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Finished:
SECOND CHANCE RECEPTION by Lorana Hoopes (Texas Tornados series)
Rules of Dating Rom Com Collection
RULE #1: DON'T FALL FOR MR. WRONG by Taylor Hart & Bella Grace (rom com)
RULE #2: DON'T FALL FOR A BLIND DATE by Taylor Hart & Bella Grace (rom com)
NEVER KISS A BETTING MAN by Taylor Hart (rom com)
Christmas in Mistletoe Square: Christmas Romance Novella Collection
THE CHRISTMAS CLUE TO FINDING YOU by Pepper Basham (Christmas) 4*
SILVER BELL SECRETS by Cara Putman (Christmas)
AN UNSCRIPTED CHRISTMAS by Teresa Tysinger (Christmas)
Current:
RESCUE MY HEART by Lorana Hoopes (Men of Fire Beach)
Christmas in Mistletoe Square: Christmas Romance Novella Collection
DREAMS IN TOYLAND by Janine Rosche (Christmas)
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Whew, I normally try to keep my audiobooks and my ebooks in different genres or time-periods. This time I wound up with two romantic suspense about sex trafficking. When I started actually listening to RESCUE MY HEART by Lorana Hoopes (Men of Fire Beach), I decided that I couldn't go back to the other one until this one was finished or I would get them more confused than I already was. I just finished it and am going back to JAYME’S JOURNEY by Laura Scott (rom susp). At this time, the trafficking tones are not as pronounced as the other one, but are in her history.0
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Woohoo, congrats on the win!
Sorry I wasn't here over the weekend, we had a birthday party on Saturday, then we had practice for the singers because we had our first service in our new building yesterday. We met for service and had lots of singing and then had lunch together afterwards. So special.
I finished THE PRINCESS PIRATE. I really appreciated that I found an overview of the story before reading it and it told what I could expect to find in it. It was clean, no language and no over sexual content, but there would be slight references to marital intimacy. Then I got to the 96% mark and there was a scene I was not expecting, the heroine is attacked by the villain. Was more graphic than I expected but didn't go into detail. Wrecked the story for me. I finished because I knew there wasn't time for there to be anything else like that in the story, but I was sooo disappointed.
I'm just reading around, trying to get more of the things I've started farther along.
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Finished:
JAYME’S JOURNEY by Laura Scott (rom susp) - Not really sex trafficking like I thought. It was actually a "preacher" that took in foster children, abused them, and made them sleep in the floor in the cellar. It was really good, but book 6 in the series (got from library). I had the first in kindle, so I am reading it now. I won't buy the others unless I come up with enough credits.
RESCUE MY HEART by Lorana Hoopes - This one really was about sex trafficking.
Current:
HAILEY’S HAVEN by Laura Scott (rom susp)
DIRTY DEEDS by Christy Barritt (cozy) - one of her older books, but I haven't read many in that series. This one showed up in hoopla audio, so I decided to check it out.
Have you noticed that a lot of authors are pulling their books out of Amazon and out of KU? I guess they are taking a huge commission. I just saw that Juliette Duncan is in the process of pulling her books. She is selling from her website, using bookfunnel so that you can get the version you want.0 -
I noticed that too. Some are using that new thing Amazon is offering where they put the story up a chapter at a time and you can read three or so chapter for free and then you have to have tokens to be able to read farther, which means you ultimately pay for the book because you have to buy something to get tokens or just pay for them outright. No thank you!
I have quite a few books from Bookfunnel. I get the free ones that I want from Alana Terry through Bookfunnel, and then there are e-letters that come that are offering free books and they go through Bookfunnel too. I put the app on my reading Kindle so I could put it into my library, otherwise I can't find them! LOL!0 -
I use bookfunnel and have them email the mobi copy. Then, I forward it to my kindle email address and it goes straight into the kindle. Makes it a lot easier than using bookfunnel. I use it a LOT and have it pretty much figured out. I have a few books that I did a different way and they won't delete from my page. Even if I go through settings (even called Amazon), they will go away and as soon as I restart my fire, they are right back. If I email the file to my kindle address, I don't have that issue.
Well, I am just going to edit this.
Current:
IN HIGH COTTON by Ane Mulligan (historical) KU - This was a Carol Award finalist and is very good. I have the next one lined up.
DIRTY DEEDS by Christy Barritt (cozy) - I haven't started it yet, but it is on for bedtime tonight.
