#HereOneMoment – Rosepoint Publishing

My Goodreads Choice Awards for 2024

I’ve mentioned the Goodreads Choice Awards in previous years as it’s one of my favorite places to look for trending novels and authors, often finding my next book or audiobook.

I vote in each level from the opening round to the final round and some years score more winners than others. It’s fun to see how many of my reads, whether gleaned from Goodreads suggestions, publishers and authors, or NetGalley made it to the finals and, if so, where they came in. (Number 1?)

As of the prep for this post, there were already 2,736,392 votes cast in fifteen categories. Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Romance, Romantasy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Debut Nove, Audiobook, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir, History & Biography.

Romantasy? New last year? My favorite categories are Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, and Crime Fiction, but also read Humor, Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction, and Debut novels. Of course, the CE adds his own brand of reading usually of more masculine novels with action-adventure.

Up for consideration this year are eight of the books read in 2024 that landed on the list in the following categories: (Links are to my reviews which list sales info as well as the Goodreads link.)

Is one of these nominees yours?

Fiction

Here One Moment – Liane Moriarty* (audiobook)
Margo’s Got Money Troubles – Rufi Thorpe (audiobook)

Historical Fiction

The Women – Kristin Hannah*
The Frozen River – Ariel Lawhon (audiobook)

Mystery & Thriller

Darling Girls – Sally Hepworth* (audiobook)
The Heiress – Rachel Hawkins (audiobook)
First Lie Wins – Ashley Elston (audiobook-Reese’s Book Club selection)

Audiobook

The Women – Kristin Hannah*
Here One Moment – Liane Moriarty (audiobook)
Funny Story – Emily Henry (audiobook)
First Lie Wins – Ashley Elston (audiobook-Reese’s Book Club selection)

*My vote

(I’m rather surprised so many are from my audiobook selections.)

Last year, my Memoir & Autobiography vote went to Spare by Prince Harry, but surprised Britney Spears won for The Woman in Me (did you read that one? I read it but preferred Spare.) I did, however, pick the winner for the History & Biography category, The Wager. Gees, that was good and so glad it won!

There are 300 nominees this year across the 15 categories, but I swear a couple of those are new and a few categories were eliminated from previous years (poetry, middle grade and children’s, comic novels and graphics). The opening round of voting is between November 12 until November 24, so you still have time to make your voice heard.

Did one of your favorite books land in the nominees? Vote for it! The final round starts November 26, ends December 1. Winners are announced December 5.

So I have to ask:

How many of the above did you read?
In how many different categories do you participate?
Do you look for reading ideas from the Goodreads winners?
What is your source for 2025 trending books?
And, lastly—have you gone to any movies or viewed series based on one of your choices?

I’ve always appreciated Goodreads for the extensive resources they provide. I often check their New Releases section under “Browse” as well as Recommendations and crosscheck those against the offerings in NetGalley. If I cannot find the book in NetGalley, I check my local library and look for the audiobook first.

What is the book you are hoping to see listed in those nominees?

#TuesdayBookBlog

Rosepoint Reviews-October Recap

October kicks off the end of the year for us, beginning with our daughter’s birthday in the middle of October and then Halloween of course, although we no longer celebrate the latter as much as we did when the kids were young, I still decorate. Seems like it then begins a mad dash to the end of the year and this year a presidential election here in the colonies—so glad to see the end of that!!

As much time spent in the spring setting up the yard, the gardens, and all things outdoors, it takes as much to clean it back up. Perhaps more so this year with tackling the veggie bed and cleaning up roots and dirt clods turned to cement. It was a disappointing year for a garden, veggie or flower.

Trying to recognize a full year with Punkin the Pom, I read several doggie genre books, adventure or service animals. A Pomeranian is meant to be a companion animal, of course, but she has no clue that’s her job. I am still finishing up a doggy theme book I’d hoped to include in October, the latest from Sara Driscoll, and ran out of time and will post that review in early November. As mentioned before…Punkin is still learning to be a dog. I guess eventually we’ll have to begin teaching her some commands. In the meantime, it’s sufficient to be working on housetraining. (Yeah, still.)

I continue to get books from NetGalley as well as author and publisher requests, and my local library, both ebooks and audiobooks. The review count for the month was fourteen, but I included both W Bruce Cameron’s novels in one post. As always, links on titles are to our reviews that include purchase or source information.

The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough (audiobook)
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty (audiobook)
Echo by Tracy Clark
What Have You Done by Shari Lapena (audiobook)
Going Dark by George K Mehok (CE review)
Death by Jelly Beans by Susan Black
A Dog’s Courage and A Dog’s Promise by W Bruce Cameron (audiobook)
Late Checkout by Alan Orloff (CE review)
An Insignificant Case by Phillip Margolin
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe (audiobook)
The More the Terrier by David Rosenfelt (audiobook)
Local Gone Missing by Fiona Barton (audiobook)
Death Comes in Threes by Michael Jecks (CE Review)

Favorite Book of the Month

The CE gave Going Dark by George K Mehok five stars but we both listened to The Johnstown Flood audiobook in our travels to and from Arkansas in September and loved it. The research, details, and characters so well-fleshed the reader cares what happens to them in the flood. I’m going with:

Favorite for October – The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

My Reading Challenges page…Reading Challenges page—pretty much status quo. My Goodreads Challenge is at 110 towards a goal of 130 at 85%.

Thank you new subscribers—welcome! I always appreciate those of you who continue to monitor, read, and comment on my posts. Hope this recap finds you well and looking forward to the holidays!

Have a great weekend!