Happy Friday, my bookish friends! Any
plans for the weekend? My daughter is home for the weekend and we are going to her grandparents house tonight and if the weather permits spend some time on the lake tomorrow! Have a great Easter weekend!
Book Beginnings:
The computer screen in front of me blurred and I couldn't keep my mind from wandering back to Bishop Amos. Cold, icy rain slapped hard on the steel roof of the Mountain Laurel Star newspaper and splattered against the office windows. I thought of the Bishop wandering off into the woods the day the train killed his horse and turned his buggy into smithereens.About the book: (from Goodreads):
What happens when living the dream means losing yourself?
Johanna
Yoder can breathe again. Willow Brook’s once tyrannical Bishop Zook has
been replaced by Gott’s true elect, Gideon Hochstetler. And the new
bishop can’t help but show some special leniency towards the aspiring
Amish writer.
Working at the Mountain Laurel Star newspaper while
remaining Amish is a dream come true for Johanna. And, as her love for
the Englischer reporter, Judah Barton, steadily increases, so does a
niggling suspicion that her former bishop rots in jail for a crime he
didn’t commit. Judah joins Johanna in her convictions, and together they
seek to uncover the truth to what really happened that dark night over
forty years ago when three men were killed.
But in the middle of
searching for answers, Johanna finds herself struggling with a crushing
crisis that comes from living a double life. Who is she, really? Does
Johanna have it in her to embrace what she needs most as she desperately
fights for justice for a man who once wished her dead?
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Thank you all for coming by each week, I REALLY appreciate the support
and comments 😀
I like the idea that she's a journalist and there is a mystery she's working on.
ReplyDeleteWendy, yes, the first book was FABULOUS!
DeleteI think this would be a book I'd like. Thanks. My quotes this week
ReplyDeleteAnne, I would recommend the first book before this one!
DeleteThis sounds good. I'll have to check out the first book.
ReplyDeleteYvonne, it was really good!
DeleteMy first line comes from Shadows in a Mind’s Eye by Janyre Tromp:
ReplyDeleteDarkness had long ago swallowed the greyhound bus moving down the road so slow that it might as wrll have been going backwards.
Interesting first lines, hope you enjoy it!
DeleteThis sounds really good! Hope you enjoy it! Have a great weekend! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ashley! You as well.
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