It has been around 3 months since I last posted. It has been difficult to pick up a book, any book, for some time, for no other reason than being in a funk. I think sometimes you find yourself not really drawn to anything, even books, my one true love. Fortunately, I had this little number lying around to get me out of the funk.

Laura Blacklock (who goes by Lo) is a writer at Velocity, a small travel magazine, after her editor goes on maternity leave she realizes it's the perfect opportunity to show her talents and go for the promotion she has been chasing for years.

I have plenty of books. Many of them I have received as gifts and some were given to me by my coworker. Needless to say, I had this book for a long time before I decided to pick it up and give it a read. My primary mission this year is to read all my paperbacks, so I can finally give them away and/or donate them. Which is why, when I picked up “Before I Let Go” by Marieke Nijkamp, and looked at the enticing cover that gave off murder-mystery-in-a-small-cold-town vibes, I was sold.

Happy New Year to you all! This year I have made it my mission–no my job–to review every book that I pick up. I have been planning to do this for a while, but simply kept postponing it longer and longer, until suddenly, the goal was so out of focus that I forgot all about it.