What are you reading
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I finished the Lee Tobin McClain books. I enjoyed them. I decided on a boxed set by Jessie Gussman. I am currently reading THE SMALL TOWN BOY’S REDEMPTION.
I am really enjoying the Robin Lee Hatcher book, but will wait until before bedtime to turn it back on. I don't have very many audiobooks checked out right now.0 -
I finished the Jessie Gussman boxed set. It was okay, but not as good as some of her other books. I would call them "average".
I also finished MAKE YOU FEEL MY LOVE by Robin Lee Hatcher (very good) and SHADOW WOMAN by Carrie Stuart Parks (very good)- This was supposed to be my "bedtime" listen, but it was too good to leave.
I started a series of cozy mysteries by K.C. Hart. She is new to me, but so far they are pretty good. I had the first one and checked out the rest of them on KU.
MOONLIGHT, MURDER, AND SMALL TOWN SECRETS by K.C. Hart (cozy) - finished. Pretty good
MUSIC, MURDER, AND SMALL TOWN ROMANCE by K.C. Hart (cozy) KU - Current.
I don't have an audio going right now. I have a couple checked out, but I may try to find something that isn't suspense before bed. We will see.
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I finished a very short book by Faith Johnson, just 79 pages. BRIDE FOR THE INDIAN HEART, and MOB. It was alright, not very well written.
I also finished a very mild fantasy (just very large and scary predator's) A CASTLE AWAKENED by Sharon Rose. I found it in a list of Christian fiction (I think) but there was just one mention of God in it, but it was clean and quite good.
A also finished UNTIL ALL CURSES ARE LIFTED by Tim Frankovich. This isn't Christian fiction but it's clean and pretty good. I started book two which I'm not getting into as much as I was into book one.
Oh, Connie, I forgot to mention, I won BRIDGE OF GOLD by Kimberley Woodhouse, through Goodreads! I am going to start book one (which I had) tonight.0 -
Finished:
COME HOME WITH ME by Jodi Artzberger (suspense) short prequel
DON’T GIVE UP ON ME by Jodi Artzberger (romantic suspense) Pretty good. This is her first full length book.
RANSOM IN RIO by Theresa Lynn Hall (romantic suspense) audio - Passport to Romance series
HELSINKI SUNRISE by Marion Ueckerman (romance) - Passport to Romance series
Getting ready to start:
MEMORIES, MURDER AND SMALL TOWN MONEY by K.C. Hart (cozy)
A CROSS TO KILL by Andrew Huff (suspense) hoopla
Oh - I really have enjoyed those books, Kim. They aren't related in any way, so can be read in any order.0 -
I'm reading a Tracey Higley book about Cleopatra and the harbor at Alexandria. So far so good.
I also started the story by Alison Pittman, THE LADY IN RESIDENCE. Very interesting.
Probably working on a fantasy too, but am not into one right now.0 -
I am still working on the KC Hart series. I am really enjoying it. I am on book 4 right now.
I am also still listening to A CROSS TO KILL by Andrew Huff (suspense) hoopla, and it probably isn't the best book to go to bed with! WHEW! INTENSE! I wasn't tired at all after the first half hour, but I refused to re-set it because I thought I may be up all night listening to it.0 -
I finished the first four books in the Main Ueckermann stores - SEVEN SUITORS FOR SEVEN SISTERS: A MATCH FOR MAGNOLIA, A ROMANCE FOR ROSE, A HERO FOR HEATHER and A HUSBAND FOR HOLLY.
Just downloaded (ku) the next in the series - A COURTSHIP FOR CLOVER.0 -
Cindy - I haven't read all of that series. I still need to read the ones about Rose and Holly. I will get to them. I have one of her books checked out, but haven't started it. It is part of the Passport to Romance series. I have read a couple (one by her and one by another author) and they were pretty good, so I checked out another one by her. She has written three in the series. They are unrelated, so can be read in any order.
I am now on the 5th book in the K.C. Hart series (MARRIAGE, MURDER AND SMALL TOWN SCHEMES). I am also still listening to A CROSS TO KILL by Andrew Huff (suspense), but it is intense and I need to break it up. This morning I was listening and totally spaced out what I was doing. I had to back it up 2 chapters, so it has to be where I am not distracted....but I hate it at night (whew, sleep timer left him on top of a train last night), but it is so intense that I don't want to listen for too long and still try to go to sleep.0 -
I finished the Tracy Higley book. This series is basically an older series by her that she is reputting out. I've read the next one on the list not that long ago. It's about Nebuchadnezzar's daughter. Not sure I agree with the premise in this story that he is hiding in a garden on the roof of their palace because the Bible basically said he went out and lived like an animal for seven years, although it doesn't say where he went.
