tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329345080021116332024-03-05T05:55:59.585-05:00Book, Books Everywhere!Doesn't everyone love finding a book to sink into and enjoy?Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.comBlogger968125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-6073538130372679422023-07-28T11:01:00.000-04:002023-07-28T11:01:28.550-04:00Drowning by T.J. Newman<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSAkMCvkMElJAHbcJR59z97lnR5npP_tA6M5uoixFu15mu-pX9xWC1ZPgeXG-vkQ4zjFucf-iw_KCjFOey8L4FHhDzZvc5VyAYaGYSjoplQh9sj1klNKum0Tx9omkTBNL85CeVjVvhpSgaP6bsVkW5ULfp4iBXLu8SY7TYwvBaHdwq09tXiE7e-Xd_KgSi" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2128" data-original-width="1400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSAkMCvkMElJAHbcJR59z97lnR5npP_tA6M5uoixFu15mu-pX9xWC1ZPgeXG-vkQ4zjFucf-iw_KCjFOey8L4FHhDzZvc5VyAYaGYSjoplQh9sj1klNKum0Tx9omkTBNL85CeVjVvhpSgaP6bsVkW5ULfp4iBXLu8SY7TYwvBaHdwq09tXiE7e-Xd_KgSi" width="158" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><b>From Goodreads:</b> <i>Flight attendant turned </i></span><i><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">New York Times</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"> bestselling author T. J. Newman—whose first book </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Falling</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"> was an instant #1 national bestseller and the biggest thriller debut of 2021—returns for her second book, an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a commercial jetliner that crashes into the ocean, and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside, and the extraordinary rescue operation to save them.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to close the doors—but it’s too late. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent—Shannon’s mother and Will’s soon-to-be ex-wife—who must work together with Will to find a way to save their daughter and rescue the passengers from the sealed airplane, which is now teetering on the edge of an undersea cliff.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">There’s not much time.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">There’s even less air.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">With devastating emotional power and heart-stopping suspense, Drowning is an unforgettable thriller about a family’s desperate fight to save themselves and the people trapped with them—against impossible odds.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b style="color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">My thoughts:</b><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;"> Last year I read Newman's first book, Falling, and really enjoyed it, so I was excited to give this one a try. Both books were very fast paced and hard to put down. There was a palpable sense of hurry and worry as you wondered how the characters would get through each of the challenges they encountered. I love how Newman uses her knowledge of air planes and flying from her time as a flight attendant in the books. It feels real, she really makes the time on the plane real. I wonder if maybe the scenarios she comes up with are fears she had while she was working on planes. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;">One of the big themes I saw was trust and the strength of relationships. On the plane that crashes into the water there is a newly wed couple on their honeymoon and a couple who is celebrating 50 years together. There is a father and daughter on their way to her first off island camp, one she thought she was old enough to fly to alone and that he wasn't ready to send her off to unaccompanied. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;">On the crew trying to save them from the crash there are both military and civilians and a mom who has a lot invested in the outcome of the rescue operation as her daughter and estranged husband are aboard.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;">I found lessons in perseverance and pivoting. How creative can you be and how much can you rely on your instincts and trust others? Just as with her first book, it all happens within a pretty short span of time, racing along with some flashbacks to give us background information.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;">I would recommend this book! If you use the link below you can grab it on Amazon. If you use my link I will receive a small commission from your sale at no cost to you. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Buy on Amazon <a href="<a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Drowning-Novel-T-J-Newman-ebook/dp/B09JPHKVTZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EG5YHKCV4QFC&amp;keywords=drowning+tj+newman&amp;qid=1690556280&amp;sprefix=%252Caps%252C180&amp;sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=booksbookseve-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=59c86a2fa3e412b2f714ac1938f102c5&camp=1789&creative=9325">Drowning by T J Newman</a>" target="_blank">Here</a> : </span><a href="<a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Drowning-Novel-T-J-Newman-ebook/dp/B09JPHKVTZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EG5YHKCV4QFC&amp;keywords=drowning+tj+newman&amp;qid=1690556280&amp;sprefix=%252Caps%252C180&amp;sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=booksbookseve-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=59c86a2fa3e412b2f714ac1938f102c5&camp=1789&creative=9325">Drowning by T J Newman</a>" target="_blank"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Drowning-Novel-T-J-Newman-ebook/dp/B09JPHKVTZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EG5YHKCV4QFC&amp;keywords=drowning+tj+newman&amp;qid=1690556280&amp;sprefix=%252Caps%252C180&amp;sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=booksbookseve-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=59c86a2fa3e412b2f714ac1938f102c5&camp=1789&creative=9325">Drowning by T J Newman</a></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: Proxima Nova, Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><p></p>Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-70137941952968202452023-07-01T12:35:00.004-04:002023-07-28T11:04:39.833-04:00Do Not Disturb by Freida McFadden<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIXyxymQIL3LM3KS_cz35XAkHVW8Jm9jn_PN121MCOBm3L4cRa_J1G36UeWjJUAEzlckeDz2QMoSRAK5uH2i-rej3rM050J3AriK3dRizkXfYfk-6yhWZfDJ49dNIxLVFoLVa9dy4o8M9Cx30H1ssMYoaXEaiBwkOBrKAXeBcms0vZSDHeziRN27h181dx" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="1563" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIXyxymQIL3LM3KS_cz35XAkHVW8Jm9jn_PN121MCOBm3L4cRa_J1G36UeWjJUAEzlckeDz2QMoSRAK5uH2i-rej3rM050J3AriK3dRizkXfYfk-6yhWZfDJ49dNIxLVFoLVa9dy4o8M9Cx30H1ssMYoaXEaiBwkOBrKAXeBcms0vZSDHeziRN27h181dx" width="150" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My work friends had been raving about this author all school year. We have a book group on Facebook where people post recommendations and her books were consistently there so, with the start of summer, I decided to try one out and this was the first one that I read. I loved Alfred Hitchcock movies when I was in high school. Rear Window was my favorite one and this had a bit of a feel of that to me. There is a woman in a window next door who is always watching who never comes downstairs. The Baxter Motel where hte main character stops when the snow gets too bad to continue her trip reminded me of the Bates Motel. The tensions was there, with Quinn on the run from a crime. I loved, then, when the story changed to a different character, four different characters tell their side of the story from their point of view and with each one you gain an understanding of the story of the ones who came before. Information that those narrators did not know, gaps in their knowledge being filled in for the reader as the full story emerged. Flaws being revealed to make them more real and to show the good and bad of many of them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Later I read some articles about the author and this one was often rated the best or as one of the best of her books so I was glad that I decided to start with it. Reading this one made me decide to jump on the bandwagon for Freida McFadden and I have since read some more. I also found it inspiring that McFadden is a medical doctor specializing in traumatic brain injury. That she can maintain a full time job and write and publish novels makes me feel more hopeful that I can go after my dreams as well, that the time is there if you want something bad enough you make the time to make it happen,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>From Goodreads:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime.