It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are about to be reading over the week. It’s a great post to organize yourself. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment and er… add to your groaning TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn here at The Book Date.
I am currently reading The Trouble with Jenny: Wind Chronicles book 1 by Kathy Geary Anderson.About the book (from Goodreads):
She’s always getting into trouble. He’s always getting hurt.
At
the turn of the 20th century, New York socialite Jenny Westraven is in
trouble . . . again. An orphaned heiress from a large banking family,
she’s expected to follow the rules of society and marry according to her
wealth and status. But Jenny craves adventure and anything BUT the
ordinary. So, when her guardian aunt and uncle return from a European
vacation to find Jenny working as a typewriter girl in a Newark law
office, they are appalled. Worse yet, they interrupt a kiss between her
and her young boss Mr. “Ben” Bennett.
Jenny has been getting Ben
in trouble since he was ten, so he’s secretly relieved when her
guardians reject him as a suitor. He has other plans for his life, and
they don’t include his troublesome childhood friend. When Jenny uses
outrageous methods to reject the suitors her family does approve for
her, her aunt and uncle decide to send her to her brother in Wyoming.
Then,
a family tragedy takes Ben out west as well, and his path crosses with
Jenny’s once again. As they work together to end an injustice, what was
merely an attraction between them develops into something more.
Unfortunately, Jenny’s involvement with another man comes between them
and puts her in the worst trouble of her life.
Now Ben must decide whether to risk his heart to rescue her once again or cut his losses and let her go.
Over the last week I have finished:
Love's Dwelling by Kelly Irvin
About the book (from Goodreads):
Cassie Yoder loves her
job as a housekeeper for elderly couple Job and Dinah Keim. Their only
children, a son and daughter, left the Haven, Kansas, district and their
faith more than twenty years earlier with no contact. Cassie feels for
the Keims because her own parents’ infertility struggles left her an
only child in a community where big families are a blessing.
When
Child Protective Services shows up on the Keims’ doorstep with their
five grandchildren, their quiet lives—and Cassie’s—are turned upside
down. Mason, the oldest grandson at twenty-two, believes his siblings
should be his responsibility and struggles with giving the Keims
authority.
Moving in with the Keims, Cassie jumps in with both
feet and is happy for the challenge of caring for these English-raised
children.
Mason and Cassie strike up an uneasy alliance that
turns into friendship, and then something more, but neither dares to
admit it. Can an English man and an Amish woman find common ground and a
home together?
My review here.
The One You're With by Lauren K. DentonAbout the book (Goodreads):
Written in Lauren K. Denton’s signature Southern style, The One You’re With tells a story of marriage, choices, and what a good life really looks like.
High-school
sweethearts Mac and Edie Swan lead a seemingly picture-perfect life in
the sleepy-sweet community of Oak Hill, near Mobile, Alabama. Edie is a
respected interior designer, Mac is a beloved pediatrician, and they
have two great kids and a historic home on tree-lined Linden Avenue.
From the outside, the Swan family is the definition of “the good life.”
And life is good—mostly. Until a young woman walks into Mac’s office one
day. A young woman whose very existence threatens all Mac and Edie have
built and all they think they know about each other.
Nineteen
years after a summer apart, with a family and established lives and
careers, the past that Mac and Edie thought they left behind has come
back to greet them. For the first time, constants in their lives are
called into question: their roles as parents, their reputation as
upstanding members of the community, and the very foundations of their
marriage. As they wade through the upheaval in both their family and
professional lives, they must each examine choices they made long ago
and chart a new course for their future.
My review here.
Growing Slow by Jennifer Dukes Lee
About the book (Goodreads):
Enter a simpler
way of living by unhurrying your heart, embracing the relaxed rhythms
of nature, and discovering the meaningful gift of growing slow.
We
long to make a break from the fast pace of life, but if we're honest,
we're afraid of what we'll miss if we do. Yet when going big and
hustling hard leaves us stressed, empty, and out of sorts, perhaps this
can be our cue to step into a far more satisfying, sustainable pace. In
this crafted, inspiring read, beloved author Jennifer Dukes Lee offers a
path to unhurried living by returning to the rhythm of the land and
learning the ancient art of Growing Slow.
Jennifer was
once at breaking point herself, and tells her story of rude awakening to
the ways her chosen lifestyle of running hard, scaling fast, and the
neverending chase for results was taking a toll on her body, heart, and
soul. But when she finally gave herself permission to believe it takes
time to grow good things, she found a new kind of freedom. With eloquent
truths and vivid storytelling, Jennifer reflects on the lessons she
learned from living on her fifth-generation family farm and the insights
she gathered from the purposeful yet never rushed life of Christ. Growing Slow
charts a path out of the pressures of bigger, harder, faster, and into a
more rooted way of living where the growth of good things is deep and
lasting.
Following the rhythms of the natural growing season, Growing Slow will help you:
Find the true relief that comes when you stop running and start resting in Jesus
Learn practices for unhurrying your heart and mind every day
Let go of the pressure and embrace the small, good things already bearing fruit in your life
And engage slow growth through reflection prompts and simple application steps
My review here.
The Scarlet Pen by Jennifer Uhlarik
About the book (Goodreads):
Step into True Colors — a series of Historical Stories of Romance and True American Crime
Enjoy a tale of true but forgotten history of an 19th Century serial
killer whose silver-tongued ways almost trap a young woman into a
nightmarish marriage.
In 1876, Emma Draycott is charmed into a
quick engagement with Stephen Dee Richardson after meeting him at a
church event in Mount Pleasant, Ohio. But within the week, Stephen
leaves to “make his fame and fortune.” The heartbroken Emma gives him a
special fountain pen to write to her, and he does with tales of grand
adventures. Secret Service agent Clay Timmons arrives in Mount Pleasant
to track purchases made with fake currency. Every trail leads back to
Stephen—and therefore, Emma. Can he convince the naïve woman she is
engaged to a charlatan who is being linked a string of deaths in
Nebraska?
My review here.
Thanks for stopping by! Let me know if you have read any of these and I look forward to hearing what you are reading :)
The One You're With sounds like a book I would like. Thank you for visiting my blog!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome :) It was an interesting book! Thanks for stopping by!
DeleteThe Trouble with Jenny sounds like a fun rom-com type, and I'm interested in reading Growing Slow myself, if I can find the book and the time! I recently read The Scarlet Pen too, and it was quite the page-turner!
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Hi Kym, thanks for stopping by! Yes, I am enjoying Jenny, she has a great personality :) I LOVED growing slow, maybe you could request your library to get it? I loved The Scarlet Pen!
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