Tag: Libby

• Book Review: Gilded Youth: A History of Growing Up In the Royal Family: From the Plantagenets to the Cambridges by Tom Quinn

  Full disclosure here: I’ve always been fascinated by Britain’s Royal Family. At one point in the not too distant past I had an entire shelf of biographies of members of this family, dating all the way back to Henry VIII and coming forward to multiple books on the Duke of Windsor and his wife Wallis,…

  michardillo

  September 22, 2024

  books, Essay

  book-review, books, Britain, England, Goodreads, Libby, nonfiction, Royal Family, Tom Quinn, writing

• Book Review: Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

  Cozy murder mysteries are my favorite genre, yet somehow I missed the buzz on Finlay Donovan is Killing It when it came out in 2021. So, late to the party, I finally checked out the ebook from Libby. Well! I flew through this book in four days–even though I didn’t read for two days in-between…

  michardillo

  May 8, 2024

  books, Essay

  book-review, books, cozy mystery, Elle Cosimano, fiction, Finlay Donovan, Janet Evanovich, Libby, murder mysteries, mystery, reading, Stephanie Plum, writer, writing

• Goodreads = Good Reading Habits

  I’ve been tracking my reading on Goodreads since August of 2008, so this month marks twelve years of books I’ve read, books I want to read (my “TBR” list), and sometimes, my thoughts on them. I wish I were better at writing reviews of all the books I read, but maybe this is something I…

  michardillo

  August 30, 2020

  Essay

  Aspen Hill Branch, BookBub, books, Goodreads, Kindle, Libby, MCPL, Modern Mrs. Darcy, Puccini, reading, TBR, teaching