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Your Bookish Gift List For This Holiday Season

Your Bookish Gift List For This Holiday Season

Your Bookish Gift List For This Holiday Season Books have an amazing way of transporting us on journeys and adventures that we would never be able to experience if not for these amazing stories. No matter who we are or where we are located in the world, a good book, audiobook, or poem can transform and enhance our everyday experience. Hopefully, this bookish gift list sparks some ideas for that special book lover in your life. J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan is timeless tale for all ages. This tote bag comes in a yellow golden print with a forest green background. …

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Santa’s Dog and Bandana Giveaway

Santa'a Dog

Santa’s Dog and Bandana Giveaway If you caught me on social media in September, you might have seen a post about Santa’s Dog. This book was written by JoAnn Sky and illustrated by Ed Koehler. JoAnn has offered up an awesome giveaway for my readers 🙂 Santa’s Dog is a rhyming story about the adventures of Santa’s best dog, Lance. He falls from the sleigh on Christmas Eve and is taken in by the animal shelter and then brought home by a military family who needs some help as Dad is called to serve his country. When Christmas Eve comes, …

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A Super Long List of Fiction Books to Keep You Busy During a Deployment

23 Memes That Explain What Going Through A Deployment is Really Like

A Super Long List of Fiction Books to Keep You Busy During a Deployment I love to read, I have as long as I can remember. My dad was a librarian when I was born and I guess it was just meant to be. I read about 40-70 books a year and wish it could be 100. Seriously. Books are amazing! I love how you can get truly lost in a story, learn more about something you didn’t, or connect with characters and hear their stories. Getting lost in a book is a good way to handle those deployment days. …

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A Bridge Across the Ocean by Susan Meissner

A Bridge Across the Ocean by Susan Meissner

This post does contain affiliate links! A Bridge Across the Ocean by Susan Meissner I have been on a huge historical fiction kick lately. I read the book, The Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner and loved it. I wanted to read the other books she had written. Looking online I came across her newest book, due out in March, A Bridge Across the Ocean. I received a free copy of A Bridge Across the Ocean for review from Netgalley!  About the book: February 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its …

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10 Favorite Books of 2016 You Might Want to Read Too

10 Favorite Books of 2016 You Might Want to Read Too If you didn’t already know this, but I love to read. I have read 55 books this year and I feel like this number is too low. I want to read all the books! In 2016 I read a lot of different books, some of them I really enjoyed, some of them I thought were good reads and others I gave up on early since I didn’t really enjoy them. I just looked over my list of the books I have read in 2016 and picked out my top …

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Where Two Hearts Meet by Liz Johnson

Where Two Hearts Meet by Liz Johnson

I was provided a free book for review and this post does contain affiliate links!  I love reviewing Liz Johnson’s books. Her latest, Where Two Hearts Meet, came out in October of this year. This book is the 2nd book in her Prince Edward Island Dreams series and such a great read! From Amazon: In her kitchen at the Red Door Inn, executive chef Caden Holt is calm, collected, and competent. But when her boss asks her to show off their beautiful island to impress a visiting travel writer and save the inn, Caden is forced to face a world …

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Changed Forever: Eliza’s Story Hercules Series Book 1 by Kelly-Beth Cagnon

changed forever

Changed Forever: Eliza’s Story (Hercules Series Book 1) I really enjoy fiction books about military life, especially when they are written by someone with first-hand experience. What better way to explain how military life really is than a story. I just finished reading the brand new book Changed Forever: Eliza’s Story (Hercules Series Book 1) by new author, Kelly-Beth Cagnon. Eliza is a bored stay-at-home mom. She desperately wishes for some excitement in her everyday humdrum life. She is living vicariously through her dreams as a Queen in Ancient Egypt. Some nights, the dreams are so vivid, so life like, …

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5 Fiction Books To Put On Your Reading List

5 Fiction Books To Put On Your Reading List

    2015 is almost over and it has been a good book year for me. I have read 55 books this year which is up from previous years. I read a lot of fiction this year. I love to lose myself in a good book. As I look back over all the books I read this last year, I wanted to talk about my top 5 and encourage you to add these books to your list if you haven’t read them yet yourself. I think you will enjoy them. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah This book takes place in WW2 …

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Am I A Different Person Then I Was Five Years Ago?

I just finished the book Wild by Cheryl Strayed. In it she talks about her 1,000 mile journey along the Pacific Crest Trail. She went on this trip to help her deal with the death of her mother and her recent divorce. It is also a movie with Reese Witherspoon, one of my favorite actresses. We also saw the movie a few weeks ago. The book and the movie touched me greatly. I have not gone through a divorce or the loss of a parent but I feel like the last few years have been a journey of some kind. …

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How To Read More Than One Book At A Time

How To Read More Than One Book At A Time

How To Read More Than One Book At A Time There are differnet ways to read a book. You have the people who can only read one book at a time. You also have the people who are always reading more than one book. Which one are you? I am one who can read more than one book at a time. I have always been that way. Before Kindles I had a book by my nightstand, a book in the car, one in my purse, one in my backpack, one in the bathroom, etc. When I got my Kindle I …

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