Finished:
HAILEY’S HAVEN by Laura Scott (rom susp) - good series. Hoping I can get more of the books
BATTLE OF THE FLOWERS by Clare Revell) MFP challenge - paperback - It has taken me 25 days, but I finally finished. I really enjoyed it, but just not as easy to read.
CHRISTMAS AT THE INN by Ashley Clark (historical) - Good, but just about 90 pages, so not developed quite as well as her other books.
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Lately, when a book I want is e-mailed to me, they offer the Kindle email address as the way to have it sent to my kindle. I open my Bookfunnel app and put in the code for the book and have them send it to my Kindle library. I have to put in the email each time so I would have to keep it handy somewhere because I would never remember it between books, so this way is easier for me. If I got a lot of books from them I might just do it that way. I don't do much contemp romance and often that is mostly what I see on Bookfunnel. They don't often have Christian regency, or Christian sci-fi and fantasy, and unless I know the author I don't like to get even something marked as clean because clean means no overt sexual content but not necessarily no cussing, and it may be suggestive beyond what I am comfortable with as well. Anywho, I do like them!
I am reading the second book in a clean (both sexual and cussing) fairy tale re-tell series. This one has to do with Ice and a Mirror, so this may be a Snow Queen/Sleeping Beauty mash up! LOL! So far it is pretty good.0 -
Finished:
HOOPER SAFE HAVEN by Rachel Skatvold (Independence Islands Book 16) - I have enjoyed this series.
ON SUGAR HILL by Ane Mulligan (historical) KU - I have really enjoyed her books.
Home for Christmas: The Christmas Lights Collection - KU
THE STARS OF NEW CHELTENHAM by Chautona Havig (Christmas romance) 4*
MOST WONDERFUL TIME by Toni Shilo (Christmas romance) 4*
THE ROAD HOME by Cathe Swanson (Christmas romance) 4*
NOW AND FOREVER CHRISTMAS by Jaycee Weaver (Christmas romance) 4*
Current:
RIVERBEND GAP by Denise Hunter (romance)
I don't have an ebook going right now, but have a couple that came up on cloud library. I think I will do one of them, but might not start until tomorrow because that application works better on text-to-voice if you don't interrupt it. Once it is interrupted, it quits at the end of every chapter.0 -
I'm working on the six book in Christy Barritt's Saltwater Cowboy series, UNWAVERYING SECURITY. Not liking it as much as the others, but that could be because it's been awhile since I've been into the series. Some of the stuff in this one is cliche and I'm not used to that from her.
I downloaded another of the Villians Ever After series, this one is THE PRINCE AND THE SEAWITCH by A G Marshall. There are some authors in this series I won't read, I've tried in the past and run into problems. This is an author that I've read before and have had some really good reads by her, but there have been a couple with a problem, so we'll see with this one.
I'm a little more than half-way through with MIRRORS OF ICE by Celeste Baxender, a fairy tale re-tell of Snow White. Right now it is feeling very long, but overall I've enjoyed it.
I started re-reading the Laynie Portland series by Vikki Kestell. Not sure if I will read all of it, but I've had it on my mind, so maybe this will cure that! LOL!
I've been trying to read PULSE by L R Burkard but it's very teenagerish here at the beginning and sometimes I just want to tell the main character to go to her room until her attitude is changed! Argh!
Still working on LADY'S RANSOM by Jeff Wheeler, but struggling to finish it - just bogs down and I don't like that one of the main characters throughout the story is now having a lot of troubles. I also don't like that it's The Fountain and the Lady that are the deities in this story - can't get a biblical idea from that at all, even though the author's bio leads one to believe that he is a Christian. The stories are clean, I just am not comfortable with this aspect of it.0 -
Finished:
CHRISTMAS AT STONEY CREEK by Martha Rogers (Christmas) - okay. I don't know if it was great or not. I listened text-to-voice, but felt so bad that I had a hard time staying focused.
RIVERBEND GAP by Denise Hunter (romance) - so good!
FREEDOM’S SONG by Kim Vogel Sawyer (historical) - Very good!
SO THIS IS LOVE by Brooke St. James (romance) some steam, but pretty good.
Current:
ALL IN by Brooke St. James (romance) - this one is good as well, but some fairly steamy kisses
I haven't started another ebook. The one I want to start is on cloud library and it is going to be pretty intense, and I don't know if I want to start intense with this niggling headache. We will see how it goes later in the day.
