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Book Review: Full Moon in Leo by Brooklyn Ray
The Details Media Type: ebookTitle: Full Moon in LeoAuthor: Brooklyn RayPublisher: Self PublishedPages/Length: 229 Release Date: October 1, 2020Source: Xpresso Book Tours/AuthorGenre: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon Small-town magic, two heavy hearts—one unforgettable winter solstice Cole Morrison left Jewel’s snow-covered fir trees ten years ago. But after a disastrous family Thanksgiving, Jewel seems like the only place left to go. When a run-in with a gorgeous stranger leaves him with debt to pay, Cole’s escape from his past turns out to be much more than a lonely Christmas vacation. Jesse Carroway, the local Jewel witch, has been running his family’s successful, small-town…
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Bookish (And Not So Bookish) Thoughts #2
“Distance between true friends doesn’t matter when their friendship lives in their hearts” The Blackbird Girls – Anne Blankman I had forgotten that I planned a series of these posts, where I shared a recent quote that applied to that week and then just rambled. It was kind of fun to go back to my last one (the only one so far) and see how I felt at that point. Spoiler alert: it’s not far off from how I’ve been feeling lately. The biggest difference is that 2020 has given me the time and space to learn how to cope…
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Book Review: Lanny by Max Porter
There’s a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from many other villages in England: one pub, one church, red-brick cottages, council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might do anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to the people who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England’s mysterious past and its confounding present. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a figure schoolchildren used to draw green and…
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On book reading and schedules.
To say that I’ve had a lot of time to ponder why this year has been so off, is an understatement. In fact, that’s what I do with most of my free time. Trying to figure out how I went from a ravenous reader to someone who couldn’t focus on a book for longer than 20 minutes at a time has become my full time job. I kept trying to remind myself that I have been reading 150+ books for years now. That eventually everyone moves away from certain things in favor of other things. Still I felt uncomfortable because…
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Book Review: You Should See Me In A Crown by
Liz Lighty has always believed she’s too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it’s okay—Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor. But when the financial aid she was counting on unexpectedly falls through, Liz’s plans come crashing down...until she’s reminded of her school’s scholarship for prom king and queen. There’s nothing Liz wants to do less than endure a gauntlet of social media trolls, catty competitors, and humiliating public events, but…
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Can’t Wait Wednesday: Hall of Smoke by H.M. Long
Do you know how I know that my reading bug is back? I’ve started browsing forthcoming titles again. Yup, my need to know what new books are on the horizon is back! Ah, this feels good. 2020 has been a really weird year, and it feels good to be excited about new books again! Anyway, I ramble. I’m here to showcase one of those books today for Can’t Wait Wednesday. Are you ready? Today’s glorious pick not only looks drool worthy on the outside, but has a synopsis that immediately had my attention. Spoiler alert, this girl loves a good…
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Book Review: The Christmas Mistake by Josephine Templeton
Dressed in nothing but Christmas lingerie, Carina has a bellhop deliver her in a gift box to her fiance’s hotel room, but the last thing she expects when she is unwrapped is to see a sexy stranger in holiday boxers who looks like he just stepped off a magazine cover – definitely NOT her fiancé! How in the silver bells was she delivered to the wrong room? As the owner of a small flower shop, Carina’s surrounded by romance on a daily basis. Her workaholic fiancé has been distant for the past several months, so she decides to drive from…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (11/30/20)
Good morning friends! It’s another Monday and, once again, it feels like all the time and no time at all passed. Can you believe Christmas is less than a month away? I still can’t. It’s crazy. Still, it is indeed Monday and that means it is once again time to share my reading! Read Last Week: I think you all know that I’ve been reading really slowly, so this is the only book that I finished last week. Trust me when I say that it was 100% worth the time though, because I loved it! Leah Johnson has crafted a…
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A Pause For Some Reflection
I am certain that everyone has found most of the year so far to be tough. We were pulled away from our jobs, our friends, our traditions, and forced to cope with it all. Parents became full-time teachers and playmates. People took to baking, cooking, knitting, and gardening to deal with the stress. You know what though? We are still here! If 2020 has taught me anything, it is that we are all stronger than we think we are. So I thought today was an excellent day to take a step back, and reflect on the year I have had…
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Book Review: Christmas At The Little Knitting Box by Helen J. Rolfe
The Little Knitting Box has been in Cleo’s family for nearly four decades, and since she arrived fresh off the plane from the Cotswolds four years ago, Cleo has been doing a stellar job of running the store. But instead of an early Christmas card in the mail this year, she gets a letter that tips her world on its axis. Dylan has had a tumultuous few years. His marriage broke down, his mother passed away and he’s been trying to pick up the pieces as a stay-at-home dad. All he wants this Christmas is to give his kids the…