</span></div><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px;">To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what she’s done.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px;">But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only too happy to offer her a cheap room for the night.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px;">Unfortunately, the Baxter Motel isn’t the quiet, safe haven it seemed to be. The motel has a dark and disturbing past. And in the dilapidated house across the way, the silhouette of Nick's ailing wife is always at the window. Always watching.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px;">In the morning, Quinn must leave the motel. She'll pack up her belongings and get back on the road to freedom.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px;">But first, she must survive the night.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Do Not Disturb</i><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px;"> is a Hitchcock-style psychological thriller that will keep you tearing through the pages until you reach the shocking conclusion!</span><div><span style="color: #1e1915;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915;">Buy on Amazon <a href="<a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Do-Not-Disturb-addictive-psychological-ebook/dp/B09CN5LBGK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2LWJPPGT82OZY&amp;keywords=do+not+disturb+freida+mcfadden&amp;qid=1690556547&amp;sprefix=do+not+disturb+fr%252Caps%252C114&amp;sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=booksbookseve-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=317297f19c46ad678986e25c267cb653&camp=1789&creative=9325">Do Not Disturb</a>" target="_blank">Here</a>: <a href="<a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Do-Not-Disturb-addictive-psychological-ebook/dp/B09CN5LBGK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2LWJPPGT82OZY&amp;keywords=do+not+disturb+freida+mcfadden&amp;qid=1690556547&amp;sprefix=do+not+disturb+fr%252Caps%252C114&amp;sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=booksbookseve-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=317297f19c46ad678986e25c267cb653&camp=1789&creative=9325">Do Not Disturb</a>"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Do-Not-Disturb-addictive-psychological-ebook/dp/B09CN5LBGK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2LWJPPGT82OZY&amp;keywords=do+not+disturb+freida+mcfadden&amp;qid=1690556547&amp;sprefix=do+not+disturb+fr%252Caps%252C114&amp;sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=booksbookseve-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=317297f19c46ad678986e25c267cb653&camp=1789&creative=9325">Do Not Disturb</a><br /></a></span><p></p><div><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px;"><a href="<a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Do-Not-Disturb-addictive-psychological-ebook/dp/B09CN5LBGK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2LWJPPGT82OZY&amp;keywords=do+not+disturb+freida+mcfadden&amp;qid=1690556547&amp;sprefix=do+not+disturb+fr%252Caps%252C114&amp;sr=8-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=booksbookseve-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=317297f19c46ad678986e25c267cb653&camp=1789&creative=9325">Do Not Disturb</a>"><br /></a></span></div><div><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div></div>Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-83568930473633552892023-03-20T08:41:00.003-04:002023-04-07T16:07:05.536-04:00Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtNiZzkF45PQTI8BH6_f05POsWpOoPEjvmt_RGBqN1YEupKYWNKzpZWg4uyWtgY8S4oFuP-N7t_-Ps34dnemJdF0WvC7vpbaTkEzM1wSk1PkPh91_6mIyj04kRuBgp1EnWEdIb-E3ebwpGIIfx3Wfb9jmQiKYUNR0yOKrRE9fEFMAMoHNScZ_VN0bdcQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="214" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtNiZzkF45PQTI8BH6_f05POsWpOoPEjvmt_RGBqN1YEupKYWNKzpZWg4uyWtgY8S4oFuP-N7t_-Ps34dnemJdF0WvC7vpbaTkEzM1wSk1PkPh91_6mIyj04kRuBgp1EnWEdIb-E3ebwpGIIfx3Wfb9jmQiKYUNR0yOKrRE9fEFMAMoHNScZ_VN0bdcQ" width="157" /></a></div><br /><br /></div></div><p> I found myself enjoying this book more than I thought I would. I have read quite a few of Picoult's novels and some I have loved, while others dragged a bit for me. This one goes into the "loved it" category. On Goodreads I tend to give a lot of 4's. Even if I really liked a book sometimes it is just isn't enough to make me think, "This deserves a 5!", but this one did.</p><p>According to the Goodreads synopsis, this book is:</p><p><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind.</span></i></p><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can’t help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can she trust him completely . . .</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn’t acknowledge the flashes of his father’s temper in him, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he’s hidden more than he’s shared with her.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px;" /><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Mad Honey is a riveting novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves.</span></span></i><p>Who can you trust and how well do you know even the people you are closest to? Olivia has done a remarkable job starting over again in her hometown in the house she grew up in. She loves her son and his girlfriend. When the unthinkable happens and Asher's girlfriend is found dead and he is brough in as a suspect she starts to doubt both herself and even him. Could his father's abusive temperament have been passed down? Did he see enough as a child to rewire his brain? Who would have wanted Lily dead?</p><p>Going back into the past in people's memories and seeing more and more about Lily and her life before coming to New Hampshire starts to paint a much larger picture, but there was a twist that I did not see coming that seemed like it answered the question of why Lily was killed, but at the same time did not.</p><p>I read this over the course of just a couple of days because I wanted to see the conclusion of the mystery. I didn't even realize until I went to write this up that there were two authors for this book. I listened to the audiobook and the thumbnail was super small for the book.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Honey-Novel-Jodi-Picoult-ebook/dp/B09Q7XH3N8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=39LHEGUOGZ740&amp;keywords=mad+honey+jodi+picoult&amp;qid=1680897956&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=mad+hone%252Cstripbooks%252C79&amp;sr=1-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=booksbookseve-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=f4dfcc64cefb943eebde5514ffe3a029&camp=1789&creative=9325">Mad honey</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-4155162831717541582023-03-16T10:09:00.000-04:002023-03-16T10:10:42.386-04:00Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgO-Riu795BI6Ptu9KAqD3HW-ZExf5OUu2mpr9Ne997SwWSC9MQAJw5Of6paerTNhbUxtUmeB4Q1c4XhKR03KDaVjZkd6dx6zwHXEXiBnQnnCZaiplrSastSO1-gkRn_aj6Asw7ipBHkmN-hVgnRhAbMpNiKJacSrmFxdzKtiR9cwqucCshPuviq-D_4w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2534" data-original-width="1632" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgO-Riu795BI6Ptu9KAqD3HW-ZExf5OUu2mpr9Ne997SwWSC9MQAJw5Of6paerTNhbUxtUmeB4Q1c4XhKR03KDaVjZkd6dx6zwHXEXiBnQnnCZaiplrSastSO1-gkRn_aj6Asw7ipBHkmN-hVgnRhAbMpNiKJacSrmFxdzKtiR9cwqucCshPuviq-D_4w" width="155" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This book has been on my want to read list for quite some time. One of the book clubs I attend picked it for this month's read and I was excited to dive in, but I didn't like it quite as much as I thought I would based on the star ratings on Goodreads. I felt a bit like I was in a soap opera, walking along in the present with the main character. Daniel starts out as a ten-year-old boy and gets to be age 18 in the main part of the story. The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, where Daniel went with his father was enchanting. Just the right book was waiting for you among it's stacks and it would speak to you and let you find it. Each book was there to be preserved for others. So starts Daniel's desire to find out more about the author of his chosen book, Julien Carax, and to find more of his books. But someone has been finding the few books there were and destroying them by setting them on fire.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The blurb from the back cover from Goodreads says:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><i>Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax's books in existence. 