What are you reading
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I know! That book was by an author I really like.
I finished Book 2 of the HEARTS OF FIRE series. It was incredibly inspiring - both books in the series were. Book 1 had seven or eight longer stories. Book two had 12 stories, but some were just a page or two long. The last story in the second book was intense, what this woman went through yet kept on singing and praising and sharing Jesus, knowing that when she did she would be severely punished (beaten to within an inch of her life numerous times). God give me that faith, that stand-no-matter-what heart because we are coming into days where that could be us next!0 -
I am on the last of the Sharon Srock books. There will be one more in this series coming in April of 2024. I have really enjoyed her books. They all deal with some hard subjects, but have a bit of romance and a great story. This book is PIPER.
I don't have an audiobook started right now. I checked 5 out this morning. I will pick one of them.
Finished:
SNOWBOUND ESCAPE by Dana Mentink (LIS) - I always like her books and always enjoy a Love Inspired Suspense.
EXPIRED VOWS by Lisa Phillips (susp) - another good one.
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I like Lisa Phillips.
I'm working on some fantasies, re-reading some and starting on new ones in series I'm reading.0 -
I am reading a time travel book. Current day and a wagon train. It is a bit different, but I do not like the characters very much. Hoopla has several in this series, so we will see.
WAGON TRAIN WEEKEND by Stephenia H McGee.
I read a time travel Amish book by Cindy & Erin Woodsmall. This is the second in that series. It was very good - but different.
UNTIL THEN by Cindy & Erin Woodsmall (Amish time-travel).
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I had been reading the Cupcake Crimes series by Molly Maple, but got to a reference I wasn't thrilled with... time to move on.0
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I borrowed Until Then from Hoopla, Connie! Thanks.
I think I read bits of five different books last night. One of the books is an Amish Mystery, AMISH COUNTRY MURDER by Mary Alford. She can't remember anything from before she woke up in a serial killers basement. Two boys save her after the killer shoots her and she falls off a bridge into freezing water. Her nemesis is incredibly canny and she can't seem to hide from him, but they are going to try and hide her in Amish country.
The other non-fantasy I'm reading is A PRIDEFUL HEART by Heather Blanton, it's part of her Burning Dress Ranch series. She uses a lot of slang and I'm not sure I want to keep reading it. It's kind of a take on Pride and Prejudice.
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Reading THE GIFT (To Protect and Serve) by Anne Perreault.0
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I finished THE GIFT and started on THE BLESSING - also by Anne Perreault.0
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I have really liked everything I have read by Anne Perreault. I have several still to read. One historical WW2, and her newest takes place in Dubai.
I finished a few Christmas books - needed lighter reads.
BILLIONAIRE IN CANDY CANE FOREST by Clara Bliss (rom)
ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE AND CHRISTMAS by Sarah Monzon (Christmas)
A MERRY MISTAKE by Lorana Hoopes (Christmas)
I also finished the second book in the time travel series. This time they wound up in the 1950's, but they didn't know each other like on the previous book. I liked it better, mostly because I liked the characters better.
Back Inn Time series
FALLING FOR THE FIFTIES by Stephenia H McGee (time travel)
and finished
UNDER THE SUMMER MOON by Amy Schisler (rom) - A LOT of liquor.
Right now I don't have anything started.
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Connie, Hoopla had the e-books of the first four in that series, so I downloaded that. I like time travel stories!
I'm reading about Count Zinzendorf. He started a missionary society when he was 12 years old with four other friends - obviously not accomplishing much until after his college days. The book begins with him and a friend in America trying to bring the gospel to the Indians. So far very good.
I'm reading a devotional called DAILY LIGHT. It's basically just Bible verses that follow the theme of the day, and that's it.
I'm relistening to THE WOLF SOLDIER by James Hannibal. I started to read book two and was lost, so thought I would go back to one and try to remember what the story's all about!
I'm re-reading SEEDS by Rachel Starr Thomson so I also know what the story is about when I begin book 3!
TEMPESTS OF TRUTH by Melanie Cellier, a fantasy, book 3.
AMISH COUNTRY MURDER by Mary Alford. This one is a little bit scary, so I read it for awhile and then go on to something milder. LOL!0 -
I finished the third book in the Anne Perreault series I was reading: THE PROMISE. This was a good series with a lot of scripture references and prayer shared between the main characters. I needed this after reading the 6 cozy mysteries before that which were essentially clean but had no real godliness to them.
The first 4 were harmless but in book 5 the protagonist met the woman who owned a fountain and crystals shop who gave the main character a bracelet with a particular stone that was supposed to... I don't know, give her peace or something. I skipped over that as I am definitely not into crystals and all that represents. It made me uncomfortable and I probably shouldn't have read on, but I went ahead and borrowed book 6 (they were all KU books) which ended with a party attended by the community. When the main character's male friend entered with a man on his arm, I marked that DNF.0 -
Ick! It used to be you could see two girlfriends being close and one may be holding the arm of the other as they walked along and you knew they were good friends or sisters, now... I always wonder when I see that anymore. I don't even bother to watch Hallmark anymore because in nearly every new movie there was at least one LGBTQ couple, either in the background or as a main character set.
I'm working on the ones I mentioned before, haven't finished anything, just moved forward in about four books last night.1 -
I'm looking for a suspense series next - maybe something by Christy Barritt.
