What are you reading
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I have been MIA for a few days. Sorry. We did have a wonderful trip to Branson, though. Bill did great.
Finished:
MADDOX by Christy Barritt (Lantern Beach Blackout: Danger Rising 3) KU
IF YOU ADORE ME by Ciara Knight (romance) good.
FEATHERS OF HOPE by Sharon Garlough Brown (wms fict) I totally love her books. There are real.spiritual depths in them. I am.thinking there will.be more.
RELATIVE JUSTICE by Robert Whitlow (legal) - very good!
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Amb3r - It is really good to have you here. I am the lover of reading challenges here! So far this year I have completed reading through the states and a 75 book challenge plus I am doing two monthly challenges. Enjoy and let us know how you are doing!0
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Finished
TEN DATES by Lacy Williams (romance) too short.
A LIFE WORTH LIVING by TK Chapin (romance) very good, but strange British accent in a book set in Washington state. It was a YouTube audio done with a UI canned voice. It did have a few instances of some slang
Current
GRACE ACROSS THE MILES by Christine Dillon (wms fic) - I listened to the first two.in the series a long.time ago and the narration (by the author) was awful. I read the next three. This is book 6 and came up on hoopla audio and I decided to give it another try. It was much better, but the UI done on the Chapin book would have been fitting and better. The books are very good, though.
THE SOULS OF LOST LAKE by Jaime Jo Wright (split time suspense) - her books are always great, but a bit spooky. This is not a book to be reading before bed! All will work out in a non-spooky way, but it takes a while to get there.0 -
I finished the two books listed above and started on the last book in a series I have been reading: LAST LINE OF DEFENSE by Lisa Phillips (Chevalier #5).
I have several audiobooks checked out, but I think that I will do another YouTube audio this afternoon since they don't have sleep timers for bedtime.0 -
Amb3r - wow what a name you have! I'd love the breakdown of that one - LOL! Congrats on getting the 14 read. I'm awful with challenges - I'm easily bored with a book and if I don't like it or just can't get into it I just won't finish it. I've gone back to some books I haven't finished and have loved them, then there are others where I've gone back to them three or four times and still can't get into them - that's when I figure it's time to give up on that one!
I'm on book three in a re-read of a series by M B Aznoe, a husband wife team. It's a mild fantasy, no crazy creatures, but the characters are given gifts (able to read minds, break thinks using their minds, zero in during battle so the person can anticipate what is going to happen, things like that).
I started a suspense THE PERFECT SPY by Amy Martinsen. It started out pretty good, but it's gotten a bit immature. I'll keep reading it because I have gotten into it, but kind of turned me off in that one spot so I moved back to my re-read.0 -
Finished:
MULBERRY HOLLOW by Denise Hunter (romance) her newest. Very good.
THE BLACK SHEEP MASTER BUILDER’S FAKE MARRIAGE by Lucy McConnell (romance) YouTube - pretty good light read
OPERATION VALENTINE by Elizabeth Maddrey (romance) YouTube - pretty good, but somehow I got the chapters out of order. I guess I must have hit the shuffle button. It really was better listening to them in order- duh!!
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OPERATION FIREWORKS Elizabeth Maddrey (romance) YouTube - I had previously read books 1&4 and found the two middle ones on YouTube, so it works out well.
I don't know what I will listen to at bedtime, but hopefully I won't keep resetting the timer like a did last night. That was a really good book.
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Read some more in THE PERFECT SPY. The section that was very immature was about a flatulent prisoner that they were transferring. It went on for about four or five pages - way too long. Past that point the story has been very good again.
Reading some more in DALMAIN the third book in the fantasy re-read.
I also started THE ELF PRINCE which is an extended version of a novella that the author wrote a year or two ago and then added more to it to make it a 200+ page novel. It's part of a series that I really like and recently re-read!0 -
Hi I read the book Children of blood and bone and also Shoes to die for currently reading cappuccinos cupcakes and a corpse0
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Finished:
THE EMERALD TIDE by Davis Bunn (Miramar Bay) - His newest, but not my favorite. I kept getting distracted while listening text-to-voice.
WINNING THE COWBOY BILLIONAIRE by Emmy Eugene (romance) - for a reading challenge author I had never read. It was pretty good. I have a boxed set of them, and am continuing on with it. Weak faith element, but clean.
AN INCONVENIENT DEATH by Dan Walsh (susp) - Very good. I have the last in the series checked out in KU.
A SEEKING HEART by Danni Roan (Georgia Peaches #6) - Part of stand alone, multi-author series that I am reading through. They all are short and easy reads with a little suspense thrown in.
