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Book Review: Winter Sparrow by Estevan Vega
From Goodreads.com: “I’ll grow wings all by myself.” Mary is a young artist about to enter a new chapter in her life. After years of waiting and searching, she has finally found true love. She’s also...
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Book Review: Barefoot Season by Susan Mallery
From Goodreads.com: Michelle Sanderson may appear to be a strong, independent woman, but on the inside, she’s still the wounded girl who fled home years ago. A young army vet, Michelle returns to the...
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Book Review: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Read by...
From Goodreads.com: Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations....
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2013 Reading Challenges: Deliberate Abandonment
***** Abandonment. That’s a word that usually has me diving for under the covers to take to my bed like the good Southern woman I’m Not (yep, born and raised here in SoCali and me with no blonde hair...
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Book Excerpts: Barefoot Season by Susan Mallery
***** ” . . . Once in the truck, she glanced at the house. From the outside, it wasn’t much. But to her it was everything she needed. A place to retreat and lick her wounds. Somewhere she didn’t...
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Word of the Day (March 29, 2013): swivet
– noun: [SWIV-it] Definition: A state of nervous exceitment, haste, or anxiety; flutter. I was in such a swivet that I could hardly speak. Examples: 1. This sent her into a larger swivet, but its...
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Book Excerpts: A Slender Thread by Katharine Davis
***** ” . . . Instead, Margot’s heart stubbornly refused to lift. It was as if she couldn’t make room for happiness now. . . .” I quote this somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but I really have felt sometimes...
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A Slender Thread by Katharine Davis: Chapter Heading Word Definitions
***** Even though I couldn’t finish this book, I love what the author did with the chapter heading word definitions. Aside from the cleverness of interlacing the chapter heading words with the title...
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Book Excerpts: P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
***** ” . . . She had felt relief, . . . She felt relieved to have known him, to love him and to be loved by him, . . .” Strange, an odd way to put it, to be sure. And yet, it makes sense to me, it...
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Book Excerpts: Just One Look by Harlan Coben
***** ”. . . There are sudden rips. There are tears in your life, deep knife wounds that slash through your flesh. Your life is one thing; then it is shredded into another. It comes apart as through...
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