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Review: My Grape Baby by Laura Bradbury

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November 16, 2025

My Grape Baby (The Grape Series, #9)My Grape Baby by Laura Bradbury
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I’m sad that this is the end of the series, as far as I know. It has been fun to watch Laura in her college years, meeting and marrying Franck. I loved meeting her Canadian family and Franck’s French family. There is a bit of a feeling of traveling and living somewhere other than here.

In previous books, we met Laura and Franck’s first two babies. We enjoyed watching them flip a couple of homes and a wine cellar. And we read about food and wine, a lot of wine. The real estate and food I can do without, but in this book, it gets personal. And may I, without giving spoilers, warn you to have Kleenex nearby.

I wish Laura and her family all the best. Enjoy these books if you get the chance.

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Review: Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum by Michael J. Fox

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November 2, 2025

Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time ContinuumFuture Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum by Michael J. Fox
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was a fun book to listen to. It brought back memories of my children enjoying the Back to the Future franchise.

I was lucky to pick this up through Libby. It surprised me that Michael J. Fox did his own narration. I had to slow down the audio because I sometimes didn’t quite catch what was said. That may just be because I was busy doing other things while listening. Still, Michael talks fast, so it helped me concentrate better.

If you want a little flash to the past, this is a great read/listen.

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Review: My Grape Cellar by Laura Bradbury

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October 23, 2025

My Grape Cellar (The Grape Series, #8)My Grape Cellar by Laura Bradbury
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This was my least favorite of the series. It seemed to stay with real estate, food, and wine rather than family and all things French. And it seemed to skip over Laura’s expanding family. Still, I enjoyed the read and gained a greater sense of travel and living in France.

I read this on my Kindle app on an old phone. This series has been easy for my eyes and fun for my language curiosities. I’ve already moved on to the next book. This one will center on the new baby. That should be more fun for me.

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Review: Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent’s Search for Hope and Justice by Robert Hilland

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September 30, 2025

Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent’s Search for Hope and JusticeChasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent’s Search for Hope and Justice by Robert Hilland
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Robert Hilland (Author, Narrator) and John Edward (Author, Narrator) told a frightening story. And it is a nonfiction. It isn’t a ‘who done it’ as they knew who. They just needed to catch the guy in a legal way to stop his serial murders.

I made the mistake of trying to read this at bedtime and found I couldn’t sleep. The book opens the imagination and sets you in the detective seat, trying to figure out what is happening and how to catch the guy in the act before more deaths.

If you are a skeptic, this book challenges you. I must admit to my share of “Come on! No, WAY!” but then I still believe there is energy out there. Ghosts? Angels? Who knows until we get to the other side? I can see this book becoming a movie.

I was lucky to find this audiobook on Libby.

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Review: The Book of Sheen by Charlie Sheen

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September 29, 2025

The Book of SheenThe Book of Sheen by Charlie Sheen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Charlie Sheen is okay. I wouldn’t avoid a show cause he’s in it. Neither would I go out of my way to watch something he’s in. As a narrator he’s too fast, but I got used to his rhythm. And as memoirs go his was just, meh.

I would have rated this book with two stars, but he is clever with his phrasing in a way that makes me laugh. That brought my rating to three stars. Ah, but maybe others will love it. Heck, maybe I’d love it in another time or mood.

This audiobook is on Libby.

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Review: My Grape Village by Laura Bradbury

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September 25, 2025

My Grape Village (The Grape Series, #6)My Grape Village by Laura Bradbury
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I love this series, but I’m not a fan of this book. It’s not horrid, but I felt it didn’t live up to the former books. Part of this is my need for linear storylines. The couple are recently newlyweds, and suddenly they have two girls. We lost a lot of their life. This book is full of real estate, food, and wine, but lacks significant character development. I missed the family unit of grandparents and Mimi. I miss the time we could have seen growth while they were in Canada.

What holds true to the series is the feeling of travel, learning about France, and watching the couple navigate the wine country.

This series is the only one I am taking my time with, reading by sight on my Kindle, bit by bit as my eyes allow. Everything else, I use audiobooks or text-to-speech. I’m already into the next book, My Grape Cellar.

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Review: My Next Breath: A Memoir by Jeremy Renner

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August 14, 2025

My Next Breath: A MemoirMy Next Breath: A Memoir by Jeremy Renner
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

It’s always hard to rate memoirs. It is a life experience through another’s eyes. And for what Jeremy Renner went through to have so much gratitude and love and enjoyment of life is a miracle.

Jeremy Renner not only wrote of his experience but also narrates the book well.

I think my biggest issue is the repetition. Still, I think it is through enthusiasm and need to school his own spirit that these phrases and stories repeat.

I am grateful to have listened to this audiobook on Libby.

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Review: From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley

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August 11, 2025

From Here to the Great UnknownFrom Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

With Riley Keough and Julia Roberts as narrators and including recordings by Lisa Marie Presley, I thought this would be quite the interesting read (listen). Instead, I found it confusing, if not just boring. Rich people’s problems.

Still, the family issues were common enough and pulled me along. And of course, meeting the music people who were famous in my youth.

I’m sure there are people who would fight with me about my opinions, but I was never an Elvis fan, even if my mother-in-law ( who saw him in concert in Long Beach) once saw him walking to a car, incognito as a woman. Who am I to question her? I did like some of his songs and even mastered one on the ukulele. (Love Me Tender) Oh, his gospel songs were pretty, too.

But the book just didn’t do it for me. Sorry. I was glad to get it from Libby. I’m sure others will love it. Enjoy.

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Review: This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear

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July 11, 2025


My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This Time Next Year We'll Be LaughingThis Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This has to be my favorite memoir. I love how Jacqueline Winspear takes us through her life. It is perfect in that she does her own narration.

If you were lucky enough to read or listen to the Maisie Dobbs series, you are rewarded in this autobiography by the glimpses of a real life beneath the fictitious murder mysteries. Ms. Winspear leads us through her childhood in England and to adulthood in Ojai, CA. We meet her family and see how their lives blended with the events in history and how they survived.

If you get the chance, Libby has this audiobook. It is a great way to ease away from the mystery series. Her life’s story helps me look at my own life and how to bring in the bits I have left out of my story without hurting others. Just tell your story. Now, if only I had a wonderful English accent!

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Review: Don’t Call It a Comeback: What Happened When I Stopped Chasing PRs, and Started Chasing Happiness by Keira D’Amato

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July 6, 2025

Don't Call It a Comeback: What Happened When I Stopped Chasing PRs, and Started Chasing HappinessDon’t Call It a Comeback: What Happened When I Stopped Chasing PRs, and Started Chasing Happiness by Keira D’Amato
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

At 75, with bad knees, I find myself pulled to read books about running and jogging. Go figure. But no matter what condition you find yourself in, stories like Keira D’Amato’s are uplifting and help you discover your healthier self.

Listening to Ms. D’Amato recount her wins and trials while pursuing her passion was not only inspiring, but she also has a great sense of humor, which will have you laughing out loud. That’s not ideal if you’re reading this as a bedtime book, as the giggling may wake your partner. It might be more fun to listen to this book while riding the stationary bike. At least, that doesn’t hurt my knees. Who knows, maybe the peddling will make me strong enough to jog?

I was very happy to receive this book from NetGalley.

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