It’s time for mini book reviews again! I like to do them in groups of three, sometimes four. Today I have three!

I am so thankful that I learned about Taber. I am slowly trying to make my way through her books, and this was the second one that I have read. I liked this one a little better than Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge, which I loved, only because it was all in Taber’s voice and perspective, and it was nice to meander through her life with her. She has such a wonderful POV, and it is just a relaxing and slice of life read.

ETA: Taber is an author who wrote memoir, essay style books about her life in the country and on the cape. It is gentle vintage fiction from an earlier era. I love the gentleness and just everydayness of it.

“April twilights are blue and deep. The air smells of growing things and running brooks. The pond holds the sky in it. The stars come out.”

This is the third and maybe final book in the series, which makes me sad. I really loved this series! It is a cute, easy to read series, and is absolutely so cozy. I love the town of Poppyville and I will miss it – and of course Dash as well, that cute little corgi you see on the cover. This book in particular was a lot of fun as it had a gold rush plot which is not something I see in very many books. One thing that I loved as well was a Gladys Taber reference! I could not believe it, considering I had just read Stillmeadow Daybook!

“I’d never get to sleep feeling so anxious, so I dug out a book of Gladys Taber essays that never failed to relax me, and read for an hour or so, reveling in her descriptions of cocker spaniels and life in an old Connecticut farmhouse..”

An Escape Goat was another really fun cozy! In this one, the main character Callie has connected with long lost family on the East Coast (she is from Seattle) and started a goat yoga retreat business on their farm. Of course, being a cozy mystery means that someone has to die. And they do. I said on Instagram that this is like a book version of a Luke Bryan song, but with murder, and I stand by that. It just has all those vibes – wholesome summer fun on the farm, big old trucks barreling down country roads, picnics with all the fixings, outdoorsy activities, small towns. I really loved it and need to get the next one in the series!

And that is about it from me here! Just a few short little thoughts on some good reads!