When my children started preschool, I started tennis – the age-old sport that all the moms in my neighborhood adore. I stopped playing after a back injury, but right as my tennis career came to an end ...

I am so excited about the August 2026 book releases. While August is still summer, the August books start bringing in the ...

Summer is getting closer, and as it approaches, I love to get out of the winter blues by reading beach books. What is more fun than beach mystery books? Jackie and I realized that I clearly have a ...

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi was published in October 2025 and quickly made its way to the bestseller list. I made a Theo of Golden Summary to remind you of the plot, characters, and important moments ...

Below is a summary of Wait for Me by Amy Jo Burns, a review, a character guide, and an explanation of the ending. Wait for Me is a dual-timeline historical fiction novel that explores the music ...

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans quickly became one of my favorite books of 2025. As soon as I read the book, I knew that it would be perfect for the Beyond the Bookends Book Club. It has now been ...

Queen Camilla started The Reading Room, her book club, in 2021. Since then, Her Majesty has chosen more than 75 books that range from classics to fiction. In February 2023, The Queen’s Reading Room ...

Readers have been captivated by the British Royal family for years. They have been in tabloids and news stories as gossip fodder for centuries, as commoners like us live vicariously through their ...

Get ready for a festive holiday season with this new Christmas Books 2025 guide! Romance, Fiction, YA, Mystery – every genre is on this list of festive holiday novels, so get ready to find the new ...

Kirsten and I noticed that family inheritance novels have become a popular subgenre of books in the last few years. We have become a little bit obsessed. These books have it all, and I wanted to put ...

Jackie and I created the summer reading challenges in 2021, when we kept hearing people say they didn’t know what to read. The pandemic was starting to fade out, but everyone’s reading habits were ...

I love to read books set in tropical locations. In the summer, I feel like I am there and in the winter, these books make me forget about the cold. I wanted to put together a list of my favorite books ...