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Thanks for visiting! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed using the feedburner link to the right. The writing style of Robin Jones Gunn is excellent in her book Engaging Father Christmas.
I did find the plot a bit weak.  It is a sugary-sweet story where everything works out [...]

Do you ever think about what you will let your daughter’s read when they are teens?
I’ve thought of books I want to get for them and books I want to keep away from them.
Quills & Promises by Amber Miller is one that I would let them read.
The heroine, Elanna Hanssen, was very respectful of her [...]

This is my 16th book review in 4 months, but this is the first time I did not read the book before it was time for the review.
I could have read it.  I should have read it.  I would have read it…
So you are stuck with the blurb this time.
I will get the next one [...]

These are the rules passed on to me by Courtney at http://amomspeaks.com/ive-been-tagged/#mce_temp_url#.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next two to five sentences.
5. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book or the intellectual one. Pick the closest.
6. Tag five people to [...]

There are a lot of people that love to read stories about the Amish.  I’m not one of them.  I don’t hate them.  It’s just not my favorite kind of story.
Maybe it has something to do with that cavern tour I gave to a group of strict Amish that didn’t believe in deodorant.
Actually, it’s just [...]

Have you ever read an author, liked her, but then forgot about her?  That’s what happened to me and Lynn Austin.  I am so glad that CFBA reminded me of her with her newest book titled Until We Reach Home.

I’ve read about first lines and I think this book has a great one. “Elin Carlson [...]

Even though her father is not a winner Nicole has a large family that she loves and they love her.  When Alice J. Wisler wrote Rain Song she created real characters with humor, pathos, and happiness. There’s even a donkey!
It was obvious that Alice J. Wisler knows Japan and knows what it is to be [...]

The idea of a girl, in this case Ginger Freeman, being a good scout and marksman makes sense to me in the pioneer setting of Dangerous Heart by Tracey Bateman.
From the back cover:
Growing up motherless with an outlaw father made Ginger Freeman hard and unforgiving — and for the past seven years she’s been driven [...]

There’s just something about forensics that’s interesting to me.  I don’t think I’d want to actually do it, but I enjoy reading about it.  It’s amazing how much can be found out after the deed is done.
Less than Dead by Tim Downs is about forensics, insects, politics, murders, and dogs that can smell cadavers under [...]

This story slightly reminds me of the movie Sweet Home Alabama.
A Beautiful Fall by Chris Coppernoll is a slower paced book about a woman that needed a slower pace.
Things I enjoyed about this book:

The physical looks of the characters were not emphasized.
One of the characters is a young man that is living for the Lord.
Prayer [...]