What are you reading
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THE PUZZLE WITHIN by Gina Holder was really good. I got this one free, sometime. I had read some of her other books, so I knew I would like it.
I just finished DESIGNED WITH LOVE by Tracie Peterson. This is her newest.
I am working through the Brides of Cedar Falls Series by Jovie Grace (aka Jo Grafford). This is a historical series. Current reading LAWFULLY WITNESSED #1. I had 4 of them, and all of them are available on Audible plus. There are 9 now, and #10 will come out in September.
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I started book 5 in Uncharted series
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I am still reading the Jovie Grace series. I'm on book #7 right now. They are short and easy reads. When I get done with them, I will go back to the Lacy Williams Wagon Train series and find something not historical to read. Right now, everything I was looking forward to is in audio. I'm going to have to look through the kindle again. With over 11000 books, I'm sure there are lots of good ones waiting for me.
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I finished the Jovie Grace series and am waiting for the next Lacy Williams book from the library. It says about 2 weeks.
I am currently listening to HADEN by Susan Lower. She's a new to me author, but the book is really good. It's about a Christian motorcycle club...and one that's not so Christian. I did notice one instance of light slang, I dont remember even what it was, but it wasn't offensive to me, I was more surprised by it.
I am reading a Billionaire book by Jenna Brandt. I forgot to log it and I don't remember the name, but it's pretty good.
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I started listening to Memoria and it is very good. I am enjoying that the Christian character in this story is faithful and has a peace and calm about him, as well as being a shield rather than a weapon.
I'm getting close to the end of the Adoniram Judson biography, well, it's pretty much ended except for some excerpts from friends. So sad! His wife is deathly ill, and he falls deathly ill as well. The doctor encourages a sea voyage (getting out of the atmosphere in Burma which is making them sick). She begins to recover before his voyage and they talk about the possibility of his dying while away. He believes he'll get better and return to her, but she is mostly sure he won't - and he doesn't. He hadn't been on the ocean for long before his illness gets worse and takes his life. He loves being on the ocean and so being buried at sea is something he would appreciate. Ach, it just made me cry knowing they wouldn't see each other again! Throughout the book are poems written to their children in the States or the children who have died, one of which was born right after he went on his sea voyage and died just before Adoniram did, giving her comfort that they would be together. The only thing that I didn't like in the story was that he would often say that he was the worst of sinners and yet… You can't be the worst of sinners and have Jesus in your heart! This man sought to live for Jesus with all of his heart and it's robbing the glory from God and giving it to satan when you say that you can't be free from sin.
Still working on some of the others I mentioned before.
Connie, I have just over 9,000 in my Kindle account, and there are a ton of those I haven't read. I think I could go the rest of my life without having to add a new one before I got done with the ones I haven't read. My KU runs out in December and I think I am going to work on my unread ones before thinking about getting KU again.
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That was my thought, Kim. But, I sure miss some of my favorite authors on KU. I am enjoying audible, though.
I am listening to book #3 in the Shadow Agency series by Christy Barritt. SHADOW ASSIGNMENT. I got books 1 & 3 dirt cheap on an audible sale, but book 2 wasn't on sale. I used one of my credits to get it. I am going to want to eventually finish this series.
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I really enjoyed the 3 books in the Shadow Agency series by Christy Barritt. Currently, I am listening to THE RYTHM OF FRACTURED GRACE by Amanda Wen. I have enjoyed all of her books, but this is the best! It is dual time, centering around a fiddle that becomes broken in a car wreck. Current day, the new Worship Pastor in a mega church in Wichita, and past about a couple of scarred sisters (escaped from scalping with bad scars). I won't go into more, but it is very good.
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I'm reading SARAH'S CHOICE. Your comment about a scalping reminded me. This is the beginning of the settlers moving towards the West and the trouble with the Indians. Sarah's family are all killed in an Indian raid and she is raped and nearly scalped, but her Indian friend (a young girl and sister of the monster of a native) stopped the scalping and saved her life. She is brought into the Fort and will face a siege by the Indians there. I started reading it awhile back, but picked it back up and am enjoying it this time around.
