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  • cmsienk
    cmsienk Posts: 20,700 Member

    I'm about 1/3 of the way through UNCHARTED BEGINNING. I don't think it matters. I'm looking forward to discovering how the early settlers figured out some of the things that the subsequent generations do/have

  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,466 Member

    I think reading that will give insight into why they are there and into the different leading families. You can get some of that information as you read the other stories as they allude to their beginnings.

    I'm still working on the ones I mentioned before!

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,428 Member

    Current listen:
    THE SOLDIER'S K-9 COMPANION by Belle Calhoune - Love Inspired

    I am also reading a boxed set of clean cozy mysteries.

  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,466 Member

    I'm enjoying THE COLLECTOR OF BURNED BOOKS by Roseanna M White. The female main character and her mother have saved a number of banned books, in fact, all the books in their library have been banned by the Nazi's. They use these books to send information to the Allies through patrons and students willing to receive and send information. A professor of literature is conscripted to go through the libraries of France and remove all the banned books. He hates what he is doing but feels he has no choice. He is being as kind and patient as he can be with the hard-liners watching him. Very interesting.

    I'm also listening to THE RISE AND FALL OF MISS FANNIE'S BISCUITS by Wanda Brunstetter. This story is so funny. Miss Fannie is Amish and she has asked Mr. Foster, a private detective she has worked with before, to help her find out who is causing the disappearance of the contestants in the baking contest. Just a fun and easy read.

    I'm re-listening to JONATHAN GOFORTH and re-reading the last book in THE ELVES OF ELDERLAN series.

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,428 Member
    edited August 7

    I have seen that Wanda Brunstetter book, but just didn't pick it up. I don't do a lot of Amish anymore. I am always looking for something fun.

    I loved THE COLLECTOR OF BURNED BOOKS by Roseanna M White. It was a bit of a different premise in WW2 fiction.

    I just finished

    THE UNDERCOVER HEIRESS OF BROCKTON

    Kelly J Goshorn

    I really enjoyed it. It is about a woman newspaper reporter in MA. She dresses like a man and uses a man's name in order to be able to hold the job (her boss does know the truth).

    Currently I am reading a LIS book, and I don't even remember which one. I don't feel like getting up off the comfy couch to figure it out.

  • cmsienk
    cmsienk Posts: 20,700 Member
    edited August 9

    I finished the first book in the UNCHARTED BEGINNING series by Keely Brooke Keith - ABOARD PROVIDENCE - and started the second one - ABOVE RUBIES.

    I looked at the publishing dates and this prequel series was published after the first 5 books of the UNCHARTED series. I really don't mind that I'm reading this series after the other one. The first book didn't shed light on anything I was wondering about except for who and how something was discovered about the flora of the Land. (Don't want to give anything away.) A lot of things had been mentioned in the main series (why and how they settled there, etc.).

  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,428 Member

    I just read a book through hoopla that I double checked to assure that it was Christian fiction before checking it out, since I had never heard of the author. All in all the premise of the story was pretty good, the writing itself was good, but it was so unscriptural that I kept thinking that maybe the Lord would straighten out their thinking by the end of the book, but no….just unscriptural. AARG. I'm not jumping on a soap box, but only the saved go to heaven when they die, period!

    Currently I am listening to

    DON’T LET ME GO

    Jodi Artzberger

    I haven't started on a new ebook.

    Finished a couple of Love Inspired Suspense:

    FRAMING THE MARSHALL

    		Sharee Stover

    COVERT JUSTICE

    		Lynn Huggins Blackburn
  • connierandel
    connierandel Posts: 2,428 Member

    I checked out and finished THE RISE AND FALL OF MISS FANNIE'S BISCUITS by Wanda Brunstetter. I thought that it read like part of a series, but didn't see any other similar books and it doesn't show part of a series. I got a kick out of it.

  • Restfinder
    Restfinder Posts: 3,466 Member

    I just love Fannie, she doesn't act like your typical Amish lady, nor does the Bishop act like the hard nose Bishop's you see in other Amish stories.

    I'm still on the first book in the UNCHARTED BEGINNINGS series, and still working on both THE RISE AND FALL OF MISS FANNIE'S BISCUITS and THE COLLECTOR OF BURNED BOOKS. I'm going to work on getting these three done before I go back to anything else. Then I have two ARC reads to get to! I think one of the books I was reading must have been an ARC read because the book is just out today, so I need to get back to that one as well - It's a fantasy read.

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