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  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,387 Member

    I did listen some more in the Jamie Ogle book. The only thing that I don't like is that she uses modern phrases at times and that confuses me, especially at the start of the story - makes me think she's travelled back in time! That's what I get for reading fantasy stories - I think they are all like that! LOL! I do like that era of story. Not the biblical re-tells, but the historical ones are good!

    I'm farther along in the Amy Carmichael bio, and I did read more in one of my fantasy reads.

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,377 Member

    I am continuing with the Jill Penrod series. I really like the books and the redemption factors in the books, but there is a slight bit of slang in them. I have returned all of my KU books and am trying to get through this series (11 books) before it runs out.

    I checked and I can get one free month, then pay for a month and cancel, but I think I will just cancel and see what happens. There are so many YouTube books, library books and everand books that I think I can take a little break. Last month I more than paid for Kindle Unlimited, but there were months that I felt like I had to quit reading library books to get my money's worth out of KU. I only have 10,061 books. I can surely enjoy some of those.

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,377 Member

    Currently I am on PAINT A NEW SUNRISE #8 in the St. Ninians Sanctuary series by Jill Penrod. Again there is some very occasional light slang, so I wouldn't recommend to Kim. I am really enjoying the series, the first ones a bit more than the later ones. They are set on an island almost to Antartica and is a spiritual retreat center where people come to pray or heal. People fly to "the Continent" then a private jet picks them up and brings to the island. I am thinking "the Continent" must be Australia, but it never says. There are good medical services and that's where they get their supplies.

    I am also reading a series of fairly short Regency novels. I know…shocking. They are kind of cute and pretty good (and fairly short). They are about 4 girls that went to a girls school together and got into all kinds of trouble together, including throwing coins into a wishing well and wishing they would marry a Duke. Each of the books is about one of the grown girls. They are still getting into all kinds of trouble. I have totally gotten them out of order. Book two hasn't come up in my hold, so I thought I was reading book #3, but it was really #4, so now I am working on book #3, and will read the second one when it comes available. They stand alone, but the other characters do show up periodically.

      Wishing Well


    LUCY AND THE DUKE OF SECRETS #1

    		Sofi Laporte

    2. Arabella and the Reluctant Duke hold libby

    		Sofi Laporte

    BIRDIE AND THE BEASTLY DUKE #3

    		Sofi Laporte

    PENELOPE AND THE WICKED DUKE #4

    		Sofi Laporte
  • cmsienk
    cmsienk Posts: 20,567 Member
    edited April 5

    [From 30,000 feet…]

    I finished OPERATION: DISCOVERY from the Wayside Ranch series by Kari Trumbo. Next up: OPERATION INTEGRITY.

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,377 Member

    I found the other book in the Wishing Well Series: ARABELLA AND THE RELUCTANT DUKE by Sofi Laporte. They had it on hoopla, so I am almost done with it.

    I am reading BREAK MY FALL by Lynn H Blackburn.

  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,387 Member

    Oh, I need to find that series, Connie! You know I like my Regency!

    I almost have 9,000 books and have probably read only 1/4 of them, so I should be set for years to come! LOL!

    Ooo, Cindy - I don't like heights, but I can look out a plane window when we are up high, I just can't watch while we are taking off! I get butterflies in my stomach when I look at a picture with a cliff in it, or a tall building with a glass floor - been there, done that and I hugged the inside wall the whole time! I can't even go up a step ladder! And don't lock me in a closet, I'll freak out for sure. Oh, and don't hold me under the water, that's another panic time, even in jest!

    I'm done with my Amy Charmichael re-listen, always so good. Not sure who I'll re-read about next, maybe Lottie Moon. When I was part of the Friends' Church "not silent meeting Quakers" we heard about her ministry so she is a familiar name.

    I'm still listening to OF LOVE AND TREASON by Jamie Ogle and really enjoying it! I need to get it done by tomorrow or I'll have to borrow it again - but I will finish it, it's too good not to. I keep trying to remember if St Valentine (we're all saints if we are living for Jesus) was married! LOL!

