
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Stacking the Shelves #181 Sunday Post #178 Sunday Salon #172

Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Top Ten Tuesday-Anticipated releases for second half of 2025
Happy Tuesday my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is: Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the Second Half of 2025. Yay, thank you Jana, for an easy topic this week 😁. I keep a list on Goodreads for 2025 book releases, so this should be fairly easy. The hard part will be narrowing it down, (and I ended up adding more to my list, LOL). 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-ish Tuesday-my most anticipated releases for the second half of 2025
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Top Ten Tuesday-Which "road" will you read?
Happy Tuesday my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is: Books with the Word “[Insert Word Here]” in the Title (Choose a word and find ten books with that word in the title.) I decided to go with the word "road" for today. I am spending a lot of time on the road looking for a new house, and traveling about, so it seemed fitting. The ones I have read are linked to my review, just click on the image if you want to see my thoughts on the book. 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-Which "road" will you read?
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Good Hope Road by Lisa Wingate-I own this one but haven't read it yet. |
Friday, September 20, 2024
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.
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Top Ten Tuesday-Whatever the Weather reads
Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books with Weather Events in the Title/on the Cover (I’m picturing a list of titles with weather-related words in them like storm, rain, blizzard, flood, lightning, hail, snow, wind, etc. OR covers with lightning/storms in the picture.) I have not read the books pictured here, I either own them on Kindle, or on my physical shelves, or I just want to read them. It was HARD for me to find these, I guess I don't read a lot of weather books! 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 whatever the weather reads that I want to read:


Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Top Ten Tuesday-Recent additions to my TBR
Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is Ten Most Recent Books I Did Not Finish. I would not normally put my DNF books on my blog, so I am going to skip this topic. Instead I will do the last ten books I added to my "Want to read" list on Goodreads. Most of them are books that haven't been released yet. 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.


Thursday, February 9, 2023
6 Degrees of Separation -Feb. 2023 Trust

Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Top Ten Tuesday-Favorite books of 2022
Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday is our favorite books from 2022. Not sure how I am supposed to narrow it down to 10, but will give it my best shot 😂 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.
Well, this should be easy since I marked 56 of the books I read this year as favorites 😂😂 Here are my top 10ish (in no particular order):


Sunday, December 4, 2022
November Reading Wrap-up
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I finished 8 books in November and DNF 1. Click on the cover of the book if you want to read my review.
Sunday, November 27, 2022
Where the Blue Sky Begins

Author: Katie Powner
Genre: Christian Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher: Bethany House
Source: Bethany House
My review:
Hi. It's me again, Cindy. Coming to you with a book that I have no idea how to review.
I have found that Katie Powner's books have emotional depth, the "wow" factor, and they tend to stick with you long after you read them. I loved Where the Blue Sky Begins.
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Stacking the Shelves #47, Sunday Post #44, Sunday Salon #38

Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Can't Wait Wednesday-Where the Blue Sky Begins
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 Where the Blue Sky Begins by Katie Powner. I read A Flicker of Light by her last year and it blew me out of the water, so I can't wait to read this one!!! It comes out October 11, 2022.

Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Top Ten Tuesday-Physical books I own that give off fall vibes
Happy Tuesday, my bookish friends!! I hope you all are doing well. Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is Favorite Bookstores OR Bookstores I’d Love to Visit. I LOVE bookstores, so if I come across one I am going to go in. I am not feeling the topic of my favorite bookstores (any used bookstore!) or bookstores I'd love to visit. Today I going to do books on my physical shelves that give me fall vibes. They are also books I have not read yet. 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.
Ten books I still need to read on my physical shelves that give off fall vibes:


Saturday, July 23, 2022
Stacking the Shelves #33, Sunday Post #30, Sunday Salon #25

Thursday, December 30, 2021
Best of the Best 2021
Today I am participating in the Top 10 of 2021 hosted by Kimberly Faye Reads. Today's topic is the best of the best books. I am excited to share my favorite reads of 2021. They were not necessarily released in 2021, I just read them in 2021. As of today I have finished 251 books and it will be difficult to narrow it down to just ten, so I am going to cheat just a little bit and do a couple of different categories. The books will not be in any particular order.
The Best Fiction I read this year:
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Top Ten Tuesday-New Authors
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Top Ten Tuesday-Books that surprised me
Happy Tuesday, friends! The theme for today's top ten Tuesday is books I would hand to someone who claims to not like reading. This is difficult for me to do because I feel like you really have to know someone and their interests in order to find a book that will be a good fit for them. Plus, the mood they are in as well will affect their enjoyment of a book. So, I decided to tweak this a bit and do 10 books that surprised me-meaning that I enjoyed more than I thought I would (actually have 11 and could have kept going 😉). To find out what our other bookish friends are doing for Top Ten Tuesday check out That Artsy Reader Girl.
I highly recommend listening to this one on audio for your first reading, otherwise you might miss some of the sarcasm and allegory. This is NOT a genre I would normally read from, but it was fabulous!
Monday, November 1, 2021
A Flicker of Light
Author: Katie Powner
Publisher: Net Galley
Genre: Christian Fiction, Contemporary
My Review:
Wow. This is the first book that I have read by Katie Powner but will go back and read her first novel as well.