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Truthfully I've always been a little frustrated with Blogger for different reasons over the years. Now with so much other stuff going on in my life, being frustrated about this blog isn't something I wanted to have continued on. I truly do love blogging, reviewing books and the whole book community and I don't plan on leaving it anytime soon. </div>
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<br />Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-69812928571300955172018-12-22T22:18:00.001-06:002018-12-22T22:22:06.615-06:00Home for Christmas by Daphne James Huff, M.F. Lorson, Kayla Tirrell | Book Review | Blogmas<a href="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1541969208l/42754911.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Home for Christmas: A Collection of Sweet Christmas Shorts #christmas #christmasreads #ya #youngadult #anthology #homeforchristmas" border="0" height="320" id="coverImage" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1541969208l/42754911.jpg" title="Home for Christmas by Daphne James Huff, M.F. Lorson, Kayla Tirrell | Book Review | Blogmas" width="200" /></a><b>Title: </b>Home for Christmas<br />
<b>Author: </b>Daphne James Huff<br />
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<span id="freeText16675202731541817789">All across the country, people are heading home for the holidays. Special presents are wrapped beneath the tree, mistletoe is hung, the smell of cookies is in the air, but what if you don't have someone special to share it all with?<br /><br />Will the magic of Christmas reach these characters? Or will they end up being a bunch of lonely grinches?<br /><br />Three up-and-coming young adult authors share their Christmas stories about hope and joy during the holiday season.</span><b><br /></b><b><br /></b> ---------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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Overall I thought this story was okay. It was very short compared to the other two stories so I feel like a little bit was lost. I really did like the friendship that was shown between the Ben and Jordin that has played out throughout the year. Personally, I would have loved to see past Christmases to really see how their friendship evolved over time into what it was during this Christmas. I did like that family Christmas party was shown as those aren't something we see often in Christmas anthologies.<br />
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Jamie is our main character in this one and she has recently become the almost sole provider in the family after a tragedy. She has had to drop out of college and give up her dream of being involved in the theater. She's had an ongoing crush with a guy who comes to the smoothie shop every day and when he asks to set up a flyer for a Christmas program they start talking.<br />
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The Night Sale is the story of Elizabeth who is a college Freshman and is now home for Christmas. Once home though she learns that her family business isn't doing so well and that her ex-boyfriends family is part of the problem.<br />
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Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-53428699413494220122018-12-21T06:00:00.000-06:002018-12-21T06:00:07.596-06:00Dear Santa by Nancy Naigle | Book Review | Blogmas <a href="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1531955553l/37638254.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Dear Santa by Nancy Naigle #bookreview #blogmas #paperback #holiday #romance #hallmark #youvegotmail #adult #contemporary #christmas" border="0" height="320" id="coverImage" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1531955553l/37638254.jpg" title="Dear Santa by Nancy Naigle | Book Review | Blogmas " width="211" /></a><b>Title: </b>Dear Santa<br />
<b>Author: </b>Nancy Naigle<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>St. Martin's Griffin <br />
<b>Published Date: </b>October 16th, 2018<br />
<b>Genre: </b>Christmas, Contemporary, Adult<br />
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<span id="freeText4364859863086948841">Angela Carson wants nothing more than to be the third-generation to run her family’s holiday store, Heart of Christmas, successfully. They’ve weathered over sixty tourist seasons, major hurricanes, and urban sprawl, in their old decommissioned lighthouse. But the national chain that set up shop in their small North Carolina town of Pleasant Sands may be more than Heart of Christmas can survive.<br /><br />Encouraged by her niece to ask Santa for help, Angela gives in and lets the words fly in a way that, if Santa were real, would no doubt land her on the naughty list. What’s the harm when it’s just a computer-generated response?<br /><br />Geoff Paisley has been at his mother’s side running the mega-chain Christmas Galore for the last ten years. When his mother falls ill, Geoff promises to answer the town’s Dear Santa letters in her stead. Soon he realizes the woman he’s been corresponding with on Dear Santa is Angela. How could the woman that grates his every last nerve in person have intrigued him so deeply through those letters?<br /><br />When Geoff reveals that he’s her Dear Santa, will Angela be able to set aside their very public feud to embrace the magic of the holiday and possibly find true love?</span><b><br /></b><b><br /></b> ---------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Angela runs her family business, that has been around for several years and is inside of an old lighthouse. The business is called 'Heart of Christmas' and sells Christmas related items all year long. Angela is also a history buff especially when it comes to her hometown and helping other people know all the important and interesting details of it. </span><br />
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It's less than a week till Christmas! I have no idea where this month has gone truly, but I do know that I am very excited for Christmas and the New Year!</div>
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This is the second book of the Reign of the Fallen duology (or is it a trilogy/series)? When we left off last time we had some things left undone, and I cannot wait to find out the answers to those things and continue on with the characters that I fell in love with! </div>
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All is Fair has a boarding school, WWI, and possible a love across social circles? Not sure about that last one but I'm very excited about a boarding school and WWI being the main focuses. I've not seen a lot of YA books around this time period so I'm really hoping this is the start of seeing more of that. </div>
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Introducing Tyndale’s newest addition to the bestselling <i>Inspire</i> line, and the first—<i>and only—</i>Catholic coloring Bible. The <i>Inspire Catholic Bible</i> features over 450 beautiful Scripture line-art illustrations to color plus two-inch-wide lightly ruled margins with extra space to write notes and reflections or to draw and create original art. <i>Inspire</i>’s generous 8.65-point font is larger and more readable than most other journaling Bible fonts, and the high-quality white Bible paper is great for colorers and creative Bible journalers of all skill levels.<br /><br /><i>Inspire Catholic Bible</i>’s New Living Translation text has been approved by the Catholic Church for personal reading and features the official Imprimatur. The <i>Holy Bible</i>, New Living Translation, communicates God’s Word powerfully to all who read it, and <i>Inspire</i> is a wonderful legacy Bible for readers to record their faith journey.<b><br /></b><b><br /></b> ---------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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This is one of the prettiest Non-Gold plated Bibles I have ever seen! </div>
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As a Catholic finding Bibles that not only have all the books of the Bible but are also more fun or explain things, better is hard to find. This one does exactly that! Each page has something on it you can either color while your reading, or the chance to write to the side. </div>
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This means that you have endless creative space to express yourself in the Bible for a change!<br />
I'm absolutely in love with all of the art in the Bible it really helps bring out some popular lines while also making pretty pictures as seen in the photo above. The line spacing is just the right amount to write comfortably without it being too big.<br />
While I haven't yet colored anything due to not having any colored pencil's yet, I do know that once I get some I will be coloring all of the pretty pictures as I read this Bible!<br />
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The Inspire Catholic Bible will also be a great thing for me to have as in 2019 I want to read both the Old and New Testament all the way through instead of just chapters here and there. If you have any suggestions on how to break up the Bible into manageable pieces for every day. Right now I'm thinking about 5 pages every day should make it possible for me to read the entire Bible in a year!<br />
