SUNDAY BOOKISH LOVE 💜

Have a relaxing Sunday my friends!📚💜☕

SUNDAY SUNDAY!!☕

Good morning! Its 59 here, going up to 82. Typical Sunday here. Laundry and the big race at Dover with lots of reading time.  Have a relaxing Sunday my friends!💜☕💜

PHOTOS OF KIDS WITH THEIR PETS….I HAD TO SHARE!🤗

1. A beautiful moment captured.

2. ‘Who’s coming?’

3. The bestest friends.

4. ‘Tell me doc, is it serious?’

5. Playtime!

6. ‘Don’t be sad, you’ll get your food soon.’

7. That baby looks comfy.

8. Sharing is caring.

9. This baby looks so content.

10. ‘Our father, who art in heaven…’

11. This baby’s guardian angel is right over his shoulder.

12. We know what you’re up to in there!

13. A helping paw!

14. ‘You’re not actually going to go in there, are you?’

15. Kiss me, my prince.

16. The start of a beautiful friendship.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fantastic night!💜💜

MY NETGALLEY HAUL THIS WEEK🙄

I tried not to go too crazy and here is what happened! This week I snagged three new books!  I still have three requests pending! Now to find the time to read them.

NETGALLEY:

She can’t remember. He can’t forget.

When Lauren Wentworth wakes up in the hospital after falling from a ladder, she has more questions than answers. Way more. She knows where she is—the wilds of New Hampshire. But she’s apparently lost the last four months of her life.  Is she really contemplating forfeiting her big-city dream job for a position at a rustic resort? And how did her number one nemesis become her adoring boyfriend?

Jonah Landry is crushed to learn Lauren has forgotten their entire summer together. Terrified of losing her for good, he determines to help her remember their deep connection as she finishes her obligation to the resort. But soon it becomes apparent Lauren doesn’t want to remember falling in love with him or rethinking the entire course of her career. She wants to pretend the summer never happened and move on with her life. Without him.

As Lauren falls back into the steady routines of resort work with Jonah, she’s relieved her memories haven’t returned and remains resolute about her big-city future. But as autumn leads into winter, she begins to see glimpses of the Jonah she’s forgotten. Will she be able to resist the steady love of this patient man? Or Is her heart destined for its own freefall?

One lost little girl…

Could be the key to a permanent family

Recently fired, Savannah Morgan dreads attending her ten-year high school reunion as a failure. But for Levi Carter, Savannah’s return home might solve all his troubles. The newly single dad needs reliable childcare for his temporary foster daughter—and a fake girlfriend at the reunion to deflect any pitying glances after his recent breakup. But as the line between real and pretend begins to blur, will a secret Savannah is keeping ruin their chance at a permanent commitment?

From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.

Savory barbecue chicken . . . golden-crisp potatoes . . . and fresh-picked produce are just a few of the offerings at Lancaster, Pennsylvania’s Green Valley Farmer’s Market—along with surprising opportunities to find forever friendships, comforting advice—and love’s most delicious possibilities . . .

Filled with faith, community, and sweet romance, USA Today bestselling author Rachel J. Good’s Surprised by Love novels are perfect for fans of Linda Byler, Amy Clipston, Wanda E. Brunstetter, and Charlotte Hubbard.

Hard-working and caring, Anna Mary Zook does her level best to care for her depressed widowed mother and five siblings . . . all while working a new farmer’s market job. And coping with her longtime boyfriend falling for another girl. She couldn’t be more grateful when visitor Abe King helps lighten her load of responsibilities—and is there when she needs a friend. Even more surprising, he understands her better than anyone ever has. But what happens when his family commitments demand that he soon returns home . . . to stay? 

Abe felt Anna Mary’s gentleness and determination was special from the moment they met. And with his own father needing help tending the King family farm in New York, he well knows the pressure she’s under. He’s more than willing to travel to Lancaster as often as possible to help Anna Mary, but she deserves so much more. Abe wouldn’t feel right asking her to uproot her family and life to marry him. But between faith and hope, can they somehow find a way to do right by their duties and their hearts?

Have an awesome day and thank you for stopping by! 🍪📚🍪

GOOD MORNING!☕

Good morning! I slept in and now I’m guzzling the coffee!☕ Its 60 here, going up to 76.  Have a beautiful Saturday everyone!💜☕💜

FIRST LINE FRIDAY!

Happy Friday & welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Reading Is My SuperPower. I’m so excited to be doing these posts again. The book I’m featuring is one I am reading this weekend!

FIRST LINES:

ABOUT THE BOOK:

As the youngest daughter of a country music legend, Raegan Farrow longs to establish an identity away from the spotlight and publish her small-town romances under a pen name. But after her dream is dashed when she won’t exploit her mother’s fame to further her own career, she hears a rumor from a reliable source regarding a tell-all being written about the Farrow family. Making matters worse, the unknown author has gone to great lengths to remain anonymous until publication.

