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JohanssonJames PattersonJen CalonitaJennifer BrownJennifer EcholsJennifer Gardner TrulsonJessi KirbyJessica SpotswoodJessica WarmanJocelyn DaviesJodi Lynn AndersonJodi PicoultKady CrossKarsten KnightKate Kae MyersKate O'HegartyKathleen KentKathleen PeacockKathryn CooperKatie CotugnoKelly MooreKiki HamiltonKim HarringtonKristina SpringerLarken ReedLaura L. WalkerLauren KateLauren MillerLayton GreenLeigh FallonLeila HowlandLene FogelbergLibba BrayLili PeloquinLiz ColeyMIAMandy HubbardMarci PeschkeMariah FredericksMarianna BaerMarie Lawson FialaMary Higgins ClarkMary MerrellMaya GoldMegan MirandaMelissa LemonMerry ChristmasMette Ivie HarrisonMichael CrichtonMichelle K. PickettMichelle ZinkMindee ArnettMissing In Action...Monday readingMyra McEntireNancy Roe PimmNatasha FriendNicholas SparksNicole SheldrakeNina DarntonPJ HooverPam AllynPretty Little LiarsRay EvansRecipesRobin SchneiderSalt to the SeaSara ZarrSarah CrossSaundra MitchellScott SpeerScott TraceySusan Beth PfefferSusan ColasantiSusan DennardSusan VaughtSusane ColasantiSyrie James and Ryan M. JamesTVTaggedTahereh MafiTeri BrownTonya HurleyTracy BarrettTrish DollerTucker ReedVeronica LiVirtual Book Toursgrandfatherhttp://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)Blogger532125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-4134168584042596636Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:57:00 +00002017-03-19T10:57:04.942-07:00Book ReviewsJohn Grisham   Synopsis (from Goodreads): We expect our judges to be honest and wise. Their integrity and impartiality are the bedrock of the entire judicial system. We trust them to ensure fair trials, to protect the rights of all litigants, to punish those who do wrong, and to oversee the orderly and efficient flow of justice.But what happens when a judge bends the law or takes a bribe? http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2017/03/book-review-whistler-by-john-grisham.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-6718067836215316371Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:03:00 +00002017-03-17T10:03:15.043-07:00Banned/Challenged Books Reading ChallengeBook ReviewsGeorge Orwell   Synopsis (from Goodreads): "All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others."One night on an English farm, Major the boar recounts his vision of a utopia where his fellow creatures own the land along with the means of production and are no longer the slaves of humans.Before long his dream comes true, and for a short while all animals really are equal. But thehttp://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2017/03/book-review-animal-farm-by-george-orwell.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-8269773819885777097Mon, 20 Feb 2017 19:11:00 +00002017-02-20T11:11:18.851-08:00Book ReviewsChristine Nolfi    Synopsis (from Goodreads):   Linnie Wayfair knows just how many people are counting on her. But knowing doesn’t make doing any easier.Everyone in Sweet Lake, Ohio, wants her to muster all her business sense and return the Wayfair Inn to its former glory. Her parents hope she’ll forgive her scoundrel of a brother and reconcile the family. The eccentric Sweet Lake http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2017/02/book-review-sweet-lake-by-christine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-724021322515813750Fri, 27 Jan 2017 22:07:00 +00002017-01-27T14:07:01.434-08:00Sara Shepard    Synopsis (from Amazon): Four pretty little liars' charmed lives have turned into living nightmares.  Emily's been shipped off to Iowa to live with her überconservative cousins. Aria's boyfriend is behind bars—because of her. Spencer's afraid she was involved in Ali's murder. But Hanna's fate is far worse: She's clinging to life in the hospital because she knew http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2017/01/book-review-unbelievable-pretty-little.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-987619805089016969Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:25:00 +00002017-01-27T13:26:50.291-08:00Kathryn Cooper   Synopsis (from Goodreads): Water splashed on all sides then took control of the tires. The car swerved right toward the river. “No. NO. NO!” I turned the wheel toward the road. It didn’t work. Fast running water pulled the car into the flooded river.Aspen Foster thinks she’s just a normal sixteen-year-old, but when her car’s caught in a flash flood, Aspen and her sister discover http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2017/01/book-review-aspen-everlasting-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-1810310854163097280Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:30:00 +00002016-12-16T07:30:00.158-08:00   Synopsis (from Goodreads): When Annette Downing and her mischievous little brothers are sent to Kellaway Manor for the summer, she hopes for a relaxing escape. But Annette finds her closeted heart in jeopardy when reunited with the handsome Owen Kellaway, a childhood acquaintance and respected gentlemen. When Owen is enlisted to help the boys with their behavior, Annette http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/12/book-review-mischief-and-manors-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-1143424585266745395Tue, 