Category: Books
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Shadows of Pecan Hollow
except that deep inside, she knew she was not free, that had always been the choice, between freedom and longing. He had saved her life, and she belonged to him.”
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Reckless Girls
“There will always be a before and an after, and you have to learn to live in the after.”
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Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead
“Because I’m not the luckiest person in the world, and I know better than to assume the dead don’t come back to haunt you.”
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Find Me
Find Me REVIEW: Thank you, Harper Books, for gifting me a copy of Find Me {partner} Genre: Mystery/ThrillerPub Date: 1.11.2022Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Find Me is my first book by Alafair Burke, and I plan to go back and read more from her/add her upcoming books to my reading list! The story took off from the […]
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Reminders of Him
Reminders of Him REVIEW — Thank you, Amazon Publishing, for gifting me a copy of Reminders of Him {partner} Genre: RomancePub Date: 1.18.2022Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Colleen Hoover is the QUEEN of surprising me. Many authors gravitate towards the same type of story, same concept but different characters. That is never the case with CoHo. She […]
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Wish You Were Here
e that’s enough. It’s not having the adventures or crossing off the links items of a bucket list. It’s who you were with, who will help you recall it when your memory fails.”
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A Cross-Country Christmas
A Cross-Country Christmas Synopsis Lauren Richmond isn’t a fan of Christmas. This is why she rarely makes the trip home to the Midwest for the holidays. After all, she has plenty to keep her busy—namely, her duties as a set decorator on a TV sitcom. But this December, Lauren‘s brother and his wife are expecting […]
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November Wrap-Up
November Wrap-Up I can’t post a November Wrap-Up without featuring my Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake — it just seems fitting for the month. 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫/𝐌𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲 A Flicker in th Dark – 4.5 ⭐️ Lincoln Lawyer – 4.5 ⭐️ 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 The Santa Suit – 5 ⭐️ Ugly Love – 5 ⭐️ The Wedding Ringer – 4.5 ⭐️ 𝐅𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 […]
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Easy Saturday Morning Breakfast
Looking for a super easy (but nutritious) breakfast to put together for a Saturday morning? Here is what my go-to is!
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Under the Whispering Door
Death has a beauty to it. We don’t see it because we don’t want to. And that makes sense. Why would we want to focus on something that takes us away from everything we know? How do we even begin to understand that’s more than we see?”
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A History of Wild Places
“There is no history in a place until we make it until you live a life worth remembering.”
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September Wrap-Up
September Wrap-Up I seriously feel like September lasted 289402 days. With my return to work at the beginning of the month, I didn’t anticipate reading a bunch of books. But, I ended up reading 12 books and I finally feel like I’ve gotten my reading groove back. Shout out to audiobooks for helping me read […]
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
“When I try to picture for myself what a happy life might look like, the picture hasn’t changed very much since I was a child – a house with flowers and trees around it, and a river nearby, and a room full of books, and someone there to love me, that’s all.”
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Out of Love
“That’s the problem with breakups, though. It’s not just two people saying goodbye and going their separate ways; it’s the excruciating process of untangling two lives, picking them apart like some sad surgical procedure, trying to detach this thing from that while causing as little lasting damage as possible.”
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Emily’s House
“Change is the one thing that can be counted on in life, and it’s no different if a person’s rich or poor.”
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The Heart Principle
“I have to choose. I can spend my time trying to make her accept me, either through bending her will or bending her to mine, or I can accept myself and focus on other things. How do I want to spend my life?”
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My Sweet Girl
“It’s not real. I kept telling myself. She’s not real. But things that don’t feel real during the day have a way of sliding into bed with you at night.”
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Slow Fire Burning
“Those people who think they have all the power, who think that we have none, we could prove them wrong. We should show them that we can be powerful too. You up here in your shabby tower, me down there on the water, we may not live in elegant homes, we might night have expensive haircuts and foreign holidays and good art on the walls, but that doesn’t make us nothing.”
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Apples Never Fall
“The past could look very different depending on where you stopped to look at it.”
The Bookend Diner 