    I also have a couple of fantasy books going as well. I quit listening to Hoopla around 10:15 and then I read so there isn't too much light for Wade. I like to play Kindle games while I listen.

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,377 Member

    Kim - After you get done with St. Valentine's you will need to read about St. Nicholas. I think the author notes in the back are as interesting as the books in these two. It tells what is real, what may be somewhat real and what is fiction. I like that in historical books, it always adds a layer for me.

    I am reading book #9 in the St Ninian's Sanctuary series by Jill Penrod. I don't have an audiobook going right now. I will probably do ebooks until close to bedtime. I have a bunch of library ebooks that have come up, plus this series that I want to finish soon.

    Finished:

    PROTECTING  THE ORPHAN Jodie Bailey

    LIS

    AN UNEXPECTED COMPANIONMindy Obenhaus

    LI

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,377 Member

    When I tell myself, and probably put it on here that I am not going to read more of an author that I used to really enjoy, why do I jump on their newest book? I just read CONRAD by Susan May Warren and had a terrible time staying interested. The last book I read by her was the same way. I have enjoyed the books that she has co-written with new authors a lot better than her books. Live and learn.

  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,387 Member

    I haven't read Susan May Warren in awhile, it seemed like her main characters were always angry with God and it was frustrating to read, so I just gave up.

    I'm almost finished with the Jamie Ogle book and, thanks, Connie, I will see if Hoopla has the next one. I too enjoy the books with an historical background. I really liked a book about a group of people who worked for a company (in the future) and they travelled in time to prove that the historical records were true, and one man and woman went back in time to the argument that two well known evangelists in the 1800's had - I think that one of them was John Whitfield, but I can't remember the second one. It was very interesting. I hate I can't find it or even remember the title! Ugh, it's one I would definitely re-read.

    I'm still working on the same books!

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,377 Member

    Currently I am reading Janetta Fudge-Messmer's newest book. I really enjoyed her books in the Early Birds series and kind of developed a bit of a rapport with her. Her newer books were okay, but not as good. I like this one better than the last few. MOUSE IN YOUR POCKET. It has some humor and some romance. I still like the Early Birds series better.

    I finished SECRETS BENEATH THE SNOW by Teresa Summers (LIS).

  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,387 Member

    What a cute title! It made me think of the mouse wood items I see on Antiques Road Trip. The guy made cutting boards with a little mouse on the corner, or serving trays and stuff like that, and all of them had a little mouse perching somewhere on it, carved out of the wood so it was a part of the item. So cute, and very sought after! Wade went up in the attic the other day and I asked him if he found any antiquity that would be worth anything - nope, just dust and dead bugs! LOL!

    I had to re-borrow the Jamie Ogle book, I'm still a couple of days away from finishing it, but am really enjoying it. Oh my, I sure hope it isn't Valentine that is being put to death throughout the book, but as I near the end I'm afraid it is. Boohoo!

    I am re-listening to Lottie Moon and her missionary ministry in China.

    I'm frustrated, I cannot remember the name of a book I really liked and I can't find it in my books or when I look up Christian Time Travel on Amazon. I was hoping that the author would come out with more books in the series, but I can't even remember who that was. 😕

    Still working on the different fantasies I am reading.

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,377 Member

    The time travel books that I have enjoyed are by Stephenia H McGee. And then the Rembrant Stone series by "David James Warren".

    I'm on the next-to-last book in the Jill Penrod series now, and then need to pick out an audiobook for my walk (if I am up to walking) and for bedtime. I am definitely wanting to finish this series before my KU runs out.

  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,387 Member

    I found it - THE ROOT OF THE MATTER by Lynne Tagawa. I don't think that I've read the ones by Stephanie McGee, I'll have to check those out. I started the Rembrandt Stone series, but didn't finish it.

  • cmsienk
    cmsienk Posts: 20,567 Member

    I finished OPERATION: INTEGRITY from the Wayside Ranch series by Kari Trumbo. Next up: Book 7, the final installment - OPERATION: UNIFY.

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,377 Member

    I finally finished the Jill Penrod series. I really enjoyed it, but there were a few books with a little bit of slang.

