It can be rough if things don’t go the way they’ve always gone. In Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners, Violet Baumgartner has always sent a holiday letter, she’s planning the perfect retirement party to share in her letter, and, well, nothing really goes as planned. “Life is what happens between plans,” a very wise professor once told …
I firmly believe that every item that we own tells a story. Perhaps, that’s why Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up has caught on so much. We want to have greater connections to the things we own and hold on to only those things, which truly bring us a lot of value. In …
Life can get so complicated in just a moment. In Sarah Pinborough’s Cross Her Heart, main character Lisa’s life is going along just fine when everything changes. Her daughter, Ava, is turning sixteen when the novel opens. We can tell that she loves her job, and her best friend, Marilyn. But we all know that’s going …
Many individuals are both religious and attracted to the same gender or both genders. While a few believe that you cannot both have a love for God and a love for a member of the same gender, many believe that the two are completely compatible. After all, God doesn’t make mistakes. In Daniel M. Jaffe’s Yeled …
Every once in a while, you get a debut novel that’s truly something special. That’s the case with Sarahlyn Bruck’s Designer You. In this novel, Pam Wheeler seems to have it all – until she suddenly doesn’t. The one thing this novel does well is remind you that everything can change in a minute, nothing is …
*Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you click on a link and make a purchase, I will receive a small percentage of that sale with no additional costs to you. Using affiliate links in posts allows me to help support my family. I completed another pattern test for Goober Pea Designs. This time, it was a …
Please enjoy this guest recipe for chicken with creamy mushrooms contributed by Melissa Gallo of Recipe Barn. This is one of those meals that’s perfect to throw together on crazy weeknights when you don’t want another bland supper of boxed mac ‘n’ cheese and frozen fish sticks. Though creamy and full of flavor this chicken …
Lots of people have complicated relationships with their mothers. In Karin Slaughter’s Pieces of Her, we meet a mother-daughter duo with a very complicated relationship. Andrea Oliver believes that she knows everything she could know about her mother Laura. The two are close, and Andrea has no reason to believe any differently. Laura has many friends, and every …
Sometimes, in order to move forward, it’s important to look backward. Whenever I’m working on revamping aspects of my life, I tend to look back and see where I’ve been to remind myself of where I’m going and how far I’ve come. In Sofia Grant’s The Daisy Children, main character Katie Garrett does just that. She …
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