Current:
CLAIMING HER LEGACY by Linda Goodnight (historical)
ROPING THE COWBOY BILLIONAIRE by Emmy Eugene (romance)
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Woohoo, I won a giveaway from Goodreads, a Wanda Brunstetter book.
I finished Tara Grayce's rewrite of ELF PRINCE, so good. She had it originally as a bonus story for those who are part of her newsletter and have read FIERCEHEART, but she made it into a 250 or so page novel. I enjoyed it.
I am still working on DALMAIN the third book in this fantasy re-read.
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I recently won a copy of The Do Over by Bethany Turner and The Souls Of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright. I didn't read from the paper copies, though. That's just too much work.
Current:
THE DO OVER by Bethany Turner- but on audio 😀0 -
I finished THE PERFECT SPY by Amy Martinsen and am half-way through book two HOLD YOUR BREATH. The writing is easy in these stories and the story flows seamlessly along so you don't realize how long you've been listening. The characters are fun as well. The heroine is a CIA operative and her boy friend is as well; but she is part of an all female/mom team and they are spunky ladies which gives a lighter side to the story. Fun and clean.
I read some more in DALMAIN as well.0 -
Kim, I checked out the two Amy Martinsen books. I will get to them sometime. I now have all 20 of my KU books checked out, so I need to get busy!
Finished:
THE BAXTERS by Karen Kingsbury (prequel to series) - kind of nice to get a starting point for the series.
THE MEMORY HOUSE by Linda Goodnight (split time) - not a really "Christian" flavor to the book, but not offensive. There was one situation that was illuded to, but totally left up to imagination. I really enjoyed it.
Current:
TRAINING THE COWBOY BILLIONAIRE by Emmy Eugene (romance) - I haven't read any of it today. If I do, I need to get it going. These books are pretty good.
READY TO PROTECT by Valerie Hansen (LI susp) - I will start this before bedtime.
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I have really enjoyed the Martinsen books, Connie - well, except for those pages where they are transporting a prisoner and he struggles with flatulence - way too immature a section for me. I just finished HOLD YOUR BREATH and it was very good! She writes kind of like a story teller and I really liked that.
I finished DALMAIN and am moving on to Jyrya, the last story in the series. We are in the middle of a war!0 -
Oh my, KIm. I just read your comments about the Martinsen books....and after your comment on book 1, it makes me wonder about the title of book 2.
I have been working through a series of audiobooks on YouTube.
Good Girls Don't Come Last
COLD FEET by Jennifer Youngblood (rom com)
PRACTICALLY PERFECT by Jennifer Youngblood (rom com)
HIGH HEELS AND BIG DEALS by Jennifer Youngblood (rom com) - current. I don't know if I will get it finished before bed tonight. If not, I will start something that I can sleep time before bed. These have been light and easy listens.
Finished:
READY TO PROTECT by Valerie Hansen (LI susp)
I'm still working on the Emmy Eugene books. It is a 4 book box set and I am on book 3. These are full length books, so they are taking a while. There are 8 books total. I may read the next 4 later, but they aren't available in a boxed set at this time, so they would have to be counted as 4 books on KU instead of just one.0 -
I thought of that too, Connie! Wonder if she did that on purpose!
I started book four in my re-read, JYRYA by M B Aznoe.
I also started a Regency this morning: BIRDIE AND THE BEASTLY DUKE by Sofi Laporte. I haven't read anything by her before so we'll see, but so far it's pretty good. Two gals meet on a stage coach in England and they end up trading positions, one to go and marry a Duke and the other to be a governess. Birdie is a plump freckled gal, just 21, but already on the shelf; the other is a beautiful girl who is in love with the Vicar's son and really really does not want to marry someone she's never met!
I think I am going to start GLIMMER IN THE DARKNESS by Robin Patchen. Have you read that series, Connie? Book five is coming out and I have two of the Coventry Saga books but they are on KU too; I also have books 1-4 of the Nutfield Saga.0 -
I started a book last night about a girl who is raised with her outlaw family and treated brutally, she tries to escape but it just makes things worse. She helps a lady on a train robbery and she tells her marshall son about her. Wow, the story was good, then they cussed! Arghhh. Christian fiction too. It was titled something like The Marshal and the Outlaw, I returned it to KU before I wrote a review to warn folks, so I'm warning you! LOL!
