The Silent Governess

Title: The Silent Governess

Author: Julie Klassen

Source: own

My Review:

I have quite a few mixed feelings on this story.

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)!

Top Ten Tuesday-Chunkster Books

Happy Tuesday my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is: Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!) I think "high" page count is subjective, so I am going to go with 400+ pages as those are books that count toward the "Big Book Challenge" and the limit of what some of my book club members will read for our meetings. So, let's see what I come up with today, I know I don't read as many chunkster books as I used to. I did not include anthologies or Bibles in my list. 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-Chunkster books I have read and enjoyed

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 521 pages 3-star read-not sure I should say I "enjoyed" this one or not.

The Christy Award Finalist Tour

 

Welcome to the Takeover Blitz for The Christy Award Finalists 2024, organized by ECPA and hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours! We extend our sincere and enthusiastic congratulations to the 2024 Finalists!

About the Gala

The Christy Award Gala will be held on Thursday, November 14 at 7 pm central in Downers Grove, Illinois, at the DoubleTree Conference Center, just outside Chicago. Winners from each category, plus the Christy Book of the Year and Amplify Award, will be announced during the celebration.

Top Ten Tuesday-Net Galley rejections that crushed me

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is things that are getting in the way of reading. I get a fair amount of reading time so this doesn't really apply to me.  So, I decided to go with a topic that Lisa @thePlain-Spoken Pen did recently: Net Galley rejections that hurt my heart. 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. 

10 Net Galley rejections that crushed me AND have I read them yet?!

10/31/20 no, nor is it on my TBR 🤷 when I finally read the first one I might put it on the TBR.

10/28/20-✔

Stacking the Shelves #63, Sunday Post #60, Sunday Salon #54

Hey bookish friends! How are things going for you? We are all feeling MUCH better this week. My husband made it through the whole week and my job let me go back to work on Thursday. This morning we played tourist and visited the Cleveland Public Library. The rest of the day will be family board games, reading, blogging, and relaxing :)

Can't Wait Wednesday-The Sisters of Sea View

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 The Sisters of Sea View the first book in the On Devonshire Shores series by Julie Klassen. It comes out December 1, 2022.

Top Ten Tuesday-Anticipated Book Releases 2022

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is most anticipated book releases in the second half of 2022. I feel like this will be one of the easier topics as we ALL have books we are looking forward to releasing. 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. 

10 books I am excited are releasing in the second half of 2022 in no particular order: 

Top Ten Tuesday-Authors who taught me to enjoy historical fiction

Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is books I wish had an epilogue. While this is a great topic, it's not one that I think much about. Usually I am pretty satisfied with the endings. So instead, I am going to discuss historical fiction authors that I am trying to catch up on. I picked this topic because I always say I don't care much for historical fiction, but my reading shows otherwise 😂 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-One Word Reviews

 Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is one word reviews for the last 10 books you have read. This topic was submitted by Susan at Bloggin' 'bout Books. This sounds hard and interesting so let's see how this goes! 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. 

MULTIDIMENSIONAL

April Reading Wrap-Up

Happy May, my bookish friends!!! I can't believe the year is almost half over! My daughter has finished up her semester at college and my son will be graduating high school soon. To say time is flying is an understatement. How was reading month? I had a mixed reading month.

I read 19 books, dnf 1. Click on the cover of the book if you want to read my review.

5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Apothecary's Daughter

Title: The Apothecary's Daughter

Author: Julie Klassen

Genre: Historical Fiction, Christian Fiction, Romance, Regency

Publisher: Bethany House

Source: Own

My Review:

Julie Klassen takes us on a long, winding road with The Apothecary's Daughter. 

First Line Friday #48-The Apothecary's Daughter

Happy Friday, my bookish friends! Any plans for the weekend? I really don't have that many so not sure what I will end up doing...Welcome back to First Line Friday hosted by Carrie at Reading is My SuperPower!! I am also linking up with Gilion on Rose City Reader for Book Beginnings. This is where you share the beginning of the book that you are reading. To join in the fun grab the book you are reading and leave a comment with the first line (or your link).  This week I am reading The Apothecary's Daughter by Julie Klassen.

It's Monday #3 '22

 It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are planning to read over the week. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment and add to your TBR pile! This meme is hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. I finished 5 books this week but don't have time to do all the updates but if you are interested all reviews are on my blog 😀

Currently reading:

Stacking the Shelves #6/Sunday Post #3

Hey bookish friends! I hope your weekend is going well. We are in for some wintry weather tomorrow into Monday and I am looking forward to staying home reading, blogging, and playing some games with my family. I had another surprising week of books coming in, so I thought I would share again this weekend 😀

It's Monday! What are you reading? #11

 It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, and are planning to read over the week. It’s an opportunity to visit and comment and add to your TBR pile! This meme is hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date.

What I read last week:

 

An Ivy Hill Christmas

Title: An Ivy Hill Christmas

Series: Tales from Ivy Hill

Author: Julie Klassen

Publisher: Bethany House Publishers

Genre: Christmas, Historical Fiction, Christian Fiction, Romance

Source: Borrowed from Library

My review:

I was excited to return to Ivy Hill as I loved the other three books.

Top Ten Tuesday-Books on my winter TBR

Happy Tuesday, friends! Today's theme is books on our winter (or summer) TBR list. This will be easy for me since I still have review books to finish 😁 As a side note I hit 100 reviews on Net Galley yesterday and was pretty excited to earn a new badge 😂 To find out what our other bookish friends are doing for Top Ten Tuesday check out That Artsy Reader Girl. 

Winter reads that are ARC reviews:

Can't Wait Wedneday- Shadows of Swanford Abbey

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 Shadows of Swanford Abbey by Julie Klassen. I was blown away by Julie's Ivy Hill series. Shadows of Swanford Abbey is set to release December 7, 2021.

Top Ten Tuesday -20 Books for Christmas

 Happy Tuesday, friends! Today for top ten   Tuesday we get to pick our own topic! I decided to join the #20booksforChristmas challenge. This will be my first year joining in all the fun 😀 I love Christmas and enjoy reading books about Christmas. This is the first year that I can recall starting to read Christmas books this early. Usually I wait until around Thanksgiving. However, this year needs more Christmas and hope, wouldn't you agree? To find out what our other bookish friends are doing for Top Ten Tuesday check out That Artsy Reader Girl.