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I'm so thankful to have received this Bible and I cannot wait to keep using it in the New Year!<br />
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5 Books From The Year I Was Born</h3>
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After a few days break to finish my finals and finally get caught up on some sleep I desperately needed its time to get back into BLOGMAS!!</div>
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Last year during Blogmas I challenged myself to read <a href="https://readingwithwrin.blogspot.com/2017/12/blogmas-day-3-5-books-from-year-i-was.html" target="_blank">5 books from the year I was born</a>, which was 1993. Now at the beginning of this challenge, I knew it would be tough. I, however, was not prepared for how tough it would actually be for me. </div>
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I managed to read 2 out of 5 books.</div>
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This one sadly fell flat for me I didn't care for it and found myself wishing for it to be over as soon as possible. </div>
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This was my favorite book I read from this challenge. The multiple pov's really added to and I loved learning about the legal system. </div>
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No. I tried to read both The Virgin Suicides and Durable Goods and I just couldn't get past the first few pages in them. I do want to try and read I'll Be Seeing You, but I'm not going to be doing it as apart of this challenge. </div>
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The whole point of this challenge was to try and get me to read backlist books, and I did. But I also found that I wasn't enjoying myself and that's not what reading is about. Reading is supposed to be fun and enjoyable. While I'm thankful for having tried to do this challenge, it's also one that I don't see myself repeating in 2019.</div>
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Happy day 7 of Blogmas!</h3>
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I hope your December has been great so far and you keep enjoying the holiday spirit. :) </div>
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Next week is the start of a very fun new adventure for <a href="https://www.bookishbash.org/" target="_blank">Bookish Bash</a>! We are doing our second readalong and this one will go over 12 days and cover 12 short holiday stories!</div>
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From December 12-24 we will be reading a story every day from My True Love Gave To Me and discussing it on the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/728270-bookish-bash" target="_blank">Goodreads group page</a>! Make sure to use the #bbreadalong as well so we can talk on Twitter and Instagram as well. We love to see all of your reading photos!</div>
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Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-50117984666732565932018-12-06T06:00:00.000-06:002018-12-06T06:00:05.463-06:00Together at Midnight by Jennifer Castle | Book Review | Blogmas Day 6<a href="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1498546653l/34848136.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Together at Midnight by Jennifer Castle #bookreview #blogmas #blogmas2k18 #ya #contemporary #newyears #romance" border="0" height="320" id="coverImage" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1498546653l/34848136.jpg" title="Together at Midnight by Jennifer Castle | Book Review | Blogmas Day 6" width="211" /></a><b>Title: </b>Together at Midnight<br />
<b>Author: </b>Jennifer Castle<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>HarperTeen<br />
<b>Published Date: </b>January 2nd 2018 by<br />
<b>Genre: </b>Contemporary, friendship, realistic-fiction, romance, YA<br />
<b>Page Count: </b>352<br />
<b>Format: </b>ebook<br />
<b><br /></b><b>My Rating: </b>★ ★ ★ ★.5<br />
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<span id="freeText2895723638794865643">What does it really mean
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in the world to do? High school senior Kendall, who just returned from a
life-changing semester in Europe, and Max, who is drifting his way
through a gap year before college, struggle with these questions when
they witness a tragic accident in New York City during the holiday
season. Racked with guilt, the two accept a dare to perform random acts
of kindness to strangers. The challenge pulls these two teens, who have a
history together from back home, closer and closer as they explore a
vibrant city filled with other people’s stories and secrets.<br /><br />Kendall
and Max can’t deny their growing bond, even though they both have other
romantic entanglements and uncertain futures. As the clock counts down
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<span id="freeTextreview2152638603"><u>Thank you to Edelweiss and Harper Collins for an e-arc of this book in exchange for my honest review.</u><br /><br />Together at Midnight is a New York story that reminded me of a few others that happen before Christmas. This one takes place after Christmas though and goes through the new year. We follow two main characters Kendall and Max who are challenged to do 7 good deeds for others with no money spent after they have seen something horrible happen to someone else that deeply affects them. <br />Along with this challenge, we learn a lot about them and what happened in the past and how exactly they know each other. Kendall has just returned from a study abroad and Max has taken a year off from college to save money. With both of them struggling with what to do next this challenge was a perfect distraction that also ended up helping them deal with what they saw happen. <br />We also get to see what the people they helped were thinking and how it really did change how they looked at things that day. <br /><br />Overall I really loved this story! I loved being able to see what the person they helped thought and how it was able to show that even if we don't think we changed someone's day we most likely did. Max and Kendall's friendship was really nice as well, and even though things were a little awkward it was realistic for a change. I loved both of their families who were present and around for a change. There were so many different parts of this story and a lot of them were actually realistic in my opinion. Every character had some sort of flaw, but they knew them and they had accepted them and were trying to do better with them. <br />I think this is a perfect read for the beginning of the year!</span></div>
Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-20834253362484721322018-12-05T06:00:00.000-06:002018-12-05T06:00:15.333-06:00Ultimate Christmas Tag | Blogmas Day 5<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's that time of year again and Sam from Sam's Nonsense has come up with another fun tag. This one is called the Ultimate Christmas Tag and you can watch her video here.</div>
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<b>1) What are your Christmas Traditions/Routine </b></div>
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I really like how after Christmas dinner has been done and the presents have been opened we all play a game that one of us got. </div>
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While I do have several favorites, but last year my favorite was <a href="https://readingwithwrin.blogspot.com/2017/12/blogmas-day-13-12-days-at-bleakly-manor.html">12 Days at Bleakly Manor</a>.</div>
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I have several. My most recent is when we got to on a family trip to ride on a train that was made to look like the "Polar Express". I loved getting to see my nephews reaction who was in love with the Polar Express movie at the time. The amazement was so amazing and it was a really fun trip overall. </div>
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This is so hard to choose. Okay, I'm going to go with the doll farmhouse that I got as a child. </div>
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It pretty much stays the same for me. I still lean more towards historical fiction, but recently I've been loving some contemporary Christmas books. ( I know what's happening to me.)</div>
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I'd really like to spend more of my holiday season helping others. Why I might not be able to donate my time this year, I want to make time to be able to donate money to a worthy cause. (If you know of any please let me know.)</div>
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Christmas Day is when my family celebrates. </div>
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I've spent most of my money on online shopping the past few years for Christmas presents. Just so much easier with the ice and snow. </div>
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Favorite Christmas song recently has been from Penatonix and it's That's Christmas To Me.</div>
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For me it wouldn't be Christmas time without Homemade Cherry Mash!</div>
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Those are all my answers to this fun holiday tag. What do your answers look like? Leave me a link below please :)</div>
Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-90764713252137143292018-12-04T06:00:00.000-06:002018-12-23T14:04:24.433-06:00Seven Days of Us by Frances Hornak | Book Review | Blogmas Day 4<br />
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<b>Author: </b>Frances Hornak<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>Berkley<br />
<b>Published Date: </b>October 17th, 2017<br />
<b>Genre: </b>Family, Realistic, Christmas<br />
<b>Page Count:</b>368<br />
<b>Format: </b>Kindle<br />
<b><br /></b><b>My Rating: </b>★ ★ ★.5<br />
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Emma and Andrew the patriarchs of the family are excited for the family to all be back together for the first time in years for the holidays. The one downside they will all be quarantined together in one house for a week in order to make sure daughter Olivia doesn't infect anyone with a disease she has been helping treat in Africa. </div>
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The quarantine wouldn't be a problem, but in recent years this family has been drifting apart in a sense. They all have been keeping secrets from one another and there is definitely a divide in the family over who is close and who is just plain icy towards one another. Will this week bring them closer together or break them farther apart? Or maybe both?</div>
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Overall I did enjoy this book. Getting to see this story from each different family members perspective was really nice and helped the story grow in a way that felt like I was really watching a movie or tv show play out in my head that shows a family over the holidays. </div>
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I found myself really getting annoyed with Andrew and Phoebe. Andrew was the typical jerkish food critic reporter that never seems to be happy. Phoebe is someone that is smart, yet doesn't use that and instead settles for less and to marry rich in order to fit into a type of mold she seems to think should be filled. </div>
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Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-40785647044720898612018-12-03T06:00:00.000-06:002018-12-03T06:00:05.931-06:00Advent Book | The Living Gospel (Daily Devotional, for Advent 2018) by Greg Kandra | Spotlight | Blogmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Author: </b>Greg Kandra<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>Ave Maria Press<br />
<b>Publish Date:</b> September 21st, 2018<br />
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Award-winning journalist and popular blogger Deacon Greg Kandra accompanies you in prayer and reflection through the busy days and long nights of the Advent season to help you spiritually prepare for Christmas. In <i>Daily Devotions for Advent 2018</i>, he comforts, challenges, and leads you toward the undying hope of Christ’s birth.<br />
<i>Daily Devotions for Advent 2018</i> offers prayerful guidance from the first Sunday of Advent to Christmas Day through a daily reflection on the gospel reading, a focused spiritual exercise, and a brief prayer that sums up the day’s theme and asks for God’s blessing.<br />
Deacon Greg Kandra, creator of <i>The Deacon’s Bench</i> and popular blogger, will challenge you to celebrate Advent with patience and help you be ready for a happy and holy Christmas. He keeps you focused on the mystery of Christ’s coming and shows you how to prepare your heart to welcome him.<br />
Each two-page daily devotion offers brief Bible verses, prayers, wise and practical reflections on the Word of God, and an easy-to-do spiritual exercise that you can usually accomplish in a single day. Kandra’s daily reflections will help root your Advent journey in the daily gospel readings and lead you to spiritual renewal as you get ready for Christmas.<br />
The compact size and affordable pricing make this ideal for individuals as well as bulk purchases in parishes, schools, diocesan offices, and other Catholic settings.<br />
The Living Gospel series of devotionals for Lent and Advent offers spiritual insight and practical wisdom from popular Catholic preachers, speakers, and homilists. A new voice each season and a simple format invite Catholics to hear and embrace the living Word of God.<br />
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<b><u>Thank you to Ave Maria Press for sending me a copy of this advent book!</u></b><br />
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Today is the second official day of advent! While I might be a day late with making this post, there is still plenty of time for you to get caught up with The Living Gospel advent daily devotional.<br />
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<b>Why do I like this advent book so much?</b><br />
Mainly because of how almost everything is in one little book.<br />
Each day is broken up into six different parts (Begin, Pray, Listen, Why It Matters, Act, & Pray). This is split up over two pages, and covers several different bible verses, why it should be important to us, and ends with another short prayer to help us keep present with Emmanuel.<br />
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My favorite thing about this book is how short of a devotional it is. It will most likely take you 5 minutes at max to read the daily devotional and spend time really absorbing what was talked about that day. As someone who is a college student and is going into finals week having something that is short to read that gets me away from my studies for a few minutes is very appreciated. It also brings me back to the present and helps remind me to slow down and really enjoy the holiday season.<br />
<b>Where to Buy</b><br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CYKMCZC/ref=x_gr_w_glide_bb?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_glide_bb-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B07CYKMCZC&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.avemariapress.com/product/1-59471-843-1/The-Living-Gospel-Daily-Devotions-for-Advent-2018/">Ave Maria Press</a> Both Amazon and Ave Maria are having sales on the advent book right now!<br />
(I'm not affiliated with the links above I just want to make it easy for you to get your hands on this lovely daily advent book).</div>
Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-91142368970922349572018-12-02T09:00:00.003-06:002018-12-02T09:07:30.325-06:00A Christmas by the Sea by Melody Carlson | Book Review | Blogmas <br />
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<b>Author: </b>Melody Carlson<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>Fleming H. Revell Company<br />
<b>Published Date: </b>September 4th, 2018<br />
<b>Genre: </b>Christian, Adult, Christmas, Contemporary<br />
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<b><br /></b><span id="freeText14419081244721296112">When Wendy Harper inherits her family's beachside cottage in Seaside, Maine, she sees it as a way to finally pay off the debts that have mounted since her husband died. But before it can be sold, the neglected property must be renovated. She and her 12-year-old son Jackson move in--temporarily, she reminds him--in order to do the work themselves, even though Christmas is coming. The charming town, along with local craftsman Caleb Colton, pulls on both Wendy and Jackson, who even registers himself for school in a bid to get his mom to move them there permanently. Wendy knows that the most responsible thing to do is to sell the cottage and return to Ohio, but the lure of the sea is hard to resist.<br /><br />Join award-winning author Melody Carlson for a Christmas story that will warm your heart and have you dreaming of your own enchanted seaside holiday.</span> <b><br /></b> ---------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">A Christmas by the Sea is a book about a mother and son who have gone back to a place where the mom summered with her grandparents and has now inherited after the death of her grandfather. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Wendy and her son Jackson are going from Ohio to Maine in order to get to the cottage and fix it up for it to be sold, or at least that's what Wendy has planned. Jackson, on the other hand, wants this to become their new home and for them to have a fresh start after everything that happened. </span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Overall enjoyed this book. As soon as I saw the cover of this book I immediately wanted to read it. I really enjoyed the mom and son relationship in this book as it's not something we get to see a lot, especially where they are close. Wendy and Jackson are two characters that I absolutely loved, Jackson was so full of hope and energy and it was infectious after a while. Wendy while being stuck in a hard place for most of the book with financial responsibilities really started to enjoy what Jackson was doing and saying and started to realize that maybe things weren't so hopeless which I really liked. It was nice to see a kid change the opinion of a parent in a positive way about something. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The side characters I really enjoyed as well and for this being such a short book we do get to know some of them fairly well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The last 2 pages though absolutely ruined the whole book for me in a way. I could have done without that personally. I am also starting to feel like Carlson doesn't know how to end certain books without two people rushing into something that's extremely serious.</span></div>
Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-46912608167749759872018-12-01T13:13:00.001-06:002018-12-01T13:14:03.959-06:00BLOGMAS 2018!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-86789816881390087162018-11-28T06:00:00.000-06:002018-11-28T07:27:34.427-06:00Spotlight Tour | Stronger, Faster, & More Beautiful | Blog Tour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author: </b>Arwen Elys Dalton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Release Date: </b>December 4th, 2018</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Genre: </b>Science Fiction, YA</span><br />
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<span id="freeText16134035381252995177"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For fans of television shows <i>Black Mirror</i> and <i>Westworld, </i> this compelling, mind-bending novel is a twisted look into the future, exploring how far we will go to remake ourselves into the perfect human specimen and what it means to be human at all.<br />
<br />Set in our world, spanning the near to distant futures, <i>Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful</i> is a novel made up of six interconnected stories that ask how far we will go to remake ourselves into the perfect human specimens, and how hard that will push the definition of "human."<br />
<br />This extraordinary work explores the amazing possibilities of genetic manipulation and life extension, as well as the ethical quandaries that will arise with these advances. The results range from the heavenly to the monstrous. Deeply thoughtful, poignant, horrifying, and action-packed, Arwen Elys Dayton's <i>Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful</i> is groundbreaking in both form and substance.</span></span><br />
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</b> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyc09ahk99crH76id6dQk0o9yXsZyPFeoMH9Yx1LlldPkanyqSPwnkbVULU2rMAz0U75LjTXzGEhzprWt1K9nNOWZJLm8DQKKoK2pKBMcMNUTFQWOs9hma2OhGYOiURuKF4XGaGHNTSlM/s1600/unspecified-20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Spotlight Tour | Stronger, Faster, & More Beautiful | Blog Tour #ya #sciencefiction #delacortepress" border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyc09ahk99crH76id6dQk0o9yXsZyPFeoMH9Yx1LlldPkanyqSPwnkbVULU2rMAz0U75LjTXzGEhzprWt1K9nNOWZJLm8DQKKoK2pKBMcMNUTFQWOs9hma2OhGYOiURuKF4XGaGHNTSlM/s320/unspecified-20.jpg" title="Spotlight Tour | Stronger, Faster, & More Beautiful | Blog Tour" width="320" /></a> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;">Arwen Elys Dayton is best known for her 2012 novel Resurrection and the YA Seeker trilogy. She began her career as a teenage staff writer at a foundation that produced Peabody Award-winning educational shows for PBS. Soon afterward, she began writing novels.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);"><br />
</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 17px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">She spends months doing research for her stories. Her explorations have taken her around the world to places like the Great Pyramid (which she explored by flashlight when researching Resurrection), Hong Kong and its many islands, lots of ruined castles in Scotland, and the cold cities around the Baltic Sea. She enjoys creating complete worlds inhabited by characters who charm, frustrate or inspire.</span></span><br />
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Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-42017938585423836452018-11-26T06:00:00.000-06:002018-11-26T06:00:06.804-06:00The Perfect Candidate by Peter Stone | Book Review<a href="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1536157325l/41718617.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The Perfect Candidate, peter stone, mystery, ya, thriller, washington, intern, congress" border="0" height="320" id="coverImage" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1536157325l/41718617.jpg" title="The Perfect Candidate by Peter Stone | Book Review" width="211" /></a><b>Title: </b>The Perfect Candidate<br />
<b>Author: </b>Peter Stone<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>October 2nd, 2018<br />
<b>Published Date: </b>Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers<br />
<b>Genre: </b>Mystery, YA, Thriller<br />
<b>Page Count:</b>384<br />
<b>Format: </b>Kindle<br />
<b><br /></b><b>My Rating: </b>★ ★ ★ ★<br />
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<span id="freeText9077211807637412682"><b>From debut author Peter Stone comes a heart-stopping, pulse-pounding political thriller that’s perfect for fans of Ally Carter and <i>House of Cards</i>. </b><br /><br />When recent high school graduate Cameron Carter lands an internship with Congressman Billy Beck in Washington, DC, he thinks it is his ticket out of small town captivity. What he lacks in connections and Beltway polish he makes up in smarts, and he soon finds a friend and mentor in fellow staffer Ariel Lancaster.<br /><br />That is, until she winds up dead.<br /><br />As rumors and accusations about her death fly around Capitol Hill, Cameron’s low profile makes him the perfect candidate for an FBI investigation that he wants no part of. Before he knows it—and with his family’s future at stake—he discovers DC’s darkest secrets as he races to expose a deadly conspiracy.<br /><br />If it doesn’t get him killed first.</span><b><br /></b><b><br /></b> ---------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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I first wanted to read this book, because it's about an intern in Washinton D.C. and with how I've become invested in elections and what politicians are doing in the past two years, I wanted to read a book that covered that as well.<br />
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For me, this book was very realistic when it came to how people deal with loss, as well as trying to balance out the two different lives we can live at the same time. Cameron was a character that I truly did like, and he was smart and dumb at the same time just like a real person. He never had all of the answers and he trusted people he shouldn't have at times and confided in people that were good at other times. I cannot give this book enough praise and I can't wait to see what the author writes next. </div>
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Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-42366217529982535472018-11-02T06:00:00.000-05:002018-11-02T07:23:25.134-05:00Blog Tour | Carols and Chaos by Cindy Anstey | Book Review & Giveaway!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Author: </b>Cindy Anstey<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>Swoon Reads<br />
<b>Published Date: </b>October 9th,2018<br />
<b>Genre: </b>Historical Fiction, Romance, YA<br />
<b>Page Count:</b>336<br />
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A lady’s maid and a valet become entangled in a yuletide counterfeiting scheme in this romantic Christmas YA adventure.<br />
1817. The happy chaos of the Yuletide season has descended upon the country estate of Shackleford Park in full force, but lady’s maid Kate Darby barely has the time to notice. Between her household duties, caring for her ailing mother, and saving up money to someday own a dress shop, her hands are quite full. Matt Harlow is also rather busy. He’s performing double-duty, acting as valet for both of the Steeple brothers, two of the estate’s holiday guests.<br />
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Falling in love would be a disaster for either of them. But staving off their feelings for each other becomes the least of their problems when a devious counterfeiting scheme reaches the gates of Shackleford Park, and Kate and Matt are unwittingly swept up in the intrigue. Full of sweetness, charm, and holiday shenanigans, Carols and Chaos is perfect for fans of Jane Austen and Downton Abbey.<b><br />
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I love being able to see points of views from servants in historical fiction books. You get to know so much more about the people that they are serving as well as how the house is run, and the other servants themselves who more often than not have far more exciting lives than the people with money. Carols and Chaos did not disappoint with that part of the story.<br />
Kate and Matt both have a lot of responsibilities for there employers (we first met them in <a href="https://readingwithwrin.blogspot.com/2018/04/suitors-and-sabotage-by-cindy-anstey.html">Suitors and Sabotage </a>) and making sure that they are well kept and when need be also help take care of household duties. Which there are a lot of as it is the Christmas season, which also brings about us meeting and interacting with the other servants. I really wish we had gotten to interact more with them at times, but sadly we do not as Kate and Matt are always so busy with other things. We do however get to see a future highly superstitious moments with the cook and head housekeeper, and the butler who was a surly old man.<br />