I finished the Adoniram Judson biography. It took awhile, but there was a ton of stuff in it. Now to find another one. I had gotten the novel that Elizabeth Elliot wrote about a young missionary to South America, but someone near the beginning of it took the Lord's name as a cuss word at least twice without being called out on it, so I gave up.
I am on the last story in a 4 book fantasy series and really enjoying it.
There are others but I can't remember them just now.
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I just started book 9 in the Uncharted series: UNCHARTED FREEDOM
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You're past where I stopped, let me know what you think!
I finished the second book in a CONVENIENTLY WED anthology, basically they are marriages that take place quickly and unexpectedly.
I'm listening to GOD'S SMUGGLER about Brother Andrew. It's been years since I first read it so it's like reading it new!
I'm almost done with IN WAYS UNSEEN by Daniel Dydek. It has quite a few editing problems and one of the characters has no desire to have anything to do with God and that's something I don't like in a story, but I believe he will have a change of heart - at least I hope he does because he's already been almost dead several times!
I finished CAPTIVE MEMORY by Jimmy Gear. This is a police suspense story. The female cop's sister was abducted and there were no clues. There are two things that happen within a day of each other in their sleepy little town, a death of a prominent man that looks like it was an accident and the kidnapping of a little girt. The cop isn't going to stop until she finds this little girl.
I'm almost done with the second book in REGENCY ENGAGEMENTS by multiple authors. The first one was pretty good, I struggled getting into the second one because it starts when the main female character is 9 years old and she is rather silly and naïve.
I finished THE PEASANT QUEEN by Ashton Dorow. It was very good, an Esther-type story in a made up world. Not fantasy.
I finished MEMORIA, a fantasy, the last book in the series. I liked it.
I started one I really want to read, but I just couldn't take the reader's take on the attitude of the female character - just too whiny or snarky. The book is CHAOS GRID a YA dystopian story.
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Currently I am reading FROM THE VALLEY WE RISE by Elizabeth Musser. This is a WW2 story set in France and Algiers. Very good!
I finished ONE GLANCE OF YOUR EYES by Myra Johnson (one of the award finalists from the last ones). It was under Women's fiction, but I would actually call it romance. It was good…I probably wouldn't have thought it was an award winner, but very good.
I also finished Elizabeth Goddard's newest PERILOUS TIDES. Her books are always good.
I listened to an oldie that I had missed. EVE'S DAUGHTERS by Lynn Austin. I really enjoyed this story of the family history. It was long, but so worth the time.
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I am reading THE COLOR OF HOME by Kit Tosello. It is really good. It is a women's fiction book, and it is about a home decorator that goes to her aunt's house to help her while on vacation. The story centers on the aunt and uncle making the decision to move to assisted living and leaving their home, due the the uncle's dementia (Parkinson's).
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I finished book 9 in the Uncharted series: UNCHARTED FREEDOM by Keely Brooke Keith and book 10: UNCHARTED COURAGE. Kim, I am enjoying the series quite a lot - more than I thought I would. I just downloaded UNCHARTED CHRISTMAS to start on tomorrow.
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I read UNCHARTED CHRISTMAS in its entirety this morning. While it was good, I thought it had less depth than the others in the series and ended fairly abruptly. I don't know if you read any of Karen Kingsbury's later series, but I started to feel that way about her books. Does that make sense? This felt like half a story and what should have been included was made, instead, into another book. I'm reading these through KU, so I'm less annoyed than I would be if I were purchasing them.
That said, I'm so close to the end of the series so I'm moving on to the next one: UNCHARTED GRACE.
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It's just an interesting premise which I really enjoyed too. I may have to read them again from the beginning so when I pick up where I left off I will remember who's who! I'm pretty sure I read the Christmas one.