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Being able to ascertain that a woman was pregnant one day after having had sex was not.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I both read a paperback copy and listened to an audio version and it was interesting that they were two different translations. The print copy I have is the one the picture above came from, but the translators used different word choices in multiple places. I wonder how the experience would have been if I were able to read it in Spanish as it was written. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am not sure if being on a timeline to finish is what took some of the enjoyment out of it, but I do not think I will be hunting down more books in what appears to be a series about the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, though that was the part I most liked about this book so maybe I will change my mind.</div><br /><p></p>Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-19395826291938655372023-03-15T15:45:00.002-04:002023-03-15T15:45:32.311-04:00Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh62m7n9e2kv2tAR9NEe4krgi5MrXmHKQywev3e2vBaLTvyhl8sIwDv5aSIKGy1YcOo4n9rZ8GtnThqE09s8fjnAYUzyvuCKEGTbqBy-BkDn-X-99O4BQjsF5-nb7v4kOu44I56VFuawxL9R99LPL_Uvra_rGmVL88_ggcYXwWZFwzX2tO_g2v-0jZpfA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="460" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh62m7n9e2kv2tAR9NEe4krgi5MrXmHKQywev3e2vBaLTvyhl8sIwDv5aSIKGy1YcOo4n9rZ8GtnThqE09s8fjnAYUzyvuCKEGTbqBy-BkDn-X-99O4BQjsF5-nb7v4kOu44I56VFuawxL9R99LPL_Uvra_rGmVL88_ggcYXwWZFwzX2tO_g2v-0jZpfA" width="158" /></a></div><!-- wp:paragraph -->
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<b>My thoughts:</b> This is the fourth Ruth Ware novel I've read. There are definitely some similarities between books, but somehow the settings and the issues the characters encounter are varied enough to still be interesting. This one may just be my favorite of the four or else it is just my most recent.<br />
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Hal is lost, her mother died a few years before. She has no friends, still lives in the flat she shared with her mother and runs her Tarot Card reading table at a local pier. Right after her mother's death she borrowed some money from a loan shark who is now demanding a repayment of 6 times what she borrowed, which she doesn't have. Then, she receives a notice saying she has an inheritance from a grandmother. Except the name of her grandmother is wrong, last name is good, but the names her mother told her were different. But, she is broke and hopes that maybe she will get enough to pay back the loan and maybe take a small vacation or get ahead, so she boards a train to go to the funeral and will reading.<br />
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She meets her three uncles, but not uncles as she doesn't believe she is the daughter of their sister as they think, and finds herself in a drafty, huge country house relegated to an attic room with no heat and locks on the outside of the door and bars on the window even though it is on the top floor of the house. A crusty old housekeeper who hates everyone and some odd events.<br />
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When the will is read and she has inherited the whole estate there are issues, guilt on her part and disbelief on the part of the uncles. Then odd things happen, her light bulb and that in the hallway to her room are smashed. The housekeeper warns her away. Her uncle gives her an old photo that contains the uncles as well as their sister and a distant cousin and her mother is in the picture! Her mother was there, but it doesn't make sense.<br />
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<b>My thoughts:</b> I read this book for an upcoming book club and when I checked it out of the library I wasn't sure I was looking forward to reading it. I would read a bit before bed each night, but never felt like it was hard to put down and even mixed up the three main characters a bit. The beginning was a lot more telling than showing and letting you get to know the characters in their own time, but then I got into it. I know a lot of people wouldn't have pushed past the beginning, but I am glad I did. Three men in their sixties meet on Martha's Vineyard for the weekend at the end of the summer in 2015, which is how they ended their time at college at the beginning of the summer in 1971, except that time the woman they were all in love with was there with them. The college friend who was a part of their group of Musketeers, but also the one they all hoped to be with.<br />
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I went from easily putting this book down to reading the second half over the course of a day because I wanted to find out what really happened and put all the pieces together. I've never read one of Russo's books before and I see in other reviews that some readers feel like this is different than his other books, but I may give another one a try.</div>
Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-47891934578587621082020-01-19T22:19:00.001-05:002020-01-19T22:19:37.147-05:00Happy New Year!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You know how we all set goals for the new year and then you hear that most people stop attempting to meet them by the fourth day of the year? I must miss that memo every year, because I keep working all the way to the end of the year. I don't always make the goal, there are times I fall short or have set backs, maybe I make it half way and then somehow turn the other direction, but I am still working towards the goal even with the back sliding. This year I set a goal to read 75 books and to also keep better track of my reading. In 2019 I read at least 55, but I think it was more and my tracking methods were off. I have a new way of tracking on paper and two apps so we'll see if I am able to keep up this year! As of this morning I reached 10 books finished in 2020. 10 out of 75! So, right now it is looking to be an achieveable goal. Who knows, maybe I will get busy and barely have time to read or maybe I will read so much I will exceed my goal. So along with that goal, I also want to actually make the time to share what I've read and what I think about it. This is a goal I've set and fallen short of quite a few times, but again, maybe this time is the time it will stick!<br />
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Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-60283557428814222832019-11-26T14:16:00.000-05:002019-11-26T14:16:34.478-05:00Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents—but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility’s cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty.</div>
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Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her family’s long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption.</div>
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Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country—Lisa Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong.</div>
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This family really tugged at my heart and made me wonder if this was based on real events. This family is fictional, but the Tennessee Children's Home Society was real and really did procure children through all sorts of methods to adopt out for a fee. Some were kidnapped, some coerced from poor families, some taken when parents signed papers they didn't understand.</div>
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What kind of mark does it leave on children to be treated as they were in that home and to wonder for years what had happened to siblings? Why did they feel the need to hide the truth from even their families? Did the stigma still linger?</div>
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This book and this family were so real I wanted to find out more about the real survivors of the TCHS.</div>
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Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-42832968396346863712019-09-11T06:00:00.000-04:002019-09-11T06:00:08.710-04:00The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances by Matthew Inman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Praise for #1 New York Times best-selling author Matthew Inman, AKA The Oatmeal:</div>
"All runners wonder, at some point or another, why we do what we do. Mr. Inman's explanation is the best I've ever seen. And the funniest. Because he is clinically insane."<br />
-Mark Remy, editor at large, <i>Runner's World</i>, author of <i>The Runner's Rule Book</i><br />