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Overall I did really enjoy this story, even if it did seem a little disjointed at times. There were so many different parts and things didn't really start to come together for me until the last 30% of the book. That 30% though was what saved this book for me. Not only do we finally start getting answers to what had been happening, but we also got a good mystery!<br />
The mystery surrounded Johnny who was a friend of Ben's who works as a footman. Johnny ends up getting taken for a fool it seems and from there, things escalate as Johnny tries to get back what is rightfully his.<br />
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Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-13096858733774866532018-10-31T06:00:00.000-05:002018-10-31T06:00:10.035-05:00The Dark Beneath the Ice by Amelinda Berube | Book Review<a href="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1516821769l/32941909.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The Dark Beneath the Ice by Amelinda Berube | Book Review #bookreview #mystery #paranormal #horror #thriller #youngadult #ya #fantasy" border="0" height="400" id="coverImage" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1516821769l/32941909.jpg" title="The Dark Beneath the Ice by Amelinda Berube | Book Review" width="266" /></a><b>Title: </b>The Dark Beneath the Ice<br />
Author: Amelinda Berube<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>Sourcebooks Fire <br />
<b>Published Date: </b> August 7th, 2018<br />
<b>Genre: </b>Fantasy, Horror, Paranormal, YA<br />
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<span id="freeText18038969308086107238">Something is wrong with Marianne. <br /><br />It's not just that her parents have split up, or that life hasn't been the same since she quit dancing. Or even that her mother has checked herself into the hospital. <br /><br />She's losing time. Doing things she would never do. And objects around her seem to break whenever she comes close. <br /><br />Something is after her. But a first attempt at an exorcism calls down the full force of the thing's rage. It demands Marianne give back what she stole. And Marianne must uncover the truth that lies beneath it all before the nightmare can take what it think it's owed, leaving Marianne trapped in the darkness of the other side.</span><b><br /></b><b><br /></b> ---------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-71739623849118489782018-10-26T11:04:00.003-05:002018-10-26T11:04:51.812-05:00Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kirsten White | Book Review<a href="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1518635930l/38255342.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein #bookreview #ya #horror #fantasy #retelling #frankenstein #maryshelly" border="0" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1518635930l/38255342.jpg" title="Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kirsten White | Book Review" width="213" /></a><b>Title: </b>The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein<br />
<b>Author: </b>Kiersten White<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>Delacorte Press <br />
<b>Published Date: </b>September 25th, 2018<br />
<b>Genre: </b>Historical Fiction, Fantasy, YA, Retelling, Horror<br />
<b>Page Count:</b>304<br />
<b>Format: </b><span>Hardcover</span><br />
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<span>Elizabeth Lavenza hasn't had a proper meal in weeks. Her thin arms are covered with bruises from her "caregiver," and she is on the verge of being thrown into the streets . . . until she is brought to the home of Victor Frankenstein, an unsmiling, solitary boy who has everything--except a friend.<br /><br />Victor is her escape from misery. Elizabeth does everything she can to make herself indispensable--and it works. She is taken in by the Frankenstein family and rewarded with a warm bed, delicious food, and dresses of the finest silk. Soon she and Victor are inseparable.<br /><br />But her new life comes at a price. As the years pass, Elizabeth's survival depends on managing Victor's dangerous temper and entertaining his every whim, no matter how depraved. Behind her blue eyes and sweet smile lies the calculating heart of a girl determined to stay alive no matter the cost . . . as the world she knows is consumed by darkness.</span> <b><br /></b><b><br /></b> ---------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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Three years ago I read the original <a href="https://readingwithwrin.blogspot.com/2015/07/frankenstein-or-modern-prometheus-by.html">Frankenstein</a> by Mary Shelley and I was a little underwhelmed by it personally. What was missing in it for me was found in this book! The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein is incredibly creepy yet heartwarming at times. Which was what was missing for me in the original.<br />
White makes it so you not only care about Elizabeth and several of the other side characters, but that you also care for Victor and what he had created by the end. How she does this I'm not sure, because it seemed like my opinions on certain characters was constantly changing depending on what chapter I was on. The characters are what drives this book along, and I've learned that that's what I love in books right now.<br />
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Kiersten if you need an idea for a short story for next Halloween I would love to see more of Mary and Elizabeth and their adventures in Russia!</div>
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<b>Publication date:</b> October 2nd 2018<br />
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<em><span style="font-family: inherit;">A high school “American Psycho.”</span></em><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">SOME TRUTHS ARE BETTER KEPT SECRET.</span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">SOME SECRETS ARE BETTER OFF DEAD.</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Along the banks of the Bogue Falaya River, sits the abandoned St. Francis Seminary. Beneath a canopy of oaks, blocked from prying eyes, the teens of St. Benedict High gather here on Fridays. The rest of the week belongs to school and family—but weekends belong to the river.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And the river belongs to Beau Devereaux.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The only child of a powerful family, Beau can do no wrong. Handsome. Charming. Intelligent. The star quarterback of the football team. The “prince” of St. Benedict is the ultimate catch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A dirty family secret buried for years, Beau’s evil grows unchecked. In the shadows of the ruined St. Francis Abbey, he commits unspeakable acts on his victims and ensures their silence with threats and intimidation. Senior year, Beau sets his sights on his girlfriend’s headstrong twin sister, Leslie, who hates him. Everything he wants but cannot have, she will be his ultimate prize.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As the victim toll mounts, it becomes crystal clear that someone has to stop Beau Devereaux. </span><br />
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He is an author and poet with a penchant for telling stories that delve into the dark side of the human psyche. He likes to explore the evil that exists, not just in the world, but right next door behind a smiling face.<br />
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Photography, making wine, and helping endangered species are just some of his interests. Lucas is an expert archer and enjoys jazz, blues, and classical music.<br />
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One of his favorite quotes is: “It’s better to be silent than be a fool.” ~Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)</div>
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<br />Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-46043374117965000962018-10-05T06:00:00.000-05:002018-10-05T06:00:10.501-05:00Medallion of Murder by BR Myers | Blog Tour & Giveaway | Book Review<img alt="#anefertarihughesmystery, #medallionofmurder #brmyers #bluemoonpublishers #kindle #2018read #booktour #yareads #mystery #yamystery" height="145" src="https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/u/0/?view=att&th=166109428407dc85&attid=0.3&disp=inline&safe=1&zw&saddbat=ANGjdJ9wx0L_XpBWWjwdIjOjiOtyiuVdqcxU-HDr4Qva74bnf_biECVIo_dyvYBZP5IaUJdRUBB1b2fsj3DZ9H5vGg6jjLpUW8KbxsDqSYKDv2pAyyaGANIsuhDCT5wL0Q9XHtIGl8yhQtGwNt6RpiP2FUFv4R6Ld4z6dJUpzpNTSchNzb4W00YGOD3g3T_mCO80qfhg2ehhRPTpllqYJbkKsGi3daAFc_uCOvQggAcT35qec2csV3z2F8oD48eskMZERP9eBPlHWNelG2Gnl5-n_Rv1ZUHY_l187mGFiQ2MhoBF024B4J8O3PVa8rvTQKJ2DYSU-QsPNusFAjxNOWneEWzwSA2yL8yll03VG7kHHLKI2BJG6gf5URSkgJc3GAnBEx18GcdXe2gKaNJfWkgQc-LqcG0SQIFyLEPQVhBYfLZSG-yxXj2iv9mKbFpr8dI2sqB7bjb_ezb1aawxwIoeuxneVFv99Sc-uKI-cGLTQ2wgw0JrEfngvwNelNLFpHZ8hasD2DNvBO0-8p2d1pqz7DFh7vBIevQi0ZIl1RPPIdcE6SR8H6WbosToxBHa4ySOZlVCH6dpCrwtiGzCYunYdevFlBXteS9uyNgnYF8taCkj8vc8O98E17MIV1NFGmoSuukJVfoupfOY3Pxn" title="Medallion of Murder by BR Myers | Blog Tour & Giveaway | Book Review" width="400" /><br />
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<b>Series:</b> A Nefertari Hughes Mystery<br />
