Turkey Films 2023!

2023 brought a new grandchild to the Baggs family. To honor and celebrate this new baby (and babies everywhere), this Thanksgiving I am giving thanks for babies and baby movies. So, for this year's Turkey films, I am focusing on movies that feature babies in one way or another. The Turkey Film blogposts  date back over a decade to the first version in 2011 (check out the "rules" laid out in the first of these annual posts). So, in no particular order, turkey films 2023:

Happy and safe Thanksgiving to all.

• Raising Turkey 
• Turkey mama
• Three men  and a Turkey 
• Look who’s turkeying 
• She's having a Turkey 
• Nine turkeys 
• Turkeyed up
• Bridget Jones' Turkey 
• Rosemary's Turkey
• Boss Turkey

Happy and safe Thanksgiving to all.

Book Review: Nightwatching

Title: Nightwatching
Author: Tracy Sierra
Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books 
Publication Date: February 6, 2024

Rating: 4 out of 5

What do you do when there is a snowstorm outside, a menacing intruder inside, and there is no help for you and your kids? This is the situation facing the heroine in Tracy Sierra's debut thriller. With the husband absent, the mother has to scoop up her two kids and hide in a tiny secret room behind a fireplace. Then she must decide whether to try to wait out the threat or leave her kids and run for help.

The premise has great potential. And the opening chapters are taut and terrifying, real edge-of-the-seat stuff. But the middle of the book slowed down and seemed mired in mundanity. It was only towards the end that it really came alive again. 

This is a good thriller, not a great one. More action in the middle would have realized its potential. Still, this is worth a read and a good beginning for a new author to watch.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley. I received an advanced reader copy of this book in return for an honest review.