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"He runs. He sweats. He heaves. He hates it. He loves it. He runs so hard his toenails fall off. He asks himself, why? Why do I do this? Here, gorgeously, bravely, hilariously, is Matt's deeply honest answer."<br />
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"Finally! A voice that sings with the Blerches of angels!"<br />
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This is not just a book about running. It's a book about cupcakes. It's a book about suffering.</div>
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It's a book about gluttony, vanity, bliss, electrical storms, ranch dressing, and Godzilla. It's a book about all the terrible and wonderful reasons we wake up each day and propel our bodies through rain, shine, heaven, and hell.</div>
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From #1 <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author, Matthew Inman, AKA The Oatmeal, comes this hilarious, beautiful, poignant collection of comics and stories about running, eating, and one cartoonist's reasons for jogging across mountains until his toenails fall off.</div>
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Containing over 70 pages of never-before-seen material, including "A Lazy Cartoonist's Guide to Becoming a Runner" and "The Blerch's Guide to Dieting," this book also comes with Blerch race stickers.</div>
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I found this saved in my drafts from 2015 when I got this book as a Christmas present. I recall it being a fun read showing how sometimes long distances are fun and sometimes they suck. I started running again this summer, but my longest run lately was 5 miles. I hope to feel the urge to run further, but for the moment I'm fine with my 2 to 5 mile runs a few times a week. I've moved into more HIIT and weight training, but I still enjoy running as well.<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-dog-the-paradox-the-oatmeal-matthew-inman/1117501587?ean=9781449437527">My Dog: The Paradox: A Lovable Discourse about Man's Best Friend</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/2015-oatmeal-wall-calendar-the-oatmeal/1119738809?ean=9781449453893">2015 Oatmeal Wall Calendar</a></li>
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TheOatmeal.com is an entertainment Web site full of comics, quizzes, and stories. The site gets more than 7 million unique visitors and 30 million page views a month; 250,000 blogs and Web sites have linked to it. TheOatmeal.com is written, drawn, and coded by Matthew Inman, a king of all trades when it comes to the Web. Matthew lives in Seattle, Washington. He subsists on a steady diet of crickets and whiskey. He enjoys long walks on the beach, gravity, and breathing heavily through his mouth. His dislikes include scurvy, typhoons, and tapeworm medication.</div>
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Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-37508846840598085192019-09-10T16:59:00.001-04:002019-09-10T16:59:36.491-04:00Green Angel by Alice Hoffman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>From Goodreads:</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">"The startling, universally acclaimed breakthrough YA novel from master bestselling author Alice Hoffman, now in paperback.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster, fifteen-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, Green retreats into the ruined realm of her garden. But in destroying her feelings, she also begins to destroy herself, erasing the girl she'd once been as she inks darkness into her skin. It is only through a series of mysterious encounters that Green can relearn the lessons of love and begin to heal enough to tell her story."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">I didn't realize that Hoffman had written YA fiction until I picked this book up from my shelf. I have really enjoyed some of her other books and this seemed like a perfect size to read in a day on a not so busy weekend. It seemed like it came to an ending, but on Goodreads I see that there is a sequel. Now to wonder if I want to find a copy to read. For the moment I think I am okay with where this one ended. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">I also have to wonder why this was not just written as one book since it was only a bit over 100 pages.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Please don't take that to mean I didn't like this one, I did, but it came to a satisfactory conclusion in my mind and I finished it a week or two ago not left wondering what would happen next. I love how Hoffman weaves magic into her stories. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">It seemed similar to my last review because something terrible had happened, many people had died and we saw the disaster from the point of view of a teenager. I am used to encountering a lot of either romance or end of the world topics in YA, I may need to explore some more and see what other genres are encompassed by YA.</span></span></div>
Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-71816134234457785632019-09-09T16:42:00.002-04:002019-09-11T12:15:11.454-04:00the shade of the moon by Susan Beth Pfeffer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">"The eagerly awaited addition to the series begun with the New York Times best-seller <i>Life As We Knew It</i>, in which a meteor knocks the moon off its orbit and the world changes forever.</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">It's been more than two years since Jon Evans and his family left Pennsylvania, hoping to find a safe place to live, yet Jon remains haunted by the deaths of those he loved. His prowess on a soccer field has guaranteed him a home in a well-protected enclave. But Jon is painfully aware that a missed goal, a careless word, even falling in love, can put his life and the lives of his mother, his sister Miranda, and her husband, Alex, in jeopardy. Can Jon risk doing what is right in a world gone so terribly wrong?"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">I read the first three books in this YA series right in a row. I listened to the first one on audio and then borrowed the next two from the library. This one I found at the Dollar Store so I grabbed it to have on hand, and then took almost a year to get to. Once I got going I read it in a weekend. I'm not sure what was stopping me from reading it. Sometimes it feels like it needs to be the just the right time for a book.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Since it had been a little bit of time since the first three it wasn't all right at the top of my memory, but the author did a good job with adding in reminders without saying her is what happened which I appreciated.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">In book one we met Miranda and her family and learned about the chaos that happened when a meteor hits the moon and moves it closer to earth. In book two we meet Alex and his family in NYC and see what the events were like in a city versus a more rural area. In book three the two groups meet and end up working to survive together. Now we are at an enclave with an us versus them feel. Those living in the enclave have purified air, schools, homes and servants, and plentiful food. Those who live outside the enclave are the ones who work in the greenhouses and mines, they drive the buses and work as the domestic help to clean the homes, cook the food and take care of young children. Jon, his stepmother Lisa and step brother Gabe are able to live within the enclave with the passes Alex and his sisters were given by a family friend. Alex, ,Miranda and Laura (Miranda and Alex's mother) live in an unlocked apartment in town and work to earn their way.</span></div>
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Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-7418202837057890472018-09-26T16:54:00.002-04:002019-09-11T12:16:17.552-04:00The Rumor by Elin Hilderbrand<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">A friendship is tested in this irresistible page-turner from <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand.</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Nantucket writer Madeline King could not have picked a worse time to have writer's block. Her deadline is looming, her bills are piling up, and inspiration is in short supply. Madeline's best friend Grace, is hard at work transforming her garden into the envy of the island with the help of a ruggedly handsome landscape architect. Before she realizes it, Grace is on the verge of a decision that will irrevocably change her life. Could Grace's crisis be Madeline's salvation? As the gossip escalates, and the summer's explosive events come to a head, Grace and Madeline try desperately to set the record straight--but the truth might be even worse than rumor has it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I am mourning the end of summer, so I needed a beachy read to try to hold onto it for a little longer. I have had this book on my shelf for some time, but I actually decided to listen to the audio book from the library which allowed me to pass along my hardcover copy to a friend. </span></div>