<b>Author: </b>BR Myers<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>Blue Moon Publishers<br />
<b>Published Date: </b>September 18th, 2018<br />
<b>Genre: </b>Mystery, History based, Egyptology, YA<br />
<b>Page Count:</b>283<br />
<b>Format: </b>Kindle<br />
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</b><b>My Rating: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "lato" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">★ ★ ★.5 </span><br />
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</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Still struggling with nightmares from the past summer, Terry tries to bury her secret guilt and enjoy her family’s first Christmas in Devonshire. But when a murdered man is found with a postcard addressed to her, Terry fears the repercussions from that fateful night in Egypt are becoming a reality.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">After she receives a coded message from Awad, Terry and her best friend Maude are thrown into the hunt for a lost medallion, an artifact that possesses a great power—and a gruesome destiny. As each clue leads to more disturbing truths (and bodies), Terry begins to suspect she’s the real target of the search. When Awad goes missing, she becomes certain the Illuminati are involved, and has no choice but to risk losing the thing she cherishes the most to get him back. </span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">But Terry will soon discover the secrets of the tomb cannot be erased by distance or power, because the ghosts of her past are closing in quickly… and this time, they refuse to stay buried.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Always in the mood for a good scare, B.R. Myers spent most of her teen years behind the covers of Lois Duncan, Ray Bradbury, and Stephen King. Her YA contemporary coming of age novel, GIRL ON THE RUN, was chosen by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre as a BEST BOOK for TEENS for 2016.</span><br />
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</b></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";">Thank you to Xpressobooktours for the free copy and being able to be apart of the blog tour. </div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";">Full disclosure I didn't realize this was the third book in the series until I went to start reading it. Some of my opinions on it will not fully reflect the series nor should it stop you from starting the series. </div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";">I absolutely loved the history parts of this book. I grew up loving everything about Egypt and I am so glad to finally be seeing it in a YA series. I know several middle-grade series our about Egypt but I personally haven't seen many ya ones, if I'm missing them please let me know what they are so I can read them!</div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">A lot of the relationships I found a little confusing at times to figure out who was who and how they were all connected. I did figure this all out about 20% into the book. This was completely my fault though because I hadn't read the first two books. I also found the </span>Illuminati a little confusing as well, because of how secretive everything about it was.<br />
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What I liked.<br />
I really did like the history as I mentioned before. I also liked how the main character Terry does use a prosthetic leg and that is made to be normal, no one was weirded out by it including her boyfriend as they get more serious and started talking about certain things. Terry's best friends are amazing and I adore them. They are supportive and informative and just jump right in and find ways to help Terry solve the problem that they are being faced with. Awad was a character I was a little unsure of at first, because of certain things and I really didn't trust him fully because of how secretive he was being about certain things.<br />
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What I felt meh about.<br />
How secretive everything was about certain things. I really didn't see a point in half of it because of how dangerous things got by the end. People needed to know the secrets, but couldn't for reasons that I kind of understand, but I still don't like the reasons.<br />
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Overall I did enjoy this book. I will say that this is a series that builds off of each book so it should be read in order to fully understand everything. <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I do want to read the first two books in the series and reread this one because I do think I missed a lot of things because I just didn't understand what was going on. I will review the first two books when I read them, and possibly add more to this review after I have reread it. </span><br />
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<b>Author: </b>Tellulah Darling<br />
<b>Publisher:</b> Te Da Media<br />
<b>Published Date: </b>September 18th, 2018<br />
<b>Genre: </b>Romance, Comedy, Adventure<br />
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Genre: YA romantic comedy/adventure</div>
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<b>She’s hell-bent on revenge. </b></div>
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<b>He’s desperate for adventure.</b></div>
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<b>Now the only question is: does this count as a date?</b></div>
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Sixteen-year-old Reiko Mori’s family has clashed with the Markows in a clandestine search for the famed Lover’s Kiss Ruby, ever since their ancestors killed each other over it centuries ago in Japan.</div>
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Now, after pulling off a successful museum heist, Reiko’s finally going to be the one who finds the jewel.</div>
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Even better? She’s just arranged a study date with hot-but-sheltered sculptor Levi Green to work on their English project. Things are looking good.</div>
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Until a mysterious third party attacks Reiko and Levi, intent on stealing her clues to the ruby.</div>
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Until Reiko discovers the Lover’s Kiss is actually in Europe, an ocean away.</div>
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And until goofy, affable Levi Green turns out to be Levi Markow, mortal enemy number one.</div>
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Plan B it is: reluctantly team up with Levi to find the priceless gem before the shadowy and deadly group on the jewel’s trail finds it first.</div>
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And if history is gonna repeat itself with the kissing, running, and screwing over, see which one of them comes out on top.</div>
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Levi rubbed his arm, his expression wary. “Reiko Mori, I presume.”</div>
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“‘I presume?’” Reiko dropped into a fighter’s crouch. “You’re missing the British accent.”</div>
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Levi put his hands up in a pathetic imitation of defensive position. Her cat could have landed a punch through those gaps. “And you’re missing the reality where we aren’t about to have an MMA showdown.”</div>
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Reiko smirked but lowered her hands. “Because I’d wipe the floor with your ass.”</div>
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“Says Hit-Girl masquerading as the resident shy chick all these years. Nice James Bond alter ego you got going on.”</div>
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“I am shy.” She grabbed a dishtowel and whipped it at his head. It fluttered to the counter, far short of its mark.</div>
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Levi snorted.</div>
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“Being around my sworn enemies tends to knock it out of me. Besides, you’re one to talk, Artsy Boy. Had everyone fooled.” Including stupid me. She pushed him backwards out of the kitchen, shoving him again and again until his back hit the wall next to the front door.</div>
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Levi fended off her next blow. The sweep of his arm knocking her hands away left behind a familiar faint hint of rubbing alcohol. She’d watched him use it to remove clay from his hands at school many times. Could she be more pathetically tuned into this guy?</div>
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Levi held out his hand, palm up. “Hand over the locket, sweetheart. The real one this time.”</div>
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“<i>Sweetheart</i>?” She pulled herself up to her full height. “Could you be more stereotypical bad guy?”</div>
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“He could have a mustachio to twirl,” Aviva said, from her avid spectator spot hanging over the bannister.</div>
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“True,” Reiko said.</div>
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Levi rubbed the back of his neck. “I’m not the one blowing kisses before screwing people over. That a move passed down through the generations with you chicks? Think that adds weight to my family being the wronged party here, Mata Hari.”</div>
