What are you reading

connierandel

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.

cmsienk

I started book 5 in Uncharted series

connierandel

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.

connierandel

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.

Restfinder

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.

connierandel

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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connierandel

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.

Restfinder

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.

cmsienk

I just started book 9 in the Uncharted series: UNCHARTED FREEDOM

Restfinder

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.

connierandel

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.