    Currently I am reading THE GRUMP'S BODYGUARD by Latisha Sexton. I have enjoyed the other books by her, but this isn't the 5* or 5+* books like her others. It is good, just not a 5* read to me.

    I will be starting THE BILLIONAIRE'S BACKUP by Elizabeth Maddrey tonight before bed. This series is about a group of guys that wound up playing the stock market and all becoming Billionaires. I don't remember the entire story…it was in a book I read a long time ago. The guys aren't really living like billionaires. The book I read last night was about one of them that taught High School math. We will see where this one goes. This is book #4. I had previously read books 1 & 3. I found book 2, 4 & 5 on hoopla to finish out the series.

  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,387 Member

    Still working on the same books!

  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,387 Member

    I finished OF LOVE AND TREASON by Jamie Ogle last night. Oh my! This is definitely a 5+ story. It took a bit for me to get into it, but once I did I was absorbed into it, and the ending - I cried! Throughout the story you get glimpses of what happens at the end - and when I got to the end I thought it was different from what they told us in the looking forward parts - did you get that, Connie. Cupid and his arrow in the looking forward and then the guard at the end. Did I miss something? Anyway, I really liked the story and the Christian message in it of forgiveness as well as trusting God no matter what.

    I also finished Lottie Moon.

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,377 Member

    Glad you loved the book. It is totally out of my normal reading, but I loved it too. Not a happy ending, but I felt like I learned a lot. I enjoyed her next one, too.

    finished:
    EXPIRED GAME by Lisa Phillips - good, but I kept getting lost and having to go back. That was probably just because I had other things going on, but I never give those books as high of ratings, because if it was great, my mind wouldn't wander. I have the next one checked out, so I will get to it soon.

    I also finished a couple of Love Inspired romances. I don't know why I enjoy them so much, but I have read them for years (used to even have a subscription to them). One of my library's hoopla has a ton of them on audio, so they can keep me in books.

    Current:
    THE WAY HOME by Irene Hannon - one of her older "encore" books that I have in my kindle

    I will also be starting AMISH BABY FOR CHRISTMAS by Vannetta Chapman before bed. I don't read a lot of Amish, but if I don't make a habit out of them, I usually enjoy them.

  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,387 Member

    Still working on the same books. I do have the second book by Jamie Ogle, though Hoopla, and will start that as soon as I'm finished with the other Hoopla book I'm reading, a fantasy called A TIME TRAVELERS MASQUERADE. It begins in modern times and then this one goes back into the 1600 to the time when Guy Fawkes is trying to kill the king and the members of Parliament.

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,377 Member
    edited April 15

    I really do not have a book going right now. I know...that's rare. I just finished MEETING MR RIGHT by Deb Kastner. It was a Love Inspired, but cute premise. I went through some of my kindle bo9ks and downloaded several that were complete or almost complete sets to get me reading some of the 11000 books I own. We will see how life without KU goes. Nothing says I can't go back, and I know I probably will, but going to see about this first and maybe try a few months off, then go back with a 6 month membership, then a few more months off. I have such incredible library options that I should be fine.

  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,387 Member

    You really do have great libraries that you are associated with. I'm happy ours does Libby as well as Hoopla. I just downloaded I THINK I WAS MURDERED through the Libby app. Now I need to get Libby on my Kindle rather than having to listen to it from my phone!

    I finished THE DANCER AND THE DRAGON SPEAKER by Laurie Lucking, it was very good and had a slight Christian theme to it (speaking of the Maker and praying).

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,377 Member
    edited April 15

    90% of libby ebooks can be downloaded to kindle...just hit the read with kindle icon and it will take you to Amazon to check out.

    I had one KU book left on kindle, so I started it today. DRAGONFLY ASHES by CC Warrens. Her suspense books are pretty intense, especially her Holly Cross books.

  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,387 Member

    Oh, thanks, Connie! I started listening to I THINK I WAS MURDERED and it starts out with a bang, but the readers voice seems a bit snarky to me and it makes me not care for the main female character. I will continue on though since neither Hoopla nor my library have this book which made me surprised that I could get it through Libby because they usually tell me my library doesn't have it. One book I have on hold, which I am in number 1 place, won't be available until everyone else slated to read it are done. That was new! I don't know who all the other people are unless my library is linked up with some other libraries!

