The Christy Award Finalists

 

Welcome to the Takeover Blitz for The Christy Award Finalists 2025 organized by ECPA and hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours! We extend our sincere and enthusiastic congratulations to The Christy Award 2025 Finalists & Winners (announced on November 7th)!

Rendezvous update 2

So, part two of the JustRead Rendezvous 2024 reader event. You can read part one here. After lunch was another reader panel. Kimberley Woodhouse was the moderator of this one. Each author had to pick one of their characters to be and only answer as that character. It was hilarious. Several authors on the panel were suspense writers, and a couple were fantasy. Sara Ella was one of the authors and I loved her answers. She was in character as Alice in Wonderland from her book The Wonderland Trials. While I had read several authors books who were on the different panels throughout the day, hearing all the authors talk and interact made me want to read their books, even though several are genres I don't read. 

 

September 2024 Reading Wrap Up

September was a blur. I don't really feel like I accomplished or did much. I read 18 books and DNF'd two, but I had more variety in reading this month!! Click on the cover of the book if you are interested in the review.

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Born of Gilded Mountains

Title: Born of Gilded Mountains

Author: Amanda Dykes

Publisher: Bethany House

Genre: Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure,

Source: Bethany House

My Review:

Born of Gilded Mountains by Amanda Dykes is one of those books that is hard to review. It is a book that is best to experience. With that in mind, I will review it but know that my review will not do the story justice.

Stacking the Shelves #134, Sunday Post #131, Sunday Salon #125

Hey bookish friends! How are you doing? Today my daughter and I are headed to another region of Ohio were we will visit one of the quilt shops, then she will hang with friends, while I visit a few more, then I will join her at a friend's baby shower. I have visited 55/84, so 21 shops this week!! (all of my time in the car was listening to audiobooks!) We will be out until sometime this evening, tomorrow is Church and then relaxing. I have 29 shops left and hope to get them in sometime this week.

Top Ten Tuesday-May Flowery Covers

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is May Flowers — Pick your own title for this one to reflect the direction you choose to go with this prompt (books with flowers on the cover, flower names in the title, characters whose names are flower names, stories involving flowers/gardeners). I am going to feature 10 books on my want to read list that have flowers on the cover. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and you can head over there to see what our other bookish friends are up to today. 

Top Ten Tuesday-10 books on my TBR that has May Flowery Covers (or you know, a flower):

 

Spell the month in books-February 2023

I am happy to be participating in this monthly meme again! It is hosted by Jana @ Reviews From the Stacks. Here is how she describes the meme: 

Spell the Month in Books is a linkup hosted here on Reviews From the Stacks on the first Saturday of each month.

January Reading Wrap-Up

January flew by! I started a new part-time job that I am loving and still had time for a good amount of reading 😁

I finished 22 books in January. Click on the cover of the book if you want to read my review.

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All the Lost Places

Title: All the Lost Places

Author: Amanda Dykes

Genre: Christian Fiction

Publisher: Bethany House

Source: Bethany House

My review:

The cover of All the Lost Places is gorgeous, as I imagine Venice to be. 

Stacking the Shelves #51, Sunday Post #48, Sunday Salon #42

Hey bookish friends! How are things going for you? I am back in NC for a long weekend, we drove in yesterday. My son has an orthodontist appointment on Monday. Since he is so close to getting his braces off we don't won't to switch Orthodontists. We will head back to Ohio on Tuesday.

Can't Wait Wednesday-All the Lost Places

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Typically they are books that have not been released yet. This week I am sharing All the Lost Places by Amanda Dykes. I have a review copy coming and have been anxiously awaiting its arrival! It comes out December 13, 2022.