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Book Review: Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire by Jen Hatmaker

Book Review: Fierce, Free, a..

Review: To me, this is Jen Hatmaker’s best book yet. She really lays out her feelings and her struggles and her experience and her hopes here, and my gosh it is GOOD. Jen divides the book up into sections like: Who I Am, What I Need, What I Want, What I Believe, and How I […]

Posted April 23, 2020
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Book Review: You and Me and Us by Alison Hammer

Book Review: You and Me and ..

REVIEW: Tommy’s world is upended when he has to tell his wife Alexis and daughter CeCe that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. For years, Alexis has been a workaholic and has typically tended to miss important events in the lives of her husband and child. 14-year-old CeCe doesn’t have a lot of affection […]

Posted April 20, 2020
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Book Review: Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles

Book Review: Simon the Fiddl..

 REVIEW: Simon is a musician, traveling around playing his fiddle for anyone that will listen. The Civil War has been going on for years now and he has managed to avoid being forced to fight for either side because of his youthful look and his ability to lie and run. All of that changes when, […]

Posted April 14, 2020
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Book Review: The Ancestor by Danielle Trussoni

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REVIEW: I LOVED The Ancestor by Danielle Trussoni! This is exactly the type of story that I want to be reading when I’m stuck inside with the pandemic in full force. Bert Monte lives in New York at the start of the novel. Very early in the story, she receives a fancy piece of mail […]

Posted April 10, 2020
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Book Review: The Shape of Family by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Book Review: The Shape of Fa..

REVIEW: The Shape of Family is the story of the Olander family’s experiences with grief after tragedy. I have had loss in the not-too-distant past, and that was the main reason that I picked up this book. I’ve moved far enough along in my own process of grief that I felt like I could handle […]

Posted April 1, 2020
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Book Review: The Sea Glass Cottage by RaeAnne Thayne

Book Review: The Sea Glass C..

REVIEW The Sea Glass Cottage by RaeAnne Thayne is the story of three generations of women in the same family that have not been close at all over the past few years, but are thrown back together when the family matriarch Juliet has extensive injuries on the job. Juliet has been raising her teenage granddaughter […]

Posted March 27, 2020
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Book Review: Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

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REVIEW: Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson was so much fun to read! I went into it knowing nothing about the book except that Peter Swanson wrote it, and I really think that knowing as little possible before starting it is the best way to go. The book, in a nutshell: Old Devils Bookstore owner […]

Posted March 24, 2020
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Book Review: The Happy Camper by Melody Carlson

Book Review: The Happy Campe..

REVIEW: I just flew through this book! The Happy Camper by Melody Carlson features Dillon Michaels, who comes back home to her grandfather’s farm after losing both her boyfriend and her job in the same day. When she gets back to the farm, she finds that her mother has unexpectedly arrived first and has taken […]

Posted March 24, 2020
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Book Review: Out of the Embers by Amanda Cabot

Book Review: Out of the Embe..

REVIEW: I flew through Out of the Embers by Amanda Cabot today while staying inside for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. This is the perfect story to read at a time like this because it is heartwarming and stress-free, and the characters are so likable. I felt like I could visualize everything in my […]

Posted March 22, 2020
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Book Review: The Sea of Lost Girls by Carol Goodman

Book Review: The Sea of Lost..

REVIEW: The Sea of Lost Girls has a very catchy beginning that hooked me right away. Tess gets a call from her teenage son, Rudy, in the middle of the night asking her to come pick him up. The situation surrounding why he wants to be picked up is suspicious, considering his clothes are wet. […]

Posted March 18, 2020
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