Raegan chooses to keep the tell-all a secret from her scandal-leery sisters as they embark on a two-week, cross-country road trip at their mother’s request and makes it her mission to expose the identity of the author behind the unsanctioned biography. But all is complicated when she discovers their hired bus driver, Micah Davenport, has a hidden agenda of his own–one involving both of their mothers and an old box of journals. As they rely on each other to find the answers they seek, the surprising revelations they unearth will steer them toward their undeniable connection and may even lead them down the most unexpected of paths.

Thank you for stopping by and have a fantastic Friday!☕📚☕

HAPPY FRIDAY!!☕

Good morning! Happy Friday! It is 54 degrees here, heading to 69 with scattered rain. Now I need to get the coffee flowing! Have an awesome day my friends!!💜☕💜

BOOKS FROM THE BACKLOG!

Books from the Backlog is a fun way to feature some of those neglected books sitting on your bookshelf unread.  If you are anything like me, you might be surprised by some of the unread books hiding in your stacks. Hosted by Carole’s Random Life

This week’s neglected book:

Why I haven’t read it yet? I have four book cases over flowing with unread books. I can’t read them all, but if I feature A book here, I’m moving it up on my TBR mountain!🤦‍♀️

FROM GOODREADS:

Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost in the muted/hushed whispers of time—and now death is stalking them, seemingly from the grave.

On a late-night shift, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called to the scene of an apparent suicide—an old man found hanging from the rafters in his dilapidated barn. But evidence quickly points to murder and Kate finds herself chasing a singularly difficult and elusive trail of evidence that somehow points back to the tragedy of that long ago incident. Meanwhile, Kate has moved in with state agent John Tomasetti and for the first time in so long, they’re both happy; a bliss quickly shattered when one of the men responsible for the murders of Tomasetti’s family four years ago is found not guilty, and walks away a free man. Will Tomasetti be pulled back to his own haunted past?

When a second man is found dead—also seemingly by his own hand—Kate discovers a link in the case that sends the investigation in a direction no one could imagine and revealing the horrifying truth of what really happened that terrible night thirty-five years ago, when an Amish father and his four children perished—and his young wife disappeared without a trace.

And, as Kate knows—the past never truly dies . . . in The Dead Will Tell by Linda Castillo

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful Thursday!🍪📚🍪

REVIEW: CAROLINA MOONSET BY MATT GOLDMAN

MY REVIEW:

CAROLINA MOONSET is the first book I have read by Matt Goldman, but it will not be my last. I found his writing to be amazing, engaging, unique, and totally believable! The twists and turns will have you holding your breath and not being able to put this amazing story down. Hang on tight people! It is one crazy and emotional rollercoaster of a ride.

What an intense story CAROLINA MOONSET is. Once you start reading, you aren’t going to be able to stop. Joey Green, a divorced forty five year old father of two, travels from Chicago, Illinois to Beaufort, South Carolina to help his mother take care of his dad, Marshall, who is seventy five and has recently been diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia.  Joey’s father hallucinates due to his dementia and these cause alarm for Joey as the hallucinations hint at secrets. Then someone is murdered, and the police have come knocking on the Green’s front door! You aren’t going to believe where this heart pounding story goes!

CAROLINA MOONSET is a real page-turner. I couldn’t put it down until I knew what had happened. Fans of psychological mysteries will enjoy this one. CAROLINA MOONSET is so well written, that even though it jumps back and forth between the present and the past, it is still easy to follow. As Joey investigates to prove his father’s innocence, he learns about several secrets from the past that teach him things he never would have believed. It is a suspenseful tale that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final pages. I did not want this perfect story to end. I highly recommend CAROLINA MOONSET!

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Netgalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

FROM GOODREADS:

Both suspenseful and deeply moving, Carolina Moonset is an engrossing novel about family, memories both golden and terrible, and secrets too dangerous to stay hidden forever, from New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award-winning author, Matt Goldman. Joey Green has returned to Beaufort, South Carolina, with its palmettos and shrimp boats, to look after his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia, while his overstressed mother takes a break. Marshall Green’s short-term memory has all but evaporated, but, as if in compensation, his oldest memories are more vivid than ever. His mind keeps slipping backwards in time, retreating into long-ago yesterdays of growing up in Beaufort as a boy. At first this seems like a blessing of sorts, with the past providing a refuge from a shrinking future, but Joey grows increasingly anxious as his father’s hallucinatory arguments with figures from his youth begin to hint at deadly secrets, scandals, and suspicions long buried and forgotten. Resurfacing from decades past are mysteries that still have the power to shatter lives–and change everything Joey thought he knew. Especially when a new murder brings the police to his door…

Thank you for stopping by and have a terrific Thursday!🌻📚🌻