I listened a little bit more to Jyrya and then that story I ended up getting rid of.0 -
I have read the Coventry Series by Robin Patchen and really enjoyed it...but I noted that there was slang in book 2. The Nutfield Saga is two different series combined and I am pretty sure I have all of read that one as well. The one book is all I noted with slang.0
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I finished ONCE A THIEF by Jan Thompson; it's part of a three book set, Once a Hero is next.
I finished AWAKENED by T E Bradford and started another book by her, CHILD OF PROPHESY, but had to quit, there was just too much strong slang in it.
I finished THE SHADOW ELF'S RESCUER by Elisa Rae, a fantasy. I've enjoyed this series so far.
I also finished MAID AND MINSTREL by Kate Stradling, a re-telling of King Thrushbeard. I really like her tales!
Still re-reading Jyrya.0 -
Finished:
TROUBLE IN PARADISE by Robin Lee Hatcher (romance) - one of her older books that just showed up in audio on hoopla. Very good. I always enjoy her books. I found a bunch of her back list on KU, too. I have a couple checked out.
THE RAIN SPARROW by Linda Goodnight (split time) - part of a series, but not overtly Christian. She writes a lot of Christian fiction, and these are clean.
California Dreaming collection - short clean novellas KU read & listen
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE by Heather B Moore
GONE FISHING by Kaylee Baldwin
THE PIER CHANGES EVERYTHING by Annette Lyon
A HERO'S SONG by Jennifer Moore
STAY WITH ME by Shannon Guymon (short novella)
A PLACE TO CALL HOME by Sarah M Eden (short novella)
Current:
SHADES OF LIGHT by Sharon Garlough Brown (wms fict) her books are really different and have profound truths, but sometimes a bit of slang. I think the content is worth a slang word once or twice a book, but I know some that won't - no outright cussing. This is book one in a series and I have already read books 2 & 3 - I don't know how I missed this one. It explains a lot, though.
DRIVING FORCE by Lynette Eason & Kate Angelo (susp) - Very good! This is part of her newest series that she is writing with new authors. I asked two libraries to purchase and one said it wasn't available through their resources and the other didn't purchase as soon as it came out (unusual) but it came up this week, anyway! WooHoo!
Well, I have a ton of books checked out from different libraries, so I need to get busy and forget KU and YouTube audiobooks for a little while to get caught up. It is funny how it seems that everything from my holds comes up at the same time...as soon as I check out several from hoopla. At least I have the 3 week checkout timeframe.
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Still working on the same stuff. I did start the second book in the Jan Thompson series, ONCE A HERO. So far so good.0
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WHEN THE DAY COMES by Gabrielle Meyer (time travel) - I usually don't read time-travel, but this intrigued me. The cover is really impressive, too. It is about a girl that lives in 1774 and 1914. Her mother from 1774 also lived in the1990s. They spend time equally between the two time periods until their 21st birthday, then they chose when time period where they will permanently live.
I don't know what I will listen to this evening, but I will find something. I may do the last Jody Hedlund book, To Tame A Cowboy. I think it is the one that I have had the longest from the library. It wouldn't start playing on any of my devices and so I hadn't started it. Today I got the bright idea to delete the download and see if it would just play over wifi and it works doing that. I was going to notify the library, but since I found a work around, I decided to just do it that way.0 -
I think that WHEN THE DAY COMES by Gabrielle Meyer (time travel) is my favorite book so far of the year. It was like two historical novels woven together. I'm pretty sure there will be a sequel and I am looking forward to it. If you have library access to it, I would definitely check it.
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AN UNLIKELY MATCH by Beth Wiseman (Amish). It is pretty good. A movie production team comes to town. There are so many Amish books in the library files and I have been checking more out to keep the audiobooks so I can have books to listen to at bedtime.
NERVES OF STEELE by Susan Sherman (susp) - book 2 in her new series. I just got started on it, so can't say very much, but I know it will be good.0 -
Hoopla had WHEN THE DAY COMES, Connie, so I'll be checking it out through them! Woohoo. I checked Hoopla for the Steele books, but they don't have her newest ones. I need to figure out the pin number thing with my library card. They keep asking for a PIN and when I give them any of the ones that I would normally use they say that's not it - huh???
I went way back in my library and found some books tore-read. I was hoping to come across a couple that I've been thinking about, but so far haven't found them - sigh! I have no idea what the Norman/Saxon one is that I have had on my mind for a couple months now and I can't find it anywhere. I went through the ones that I have from that time period, but nothing. I've looked it up from my library and on Amazon (Norman conquest, 1066, Norman/Saxon) but just the books I have come up - ugh! I even asked on Goodreads, but nothing came back that was even close. Oh well, maybe someday it will pop up somewhere!