Not sure which books I'll go to next. Still working on THE LADY IN RESIDENCE.0 -
Ugh. Missed fixing a bad auto correct on my last post (Marion - not Main). This Marion Ueckermann series is pretty good. The 5th book - about Clover - has some drinking in it. I don't remember there being so much of it in the other books. It hasn't detracted too much from the story, although I'm not too far in.0
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I finished the KC Hart series and enjoyed it. I am currently reading THEN CAME YOU by Susan May Warren and Rachel D Russell. This is part of the newest series that she is co-authoring with debut authors. I am enjoying it. I love my libraries!0
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I finished book 5 in the Marion Ueckermann series: A COURTSHIP FOR CLOVER. As I mentioned in an earlier post, there was a fair amount of drinking in this story, but I didn't mention it was the main male character who drank socially. It came out that he hadn't yet given his life over to God and later in the story - at a stressful time - he reached for the whiskey, but then thought no, he would rely on God instead. Pretty simplistic, but she got the point across.
I'm disheartened that there doesn't appear to be a book 6 or 7 in this series as I've searched and searched but can't find either of them.0 -
The book I'm reading by Allison Pittman, THE LADY IN RESIDENCE has drinking in it too. So far there hasn't been any kind of Christian reference in either parts of the story, but it's clean and I'm enjoying it.
I keep forgetting about my Hoopla books! Gotta listen to the audio one I put on there and then start reading the other two tonight.0 -
Well, I decided to not read A CROSS TO KILL by Andrew Huff (suspense) at bedtime! I pulled up A MATCH OF WITS by Jen Turano (historical), instead. Her books are always funny and I thought it would be easier to fall asleep, afterwards! I finished the Andrew Huff book during the day today. It was pretty good, but I'm just not sure that I want that kind of "intense" for a while.
I finished OSLO OVERTURES by Marion Ueckermann (romance) - Part of the multi-author Passport to Romance series. I checked out the other one that she wrote, than I may pick up a few more.
Current:
AFTER THE LEAVES FALL by Nicole Baart (family drama) re-read. It has been years since I read this one, and I found the other two on hoopla, so decided to start at the beginning of the series.
RETYING THE KNOT by Liwen Y. Ho (mature romance)
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I'm currently reading A VOW TO CHERISH by Deborah Raney. It's an excellent but heartbreaking story.0
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I finished A VOW TO CHERISH. Got a little teary-eyed through several areas, but I couldn't put it down.0
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I loved that book! The next one in the series is really good...and not quite as teary. I don't watch movies very often, but I want to watch the movie made from A VowTo Cherish. I think it is available on prime, so.someday.0
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Ooh thanks for that Connie! I just downloaded WITHIN THIS CIRCLE by Deborah Raney.0
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I am almost finished with HER SECRET SONG by Mary Conealy. Loved this series, although I would like to slap one of the men from one of the previous stories upside the head, he is annoying!
I finished a Shari Tapscott fantasy, KNIGHT FROM THE ASHES. She wrote this one with her husband and, honestly, it didn't live up to what I've come to expect from her. It just read kind of slow and I never felt connected to the story. The second one is coming out in Nov. and, I think, for the first time with her stories I am contemplating not paying for it and hoping it comes out in KU. We'll see.
I started THE COTTAGE ON GHOST LANE by Christy Barritt and am enjoying it. Hers always start out with excitment.0 -
Finished:
TORRENTS OF DESTRUCTION by Robin Caroll (suspense)
SNARES OF DEATH by Robin Caroll (suspense) - Good series. I liked the second book best
AFTER THE LEAVES FALL by Nicole Baart (family drama) re-read - Julia DeSmit series.
SUMMER SNOW by Nicole Baart (family drama) - Julia DeSmit series
BENEATH THE NIGHT TREE by Nicole Baart (family drama) - Julia DeSmit series. Pretty good, but need to read the whole series. The last two were much better than the first one.
Current:
THE FIRST NOELLE by Delia Latham (Christmas) - Christmas in July and all of that!
REGAINING MERCY: Elnora Island (Independence Islands Book 12) by Carolyn Miller KU - Just getting started on both of these.
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I finished THE COTTAGE ON GHOST LANE. It was a very good story, although the writing wasn't as good as most of her other stories, not as smooth, but I really enjoyed the tale.
Read more in HER SECRET SONG as well. Almost done with it.0 -
AARG!!! I checked out an ebook from hoopla instead of an audiobook. I went back and checked and it isn't available on hoopla on audio, so I am trying to get through it. You can do text-to-voice on hoopla with the fire, but it stops at the end of every chapter. I have done it before and it wasn't awful. This book (BEAUTY FROM ASHES by Alana Terry) is very good, but most chapters are only a page and a half or two pages, so it really isn't working well. It has 87 chapters! I have read more than I have listened, but I really want to get some stuff done....oh the pain of it all.