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Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-70328118172766652322016-05-20T22:39:00.001-04:002016-05-20T22:39:30.293-04:00Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Fifteen years ago, a murder-suicide in room 712 rocked the grand old Bellweather Hotel and the young bridesmaid who witnessed it, Minnie Graves. Now hundreds of high school musicians, including quiet bassoonist Rabbit Hatmaker and his brassy diva twin, Alice, have gathered in its cavernous, crumbling halls for the annual Statewide festival; Minnie has returned to face her demons; and a colossal snowstorm is threatening to trap them all in the hotel. Then Alice's roommate goes missing<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "ptsans"; font-weight: 700;">—</span>from room 712. The search for her entwines an eccentric cast of characters: conductors and caretakers, failures and stars, teenagers on the verge and adults trapped in memories. For everyone has come to the Bellweather with a secret, and everyone is haunted.</div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PTSans;">Bellweather Rhapsody</i> is a genre-bending page-turner, full of knowing nods to pop culture classics from <i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PTSans;">The Shining</i> to Agatha Christie to <i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PTSans;">Glee</i>. But its pleasures are beautifully deepened by Kate Racculia's skill with her characters, her melancholy, affecting writing about music, and her fearlessness about the loss and darkness that underline the truest humor. This is a wholly winning new novel from a writer to watch.</div>
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I read this book for a book club and, since the author lives in the area, we were lucky enough to have the author come to the club when we met to discuss it. The meeting was unusual since we were able to ask Kate about the book and why she wrote things certain ways, where she got the ideas from and anything else we might have been wondering about the book. I used to read mysteries all the time in high school, but not so much in recent years. I enjoyed going back to my mystery roots and seeing what I was able to figure out as I read. There were twists and turns, especially towards the end, some of which I saw coming and some that I did not!</div>
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Rabbit has a secret that he hopes to reveal to his twin sister at the festival, but when her roommate disappears and Minnie and her dog appear, he decides to bide his time. I loved how everyone has their own private demons that peak their heads out and decide how much out in the open they want to be. How civilized someone can seem when inside they are anything but and how not everyone is working with the same moral compass. Many of the adults were working from a position of how to work though what happened in their past and how to move towards a future they can look forward to. Whereas the students are all sure that they are the best at what they do and have bright futures ahead of them, but do they? How many of these musicians will still be at their craft in ten years? How many of them really have a chance to make a life at it and should the adults encourage them to reach for the stars or suggest they think about ways music can be a part of their lives, but maybe not their career.<br />
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Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-71395902279052974932016-05-20T21:06:00.000-04:002016-05-20T21:06:21.273-04:00I'm Back!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have been reading like crazy, but never seemed to get around to blogging about it. Then about a month ago I decided I wanted to and I couldn't get into my account. It was so frustrating! Tonight I decided to give it another try and I got in! Not sure what I was doing wrong then, but I am happy to be back and hope to make the time to start posting about all the great books I've been reading.</div>
Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-57348196711925279452015-07-09T22:06:00.000-04:002015-07-09T22:06:03.635-04:00Over The Moon (Mageverse series) by Angela Knight, MaryJanice Davidson, Virginia Kantra and Sunny<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">I picked this book up for the beach because I love the sarcasm used by MaryJanice Davidson. I haven't read her in a while and I was intrigued to see what I had missed. I almost just read her story, but decided to give the others a try. Out of the four three I liked and one I did not care for at all, but none of them impressed me overly much. It seemed like you needed to have the world these authors have created already known to you to get into them. Short anthologies are not always my favorite because they don't have enough time to really get to know the characters, especially in ones like these that are adding in paranormal beings that have all sorts of powers and changes. Getting their power from the moon, keeping royalty lines going in were populations, hunting down vampires that ruined your life and such. It was fine for the beach, but not all that memorable. It has been a couple weeks and I had to really think to recall one of the four stories. </span></div>
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Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-43266528201195810652015-07-08T16:20:00.003-04:002015-07-08T16:20:37.868-04:00Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering by Meredith Baxter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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From her childhood in Hollywood, growing up the daughter of actress and co-creator of <i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PTSans;">One Day at a Time</i> Whitney Blake, Baxter became familiar with the ups and downs of show business from an early age. After wholeheartedly embracing the 60s counterculture lifestyle, she was forced to rely on her acting skills after her first divorce left her a 22-year-old single mother of two. Baxter began her professional career with supporting roles in the critically panned horror film <i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PTSans;">Ben</i>, and in the political thriller <i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PTSans;">All the President's Men</i>.</div>
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More lucrative work soon followed on the small screen. Baxter starred with actor David Birney as the title characters in controversial sitcom <i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PTSans;">Bridget Loves Bernie</i>. While the series only lasted a year, her high-profile romance with Birney lasted 15 volatile and unhappy years. Hiding the worst of her situation from even those closest to her, Baxter’s career flourished as her self-esteem and family crumbled. Her successful run as Nancy on <i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PTSans;">Family</i> was followed by her enormously popular role on <i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PTSans;">Family Ties, </i>and dozens of well-received television movies.</div>
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After a bitter divorce and custody battle with Birney, Baxter increasingly relied on alcohol as a refuge, and here speaks candidly of her decision to take her last drink in 1990.</div>
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And while another ruinous divorce to screenwriter Michael Blodgett taxed Baxter’s strength and confidence, she has emerged from her experiences with the renewed self-assurance, poise, and understanding that have enabled her to find a loving, respectful relationship with Nancy Locke, and to speak about it openly.</div>
