HAPPY MONDAY!💜

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Good morning! Happy Monday! Its 53, going up to 79. I didn’t sleep that well last night so I’m hoping I can stay awake today. Have a relaxing day everyone!🤗☕💜

🌻GOOD MORNING!🌻

| susandyer1962

Good morning! Its 57 here, going up to 79.  Typical Sunday here. Laundry and the big race at Darlington with lots of reading time. I’m going to get the dough going for Everything Bagels in A little bit.  Have a relaxing Sunday my friends!💜☕💜

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REVIEW: LOVE AT FIRST BOOK BY JENN MCKINLAY

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MY REVIEW:

LOVE AT FIRST BOOK is without a doubt one of my top emotional books I’ve read in 2024 so far. I was instantly emotionally invested in all of the characters. My heart broke for Em and Kier. Slow burn, enemies to lovers always wins me over, time and time again! Em and Kier are sunshine and grumpy and kept me giggling throughout this wonderful story! Jenn McKinlay really knows how to write cozy mysteries but she sure can hook the reader with her romance!  I can not wait to read more by this wonderful and heart-tugging author. I have many of her older books to read and that brings me so much joy and happiness to know they are waiting for me!

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

You can read my full review at:

https://freshfiction.com/review.php?id=86665

ABOUT THE BOOK:

When a librarian moves to a quaint Irish village where her favorite novelist lives, the last thing she expects is to fall for the author’s prickly son… until their story becomes one for the books, from the New York Times bestselling author of Summer Reading.

Emily Allen, a librarian on Martha’s Vineyard, has always dreamed of a life of travel and adventure. So when her favorite author, Siobhan Riordan, offers her a job in the Emerald Isle, Emily jumps at the opportunity. After all, Siobhan’s novels got Em through some of the darkest days of her existence.

Helping Siobhan write the final book in her acclaimed series—after a ten-year hiatus due to a scorching case of writer’s block—is a dream come true for Emily. If only she didn’t have to deal with Siobhan’s son, Kieran Murphy. He manages Siobhan’s bookstore, and the grouchy bookworm clearly doesn’t want Em around.

Emily persists, and spending her days bantering with the annoyingly handsome mercurial Irishman only makes her fall more deeply in love with the new life she’s built – and for the man who seems to soften toward her with every quip she throws at him. But when she discovers the reason for Kieran’s initial resistance, Em finds herself torn between helping Siobhan find closure with her series and her now undeniable feelings for Kier. As Siobhan’s novel progresses, Emily will have to decide if she’s truly ready to turn a new page and figure out what lies in the next chapter.

Thank you for stopping by and have a fantastic Saturday!🌞📚🌞

FIRST LINE FRIDAY!

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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:

Ex-con Seth Zimmerman has spent the last three years making amends by helping the vulnerable in his former Amish community. Lately, this mission includes calling on Tabitha Yoder, whose divorce from her abusive husband has isolated her from the community. Even though she never comes out of her house to talk to him, Seth knows she watches him from the window while he chops wood, clears her driveway, and drops off food.   An uneasy friendship is just starting to take hold between them when small gifts begin to appear at Tabitha’s home–gifts that can only be from her ex-husband. Seth might be Tabitha’s only hope at maintaining her hard-won freedom from the man whose violent outbursts had almost cost her life. But coming to her rescue might mean he ends up behind bars once again.   Get swept up in this emotional story of two outcasts who may be each other’s only hope for happiness and redemption from New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray.

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

BOOKS FROM THE BACKLOG!

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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:

Two young boys encounter the best and worst of humanity during the Holocaust in this powerful read that USA Today called “as memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank.”  

Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance. 

But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different from his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.

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