Category: Books
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Then She Was Gone
“If she could rewind the timeline, untwist it and roll it back the other way like a ball of wool, she’d see the knots in the yarn, the warning signs. Looking at it backward, it was obvious all along.”
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What Lies in the Woods
“There were women who seemed made to disappear into the cracks, and those whose vanishing had turned communities upside down, and all of them were just as thoroughly gone.”
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The Villa
“All the drugs and the women and the men, all the wild, dark rumors, all of that is both a distraction from and an offshoot of what this man can do.”
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All the Dangerous Things
“I like to think of our memories like a mirror: reflecting images back to us, something familiar, but at the same time, backward. Distorted. Not quite as they are.”
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The Key to My Heart
“It’s not selfish to want something, but what I often forget is that we can’t really expect other people to know what we want without saying it out loud. People are barely tuned into what they want from themselves, let alone what other people want.”
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Reading Snacks
Are you looking to make healthier snack choices? I’m so bad about grabbing whatever is available to snack on – especially while reading; chips, salsa, those dark chocolate PB cubs from Trader Joe’s…. anything that’s grab and go. So, I’ve substituted some of my unhealthier picks for something that leaves me pleasantly full and satisfies […]
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Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun Chili Cook-Off Recipe
If you’re like me, you’re anxiously awaiting the newest addition to the Finlay Donovan Series! I was going to wait until the start of the year to read Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun, but I juuuuuust couldn’t do it. So, I’ve already read it and reviewed it — but you’ll have to wait a little […]
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🎄 A Very Merry Bromance 🎄
“When we go home, we’re forced to deal with our past. And once we deal with our past, we realize why we ran away in the first place.”
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A Man Called Ove
“We always think there’s enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like ‘if’.”
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Merry Ex-Mas 🎁
“The pain you don’t deal with always finds a way to come back. It will demand attention.”
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🎄 Lovelight Farms 🎄
“It’s hard to love someone without restraint. To give yourself over to the swell and pull of it without fear of what might happen. I think it’s only natural to hold a part of yourself back and protect what you can.”
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The Light Pirate
“Swamps that had been dredged and drained and developed reappeared, bubbling back up to the surface in parking lots, highways, and gated neighborhoods….Houses, roads, and crops disappeared into the edges of the ever-encroaching wild.”
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The Wilderwomen
“I like the idea that two people can have all the odds stacked against them, but they figure out a way to make it work because their love for each other is more important than all the other bullshit.”
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The Personal Assistant
“This is how it begins, flying down a country road. Windows down, music blaring. An old Journey classic, one she knew by heart.”
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Outlander
“You’re mine, mo duinne…Mine alone, now and forever… Aye, I mean to use ye hard, my Sassenach…I want to own you, to posses you, body and soul.”
The Bookend Diner 