Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/13/26 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now

I went skiing for spring break last week, and during my travels and some lazy evenings I managed to pack in some great books that I'll be reviewing ASAP--and wanting to talk to you about.

This week I'm listening to a sweet book-loving novel that also deals with grief, This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page; I'm reading the third in Tana French's Irish-set Cal Hooper mystery series, The Keeper; and I'm reading a mystery built around a fictitious podcast, This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum.

What are you reading, bookworms?

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01 This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page

Tilly is a young adult still reeling from the death of her beloved husband Joe, and she's hoping that the start of a new year will mean hope and maybe a version of a fresh start.

She receives a mysterious message from the owner of a local London bookshop and learns that Joe had made arrangements for a handpicked book for Tilly each month of the coming year, hoping to inspire, comfort, and challenge Tilly, but most of all, to open her up to living again.

Tilly befriends bookseller Alfie and his coworkers, and the books and her new friends allow her to grieve but also to imagine a new version of herself and a future with joy, hope, and the promise of unexpected adventure.

I'm listening to This Book Made Me Think of You as a libary audiobook via Libby.

Check out these other Bossy reviews of books about books and books that deal with grief.

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02 The Keeper (Cal Hooper #3) by Tana French

Cal Hooper, a former Chicago cop, has settled into small-town Ireland life, made connections, developed a low-key but deeply felt romance, and taken on the role of a surrogate father to a local teen.

But the quiet life he had envisioned seems to elude him. In this third novel in French's series, the community reels over the disappearance of a local young woman. She had been involved with the son of a powerful local family, and it becomes clear that that family plans to change the area's landscape by building an enormous factory, after buying up all the farms in the area.

I received a prepublication edition of The Keeper courtesy of NetGalley and Viking Penguin.

You might also be interested in my Bossy reviews of other Tana French novels.

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03 This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum

Benny and Joy are best friends who host one of the most popular podcasts around. One friend poses a highly specific situation and asks the other to imagine how they would escape it. Then they reveal a real-life situation that applies to the scenario and ask experts about how best to survive it.

The podcast is entertaining--and extremely lucrative. In fact, Benny and Joy are in talks to sell the podcast for millions.

So when Joy and her husband Xander, who's been highly involved in the management of the podcast and Benny and Joy's finances, go missing under mysterious circumstances, Benny feels it's up to him to put together the pieces of what happened--and bring them home.

Another mystery that invoves a podcaster is the great novel Listen for the Lie.