I checked out the 3n1 and don't know if I will be patient enough to get through all three books. We will see.
I am also listening to THE TREASURE BOX by Penelope Stokes (family drama). I haven't gotten far, but it is good. I need to pull it out and listen while doing house work, meals, etc. Oh well.
I enjoyed THE COTTAGE ON GHOST LANE and am looking forward to the next one. They are just a bit different. I enjoyed her newest cozy, too. I need to go back and pick up some from her back-list, but haven't gotten there, yet.
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Has anyone thought about the August reading challenge? I am thinking about doing Robin Carroll. Most of her books are KU and that's a plus. Another possibility is Valerie Comer. Her books are more light and fun.
August: An author that has a last name that starts with the first letter of your first name. (If you have a hard time finding it, choose one that has a first name that starts with the same letter).1 -
Finished:
THE TREASURE BOX by Penelope Stokes (split time/speculative) - Well, this was a different book. I liked it, but it was nothing like I expected. It was a bit family drama, a bit split-time and a bit speculative fiction. All in all, very good, but it did take a little for me to really get into it. That was probably because I mainly listened a few minutes before bed, and didn't give it long enough in one time slot. Once I really got started on it, I couldn't put it down.
BEAUTY FROM ASHES by Alana Terry (family drama) - That wasn't easy, but I read most of it instead of listening. Probably 3/4 of the book consisted of 1-2 page chapters, so listening didn't happen very often. Rather sad book, but compelling and with hope and redemption.
Current:
BEFORE THE DAWN by Alana Terry (family drama) - going on with the 3n1, but this one isn't grabbing me as quickly. It is good, just not as compelling.
THE CONFESSION by Robert Whitlow (legal) - just getting ready to start on it.
I may start on another ebook that I can just let read to me. I haven't decided exactly what it will be, but I don't want to be tied to actually reading during the day.
Kim - Have you read this series? I have heard that they are good and checked them out of hoopla, but I'm almost afraid to start on them. They just aren't my normal reads,
Heirs of Neverland:
Dust by Kara Swanson (Peter Pan)
Shadow by Kara Swanson (Peter Pan)
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Connie, I thought about doing a Ronie Kendig book, one from either the Tox series or the Discarded Heroes series. I have both but haven't ever read them.
I give to Alana Terry's North Korea fund and I get a free book from her each month. I basically give the same as the cost of one of her books. I have a bunch by her that I haven't read yet. They come through Book Funnel.
I started re-reading a series by Shari Tapscott. I just couldn't find a new fantasy series that I could get into and was looking for something like that to read. This one is mild fantasy, mostly adventure. It's the Silver and Orchids series.
I worked on something else last night but was so tired I didn't really comprehend much! LOL!
Don't forget to get your monthly reading lists ready!0 -
With the baby I've been reading extreeeemely slowly lately. I'm currently doing a timely read of 1984 by George Orwell, but it's pretty rare for me to read fiction. I'm a nonfiction kind of gal. Also starting ONE NATION UNDER GOD by David Gibbs through my church and I'm about half way through the audiobook version of LIES MY DOCTOR TOLD ME by Ken Berry.0
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Boy - 1984 hits a little close to home, doesn't it? I guess I read it for the first time in the late 60's or early 70's and it seemed so impossible. It doesn't anymore.
I finished BEFORE THE DAWN by Alana Terry (family drama) and started BREATH OF HEAVEN by Alana Terry (family drama). I don't really like the implied endings of the books. I really would like them tied up in nice little packages. I will probably read the last one in the 3n1, but want something I can listen to during daytime hours and right before sleep.
I also finished MISTY MORNINGS by Jessie Gussman (Blueberry Beach Book 5). I realized that I hadn't read books 2 & 3, so I am now reading TOMORROW'S BLESSINGS by Jessie Gussman (Blueberry Beach #2).1 -
I started the second book in the Shari Tapscott series and read some more in HER SECRET SONG. I don't know why I am plodding through this one, but it isn't holding my attention like the first two books did.0
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I finished A CHANGE OF FORTUNE by Jen Turano (very good) and WITHIN THIS CIRCLE by Deborah Raney (also very good).
I just downloaded NEARLY by Deborah Raney.0 -
Worked on the same stuff. I finished book 2 in the Shari Tapscott re-read and am moving on to book three. Still a good read. The second book had a couple of steamy kisses but never went beyond kissing and didn't get uncomfortable.0