I tried to listen to SET THE STARS ALIGHT by Amanda D y k e s which is one of the Christy Award finalists. I just couldn't get into it....again maybe the headache, but I just had a hard time following it. Maybe I will try again, but I don't know.
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I read some more in MIRRORS OF ICE by Celeste Baxendell.
The second book in the Laynie Portland Spy Series.
Pulse by L R Burkard (wow, this teenager wears me out).
I downloaded several from Hoopla and KU so will work on getting to those.0 -
Whew - I am reading A NOBLE CALLING: An FBI Yellowstone Adventure by Rona Weaver (suspense). It was a Christy award finalist and it is very good, but watch out for language! I know that you will agree with me that it doesn't have a place in Christian fiction. This is probably one that I will actually write a review on....mainly because the language is ruining a really good book.0
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I did finish A NOBLE CALLING: An FBI Yellowstone Adventure by Rhona Weaver - and left a review on Amazon. I usually copy and paste before submitting so that it is easy for everywhere else. I forgot, though. I was very surprised that almost all of the reviews were 5*, but in the ratings area, none of them mentioned Christian anything. If it were considered a secular novel, I wouldn't complain about the language, but I also wouldn't have read it. Since it was a Christy finalist, I guess it was there because there was a Christian theme and the author is a Christian. Confused by the entire thing.
PS - Don't forget to post your monthly reading list, and if you are working on the reading challenge, November: Story told from a male point of view as the main character - Wow, should have waited until tomorrow to finish the Rhona Weaver book.0 -
I'm reading several (of course):
LAST TASTE OF FREEDOM by Lisa Phillips. It's got a very good story line but they do get crass a couple of times. No cussing, but some lustful moments. Super mild Christian theme.
Still working on MIRRORS OF ICE - 63% of the way through. It's kind of bogging down right now.
Working on the second book in the Laynie Portland series, haven't made much headway in that. I've wanted to work on my Hoopla book: CASTLE OF REFUGE by Melanie Dickerson. It's part of a series. It took me a bit to remember the characters from the last book in the series, but bits and pieces of it came back to me. One of those characters is a main character in this story.
I have a few others started but haven't gone back to them for a bit.0 -
I finished LAST TASTE OF FREEDOM and will go on to the second book in the series.
I listened more to CASTLE OF REFUGE and MIRRORS OF ICE. I should be done with both soon.0 -
Ohhh - If anyone needs an 8inch kindle fire, they are on sale right now for $45. I had ordered a 7 inch yesterday, and today the 8 inch went on sale for $5 less than I paid for the 7 (and has double the memory and the type
c charging cable). I went ahead and ordered one, and when the 7 comes in, I'm returning it and the case for it. I really wanted the smaller one, but the bigger one is so much "more".
Finished:
HEARTLAND ROMANCE by Jessie Gussman (A Heartland Cowboy Christmas #3) KU
HEARTLAND GOLD by Jessie Gussman (A Heartland Cowboy Christmas #4) KU
FATAL TRUST by Todd Johnson (suspense) MFP Challenge
Current:
CHRISTMAS UP IN FLAMES by Lisa Harris (LI susp) - good
THE WHITE ROSE RESISTS by Amanda Barratt (WW2) - Very good, but just taking it a little at a time due to subject. It really hasn't been as intense as I was expecting. I am at 25%, so could still intensify!
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Wow, that is a really good deal. I was flipping through the channels and saw QVC was doing a 10" Kindle sale. It comes with a voucher for a case (which you can put your own picture on) as well as one year of free Word Office Suite. $87.96 (or something close to that). I have Honey on my computer so when I put it in they found a coupon, so I was able to get it for $79. and some change. I don't really need one right now, but got it anyway because it was better than 1/2 off of the Amazon price for just the Kindle. I just looked it up and they don't have it any more. I don't think I've ever bought anything like that, but it seemed to good to pass up!
Still working on the same books.0 -
I got my 7in, 8in, both covers and the MicroSD. I returned everything but the 8in and the SD card. If I put the case on the tablet, my purse didn't want to close. I made a little pouch to protect it, but ordered another one from Amazon. I will see if it will work. The one I bought would have fit, but was really too tight and I didn't want to have problems with it.
Finished:
CHRISTMAS UP IN FLAMES by Lisa Harris (LI susp) - good
THE WHITE ROSE RESISTS by Amanda Barratt (WW2) - Very good
Current:
THE BEST OF ME by Nicholas Sparks (secular) I used to really enjoy his books and this was a "flex" read through hoopla. It is good and hasn't had anything objectionable, except that I am wondering if there might not be a romance starting between a married woman and an old friend.