I am reading a biography of Amy Carmichael, a bit more information than the Geoff and Janet Benge one. Also reading GOD'S SMUGGLER again, it's been a long time since I last read it.
I started THE LADY OF RED RIVER VALLEY by Gabrielle Meyer. This one is about the war between the Hudson Bay Company and the North West Company and the village that the NWC is trying to form on the Red River, but the HBC keeps attacking the settlement and burning down the houses, so another group of settlers is brought in and they start all over!
Still reading BY WAYS UNSEEN by Daniel Dydek.
I started LADY OF SHADOWS by Jill Williamson, but it's hard to stay into.
I finished CAPTIVE MEMORY by Jimmy Gear, a pretty good suspense story.
Got back to HIS MASTER'S DAUGHTER the story of the boy king of Judah who survived Athaliah's murdering of all of his family. The man sent to protect him, Ariel, is falling in love with the maimed daughter of the man he has bound himself to for 7 years.
Still working on the two anthologies: REGENCY ENGAGEMENTS and CONVENIENTLY WED.
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Finished UNCHARTED PREMISE. Starting UNCHARTED PEACE. (This is because I woke up at 1:45am and couldn't get back to sleep until after 4am.)
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I am currently reading THE HIGHLAND HEIST by Pepper Basham. This is book 4 in the Freddie and Grace series. Historical, funny, mystery, kind of Regency - but currently in the US and heading to Scotland, I'm sure. They get themselves in all kinds of trouble.
Finished:
SECOND CHANCE AT SUNSHINE INN by Amy Clipston - Not Amish. Good.
THE COLOR OF HOME by Kit Tosello
I was really not smart listening and reading these two at the same time. They were both working at saving, selling a B&B. They were totally different, but still easy to get mixed up. I enjoyed both.
SANDOVER BEACH WEEK by Emma St Clair. - a bit steamy, but clean.0 -
Cindy, I did read some of Karen Kingsbury's later books and felt like you described. I especially remember how much I enjoyed the Baxter series in the beginning, then grew frustrated with how light and the same they seemed. And when I read somewhere - a review maybe? - that one of the romances didn't turn out like her fans wanted, that was it. I think some of her early books, way before the Baxter series, are her best.
Kim, I'm enjoying something by Amy Carmichael on my Kindle. It's kind of like a devotional, will check on the title.
Connie, I had to laugh at your B&B books. Reading and listening to similar books at the same time would do me in!
Just started reading THE DIVINE PROVERB OF STREUSEL by Sara Brunsvold. She's a great author.
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Oh, Carole. I love Sara Brunsvold books (and she is so sweet). When you finish THE DIVINE PROVERB OF STREUSEL, be sure to read THE ATLAS OF UNTOLD STORIES. Her books are just so different and so compelling…and they stick with you.
I really enjoyed the older Karen Kingsbury books, and I finished the Baxter series, but became more disappointed with each book. Her older audiobooks are available on the free books on audible and I was thinking the other day about listening to a couple of them that I really liked. There are just so many books that I haven't read that I hate to go back to re-read books.
I am almost finished with THE HIGHLAND HEIST by Pepper Basham. I kind of left it hanging when I started another audio book instead of an ebook. I am getting a kick out of the book.
I am reading THE ENGLISH MASTERPIECE by Katherine Reay. It is off to a really good start.
I am also listening to a series of books by Jenna Brandt. When I finish my audiobook, I will get back to it. The next book will be LAWFULLY DASHING.
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I finished UNCHARTED MERCY (book 14) and downloaded UNCHARTED JOY (book 15 - published July '25) to read tonight. I didn't realize this was a current series! I'm usually much behind you ladies, reading older series I can download through KU and not as many that are current.