06 Dec 2016 15:40:00 +00002016-12-06T07:40:04.645-08:00Book ReviewsLaura L. Walker   Synopsis (from Goodreads):   Just when former model and single mother Caitlyn Drevier Reel has finally put her life on track after a divorce and six-month stint in rehab, she is surprised to receive an invitation from her ex-in-laws to spend Christmas with the family. After all, she reasons, her ex-husband Grant is constantly on the road with his band and it's only http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/12/book-review-caitlyns-christmas-wish-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-3911163152939287394Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:01:00 +00002016-11-23T10:01:03.359-08:00Book ReviewsNora Roberts   Synopsis (from Goodreads): Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions …The man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive Philadelphia suburb left her in crippling debt. He was an adulterer and a liar, and when Shelby tracks down his safe-deposit box, she finds multiple IDs. The man she loved wasn’t just dead. He never really http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/11/book-review-liar-by-nora-roberts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-5917540707793131847Wed, 23 Nov 2016 04:09:00 +00002017-03-17T10:04:20.859-07:002017 challengesI have decided that I really need to make more time to read again.  My kids are getting older and with that comes more activities that I am required to drive them around to plus all the other stuff I do.  I have definitely been neglecting my reading and so I hope having some challenges helps me get back into it again!  My other goal is to get my TBR pile down! My first challenge http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/11/2017-reading-challenges.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-3462079359825587609Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:50:00 +00002016-11-22T10:50:45.720-08:00Teaser TuesdaysTeaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books And A Beat. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/11/teaser-tuesday-beautiful-affliction-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-2082367202407510765Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:45:00 +00002016-11-22T09:45:21.449-08:00Book ReviewsLene Fogelberg   Synopsis (from Goodreads): Lene Fogelberg is dying—she is sure of it—but no doctor in Sweden, her home country, believes her. Love stories enfold her, with her husband, her two precious daughters, her enchanting surroundings, but the question she has carried in her heart since childhood—Will I die young?—is threatening all she holds dear, even her sanity. When her young familyhttp://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/11/book-review-beautiful-affliction-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-7118203160999087675Sun, 23 Oct 2016 13:30:00 +00002016-10-23T06:30:14.245-07:00Aaron BlaylockBook Reviews   Synopsis (from Goodreads): Maggie’s job at the Department of Thoughts and Records in heaven is pretty simple. She is a spirit curator—an observer of human life who sorts and categorizes every unsaid thought. When Eric, her beholden, shows interest in the new girl at work, Maggie can’t help ignoring the rules to understand the wonders of mortality and love. But meddling in http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/10/book-review-unsaid-by-aaron-blaylock.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-6448593800944215388Tue, 18 Oct 2016 18:57:00 +00002016-10-18T11:57:24.063-07:00Teaser TuesdaysTeaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books And A Beat. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/10/teaser-tuesday-unsaid-by-aaron-blaylock.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-4699815014032183682Tue, 02 Aug 2016 19:53:00 +00002016-08-02T12:54:12.550-07:00Michael CrichtonTeaser TuesdaysTeaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books And A Beat. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/08/teaser-tuesday-jurassic-park-by-michael.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-8238047403354451811Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:52:00 +00002016-08-02T11:52:55.713-07:00Book ReviewsPretty Little LiarsSara Shepard   Synopsis (from Goodreads): In Rosewood, Pennsylvania, four perfect-looking girls aren't nearly as perfect as they seem.Aria can't resist her forbidden ex. Hanna is on the verge of losing her BFF. Emily is freaking out over a simple kiss. And Spencer can't keep her hands off anything that belongs to her sister.Lucky me. I know these pretty little liars better than they know http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/08/book-review-perfect-pretty-little-liars.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-6249915914854453577Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:22:00 +00002016-08-02T11:22:15.694-07:00Abigail HaasBook Reviews Synopsis (from Goodreads): It's Spring Break of senior year. