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Book Review: The Aurora Cycle Trilogy Review
Rating: 3.5 Stars Book Blurb for Aurora Rising: The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the academy would…
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Reading Update and Reviews: 4/10/23
It’s been a busy past couple of weeks! We commemorated the death of Jesus this past Tuesday, we always do it on the day that corresponds to Nisan 14 every year. Our congregation had a great turnout. We had a campaign inviting everyone locally. My husband had the privilege of doing the Memorial talk and…
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Book Review: hello, summer
Author: Mary Kay Andrews Rating: 4/5 stars Book Blurb: It’s a new season… Conley Hawkins left her family’s small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon, in the rearview mirror years ago. Now a star reporter for a big-city paper, Conley is exactly where she wants to be and is about to take a fancy new position…
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Reading Wrap-Up and Reviews
Happy Friday everyone! I continued on my rom-com kick and I say that even though two of these books were NOT rom-com. And I must say…reading them sent me into a little bit of a reading slump. First up… Love and Other Words – 3.75/5 stars It is this book that taught me that I…
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Reading Reviews: Three Books By Fave Rom-Com Authors
So I put together a TBR of books by authors whose RomComs I have really enjoyed in the past. Did I love them? Were their loved books one-hit wonders for me? Let’s dive right in… The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood 4.5 /5 stars I had previously read Love on the Brain and really liked…
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Reading Update: More Book Reviews and Reading Plans…
Happy Thursday! So this past week I have continued on my Rom-Com/Romance kick and I have to say I am enjoying it. This is going to seem ironic when you see the reviews for the books I read. Let’s get down to it… This book is about two journalists competing for a column, inappropriately pitted…
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Reading Update: Reviews, Reading Plans and the Like…
Happy Friday! It has been a busy week again. I did get some reading done but didn’t have a lot of time to post reviews and updates so I am condensing it all in one post… First up, I finished The Circus Train: This book was about two kids raised around a circus who come…
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Reading Update: 2/17/23
Currently Reading/About to Pick up This was a so- so week of reading. There are so many things vying for my attention as of late. But I want to to get back on track. I was able to finish Sold on a Monday at least. Some of my reading goals have fallen by the way…
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Book Review: Sold on a Monday
Author: Kristina McMorris Rating: 3/5 stars Book Blurb: 2 CHILDREN FOR SALE. The sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines, bank runs and broken dreams. It could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices. For struggling reporter…
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Reading Update: 2/11/2023
Hope everyone is having a good weekend. Wanted to give an update on my reading plans… I DNF’d this book. It read like YA. Slow YA. It wasn’t what I expected nor was it what I was in the mood for. So I put it down. Next! Currently reading this one, I am almost done…