The week before Christmas is usually filled with present wrapping and cookie baking in our house. Our teen is home from college and it's finally starting to feel like the holidays here! What fun traditions does your family do this week to prepare for the holiday? Here's the books I'm looking forward to discussing with … Continue reading This Week: December 17th
Like so many of you, I’m from the Britney generation. You know, the one that grew up watching the kids on the Mickey Mouse Club only to later watch as those same kids became superstar singers and actors. We were the generation of MTV – Road Rules, The Real World, and the hours of music … Continue reading The Woman In Me
Happy Holidays, friends! This week, I'll be sharing about the author talk I attended last week, a bombshell new celebrity memoir, and a list of my favorite holiday books to get you in the mood! While this might be a slower week on the blog, I can promise you there is a lot going on … Continue reading This Week: December 10th
In 1994, 53 years after the event, President Bill Clinton signed a resolution designating December 7th as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in honor of the 2403 Americans killed in the attacks. This wasn’t a random attack, or one hastily planned either – the Japanese had been putting this together for weeks. But it was the … Continue reading Countdown to Pearl Harbor
Carlo and Tammo are an unlikely pair at the boy’s school. Carlo, a talented singer, is a rule follower and strait-laced pupil. Tammo, a flutist, is a charity case for the school and isn’t well-accepted. Their love of music and birds brings them together to reach their full potential. However, when the boys get carless … Continue reading Cage of Nightingales
Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. Cam and Jules are on a cross-country road trip back to his childhood home. He’s been putting this off for years now since his adoptive mother passed away. Cam moved from North Carolina to California years … Continue reading The Heiress
Are you counting down to the holidays? This is my favorite time of year and I can't wait for all the festivities! As we move through December, I'll be posting a little less to give me more time to prepare for the 2024 Reading Challenge. This week, I'll be sharing two new upcoming releases, a … Continue reading This Week: December 3rd
Earlier this year, I was gifted a copy of Mark Manson’s Everything is F*cked. First impression? What must my friend think of my life?? Second impression? Not another Mark Manson book… Last September, I read Manson’s first and more popular book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and was highly disappointed. It was … Continue reading Everything is F*cked
After months of multiple 5 star reviews, November only had one book worthy of 5 stars - Nights in Rodanthe. This book was just the romance I needed this time of year. It probably helped that we were coming to the Outer Banks for the Thanksgiving holiday, too, staying just south of Rodanthe for the … Continue reading November Recap & December Reading Plan
Lara and her three daughters are working on the family farm and talking about life. It’s cherry season and they have just a few weeks to harvest all the fruit and get it to market. While they work, the girls are asking Lara to talk about life when she was their age – a young … Continue reading Tom Lake
