What more does a girl need than a pile of books and a bowl of chocolate? Let’s talk about what we’ve been reading and feeding our inner chocoholics.

Sometimes it’s fun to dabble in genres you doing always reach for. This was a fun romp into a Victorian mystery.

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Maids of Misfortune

It’s the summer of 1879, and Annie Fuller, a young San Francisco widow, is in trouble. Annie’s husband squandered her fortune before committing suicide five years earlier, and one of his creditors is now threatening to take the boardinghouse she owns to pay off a debt.

Annie Fuller also possesses a secret. She supplements her income by giving domestic and business advice as Madam Sibyl, one of San Francisco’s most exclusive clairvoyants, and one of Madam Sibyl’s clients, Matthew Voss, has died and she think’s its murder.

I enjoyed the pluck of this heroine, and her resourcefulness is making the best of a bad situation. She definitely passed the “Would I invite this heroine to tea’ test. I think you’ll send her an invite, too.

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What are you reading now? What do you do when you run into a book that is turning out to be less that what you’d hoped it would be? Tell me in the comments.