I watch a little Hallmark - mostly When Calls The Heart. I had hope for GAC Family when Candace Cameron Bure went there to develop programming, but haven't heard of much coming from that.0 -
Right now, I have been so busy with Bill that I haven't been reading much today. I am about half way through TRIAL BY FIRE by Cara Putman.0
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Downloaded (KU) and started JUST THE NICEST PERSON (True Crime Junkies Book 2) by Christy Barritt.0
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Cindy, have you ever read her WORSE DETECTIVE EVER series? I read the first five or six of them and they really were quite funny. I can't believe I have 59 of her books!
Still working on the same stuff, just moving farther along.0 -
No, I haven't read that series, Kim. Thanks for the recommendation. I downloaded Books 1-3 from KU and I'll give it a try.0
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I pretty much love all of Christy Barritt's books! I am listening to a Christmas series by Shanna Hatfied and it is pretty good. I just haven't had time to read. Right now, I am so tired and sore from packing and moving mom that I am just too tired to care, Tomorrow is the last day of winding things down in Dixon and taking her to Kansas on Friday.1
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That is going to be so much nicer having her close by! I hope it makes your life easier after this push to get her moved!
I'm basically working on the same stories, almost done with a couple. Two of the fantasies have a good Christian message in them and I'm enjoying that. Oh, I did finish the Amish one by Mary Alford. Wow, that got kind of scary in a couple of places. This serial killer knew what she was going to do before she knew it almost! Am enjoying COUNT ZINZINDORF as well.0 -
I'm working my way through a Lynn Gentry series about a preacher's family after he died in the pulpit. It is called Mt Hope Southern Adventures. I have read the first two and will start on #3 today. I am also reading an anthology called HOLIDAY MENACE. It has a bunch (10, I think) of shorter suspense novellas. Jerusha Agen, Mary Alford to name a couple of better known writers, but most are new to me.0
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I read the first one in HOLIDAY MENACE. I didn't agree with the theology in the story, but really liked the suspense. There are a lot of preachers out there preaching that God chooses who will be saved and who will be damned. In this story she said that if the girl got saved it proved that God chose her to be saved. Jesus came to save all men (I can give you dozens of verses that say that), not all men choose to be saved.
I'm reading JACOB DESHAZER by the Benges. I'd never heard of him, so it's interesting. I had started HARRIET TUBMAN but the biography is written as though only the South had slaves and it was a terrifying thing for a slave to go South. Not everyone in the South had slaves, and the war was over States having their own rites and the Government not ruling over them. The North had slaves and not so strangely they weren't set free in the Emancipation Proclamation!
I finished listening to WOLF SOLDIER by James R Hannibal and started on BEAR NIGHT. Both fantasies with an obvious Christian message.
I am reading NO FILTER by Heather Day Gilbert.
I am almost finished with TEMPESTS OF TRUTH by Melanie Cellier, the third book in this series.
I finished SEEDS by Rachel Starr Thomson. Very good. I either have to buy the second book or wait for it to come out on KU or at Hoopla. I have book three.
I'm finished THE UNLUCKY PRINCE (skipped some of it, the FROG PRINCE isn't one of my favorite fairy tales). I'm reading the next book in the series THE BEGGAR PRINCE (a KING THRUSHBEARD retelling).0 -
I didn't even catch that in the book, Kim. Normally that would make me cringe, and yes, that is definitely a faulty doctrine. God has chosen all of us, it is up to us to chose Him. I was listening while I packed Mom, so I may have been in another room when that came up.
I have really enjoyed the Heather Day Gilbert series.0 -
I thought I better have an idea of what's going on before getting to Jake's cameo. I'm enjoying it so far!0
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I've been reading THE WORST DETECTIVE EVER MYSTERY SERIES. (Thanks for the recommendation, Kim.) So far I've read books 1-6:
READY TO FUMBLE
REIGN OF ERROR
SAFETY IN BLUNDERS
JOIN THE FLUB
BLOOPER FREAK... and
FLAW ABIDING CITIZEN
It's been good reading, so I just downloaded 7-100 -
Still working on the same stories. I did finish TEMPTESTS OF TRUTH. Not my favorite of her series, but it was good.0
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Started and finished GAFFE OUT LOUD - book 7, same series by Christy Barritt0
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I finished that Christy Barritt series a few months ago. I had read some a long time ago, then forgot about them.0
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I am nearly finished with JACOB DESHAZAR. He was part of the Doolittle raid into Japan, his plane was brought down in Japan-occupied China and he was a Japanese POW for three years, in horrifying conditions. He came to know Jesus while a POW and it really helped him with his guards when he showed them kindness rather than hate.
I'm reading the second story in HOLIDAY MENACE, this one is by Mary Alford. I like her stuff, and this story is no exception. I'm also reading: THE BEGGAR PRINCE; NO FILTER (Barks and Beans Cozy Mysteries); ACROSS ASTRAL REALMS a sci-fi by Bryan Davis.0 -
I finished the Christy Barritt series - THE WORST DETECTIVE EVER:
JOKE AND DAGGER (8)
WRECK THE HALLS (9)
GLITCH AND FAMOUS (10) and
NOT ON MY BOTCH (11)...
except at the end of book 11 was a bit that said coming soon:
ONE HIT BLUNDER
When I do a search for it online the title does autofill... BUT it isn't even listed on her site. Boo.
Also. Did you know her SQUEAKY CLEAN MYSTERIES series has been made into a TV series? Looks like you can watch it in Pureflix, Amazon Prime and a couple other places
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