    I started a book in the Healing Husbands series. This one is about the Baker. Wow, the beginning starts out very sad - a woman loses her husband and three children to an epidemic, and then the banker comes and tells her she must re-marry within 30 days or she will lose her home and her business, a bakery. How nice that there is a baker wandering out there who is headed to her town!

    I'm still working on a couple of fantasies as well.

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,377 Member

    I just finished THIS PROMISE LAND by Cathy Gohlke. It was definitely a 5* read. It starts in the 40's, with a little history, but basically takes place in the early 1990's. It is about a newly retired lady that inherits a Christmas tree farm in trouble, and her half brothers that she really didn't even know. They think they are going to inherit. They all wind up working together to save it. I read another book that had a lot of the same premises in it (not the family, but the farm issues). It definitely wasn't as good, and not the same, but similar…. I thought maybe it was Melody Carlson's Christmas tree book, but that wasn't it.

    Currently I am reading EXPIRED PLOT by Lisa Phillips. I am hoping it hold my attention better than the one before it.

  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,387 Member

    I'm enjoying the HEALING HUSBANDS, Baker story; although I did expect the woman to put up a bit more fight having just lost her family.

    I started a novelette that I found on a clean list, but it wasn't without a cuss word so it got deleted. Bummer.

    I'm more than halfway through my fantasies. I am also re-listening to a missionary bio. I've tried downloading books on Hoopla, but all I get is a black page! I went ahead and bought this Janet Benge one for just $.99.

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,377 Member

    I finished a couple Janette Rallison books. She is (or has been) clean, and pretty good. She is listed on hoopla under Christian fiction, but Amazon doesn't show as Christian. One had a slight Christian tone (prayer and church), the other didn't, but was totally clean.

    I'm still reading EXPIRED PLOT by Lisa Phillips.

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,377 Member

    I finished EXPIRED PLOT and started THE KEEPER by Charles Martin. It's good, but long and intense. It will take a few days.

    I finished Jessie Gussman's newest book and am listening to LINEAGE OF CORRUPTION by Robin Patchen.

    Since I canceled KU for a while, I took an Audible trial...3 months for 99 cents a month. They actually have a ton of CF in their plus catalog, plus the one freebie. We will see how it goes.

  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,387 Member

    GLADYS ALYWARD bio by Janet Benge. This is the one I bought for $.99 because I couldn't get Hoopla to download a book.

    MAIL ORDER BAKER in the Healing Husband's series. I'm about 2/3 through and he's in trouble - eek!

    TIES OF DEATH by Constance Lopez, the fifth book in a multi-author fantasy series.

    THE SHIFTER AND THE MAGE another multi-author fantasy series which I am reading out of order.

    WROUGHT OF SERPENT AND SNOW by E.J. Kitchens, the second book in this fantasy series. This one is taking me quite awhile.

  • cmsienk
    cmsienk Posts: 20,567 Member

    I finished the WAYSIDE RANCH series by Kari Trumbo.

    I realized I somehow never finished the TRUE CRIME JUNKIES series by Christy Barritt, so I'm re-reading book 8 - Most Likely to Die- before finishing books 9 and 10 (neither of which I've read). But I have a lot to do to get ready for the kids coming over tomorrow to celebrate Easter and the Resurrection, so I probably won't get much reading done today.

  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,387 Member
    edited April 19

    We'll be having our fellowship meal after worship service tomorrow. It's such a special time of celebrating Jesus. We have a turkey to cook, some baked beans and we are bringing a lemon meringue pie! There will be ham, other veggies and other salads as well. Oh, I'm hoping one of our teens will bring her mashed potatoes - I could eat a whole pot of those. She works as a waitress in a little local restaurant and it's their recipe!

    (How do you guys add a picture. I press the picture, pick my picture but then nothing happens. I did the same with the paper clip and nothing happened! Sigh - computer illiterate here!)

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