Anyway, at the end of UNCHARTED MERCY, the author writes, "Join me for this (next) exciting story by downloaded UNCHARTED JOY. I'm already writing the next (my emphasis) Uncharted story." Which means there are more coming. I've really enjoyed this series by Keely Brooke Keith, and I think book 14 just might be my favorite.
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I have books 1, 2, 4 in the Uncharted series and can get book 5 free on audible. I might need to start the series and maybe decide to get KU for a while to finish it out. Maybe I will wait a while and finish out a bunch of stuff that I have on my TBR list.
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I don't know that I remember the plot lines of 4 and 5, but I do remember 1 and 2. They were very good. Like Kim said, it's an interesting premise and good Christian values in each storyline.
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I finished the Jenna Brandt series (Lawfully Contemporary) and am ready to get back to THE ENGLISH MASTERPIECE by Katherine Reay. It is really good so far.
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I am going to need to go back and re-read the Uncharted series too. I enjoyed the ones I read and maybe I stopped where I did because the next book wasn't out yet - who knows!
I get a book I've read into my mind and then I just need to go back and re-read it - sometimes I start and then lay it back down again, it just wasn't as good as I remembered! LOL!
Carole, let me know the title of that Amy Charmichael book if you are able! The one by Elizabeth Elliot had quite a bit more in it than the Janet Benge one did!
I'm almost finished with book 3 in the ELVES OF ELDARLAN series - obviously fantasy!
I'm reading the third book in the TIME TRAVEL JOURNALS OF SARAH ALDRIDGE by Tracey Higley.
THE LADY OF RED RIVER by Gabrielle Meyer. I'm struggling to stay into this one.
GOD'S SMUGGLER by Brother Andrew.
ALL THE DIVINE NAMES AND TITLES IN THE BIBLE by Herbert Lockyer. This one will take a long time since I am going name by name and looking up verses and meanings for each one. So interesting! We read Lord GOD or LORD God and they are just names, but the meaning behind the Hebrew names is so important. Like Adonai - Lord, master, commander. Hudson Taylor said it best: If Jesus isn't Lord of all, He isn't Lord at all. That's what that word means.
I'm getting ready to start THE FIRST TO FORGIVE by Daniel Dydek.
Another one I am struggling to get into: LADY OF SHADOWS by Jill Williamson and a new writer that she worked with Kelly Fernlake.
I'm also working on the anthologies, a regency engagements and a western marriages of convenience.
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i am reading a LIS right now,
TEXAS TAKEDOWN
Heather Woodhaven Aarg, I didn't mean for it to do that, but at least it's there.
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THE ENGLISH MASTERPIECE by Katherine Reay - 1970s era art forgery. Very good.
SHADOWED WITNESS by Angela Carlisle. Suspense with a side of unknown illness. I really enjoyed this one.0 -
I finished book 15 in the UNCHARTED SERIES: Uncharted Joy by Keely Brooke Keith. Now I have to wait for the next one to be written. 🙁 I tried to follow the author so I'd know when the next one was published, but I'm not sure I did it correctly.
ETA: I just got a notification thanking me for following her, so it looks like I did it right. I'll be looking through my recent free downloads (thank you, ladies) to see what I'll read next
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I just downloaded THE UNCHARTED BEGINNING three book anthology. I don't think I ever read these before, I started with the one where the guy finds the island then falls in love with the lady doctor. I'll start this tonight.
I sent back a few KU books that I just wasn't getting into. I'm still reading the fantasy series that I had started and am almost finished with book 3. I downloaded three books to Hoopla that I need to start as well! The others I've been reading, and I can't even remember them (other than ALL THE DIVINE NAMES AND TITLES because it's a paperback and sitting right beside my computer) will probably go by the wayside for awhile.
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Yes! I forgot about those. THAT will be my next read… (THE UNCHARTED BEGINNING)
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Should UNCHARTED BEGINNING be read before the other series, or does it make any difference?
I just finished EXPIRED END by Lisa Phillips. This has been a long series, but have read them as they were released (or came up from library hold).
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