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Book Gift Guide
If you didn’t already know, I love to read and I love books. That got me thinking that books are great gifts for readers in your life or people that would like to read more. Often people gift books to people that they themselves like or are popular. But in case you’re stumped, I’ve made a little list of books of different genres that could make for great gifts! I want to note that this is a very short list and not comprehensive at all – its’s just meant to give you an idea of books to gift! Working from left to right, top to bottom, I’ll give you a…
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Book Review: Silent Lee and the Adventures of the Side Door Key
Looking for a quick YA story to read? Like fantasy and magic? Silent Lee and the Adventures of the Side Door Key fits in to those categories! Silent Lee is a young girl who has grown up living with her Great Aunt Gen (short for Generous – it took me a minute to realize their names are Silent Lee and Generous Lee!). Living in the Back Bay in Boston, Silent goes to school by using the side door to the house. You see out the front door it is modern day Boston. But, when you go out the side door with a special key you are transported to the past. Well, actually I’m…
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Book Review: The Six Gifts – Part 1: Secrets
When I first saw the title of this novel, The Six Gifts – Part 1: Secrets, I wondered what it could be about. A memoir? A self-help book? Fiction? So it is fiction and actually of the magical realism genre and I loved it! I definitely got hooked on the book and wanted to keep reading to see what would happen. Now I’m going to have to get my hands on the 2nd book to see what happens! So what is the book about? Keep reading to find out! The Six Gifts follows Olivia, a woman in her 50s, who after a difficult childhood has now been married for over 30…
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Book Review: Little Lovely Things
I just finished the novel Little Lovely Things and am here today to review it for you guys. Little Lovely Things is told from a few different points of view. When the novel begins, Claire, a medical resident is married with two young daughters trying to juggle life. Her husband, Glen, is a teacher and on the morning that this whole story kicks off he is off to work and Claire is taking the kids to drop them off at daycare on her way to work. Not feeling well, Claire does what most working mothers do – she is determined to power through it because there is no time to be sick. While…
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Book Review: Father Divine’s Bikes
Okay, I know I often say that my book reviews are a long time coming because my “to be read” list is ever-growing – much faster than I’m able to keep up with! Well, this one is for real a very long time overdue. I actually legitimately completely forgot about it! I keep a list of books to be read and it wasn’t on my list and to top it off I accidentally put it with books I had already read. I only realized this when I was packing up boxes from my townhouse for my move! Then, I was like “wait, I never read this”. What’s even stranger is I…
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Book Review: Arrows of Fire
The book I’m sharing with you today is Arrows of Fire by Marlen Suyapa Bodden. If you like history, then this one may be of interest to you. I love history so I found the topic really interesting, a little sad, and actually a bit of mixed emotions about the topic. The book is basically about Spain invading Mexico and the war between the Spanish and the native Mexicans. Montezuma vs. Cortes. I don’t know a lot about Mexican history – like at all. I guess I never really thought about it. I’ve been to Mexico twice before and both times I did visit Mayan ruins. I know there were also…
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Book Review: Seven at Sea
When I was sent the synopsis to Seven at Sea , I thought it sounded so intriguing. The book is written by Erik and Emily Orten – a husband and wife who, along with their 5 kids, learned how to sail and after a few years decided to buy a boat and spend 10 months living on the water sailing to the Caribbean and back. A New York family who decided to learn to sail, leave their city life behind, and live on a cramped boat for 10 months. What?! They take turns writing sections of chapters or chapters themselves and tell everything from traveling to the British Virgin Islands to improve…
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Book Review: Countdown America
Do you like spy dramas? I do! I love spy movies, tv shows, and books. When I was younger (and let’s face it, still to this day) I thought it would be so cool to be a spy. Go on adventures, be stealthy, fight bad guys, use super cool gadgets. With that being said, I couldn’t pass up reading Countdown America when it was offered to be sent to me. In the novel, Isabella is a former CIA field agent turned Chief Supervisor. Her late husband was also a CIA agent and now her 6 year old twins and her mom are her world. Things are going great; Isabella just got promoted…
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Book Review: How to Fall in Love – A Novel
Back in February I previewed a new novel, How to Fall in Love. It sounded great – I even said so in my post. Cupid is in danger of losing his job and he’s got one chance to prove to his father, Jove, that he is still needed to serve humans as the great matchmaker. He picks Evan, an anthologist, and Eve, a former ballerina turned maple syrup farmer. He can offer very little assistance in this love match and hopes that the two will fall in love and save his job. As I mentioned, it sounds like such a fun read right? Um, no. Okay, this was a quick read and…
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Book Review: The Matrimonial Advertisement
I have read a handful of books lately that I have enjoyed, but The Matrimonial Advertisement is the first one I’ve read in a while that I kept putting off finishing. Not because I didn’t want to read it, but because I didn’t want it to end! I sort of a have a problem with letting characters go. The Matrimonial Advertisement by Mimi Matthews has two main characters and goes back and forth to tell the story from their point of view – all the while moving forward with the story, never retelling the story. Helena Reynolds is the daughter of the late Earl of Castleton. Upon her brother’s death or disappearance…