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“Mata…? Argh!” She snatched up the poker.</div>
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“Go ahead, brain me.” Levi turned out his pockets in a huff. “No ruby. Just lint. I’d hate you to pointlessly commit murder except, oh yeah. You Moris are bloodthirsty!”</div>
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“Better a bloodthirsty Mori than a cowardly, backstabbing Markow!” Reiko jabbed the poker at him.</div>
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Levi grabbed the other end, the two of them engaged in a furious tug-of-war for possession. He let go suddenly, sending Reiko staggering back a few steps</div>
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Reiko flung open the door and pointed outside. With the poker. “Get. Out.”</div>
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Levi held his ground for a minute but must have decided she meant business because he grabbed his shoes. “This isn’t over.”</div>
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“You’ll get the locket over my dead body, <i>Lion Cub</i>.”</div>
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“Great! Can’t wait to pry it out of your cold, rigor-mortised hands,” he snapped, and stomped out of the house, slamming the door behind him.</div>
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“Shit,” said Aviva, “this is really gonna put a crimp in your dating plans.”</div>
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Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-73314110217571120112018-09-21T06:00:00.000-05:002018-12-23T14:18:46.349-06:00Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen | Book Review<a href="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1323428173l/9781661.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen #bookreview #historicalfiction #multipov #romance #flapper #1929 #roaringtwenties" border="0" height="320" id="coverImage" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1323428173l/9781661.jpg" title="Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen | Book Review" width="211" /></a><b>Title: </b>Bright Young Things<br />
<b>Series: </b>Bright Young Things #1<br />
<b>Author: </b>Anna Godbersen<br />
<b>Narrator: </b>Emily Bauer<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>Harperchildren's Audio<br />
<nobr class="greyText"></nobr><b>Published Date: </b>October 12th, 2010<br />
<b>Genre: </b>Historical Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, YA<br />
<b>Format: </b>Audiobook<br />
<b><br /></b><b>My Rating: </b>★ ★ ★ ★<br />
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<b><br /></b><span id="freeText5638386124356146660"><i>The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties.</i><br /><br />Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York's glittering metropolis. All Letty wants is to see her name in lights, but she quickly discovers Manhattan is filled with pretty girls who will do anything to be a star...<br /><br />Cordelia is searching for the father she's never known, a man as infamous for his wild parties as he is for his shadowy schemes. Overnight, she enters a world more thrilling and glamorous than she ever could have imagined—and more dangerous. It's a life anyone would kill for...and someone will.<br /><br />The only person Cordelia can trust is Astrid Donal, a flapper who seems to have it all: money, looks, and the love of Cordelia's brother, Charlie. But Astrid's perfect veneer hides a score of family secrets.<br /><br />Across the vast lawns of Long Island, in the illicit speakeasies of Manhattan, and on the blindingly lit stages of Broadway, the three girls' fortunes will rise and fall—together and apart. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Luxe comes an epic new series set in the dizzying last summer of the Jazz Age.</span><b><br /></b> ---------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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“That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span>The girls of 1929.”</blockquote>
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The friendships shown in this book were extremely realistic and I loved how things weren't always peachy keen between everyone. They all struggled as friends and in their personal lives and because of that it made the book for more real and like this really could have been someone's life which is what I love about historical fiction when its done really well and is something that doesn't always happen in YA. </div>
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The mob lifestyle was fascinating to me and I loved how we were just slow given little details about it we weren't told everything at once and instead were given details slowly over time or just little hints which you had to piece together yourselves. </div>
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The romance parts of this book I didn't mind. I thought at times the girls were being a bit ridiculous and too risky but that's to be expected especially with Cordelia and Letty as they weren't used to the city life. </div>
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I surprisingly so far don't have any favorites when it comes to the three girls. I enjoyed their stories equally and I can't wait to see what they get up to in the next book!</div>
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“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt
that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the
laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces
of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every
dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in
short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still
remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season
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<b>Author: </b>Janet Beard<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>William Morrow Paperbacks<br />
<b>Published Date: </b>February 6th, 2018<br />
<b>Genre: </b>Historical Fiction, WWII<br />
<b>Page Count:</b>384<br />
<b>Format: </b>Paperback <br />
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</b><b>My Rating: </b>★ ★ ★.5<br />
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<span id="freeText16329149126395279745">In the bestselling tradition of <i>Hidden Figures</i> and <i>The Wives of Los Alamos</i>, comes a riveting novel of the everyday women who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II<br />
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<i>“What you see here, what you hear here, what you do here, let it stay here.”</i><br />
<br />In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn’t officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has sprung up in a matter of months—a town of trailers and segregated houses, 24-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained. They know they are helping to win the war, but must ask no questions and reveal nothing to outsiders.<br />
<br />The girls spend their evenings socializing and flirting with soldiers, scientists, and workmen at dances and movies, bowling alleys and canteens. June longs to know more about their top-secret assignment and begins an affair with Sam Cantor, the young Jewish physicist from New York who oversees the lab where she works and understands the end goal only too well, while her beautiful roommate Cici is on her own mission: to find a wealthy husband and escape her sharecropper roots. Across town, African-American construction worker Joe Brewer knows nothing of the government’s plans, only that his new job pays enough to make it worth leaving his family behind, at least for now. But a breach in security will intertwine his fate with June’s search for answers.<br />
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</b> I think by now we can all just know that anything to do with WWII I will read. So when I saw this book I knew I had to read it and soon!<br />
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Atomic City Girls follows several different people as they live and work in Tennesse in Atomic City. With June being the one we spend the most time with. We get to see things from Joe Brewer as well and see the segregated side of the city, and the struggles they were facing.<br />
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Atomic City was a not so well kept secret to most of the surrounding area. With people going in and out constantly and segregation and only the top military and scientist personal knowing what was happening a lot of mystery and speculation surrounded everyone. With this speculation came high tensions, and hot tempers at times.<br />
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Overall I did enjoy this book, but certain things about it I would have liked to know more about. I personally felt like this became more of a romance book then what was actually happening in the city and why it was happening. So many secrets were being kept and while June knew them no one else did that she was close to besides Sam who had some problems. Truthfully I wanted so much more for June and yet I understood why she stayed in the situation she was in as well.<br />