CAVE OF SECRETS by Shannon Redmon (LI susp) KU - It is good and I need to get in and finish it this evening.
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Trying to do some nostalgic reading right now, Christmas stories that I enjoyed in the past. Just started THE JUDGE WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS by Randy Singer. Vaguely remember a little about the plot, but not much else, so I'm enjoying it. Also started a really good political book, THE DYING CITIZEN by Victor Davis Hanson. It's about our inherited rights and what it means to be a citizen in a democracy.0
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I finally finished the Christy Barritt Saltwater Cowboy book 6. I didn't enjoy it as much as the others and I think it was mostly because the female lead got ticked off quite easily and I couldn't understand why most of the time.
Read some more in Laynie Portland, Retired Spy. Am enjoying it the second time through.0 -
Current:
TERROR IN THE SKIES by Alana Terry (suspense) book 1 in Turbulent Skies series.
THE BEST OF ME by Nicholas Sparks (secular) It seems to be getting more "secular" as it goes. It probably will be my last of his for a while.
Finished:
THE CHRISTMAS HOUSE by Elizabeth Bromke (Christmas) - I have enjoyed some of her books, but this wasn't my favorite. It was okay, but not anything special. It would have probably been better if it had been a little longer and better developed.
WAY DOWN UPON SUWANEE MURDER by Ane Mulligan (short) - I was expecting more. Basically it was more of a short story.
A CROSS-COUNTRY CHRISTMAS by Courtney Walsh (Christmas) - pretty good.
Boy, nothing is great to me right now. I need something great! I have so many books checked out, I need to get to something that really "wows" me.
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Finished:
THE BEST OF ME by Nicholas Sparks (secular) - There was a little language toward the end of the book. As always with his books, they don't end exactly like you think they will, but it was a very good book.
Turbulent Skies series:
ERROR IN THE SKIES by Alana Terry (suspense)
REFINED BY FIRE by Alana Terry (suspense)
UNRELIABLE WITNESS by Alana Terry (suspense) I have the rest of the series lined up. These are very short and quick reads and absolutely nothing like I thought they would be. They all take place on an airplane taken over by a hi-jacker. The novellas go back a forth from their past past life to what is happening. I will finish the series, but I am hoping for more outcome in the individuals. There just wasn't "enough".
Current:
DRIFTWOOD DANGER by Christy Barritt (susp) - I guess I missed this one, but it feels a bit familiar. I don't have it listed anywhere as read, though. I found this one on audio through hoopla, but have the next one checked out on KU.
HER NEW STORYLINE by Laura Bradford (Amish) - This is about a big-time reporter that winds up in Amish country trying to come up with a story. She got in trouble from her employers and this is a type of punishment, and knows that her job in on the line. She is living with a local family in their Daadi Haus.0 -
I'm like that too, Connie. I haven't found a book in awhile where I get so into it I don't realize the time, look at the clock and it's two or three in the morning!
Still working on the same stuff.0 -
Current:
ALL THAT SHE SAW by Alana Terry (Book 4 in Turbulent Skies)
Finished:
HER NEW STORYLINE by Laura Bradford (Amish) - I really liked this one.
FAKE ENGAGEMENT MISTAKE by Lisa Renee (romance) Short
FALSE IDENTITY AT STAKE by Lisa Renee (romcom) Pretty good. Supposed to be romcom, but didn't really see much comedy in it, except she had kind of a funny dog,,,,could have been built on for more fun.
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I wanted to find the actual quote from this book to put in the quotes section, but I couldn't find it. That's what happens when you listen to audiobooks.
From: FORGIVING PARIS by Karen Kingsbury
Landon is reminding Ashley of when Jesus was sleeping in the boat and the storm is about to overtake them. They wake Jesus frantically and he calms the storm. The quote speaks of all of the other "little boats" that were affected by the storm, and how Jesus calmed their storm as well. This theme of the other "little boats" is evidently a prominent theme in the book, but the way this was presented was amazing.
I have read so many of her books, and am not anxious to read her new ones when they are published, but the library always has them, so I always wind up reading them. This one has a lot of good reviews and a lot of bad reviews. We will see how I feel about the book, but so far, the "little boats" is the only thing that strikes me.0 -
I never thought about that before, there were probably quite a few boats out on that day! Wonder what those sailors thought of the storm suddenly calming.
