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First Line Fridays #1
I’m so excited to participate in my “first” First Line Friday! I’m planning to share the first line from the book I just finished (and plan to have up for review next week) plus the first line from my Review Rewind from yesterday. Remembered by Tamera Alexander “Véronique Eveline Girard laid a single white rose on her mother’s grave, and bent low to whisper into the afterlife.” About this book Though loss is often marked in a single moment, letting go of someone you love can take a lifetime. The threat of war—and a final request—send Véronique Girard from France to a distant and uninviting country. In the Colorado Territory,…
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Review Rewind – Come to Me
Book Description Journey back in time and rediscover the Jesus you never knew. See Him through His mother’s eyes as she tells the story of her son. Share in Mary’s joy at the birth of the Savior and mourn with her at the foot of the cross. Come to Me is a story about the faith and obedience of a young girl whose absolute trust in God set in motion a chain of unprecedented events. It is a moving tale of the life of Christ from the mother who raised him to become the Savior of the World. My Thoughts Come to Me was like no other story that I have…
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Chameleon Book Review
Book Description How much can you really know about someone?Lady Victoria Grayson has always considered herself a keen observer of human behavior. After battling a chronic childhood illness that kept her homebound for years, she journeys to London determined to have the adventure of a lifetime. Jaded by his wartime profession as a spy, Lord Witt understands, more than most, that everyone is not always who they pretend to be. He meets Victoria after the Regent requests an investigation into the activities of her physician brother, Lord Ravensmoore. Witt and Victoria become increasingly entangled in a plot targeting the lords of Parliament. Victoria is forced to question how well she…
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Top Ten Tuesday #2 – Super Long Book Titles
Something tells me this should be an interesting topic for this week! 😀 I’ve never particularly thought about whether a book title was long or short – it just is what it is. Most of what I list today will be old novels. I am still so out of the loop with new fiction titles that I wouldn’t even know where to begin! For today, I’m thinking that any title longer than 6 words will do the trick – let’s see what we can find! *This post contains affiliate links, and I may be compensated upon your purchase of any products through those links. Love Finds You in Last Chance,…
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Flora’s Wish Book Review
Book Description From bestselling author Kathleen Y’Barbo comes a brand-new series of romance, adventure, and hidden identity. May 1887—Flora Brimm is determined the fifth time is the charm. Back home she has a reputation as “Fatal Flora,” a woman whose previous four fiancés died in untimely accidents. Flora is desperate to marry, because producing an heir is the only way she can keep her family’s estate. She’s confident this visit to Eureka Springs with her grandmother will help her land a husband. Pinkerton detective Lucas McMinn is hot on the trail of Will Tucker, the thief who broke his sister’s heart. When he discovers the slippery fellow with Flora, he…
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Top Ten Tuesday #1 – Book Covers with Fall Colors/Vibes
It is so wonderful to be back in the book blogging world, and I didn’t realize how much I missed out on fun weekly posts such as Top Ten Tuesday. Book blogging is not all book reviews all the time (although, that’s one of my favorite parts of it). It’s great to get to take a minute to drool over book covers, chat over interesting characters, and meet other readers that have things in common with you. I have been going through my shelves in the past couple of weeks, hunting for book covers that have a fall theme. Even though I have been away from reading for a LONG…
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For the Love Book Review
Book Description The popular writer, blogger, and television personality reveals with humor and style how Jesus’ extravagant grace is the key to dealing with life’s biggest challenge: people. The majority of our joys, struggles, thrills, and heartbreaks relate to people, beginning first with ourselves and then the people we came from, married, birthed, live by, live for, go to church with, don’t like, don’t understand, fear, struggle with, compare ourselves to, and judge. People are the best and worst thing about the human life. Jen Hatmaker knows this all too well, and so she reveals how to practice kindness, grace, truthfulness, vision, and love to ourselves and those around us.…
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Love Finds You in Liberty, Indiana Book Review
Book Description In a divided town during a dangerous era, who can be trusted? Liberty, Indiana, is home to a stop on the Underground Railroad operated by Anna Brent and her father, covert abolitionists who harbor runaway slaves traveling toward freedom. The Brents must be very careful; anyone caught aiding runaways is subject to imprisonment under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. So when Anna begins to write columns denouncing slavery in the local newspaper, she must adopt a pen name. Even the newspapers editor, Daniel Stanton, does not know the author’s true identity. Daniel takes a risk publishing the columns-his job, his newspaper, and his very life might be…
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The Mistress of Tall Acre Book Review
Book Description The American Revolution is finally over, and Sophie Menzies is starved for good news. When her nearest neighbor, General Seamus Ogilvy, finally comes home to Tall Acre, she hopes it is a sign of better days to come. But the general is now a widower with a small daughter in desperate need of a mother. Nearly destitute, Sophie agrees to marry Seamus and become the mistress of Tall Acre in what seems a safe, sensible arrangement. But when a woman from the general’s past returns without warning, the ties that bind this fledgling family together will be strained to the utmost. When all is said and done, who…
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Welcome!
I’m so glad you’ve stopped by my little corner of the webiverse to say hello! I have been dreaming of this website and all the plans I have for it for several months now. To say I’m excited to share it with you would be a huge understatement. I have so many things planned, and I hope you’ll join me for the ride! Quick intro – I’m Christy, and I love to read and make jewelry. I decided it was finally time to figure out a way to share all of that in one place. In the past, I’ve shared book reviews and bookish things on old blog (Southern Sassy…
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