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Told with insight, wit, and disarming frankness, <i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PTSans;">Untied</i> is the eye-opening and inspiring life of an actress, a woman, and a mother who has come into her own.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PTSans;">This was another one of my beach reads last month. I remember starting it when I got it and then putting it down for some reason, so this time I started over at the beginning again. While I am not familiar with Baxter's early television work, I recall seeing her every week on Family Ties. I may or may not have seen some of her TV movies too. I love reading about and peaking into other peoples lives. From the outside they can seem perfect or to have it all together, but that is rarely the case and it is nice to know that everyone runs into bumps in the road and detours.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PTSans;">Baxter's mother was a very focused on having a career as an actress and divorced early, often leaving her children alone or with their step father and having her children call her Whitney instead of mom so she could appear younger. This early rejection seems to have had some long lasting repercussions in her life. From getting together with men because they thought it was a good idea, to living in some sketchy and unsafe homes and apartments, to taking to alcohol to escape the unhappiness at home to finding that she prefers to be in a relationship with women Meredith discusses it all. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PTSans;">Who would have thought that Elise Keaton, who seemed like a mom who had it all together, was driving home drunk from rehearsals and shows because of issues at home? I think it is telling that she was so nervous about coming out to the public, but at the same time wanted to do it to help other people who are in the same position. Will this affect her ability to find employment or embarrass family members? </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PTSans;">Nothing is ever perfect and it is important to realize that much of what happens in life is governed by how we react to it and what we do with it. I am glad that Baxter has found the life she is happy with and no longer feels the need to hide it.</span></div>
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Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-8076479610904130282015-07-07T22:28:00.001-04:002015-07-07T22:28:09.104-04:00Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer by Jen Lancaster<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"To whom the fat rolls…I'm tired of books where a self-loathing heroine is teased to the point where she starves herself skinny in hopes of a fabulous new life. And I hate the message that women can't possibly be happy until we all fit into our skinny jeans. I don't find these stories uplifting; they make me want to hug these women and take them out for fizzy champagne drinks and cheesecake and explain to them that until they figure out their insides, their outsides don't matter. Unfortunately, being overweight isn't simply a societal issue that can be fixed with a dose healthy of positive self-esteem. It’s a health matter, and here on the eve of my fortieth year, I've learned I have to make changes so I don't, you know, <i style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: PTSans;">die</i>. Because what good is finally being able to afford a pedicure if I lose a foot to adult onset diabetes?"</div>
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I am reading my shelf this summer. There are so many books that I have picked up and ordered and then simply not gotten around to reading in my house. Sometimes I think I am in need of serious book intervention, but I am always distracted by another book so the issue remains.</div>
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I took this one along on a recent trip to the beach and I found myself laughing out loud like a crazy person at times. I was self conscious at first and then I decided that I really didn't care. I was enjoying the book and I didn't know anyone around me. If I had I would have shared all the funny little tidbits of the book. Weight struggles are familiar to many of us and seeing how Lancaster deals with it in a humorous way while coming to accept herself was enjoyable and real. Being called a "fat bitch" on the bus or at the pool, finding out that she weighs fifty pounds more than she thought and deciding that she is ready to focus on her health are all along the ride of personal growth that she manages to make funny. Searching for the outfit and undergarments to make her feel confident on a book promotion segment on TV and also finding out that she has become fit enough to work out hard, run and swim make her real.</div>
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I loved how she shows that she is happy with herself even if she hasn't met her goal weight, she found the strength to commit to getting healthy for herself which is the most important reason to make these changes.</div>
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Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-26353686447622383972015-03-10T07:30:00.000-04:002015-03-10T07:30:01.008-04:00One Plus One: A Novel by Jojo Moyes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b id="yui_3_8_1_1_1425826811222_1122" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the <i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Me Before You</i></b><br /><br />American audiences have fallen in love with Jojo Moyes. Ever since she debuted Stateside she has captivated readers and reviewers alike, and hit the <i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">New York Times</i> bestseller list with the word-of-mouth sensation <i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Me Before You</i>. Now, with <i id="yui_3_8_1_1_1425826811222_1121" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">One Plus One</i>, she’s written another contemporary opposites-attract love story.<br /><br />Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied, and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can’t afford to pay for. That’s Jess’s life in a nutshell—until an unexpected knight in shining armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess’s knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose vacation home she happens to clean. But Ed has big problems of his own, and driving the dysfunctional family to the Math Olympiad feels like his first unselfish act in ages . . . maybe ever.<br /><br /><i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">One Plus One</i> is Jojo Moyes at her astounding best. You’ll laugh, you’ll weep, and when you flip the last page, you’ll want to start all over again.</div>
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I requested this book at the library ages ago and last week my turn came up. I started reading it with no memory of why I requested it in the first place. I read a lot, I love to read book reviews and I come across a lot of books I think I can't wait read, but then I forget why. I think this must happen to book lovers a lot, but I could be wrong. This week I caught the stomach bug and spent a whole day in bed, First time since before kids that I have spent a day that way. It would have been better had I not been sick and dizzy, but it gave me a day to read and this is the book I read.</div>
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Ed has made some questionable choices in his desire to get away from a clingy girlfriend and Jess has been afraid to put pressure on her husband who left the family while suffering from depression two years ago to live with his mother. Even though she can barely make ends meets and often has to skip paying one bill to pay another, Jess is afraid that to ask him for money to support their two children will set him off again so she does it all alone. But her daughter Tanzie is a math genius and a private school will give her a 90% scholarship if she can come up with the other fees and her math teacher has found an Olympiad that she could win to pay, but it is in Scotland. With no money to pay for the trip and only an unlicensed and unregistered car in which to do it Jess is stuck, until Ed steps up and offers to help. But would he have helped had he known that going over 40 mph would make Tanzie vomit? Or that their dog farts like crazy or that Jess has no money for hotels or restaurants and wants to make sandwiches at every stop?</div>
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Spending hours in the car creates a closeness that these four are unable to get away from. Each of their stories starts to spill out from the bullies in their poor neighborhood, to the math Tanzie loves, to the dad who left and hasn't looked back and the many jobs Jess takes on to make things work for her family. Often times people wonder how someone ended up where they are in life, was it one choice or many choices that led to this spot, and you get to see how each of these people got to where they are through memories and stories and how they act now. Do pat acts define you? Can you be forgiven for one mistake? Can you be a good person at heart but still make mistakes?</div>
