tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57905824876027022842026-04-27T03:06:43.242-07:00Book Loving MommyBook Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.comBlogger532125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-41341685840425966362017-03-19T10:57:00.000-07:002017-03-19T10:57:04.942-07:00Book Review: The Whistler by John 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? Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-67180678362153163712017-03-17T10:03:00.000-07:002017-03-17T10:03:15.043-07:00Book Review: Animal Farm by George 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 theBook Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-82697738198857770972017-02-20T11:11:00.001-08:002017-02-20T11:11:18.851-08:00Book Review: Sweet Lake by Christine 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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-7240213225158137502017-01-27T14:07:00.001-08:002017-01-27T14:07:01.434-08:00Book Review: Unbelievable (Pretty Little Liars 4) by Sara 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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-9876198050890169692017-01-27T13:25:00.003-08:002017-01-27T13:26:50.291-08:00Book Review: Aspen Everlasting by Kathryn 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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-18103108541630972802016-12-16T07:30:00.000-08:002016-12-16T07:30:00.158-08:00Book Review: Mischief and Manors by Ashtyn Newbold
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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-11434245852667453952016-12-06T07:40:00.000-08:002016-12-06T07:40:04.645-08:00Book Review: Caitlyn's Christmas Wish by Laura 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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-39111631529392873942016-11-23T10:01:00.000-08:002016-11-23T10:01:03.359-08:00Book Review: The Liar by Nora 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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-59175407077931318472016-11-22T20:09:00.001-08:002017-03-17T10:04:20.859-07:002017 Reading 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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-34620793598255876092016-11-22T10:50:00.003-08:002016-11-22T10:50:45.720-08:00Teaser Tuesday: Beautiful Affliction by Lene FogelbergTeaser 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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-20823672024075107652016-11-22T09:45:00.001-08:002016-11-22T09:45:21.449-08:00Book Review: Beautiful Affliction by Lene 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 familyBook Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-71182031609990876752016-10-23T06:30:00.000-07:002016-10-23T06:30:14.245-07:00Book Review: The Unsaid by Aaron Blaylock
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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-64485938009442153882016-10-18T11:57:00.002-07:002016-10-18T11:57:24.063-07:00Teaser Tuesday: The Unsaid by Aaron BlaylockTeaser 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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-46998150140321836822016-08-02T12:53:00.002-07:002016-08-02T12:54:12.550-07:00Teaser Tuesday: Jurassic Park by Michael CrichtonTeaser 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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-82380474033544518112016-08-02T11:52:00.002-07:002016-08-02T11:52:55.713-07:00Book Review: Perfect (Pretty Little Liars #3) by Sara 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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-62499159148544535772016-08-02T11:22:00.000-07:002016-08-02T11:22:15.694-07:00Book Review: Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas
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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-83768780888660554182016-07-07T11:55:00.000-07:002016-07-07T11:55:09.522-07:00Book Review: Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-59523902901298816062016-06-28T10:00:00.000-07:002016-06-28T10:00:36.120-07:00Teaser Tuesday: Stealing Snow by Danielle Teaser 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 theBook Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-81260095393576535382016-06-27T15:06:00.001-07:002016-06-27T15:06:09.963-07:00Book Review: Stealing Snow by Danielle 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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-86016837036069720052016-06-27T13:36:00.001-07:002016-06-27T13:36:04.362-07:00It'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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-87577944871184739952016-06-14T20:46:00.000-07:002016-06-14T20:46:06.680-07:00Book Review: The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics
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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-83068917888770736132016-06-14T19:16:00.001-07:002016-06-14T19:18:30.270-07:00Book Review: Haunted Destiny by Heather 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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-21178595055510961322016-06-06T13:45:00.002-07:002016-06-06T13:45:55.324-07:00Book Review: Opposition (Lux #5) by Jennifer 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 foeBook Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-59453876473559008252016-05-18T10:41:00.001-07:002016-05-18T10:41:13.012-07:00Book Review: I Let You Go by Clare 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 Book Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790582487602702284.post-17223351616458326322016-05-10T10:20:00.001-07:002016-05-10T10:20:23.430-07:00Teaser Tuesday: I Let You Go by Clare MackintoshTeaser 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 theBook Loving Mommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12986924394732862793noreply@blogger.com4