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Title: Standing Up: Making the Best Out of Surviving the WorstAuthor: Mary L. DevineGenre: Fiction, Domestic ViolenceBook Length: 272 PagesFormat Read: PaperbackYear Published: May 6, 2025 Date Started: March 7, 2025Date finished: March 25, 2025 This story is about a woman named Mary Sweeny who marries a man who turns out to be physically abusive.... Continue Reading →
Title: Make Love Great AgainAuthor: Brian MichelsGenre: LiteraryBook Length: NovelFormat Read: PaperbackYear Published: 2025 Date Started: March 26, 2025Date finished: April 17, 2025 This story is about the relationship between Julie and Rick, a couple who met once years earlier and then lost touch. When they meet again, sparks fly, and they quickly get married.... Continue Reading →
Title: House of DetentionAuthor: Jean EndeGenre: LiteraryBook Length: 368 PagesFormat Read: PaperbackYear Published: April 1, 2025 Date Started: April 4, 2025Date finished: April 10, 2025 This story is about the Rosen family, a Jewish close-knit family from Poland living in America after WWII. They lived in an upper middle-class community in the Bronx where they... Continue Reading →
Daily writing promptDescribe a random encounter with a stranger that stuck out positively to you.View all responses When I was in college and working at another college part-time as an evening receptionist, a student whom I hadn't seen before came up to the counter and asked, "Are you a native?" His hair was split down... Continue Reading →
Title: YankeelandAuthor: Lacy FewerGenre: Historical FictionBook Length: 303 PagesFormat Read: PaperbackYear Published: March 25, 2025 Date Started: March 2, 2025Date finished: April 3, 2025 Life was hard in Ireland, with no jobs and no hope for success, so Brigid and her husband, Ben, decided to make a new life in America. Leaving their extended family... Continue Reading →
Title: Confessions (Johnny Walker Novels Book 1)Author: Ralph GriffithGenre: Detective ThrillerBook Length: 280 PagesFormat Read: PDFYear Published: September 3, 2017 Date Started: February 26, 2025Date finished: March 1, 2025 In this gripping story, Detective Johnny Walker is assigned to a case where tracking the murderer is truly a mystery. It all started when the wrong... Continue Reading →
Title: A Madness Unmade (The Deathly Inheritance Duology Book 1)Author: E.K. Larsen-BurnettGenre: Fantasy, Young AdultBook Length: 271 PagesFormat Read: ePubYear Published: March 3, 2025 Date Started: January 22, 2025Date finished: January 29, 2025 This story is about Laurel Persephone Rumbroom, an 18-year-old who suddenly becomes orphaned when her father mysteriously dies. She grew up in... Continue Reading →
Both my girls turned a year older this month and we celebrated with extended family at a restaurant, but we also celebrated their individual birthdays at home with just me, husband, and both girls. I made their favorite food. My oldest loves chicken laab, my youngest loves spicy smoked sausage, and they both love purple... Continue Reading →
Title: TracesAuthor: Franklin J. KnightGenre: Fantasy; SpiritualBook Length: 327 PagesFormat Read: ePubYear Published: December 16, 2024 Date Started: January 10, 2025Date finished: January 19, 2025 There are three main stories in this book, and all three stories intertwine. We follow an archangel named Damiel, whose job is to guide an apprentice named Adlai toward becoming... Continue Reading →
Daily writing promptWhat are three objects you couldn't live without?View all responses Notebooks. I've got tons of notebooks (including traveler's notebooks, junk journals, art journals, and planners) and I keep buying more. It's like I'm trying to find the perfect notebook even though I probably have the perfect notebook in my stash. The photo only... Continue Reading →
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