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Carole Gene Marer spent her girlhood dreaming of meeting Rock Hudson, but when she finally had the chance—on her second date with her future husband, television mogul Aaron Spelling—she was so shy she hid all night in the powder room. How Candy morphed from that quiet girl into a seemingly-confident, stylish trophy wife, mistress of the largest house in Los Angeles (70,000 square feet when you count the attic) is at the heart of <i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stories from Candyland</i>. </div>
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The life Candy created for her family—her husband and children Tori and Randy—was fabulous, over-the-top, and often magical. So what if California Christmases don’t come with snow? Let’s make some on the tennis court! How do we take a cross-country family vacation with a dad who doesn’t fly? By private train car, of course (with an extra for the fifty-two pieces of luggage). The kids want to dress up for Halloween? No problem, why not call in Nolan Miller to design their costumes?</div>
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<b>My thoughts:</b></div>
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This book has been on my shelf for a few years. As part of spring cleaning I am working through my shelves, reading and removing books. This book was a quick read and had some interesting parts, but I have to say it could have used some organization and a bit more editing. Candy had funny stories to share, but it felt like she circled back to the same ones and repeated herself quite a bit. I also think she has a different sense of reality than most of us. Her 17,000 square foot attic with everything neatly ordered and boxed and a hair salon is larger than most people's homes. Does she know many people live in a home that is ten percent of that size? Do you really need to save every Halloween costume your children ever wore? </div>
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I can't tell you why I decided I wanted this book to begin with. I have really enjoyed Tori Spelling's books and maybe I was curious about how her mother would recall events, but I requested it on Paperbackswap years ago and then just put it on the shelf. In the book she talks about how she is selling or planning to sell the family home, the Manor, but I didn't recall it ever being sold. I looked it up though and it was. I wonder what she did get rid of in her move.</div>
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I think it must be really hard to write about your own like and keep it in order and organized, because everything that has happened to you has made you who you are today. I hope that if she writes any more she has someone else go through and edit it for her more to keep it flowing.</div>
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Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-79385865155989446302015-03-08T10:42:00.001-04:002015-03-08T10:42:09.340-04:00Wild Ride by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mary Alice Brannigan doesn't believe in the supernatural. Nor does she expect to find that Dreamland, the decaying amusement park she's been hired to restore, is a prison for the five Untouchables, the most powerful demons in the history of the world. Plus, there's a guy she's falling hard for--and there's something about him that's not quite right.</div>
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But rocky romances and demented demons aren't the only problems in Dreamland: Mab's also coping with a crooked politician, a supernatural raven, a secret government agency, an inexperienced sorceress, an unsettling inheritance, and some mind-boggling revelations from her past. As her personal demons wreck her newfound relationship and real demons wreck the park, Mab faces down immortal evil and discovers what everybody who's ever been to an amusement park knows: The end of the ride is always the wildest.</div>
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This was a fun, fast moving book. I picked it up last week while I was sick and read it over the course of a day spent mostly resting. I haven't read a Jennifer Crusie book in some time. I enjoy her humor and the way she uses sarcasm and unusual situations. The demons were a new thing for me in her books, but it worked. I was worried it wouldn't, but the supernatural elements fit without feeling forced.</div>
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Growing up Mab was not allowed to go to Dreamland park because her mother said there were demons there. Her crusade against the park earned Mab a solitary existence growing up and she couldn't wait to move away. Added to her burdens were how upset her mother got if she go angry or emotional, so she repressed her feelings and channeled herself into her work restoring artifacts from amusement parks.</div>
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When she returns to restore the park and is run down by a metal clown she restored just weeks earlier, things start to go a little funny. When Ethan returns to the park to live what is left of his life with a bullet lodged near his heart he isn't ready to hear what his mother tells him until she has repeated it multiple times. After a few too many odd events everyone is on board, but will they be able to thwart the Untouchables.</div>
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It has almost every aspect I expect from Crusie except for a dog, but this time there is a raven. Not as cute and cuddly, but Frankie has his own ways.</div>
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Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-54350803159845966352015-02-09T09:27:00.001-05:002015-02-09T09:27:10.035-05:00The Case of the Jewel Covered Cat Statues by Cindy Vincent Litfuse Blog Tour<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>About the book:</strong><br />Buckley and Bogey, Cat Detectives, find their next big case with the Buckley and Bogey Cat Detective Agency to be their most complicated ever! It all starts when someone hides a mysterious package in their Mom's antique store --- in the middle of the night! Of course, the boys find it, and put it in a nice, safe place, until they can open it . . . and, find the rightful owner. But that's when a whole bunch of suspicious people show up in St. Gertrude, and every single one of them seems to be after that package! Holy Catnip! Plus, everything happens just when a priceless, jeweled statue collection goes on display at the St. Gertrude Museum. Missing from that collection are two jewel covered cat statues that disappeared almost a hundred and fifty years ago.<br /><br />But soon Buckley and Bogey wonder how long those statues will stay missing. Because this is one case that really keeps them on their paws! From a trip to the Museum, and to an old church for the Blessing of the Animals; and from dinosaurs to diamonds, they end up dodging shady suspects the whole time. It sure helps to have their friends with them, especially when the bad guys make a beeline for boys. That's because it becomes very clear, very quick --- the priceless cat statues aren't the only cats those crooks are after! Holy Mackerel!</div>
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<strong><img align="left" border="0" dfsrc="https://files.ctctcdn.com/d06cdd88001/7f2da2fe-cff5-4172-976b-7d9d41078f15.jpg" height="139" hspace="5" src="https://files.ctctcdn.com/d06cdd88001/7f2da2fe-cff5-4172-976b-7d9d41078f15.jpg" vspace="5" width="150" />About the author: Cindy Vincent</strong> was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and has lived all around the US and Canada. She holds an M.A.Ed, and is the creator of the Mysteries by Vincent murder mystery party games and the Daisy Diamond Detective Series games for girls. She is also the award-winning author of the Buckley and Bogey Cat Detective Caper books, the Daisy Diamond Detective book series, and the <em>Cats are Part of His Kingdom, Too: 33 Daily Devotions to Understanding God's Love</em>. She lives with her husband and the real, live Buckley and Bogey, who run surveillance on her house each and every night.</div>
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<span class="Object" style="color: #087fc9; cursor: pointer;">Some of the first books I recall reading independently and enjoying were mysteries. There was something about looking for the clues with the characters and seeing if you could figure it out before the end of the book. This is a fun mystery with the added element that it is from the point of view of the family cats. What kid hasn't felt awkward and clumsy like Buckley or wanted to be just like their older sibling?</span></div>
