particular order. No explanations. Just covers. 10/20 The World We Found by Thirty Umrigar #BookSky #BookChallenge

Thought I’d do the #20TBRbookChallenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf and post 1 book per day for 20 days. No particular order. No explanations. Just covers. 9/20 Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale #BookSky #BookChallenge

Thought I’d do the #20TBRbookChallenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf and post 1 book per day for 20 days. No particular order. No explanations. Just covers. 8/20 The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend by Bob Drury #BookSky #BookChallenge

Thought I’d do the #20TBRbookChallenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf and post 1 book per day for 20 days. No particular order. No explanations. Just covers. 7/20 The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall III #BookSky #BookChallenge

Thought I’d do the #20TBRbookChallenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf and post 1 book per day for 20 days. No particular order. No explanations. Just covers. 6/20 In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War by Tobias Wolff #BookSky #BookChallenge

ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #TheWomanWhoPaintedTheSeasons by Penny Fields-Schneider. A well-researched fictional biography of artist Lee Krasner and her spouse, Jackson Pollack. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #AbstractExpressionism #FemaleArtists #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews

Thought I’d do the #20TBRbookChallenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf and post 1 book per day for 20 days. No particular order. No explanations. Just covers. 5/20 A Primate’s Memoir: A Neuroscientists Unconventation Life Among the Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky #BookSky #BookChallenge

BOOK REVIEW: #Westerly by Susan Donovan Bernhard. A beautifully written family drama with themes of changeling children and family secrets. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #FamilySaga #FamilyDrama #IrishAmericanLiterature #WorldWar2Literature #AmReading #Bookstagram #Booksky #BookReviews

Thought I’d do the #20TBRbookChallenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf and post 1 book per day for 20 days. No particular order. No explanations. Just covers. 4/20 Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda #BookSky #BookChallenge

BOOK REVIEW: Always and Forever by Lorraine Zago Rosenthal. An emotional family saga with old family secrets affecting a young couple’s love. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #FamilyDrama #FamilySaga #Romance #SlowBurnRomance #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews

BOOK REVIEW: Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger in which Cork tries to prove the innocence of a young Native American man accused of murder. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews #PrivateInvestigatorSeries #MysterySeries #BooksSetInMinnesota

BOOK REVIEW: Black Butterfly by Claudia Jones. A psychological thriller set in haunted cabin at an idyllic lake resort. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #FemaleArtistsInFiction #PostPartumDepression #PsychologicalSuspense #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews

Thought I’d do the #20TBRbookChallenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf and post 1 book per day for 20 days. No particular order. No explanations. Just covers. 3/20 Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson #BookSky #BookChallenge

Monday - New Crooked Medium novel to copyeditor Cover brief to the designer Price of the first book as eBook down to 99p 99c Out Sept. Plenty of time to read #1 Going for second coffee #books #read #murder #booksky #historical #victorian #queer #womensleuths stephencox.co.uk/books/upcomi...

ICYMI: Nearly a third of children cannot use books when they start school, with some even trying to swipe and zoom on the pages, a survey from Kindred Squared has shown 👇 #BookSky

Thought I’d do the #20TBRbookChallenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf and post 1 book per day for 20 days. No particular order. No explanations. Just covers. 2/20 A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs #BookSky #BookChallenge

Thought I’d do the #20TBRbookChallenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf and post 1 book per day for 20 days. No particular order. No explanations. Just covers. 1/20 Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff #BookSky #BookChallenge

BOOK REVIEW: The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... A fascinating look at bacha posh, Afghani girls who are raised as boys. #NonFiction #GenderIssues #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #WomensRights #WomensIssues #GenderBending

What are 5 books you've read and loved that you sometimes feel no one else has? Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Unset The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg The Antidote by Karen Russell The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #BrendaBarkersNextChapter by Wendy Tokunaga. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #SecondChanceFiction #FictionAboutWriting #FictionAboutTheWritersJourney #SecondChanceRomance #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews

BOOK REVIEW: The Last Road Trip by Jennifer Klepper. A multi-POV, dual timeline story. Five college friends redo their aborted road trip that ended in disaster. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews #RoadTripFiction #CollegeFiction #FriendshipFiction

ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #WinterLoon by Susan Bernhard. A beautifully written coming of age novel with a lyrical, uplifting resolution. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #ComingOfAgeFiction #FamilyDrama #FictionSetInMinnesota #AmReading #Bookstagram #Booksky #BookReviews

BOOK REVIEW: In the Great Quiet by Laura Vogt. Gorgeous prose in a slow-burn pioneer romance set in the Oklahoma land rush of 1893. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #HistoricalFiction #WomensFiction #WomensHistoricalFiction #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews

If you need a break from books and (especially) politics, here's a photo of the newest member of the family:

My March 2026 book reviews. The best of these: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield and the Cork O’Connor mystery series by William Kent Krueger. #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews #MysterySeries #PrivateEyeSeries #GothicNovels #AboriginalFiction #ScienceFiction #WomensFiction