I'm the same with quotes, something strikes me but I'm not in a position to write it down then and then I lose it when I remember I had something that really spoke to me!
I'm working on:
re-reading LAYNIE PORTLAND, RETIRED SPY. There are two says a spy retires - one, they quit, and two the company they work for tries to kill them. She's experiencing both in this story.
UNCHARTED DESTINY by Keely Booke Keith. I'd read the first six books in the series then saw the next three the other day so decided to keep going with the series. Bits and pieces of the other books come to mind as I read, but it's hard to get invested in the characters after such a long time span between.
I finished MIRRORS OF ICE by Celeste Baxendell, a re-tell of Snow White. It was good.
Still working on LADY'S RANSOM but almost through. This is probably the first Jeff Wheeler book I've struggled to get through. I just think the "religious" aspect of the story bothers me (which is actually in most of his other books) now so I just stumble when I run across those parts.
I started PRINCE AND THE SEA WITCH by A G Marshall but haven't gone back to it. I'm trying to get through some of the books I'm farther into.
I found to books on sale today: Tessa Afshar's JEWEL OF THE NILE for $1.59. I've liked everything I've read by her so far.
J'nell Ciesielski's THE ICE SWAN for $1.99.0 -
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FORGIVING PARIS by Karen Kingsbury (drama) okay. Not one of my favorites, except for the quote which spoke to me.
ANOTHER SHOT by Brooke St. James (Ruth & Boaz retelling) - This was a short, light and clean romance and I really enjoyed it.
Current:
The Heart of Christmas: A Mosaic Christmas Anthology III -I am just on book one. BROKEN NOEL by Brenda S Anderson - It is really sad. It is about a man that lost his wife right at Thanksgiving. He and his 8 year old daughter are really struggling during the Christmas season.
I'm not quite sure where I will go with audiobooks. I have several suspense checked out, but I also have a couple of historicals that I have been anxiously awaiting.
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I've gone back and started re-reading a series by Anna Travis. The first book is PILLAR OF LIGHT. It's about a group of tweens and young teens who find themselves in a new world and each one will have a role to play in saving that world. God is called The Breather because He is the Breath of Life. The kids are on a mission trip to help a mission hospital put on a new roof but get caught up into this new world instead, and they share the truth they know about Jesus to the people there.
I quit reading the Lisa Phillips series, just too worldly and very strong slang is used too often. Just not worth it to me. This was going to be my November Challenge read, so now I'll have to try something else. I may try the Ben series by Luana Ehrlich, I haven't read that yet and have at least two of those books.
I'm also working on UNCHARTED DESTINY, the sixth book in this series.
Also gave up on the Laynie Portland series. Mercy, I don't remember there being so many "bleeps" in it the first time. I appreciate she uses a bleep instead of a cuss word, but when half of a sentence is bleeps it just gets to be too much.
I started NEVER MISS by Melissa Koslin. I'm just at the beginning but so far it is good.
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Finished:
A FLICKER OF LIGHT by Katie Powner (contemporary/Alzheimers) okay
A CHRISTMAS PRAYER by Wanda Brunstetter (historical)
LOVE ON THE RANGE by Mary Connealy (historical)
THE CHRISTMAS PORTRAIT by Phyllis Clark Nichols (Christmas) hoopla
DEADLY TARGET by Elizabeth Goddard (suspense)
The Heart of Christmas: A Mosaic Christmas Anthology III
BROKEN NOEL by Brenda S Anderson (Christmas) sad
NO NIGHT THERE by Elinor Burtin (Christmas) sad
STAR LIGHT by Sara Davison (Christmas)
HART OF NOEL by Chautona Havig (Christmas)
CAUGHT IN THE ACT by Lisa Renee (Christmas)
CLAUS-TROPHOBIC by Lorna Seilstad (Christmas) - The first three books in the series weren't great, but the last three were good. I think the last one was best. The first 3 were rather sad for Christmas books.
I know that I am just really being particular. Nothing is standing out as great.
Current:
CROSSHAIRS by Patricia Bradley (suspense)
BETRAYAL OF GENIUS by Robin Patchen (suspense) - oops, I goofed and got both books in the same genre.0 -
I'm reading a suspense called NEVER MISS by Melissa ?. So far it's pretty good, a scientist and a woman on the run with a very mysterious background meet at a sale for the contents of a storage unit and trouble ensues right away. I'm enjoying it.
I finished the Uncharted Land book 7 (can't remember the title) and will start on book 8 tonight, probably.
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