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<span class="Object" style="color: #087fc9; cursor: pointer;">It was a fun ride tagging along with there two cat detectives as they worked through another mystery while keeping up with their nighttime watch duties at home, see there really is a reason why cats get so active at night, they are doing a job! I plan to pass this along to my kids. I can't wait to see what they think of it.</span></div>
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<span class="Object" style="color: #087fc9; cursor: pointer;">I loved how the cats worked behind the scenes. They had to come up with ways to let people know what they were thinking and doing without being able to speak. Typing things up on the computer and leaving mysterious notes. I also appreciated how Vincent worked in animal adoptions as well.</span></div>
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Sara doesn't think she wants love. But her grandmother has other plans.<br /></div>
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Sara Jane Morgan is trying to balance teaching with caring for her ailing, stubborn grandmother. When school lets out for the summer, the plans are for Grandma to teach Sara Jane to quilt as they finish up the Appalachian Ballad quilt Grandma started as a teenager. But things don't always go as planned.<br /></div>
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Andrew Stevenson is hiding from his past---and his future. He works as a handyman to pay the bills, but his heart is as an artisan, designing homemade brooms. When Sara Jane's grandmother hires him to renovate her home, sparks fly between Drew and his new employer's granddaughter.<br /></div>
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Still, it doesn't take Sara Jane long to see Drew isn't what he seems. Questions arise, and she starts researching him online. What she discovers could change her life---and her heart---forever.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b>My thoughts:</b> Sara Jane and Drew are both dealing with their own feelings of survivors guilt from the loss of loved ones, each in his or her own way. Because of the large amount of pain that has not been dealt with, neither of them has been able to move forward in their personal lives or been able to open up to others.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Sara Jane's grandmother forces the issue with them both due to her stubbornness and her ailing memory. Drew has been hired as her handyman, but it uncomfortable with the assumption that he will date and marry Sara Jane just because he has been told to. Sara Jane is worried about her grandmother and embarrassed by her not so subtle matchmaking.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The two find that they have some interests in common, top among them keeping Sari safe and cared for, but there is a big stumbling block for them. Drew has found comfort in his faith and shares his beliefs freely, while Sara Jane goes to church out of obligation, but feels no connection with God and lacks faith. Before they can move ahead and work on connecting with one another, Sara Jane needs to find forgiveness and faith herself to move past her feelings of guilt.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I would have loved to have seen a picture of the quilt, just a sketch of each of the squares that belonged to the song!</span></div>
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<strong>Laura V. Hilton</strong> is an award-winning author and a professional book reviewer. A stay-at-home mom and home school teacher, Laura lives with her family in Horseshoe Bend, Arkansas.<strong> Cindy Loven</strong> is active in the church and writes from her home in Conway, Arkansas, where she lives with her husband and their son.</div>
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<strong>About Quilts of Love: </strong>Quilts tell stories of love and loss, hope and faith, tradition and new beginnings. The<span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT643_com_zimbra_url" style="color: #087fc9; cursor: pointer;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001zuZ4LPncvMEWmpAvesPipQYbs5YSERbOO9Ogt9Z4VeMP5od4ILm4qalcdPZgrVchX9mCnFg7vKTvYVh1FCBk1AFSwtgPnNjvUXZ4yvO9InYp6am89ZmECvl0_WqWOJ-sh-KontLv4AyM12tyHVutnaGxc7JJ2MN-O4DFi1dtlPSiEWq5mzjesw==&c=wCVDIAOd3yrn5ILwplAXenhSytZfeFwlFPJL-dHsKo-eFTHS_QD1Mg==&ch=3A0yZPu7Xun9ohizpyAb-S8UuTRYO2zmez8Wae2zvgU56-Bj3lsYYw==" shape="rect" style="color: #6ba3a6; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Quilts of Love series</a></span> focuses on the women who quilted all of these things into their family histories. A new book releases each month and features contemporary and historical romances as well as women's fiction and the occasional light mystery. You will be drawn into the endearing characters of this series and be touched by their stories.</div>
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Jill Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18296890779922143900noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-532934508002111633.post-29619184301340226882014-11-29T11:24:00.001-05:002014-11-29T11:24:55.820-05:00Quilted by Christmas by Jodie Bailey (Quilts of Love- Litfuse Blog Tour)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Taryn McKenna believes she's easy to forget. Abandoned by her parents and left behind when her high school sweetheart joined the army, she vows to never love again and throws herself into her love for the outdoors and the pursuit of a college degree---something no one else in her family has ever accomplished. Her goal, as a young teacher in the hills of North Carolina, is to leave a legacy in the lives of the middle-schoolers she teaches. When Taryn's grandmother Jemma, the only other person who ever held her close, has a heart attack that reveals a fatal medical condition, Taryn is corralled into helping Grandma work on a final project---an Irish chain quilt that tells the story of her history and the love Jemma knows is out there for Taryn. As the pieces of the quilt come together, Taryn begins to see her value. Can she learn to believe that God will never leave her behind even though others have?</span></div>
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<strong>Jodie Bailey</strong> is Tarheel born and bred. After 15 years as a military spouse, she settled with her family back in North Carolina. She is the author of the military suspense novel <em>Freefall</em> and is a contributor to Edie Melson's devotional for military families, <em>Fighting Fear: Winning the War at Home</em>. While not working on her next novel, she teaches middle-schoolers to love writing as much as she does (if she's lucky that day and they're actually listening...). Jodie loves to bake, ride the Harley with her husband, and fish the Outer Banks with their daughter. </div>
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I enjoyed this story of faith and heartache. Taryn has been hiding something for years, something she was counseled by her father and grandmother to keep to herself, and it has haunted and narrowed her life. On the day her best friend and boyfriend, Justin, leaves to join the army they have a fight that colors how she sees herself for the next ten years. Faced with losing the person she knows the best and loves the most, she tries to convince him to stay instead of go, causing him to make her feel like she is needy and manipulative. That whole exchange leads to a chain of events neither of them could imagine.<br />
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When Justin comes back to town and seems to want to be her friend again, she is confused and worries that the longer she takes to tell him about what she did in his absence the harder it is going to be to do it, but at the same time she fears that once he knows he won't want to be around her anymore. When her grandmother ends up in the hospital with a broken arm, it comes down to Taryn to finish her cousin's surprise wedding quilt. Surprisingly, Justin offers his help with hand piecing the quilt. Working together night by night they are able to rebuild their old rapport, but the secret is still there.<br />
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I love stories about Christmas and about people finding their way through tough situations that are true to life. Nothing is easy or simple or solved right away, these characters work through their issues together and separately finding out who they are and what they really care about, while trusting in their faith.<br />
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