My March 2026 books read. (I’m at 53 of a 200-book goal for the year.) The best: the Cork O’Connor mysteries by William Kent Krueger; The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg; and Liberty Street by Heather Marshall. #DetectiveNovels #NonFiction #WomensFiction #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky

Accusation is becoming infrastructure. You don’t need proof—just enough noise to destabilize credibility. lawrencenault.substack.com/p/from-conte... #booksky #AI #Publishing #Writing

My Melt the Ice toque, inspired by similar hats worn to symbolize Norwegian resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II. The pattern can be found at www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib.... Proceeds from pattern sales support immigrant aid agencies. #NoIce #KnittingPatterns #Protest #Activism

BOOK REVIEW: Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger. The 3rd of 22 well-written private investigator mysteries, this one a tour de force of juggled potential villains. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #PrivateInvestigators #MysterySeries #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews

ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #Midwives by Chris Bohjalian puts a woman’s right to choose where and how to birth her child up against the medical establishment. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #Midwives #Midwivery #FictionSetInVermont #AmReading #HomeBirths #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews

BOOK REVIEW: Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger. The 2nd of 22 in this series of well-written private investigator mysteries. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #PrivateInvestigators #Mysteries #MysterySeries #FictionSetInMinnesota #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews

ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: Illusion of Truth by James L’Etoile. 3rd in the Emily Hunter detective series. Wild plot swings and a seemingly unending supply of suspects. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #FemaleDetectiveMysterySeries #Detectives #AmReading #Bookstagram #Booksky #BookReviews

BOOK REVIEW: Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger. The 1st of 22 novels in this well-written private investigator series. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #PrivateInvestigators #Mysteries #MysterySeries #FictionSetInMinnesota #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews

ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #TheNickelBoys by Colson Whitehead. A searing look at an abusive reform school in Tennessee that wreaked havoc on the lives of countless young men. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #JimCrow #ReformSchools #SystemicRacism #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews

BOOK REVIEW: The Portrait by Emilia Kelly. A gothic novel that falls somewhat flat despite its moody environs. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #GothicNovels #GothicMysteries #VictorianWomen #HistoricalFiction #FictionSetInLondn #ArtInFiction

ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #TheLastOutlaws by Tom Clavin. A look at the post-Civil War bandits who ravaged banks and trains from Kansas to California. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #AmericanWestNonFiction #AmericanWildWest #DaltonGang #BankRobbers #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews

The perfect gift for someone woke enough to care about human rights. “There’s plenty of sharp, suspenseful action to savor here in this impressively poignant, hauntingly realistic, and searingly moving tale. —Kirkus Reviews #Bookstagram #Genocide #Thrillers #MedicalFiction #WomensFiction #BookSky

BOOK REVIEW: #TheThirteethTale by Diane Setterfield. A book lover’s book—a twisted gothic mystery studded with literary references. A gem. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #GothicMysteries #WomensFiction #BooksAboutBooks #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews

At least three ships were struck by projectiles near the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying ships Wednesday.

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ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: #FruitOfTheDrunkenTree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. A semi-autobiographical novel of Columbia during the 1990s and emigrating to the US. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #ColumbianLiterature #PabloEscobar #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews #ComingOfAgeNovels

My February 2026 book reviews. The best: Winter Loon by Susan Bernhard, Midwives by Chris Bohjalian, and Illusion of Truth by James L’Etoile. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-reviews/ #PoliceProcedural #ContemporaryFiction #MedicalFiction #BlackHistoryMonth #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews

My February 2026 books read. The best: Iron Lake, Boundary Waters, and Purgatory Ridge, in the Cork O’Connor mysteries by William Kent Krueger. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. #Mysteries #MysterySeries #GreekMythRetellings #BooksAboutArt #BlackHistoryMonth #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky

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BOOK REVIEW: A Stopover in Venice by Kathryn Walker. A mixed bag of art, art history, mystery, and a woman finding herself in Venice. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #ArtInFiction #VeniceInFiction #GiorgioneInFiction #WomensFiction #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews

30 days of books-by-women challenge. Post 30 books by women that you’ve read. 1 per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 30/30 The Evan Wilding series by Barbara Nickless #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #WomenAuthorsReadingChallenge #30BooksWrittenByWomen

ICYMI BOOK REVIEW: The Cree Black series by Daniel Hecht. A genre-busting paranormal Ghostbusters type series. suanneschaferauthor.com/book-review-... #Ghostbusters #GhostStories #Paranormal #Horror #ParanormalPsychology #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #BookReviews

30 days of books-by-women challenge. Post 30 books by women that you’ve read. 1 per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 29/30 The Women of Troy series by Pat Barker #AmReading #Bookstagram #BookSky #WomenAuthorsReadingChallenge #30BooksWrittenByWomen