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Sam became one of those characters that I wanted to know more about, yet one that I also found myself despising at times. He was such a jerk the more time went on and I just wanted him to leave because of how unhappy he was with what was happening.<br />
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I would have loved to see more things from Joe's perspective and I really did favor him as more time went on. I found it fascinating to learn more about a part of history that isn't talked about seeing it alongside something that is talked about a little more.<br />
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Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-54628702519280846252018-09-10T06:00:00.000-05:002018-09-11T09:49:54.893-05:00Blog Tour | I Do Not Trust You by Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz | Book Review<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVk4aKZO6fhS11ie2QNY33siM11XozAGTy3JOb6urU7sAaiTw9Ctrm5SurXcXukGG5VcghQtcf-xE414IgcEB1LbGGABPB4QnxW0kTa3Ew7kt7cZ12bTtmqvCbDa-_kIqWFnDMsTpb5gM/s1600/I+Do+Not+Trust+You_cover+image.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Blog Tour | I Do Not Trust You by Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz | #bookreview #adventure #idianajones #adventure #history #cultures #wednesdaybooks" border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1063" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVk4aKZO6fhS11ie2QNY33siM11XozAGTy3JOb6urU7sAaiTw9Ctrm5SurXcXukGG5VcghQtcf-xE414IgcEB1LbGGABPB4QnxW0kTa3Ew7kt7cZ12bTtmqvCbDa-_kIqWFnDMsTpb5gM/s320/I+Do+Not+Trust+You_cover+image.jpg" title="Blog Tour | I Do Not Trust You by Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz | Book Review" width="212" /></a><b>Title: </b>I Do Not Trust You<br />
<b>Author: </b> Laura J. Burns & Melinda Metz<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>Wednesday Books<br />
<b>Published Date: </b>September 11th, 2018<br />
<b>Genre: </b>Mystery, Fantasy<br />
<b>Page Count: </b>320<br />
<b>Format: </b>Kindle<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Memphis "M" Engel is stubborn to a fault, graced with an almost absurd knowledge of long lost languages and cultures, and a heck of an opponent in a fight. In short: she's awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Equally desperate to find the relic for reasons of her own, M forms an uneasy partnership with Ash. From the catacombs of Paris, to a sacred forest in Norway, to the ruins of a submerged temple in Egypt, together they crisscross the globe in their search. But through it all, M can never be sure: Is she traveling with a friend or enemy?</span><b><br /></b><b><br /></b> ---------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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<b><br /></b> I Do Not Trust You was a book I knew I had to read as soon as I read the summary. A teenage girl who has a lot of knowledge about history and artifacts, and is now traveling the world following a map that hardly anyone knows how to translate. Sign me up because that sounds a lot like Indian Jones who I love. Plus I have been waiting a very long time for a female version of him.<br />
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Memphis who goes by 'M' is a character I really liked. She is feisty and knows how to hold her own in multiple ways of life, while also being extremely unsure about other things. She has recently become an orphan and because of that is now feeling rather isolated because of who she is now living with. She cannot wait until she is done with high school and can move away to college where she will be with people who knew her parents better.<br />
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Ashwin who goes by 'Ash' is a character I was really unsure of at first. I really felt like M does for most of the book and even towards the end, I didn't fully trust him. I did find him fascinating though, and I loved his parts of the story. I think having his point of view really does help make it easier to understand what is happening and how these things are happening. He is in a cult so that added a different element to the story, and was fascinating to me to learn about.<br />
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We do get to see a lot of different places from the rainforest, to bigger cities like New Orleans, a convent and so many more places. We get to see Ash and M follow the secret map as the look for pieces of an 'ancient mythical being'. Throughout this journey, we get to learn more about both of their childhoods and what has given them the abilities to interpret the map and the hieroglyphics.<br />
This was the part I really liked learning about Ash as he has had very specific training in the past few years through his cult which was really rather intense and a bit much at times like all cults are. While with M she grew up around it because of her parents so she has a lot of connections, but also had a storyline we are more used to seeing (Indiana Jones).<br />
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Overall I really liked this book. The history and adventure part of it were great. Seeing all the different places and how they were able to decipher the hieroglyphics they found in all the places was truly an adventure. From the two different cult's we get to see and learn about, to the little side stories of both the characters I couldn't get enough honestly. I truly enjoyed this book so much and I really hope we get to continue on with these characters!<br />
<b><br /></b> P.S. I would love to see this get made into a movie or web series or something like that. It would be a great way for so many people to learn things about different cultures. </div>
Reading With Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15988684234100288719noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5253996854844771304.post-28445023357506549352018-09-07T06:00:00.000-05:002018-09-07T12:14:48.908-05:00Out of Left Field by Ellen Klages | Book Review<a href="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1513116336l/36025369.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Out of Left Field by Ellen Klages #bookreview #baseball #historicalfiction #littleleague #middlegrade" border="0" height="320" id="coverImage" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1513116336l/36025369.jpg" title="Out of Left Field by Ellen Klages | Book Review" width="213" /></a><b>Title: </b>Out of Left Field<br />
<b>Author: </b>Ellen Klages<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>Viking Books for Young Readers<br />
<b>Published Date: </b>May 1st, 2018<br />
<b>Genre: </b>Historical Fiction, Little League, Baseball<br />
<b>Page Count: </b>320<br />
<b>Format: </b>Paperback<br />
<b><br /></b><b>My Rating: </b>★ ★ ★ ★ ★<br />
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<span id="freeText1087577538199007479"><b> <b>A story about the fight for equal rights in America's favorite arena: the baseball field!</b> </b><br />Every boy in the neighborhood knows Katy Gordon is their best pitcher, even though she's a girl. But when she tries out for Little League, it's a whole different story. Girls are not eligible, period. It is a boy's game and always has been. It's not fair, and Katy's going to fight back. Inspired by what she's learning about civil rights in school, she sets out to prove that she's <i>not </i>the only girl who plays baseball. With the help of friendly librarians and some tenacious research skills, Katy discovers the forgotten history of female ballplayers. Why does no one know about them? Where are they now? And how can one ten-year-old change people's minds about what girls can do?<br /><br />Set in 1957--the world of Sputnik and <i>Leave It to Beaver</i>, saddle shoes and "Heartbreak Hotel"--<i>Out of Left Field </i>is both a detailed picture of a fascinating historic period and a timelessly inspiring story about standing up for equality at any age.</span><b><br /></b><b><br /></b> ---------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">"Why did not being a boy make such a big difference? I didn't always look like a girl, and I definetly didn't throw like a girl. Did what was inside my pants really count more than practice and skill?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Not fair."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Out of Left Field follows Katy Gordon and a young girl who wants to keep playing baseball with the neighborhood boys as they join little league. Thiers one problem with this, she's a girl and it's 1957 and girls have no place in little league or baseball. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white;">If you loved the movie a League of Their Own then you will adore this book as well. I loved learning about so many different baseball players and the achievements they made. From desegregation of players to getting benched the whole game these women while always pushed to the side showed that girls are just as good as boys if not been when it comes to sports. If you want to know more about the women and a timeline here's a link to <a href="https://www.usabaseball.com/arc/womens-baseball/history/">usabaseball.com page all about women in baseball</a></span></div>
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