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise, and a few other close friends are off to a debaucherous trip to Aruba that promises to be the time of their lives. But when Elise is found brutally murdered, Anna finds herself trapped in a country not her own, fighting against vile and contemptuous accusations. As Anna sets http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/08/book-review-dangerous-girls-by-abigail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-8376878088866055418Thu, 07 Jul 2016 18:55:00 +00002016-07-07T11:55:09.522-07:00Bette GreeneBook Reviews Synopsis (from Goodreads):   Minutes before the train pulled into the station in Jenkinsville, Arkansas, Patty Bergen knew something exciting was going to happen. But she never could have imagined that her summer would be so memorable. German prisoners of war have arrived to make their new home in the prison camp in Jenkinsville. To the rest of her town, these prisoners are only http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/07/book-review-summer-of-my-german-soldier.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-5952390290129881606Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:00:00 +00002016-06-28T10:00:36.120-07:00Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books And A Beat. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin thehttp://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/06/teaser-tuesday-stealing-snow-by-danielle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-8126009539357653538Mon, 27 Jun 2016 22:06:00 +00002016-06-27T15:06:09.963-07:00Book ReviewsDanielle Paige   Synopsis (from Goodreads): Seventeen-year-old Snow has spent the majority of her life within the walls of the Whittaker Institute, a high security mental hospital in upstate New York. Deep down, she knows she's not crazy and doesn't belong there. When she meets a mysterious, handsome new orderly and dreams about a strange twisted tree she realizes she must escape and figure out http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/06/book-review-stealing-snow-by-danielle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-8601683703606972005Mon, 27 Jun 2016 20:36:00 +00002016-06-27T13:36:04.362-07:00It's Monday! What are you Reading?   It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Book Date. Each week we spotlight the books we are reading, planning on reading or just finished reading.   Currently Reading:                Summer of my German Soldier by Bette Greene The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #2) by Michael Scott Anne of http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/06/its-monday-what-are-you-reading.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-8757794487118473995Wed, 15 Jun 2016 03:46:00 +00002016-06-14T20:46:06.680-07:00Amy LukavicsBook Reviews   Synopsis (from Goodsreads): Lucy Acosta's mother died when she was three. Growing up in a Victorian mansion in the middle of the woods with her cold, distant father, she explored the dark hallways of the estate with her cousin, Margaret. They're inseparable—a family. When her aunt Penelope, the only mother she's ever known, tragically disappears while walking in the woods http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/06/book-review-women-in-walls-by-amy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-8306891788877073613Wed, 15 Jun 2016 02:16:00 +00002016-06-14T19:18:30.270-07:00Book ReviewsHeather Graham Synopsis (from Goodreads):  Between the evil and the deep blue sea…A historic cruise ship, a haunted ship, the Celtic American Line's Destiny, sets sail from the Port of New Orleans—with a killer on board. He's known as the Archangel Killer because of the way he displays his victims in churches. And how he places a different saint's medallion on each body. No one knows exactly http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/06/book-review-haunted-destiny-by-heather.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-2117859505551096132Mon, 06 Jun 2016 20:45:00 +00002016-06-06T13:45:55.324-07:00Book ReviewsJennifer L. Armentrout Synopsis (from Goodreads): OppositionKaty knows the world changed the night the Luxen came. She can't believe Daemon stood by as his kind threatened to obliterate every last human and hybrid on Earth. But the lines between good and bad have blurred.Daemon will do anything to save those he loves, even if it means betrayal. But when it quickly becomes impossible to tell friend from foehttp://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/06/book-review-opposition-lux-5-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-5945387647355900825Wed, 18 May 2016 17:41:00 +00002016-05-18T10:41:13.012-07:00Book ReviewsClare Mackintosh Synopsis (from Goodreads): In a split second, Jenna Gray's world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life forever.Slowly, Jenna http://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/05/book-review-i-let-you-go-by-clare.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-1722335161645832632Tue, 10 May 2016 17:20:00 +00002016-05-10T10:20:23.430-07:00Clare MackintoshTeaser TuesdaysTeaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books And A Beat. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin thehttp://booklovingmommy.blogspot.com/2016/05/teaser-tuesday-i-let-you-go-by-clare.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Book Loving Mommy)4