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Kim - I think the Susan Sleeman book will eventually come up in KU. It is one of her indie books and she usually puts them wide (which allows library access) and then a couple of months later puts in KU.
I finished:
DANCE OVER ME by Candee Fick (Wardrobe Dinner Theater #1)
HOME FOR CHRISTMAS by Candee Fick (Wardrobe Dinner Theater #5) - These just came up in hoopla audio. Book 4 still isn't there, but they can be read independently. This last one (as well as #2) takes place in Branson. That's fun for me.
MISSING HER MORE by Karen McQuestion (speculative/clean) - came up in Christian fiction on hoopla and in Amazon, but I found nothing Christian in the book. It did have a little girl in it that had died a few years prior, so I guess it was "ghost" or "spirit" which to me is not Christian. It was good, though.
OTIS by Liz Isaacson (cowboy romance) KU - Always enjoy her books.
THE HEART OF HOME by Lynn A Coleman (Georgia Peaches #7)
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nothing... I just finished both books, so need to find something new in ebook and audiobook.
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I finished HUNTED by Margaret Daley. It was good, and easy to read suspense. Just a moment of someone being angry with God (I don't like to read that because God never does anything that we should be angry with Him for).
I finished a re-read (probably my third or fourth re-read of this series) and I would love to tell you what the title is, but all I can see right now is the picture on the front of the book! LOL!
Oh, I'm reading an Alton Gansky book I've had forever: 8 MINUTES TO DIGITAL WINTER. Oh my! So far it is quite good. It goes back and forth between different characters who are affected by what is happening so it's not always easy to figure out where the story is, but it goes back to the main characters, one of which is a wheelchair bound savant who is a computer whiz - hmmmm???!!!0 -
I haven't gotten much reading or listening done this month. I did listen to Becky Ward's newest book. it really wasn't my favorite by her, but may be that I was so disjointed in reading it.
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I just read my previous post and it should have read, this week.
Current:
ALL IN by Shelley Shepard Gray - I read the first one in this series a long time ago and marked that it wasn't Christian and had some content that I didn't like. I wound up with this one and decided to go ahead and try it. So far it is okay, but I am not really trusting it. I have heard one slang, but to me it wasn't offensive.
HOLD YOUR BREATH by Amy Martinsen (suspense)
Finished:
THE PERFECT SPY by Amy Martinsen (suspense)
THE VIEW FROM CORAL COVE by Amy Clipston (romance) - her newest book, not Amish.
THE FAITH IN FLOWERS by Rachael Bloome (Poppy Creek #5) - This was for a monthly challenge I am doing. It was pretty good.
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I am re-reading a couple of series. One of them I've read twice already but this time I see things in it I'm not happy with - like one of the characters is angry with God for messing in his life. I don't remember that from my other readings of it, it was just a nice and easy read, but this time I think I will skip it.
The other one I'm reading is futuristic by Kerry Nietz, the Dark Trench Saga. It takes place in a time when Muslims have taken over the world and everyone must worship Allah, and event the machines that can interact with humans have to say certain A (Allah) honoring phrases - but, after going into space near the star "Bettlejuice" I know that isn't the spelling, but that is how it sounds - some of the humans and even some of the bots on the craft come back changed and speaking of Not A 3 (which I think means Not Allah but Three in One). They have no idea who this is because none of them has ever read a Bible, but verses come to the main guys mind and now they have gone back to the star in this ship and are trying to find out who this is.
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Current:
CARAMEL PECAN ROLL MURDER by Joanne Fluke (secular cozy) - I always enjoy her books. They are clean, with a tiny bit of liquor.
LOVESICK COWBOY'S UNFPRGETTABLE.CHRISTMAS by Hannah Hart (romance) some light slang - I am trying to read through this series and this is the first that has had slang that I have noticed.
Finished:
LOVESICK COWBOY'S HIDEAWAY BRIDE by Hannah Hart (romance)
THE NEIGHBORS by Karen Cogan (Christmas)
Grandma Mandy
MADE FOR EACH OTHER by Karen Cogan (romance)
LANDSCAPE OF LOVE by Karen Cogan (romance) - these are pretty good. I will search out more if I can find them
Bloom Sisters
HOPING FOR HAWTHORNE by Tara Grace Ericson (romance)
A DATE FOR DAISY by Tara Grace Ericson (romance) - another pretty good series. I have the next ebook and the rest are available in KU, so I will probably finish the series eventually.0
