Read-at-Home Report: September 2023 Wrap-Up

September Favorites

I only had two five-star reads in September, and both were 2023 releases. 

Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Other by Bethany Turner 
This enemies-to-lovers small-town celebrity romance has great characters and a charming setting. I had an ARC from Netgalley but ended up listening to the audiobook, which was excellent. I'm looking forward to the companion book coming out next year!

Fire and Rain (Country Club Murder Book 16) by Julie Mulhern
This series is always fun, and it never stops making me laugh. This was another great installment. 

Read-Alouds

• Old Mother West Wind by Thornton Burgess (3 stars)
• The Crystal Tree (Golden Name Day Book 3) by Jennie D. Lundquist (4 stars)

Series

• Death Checked Out (Larkspur Library Mysteries Book 1) by Leah Dobrinska (4 stars)
• Commit by Kortney Keisel (The Sweet Rom"Com" Book .5) (3 stars)
• Compared (The Sweet Rom"Com" Book 1) by Kortney Keisel (4 stars)
• In the Company of Others (Mitford Book 11) by Jan Karon (3 stars)
• The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Book 17) by Louise Penny (2 stars)
• Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good (Mitford Book 12) by Jan Karon (4 stars)
• And All Between (Green Sky Trilogy Book 2) by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (3 stars)
• Come Rain or Come Shine (Mitford Book 13) by Jan Karon (4 stars)
• Just Don't Fall (Sweater Weather Book 1) by Emma St. Clair (3 stars)
• The Vanderbeekers Ever After (The Vanderbeekers Book 7) by Karina Yan Glaser (3 stars)
• The Fall Back Plan (Sweater Weather Book 2) by Melanie Jacobson (4 stars)
• Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad Book 3) by Tana French (4 stars)

Stand-alone Books

• Paradise Lost by John Milton (3 stars)
• Frederica by Georgette Heyer (4 stars)
• Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar (3 stars)
• When Sharks Attack With Kindness by Andrés J. Colmenares (4 stars)
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (3 stars)
• The Only Purple House in Town by Ann Aguirre (2 stars)

Family Reading Lists

M. (girl, 9 years, 10 months old)

• The Fall of the Soviet Union by Miles Harvey
• Three Margarets by Laura Richards
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards
• Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates by Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw

C. (girl, 8 years)

• Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter
• More Wishing Chair Tales by Enid Blyton

E. (girl, 5 years 11 months)

• The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann 

R. (boy, 3 years, 6 months)

• In the Sea by David Elliot, illustrated by Holly Meade
• Little Blue Truck's Valentine by Alice Schertle 

A. (girl, 3 years, 6 months)

• Old Babybug magazines 

My husband 

• Attar of the Ice Valley by Leonard Wibberley
• The Axe of Bronze, a Story of Stonehenge by Kurt Schmeltzer
• The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford