tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57920829394964158972024-03-19T02:22:32.030-04:00Turning The PagesEst. 2011Kimberly @ Turning the Pageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03631676112769349872noreply@blogger.comBlogger1889125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792082939496415897.post-77662948948660496272020-10-24T00:00:00.001-04:002020-10-24T00:00:08.595-04:00Saturday Snapshot #24<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLQzVro_6s8D4vEnuQPv443bv_GRSVrmNmup0UtqKq6r5GMvrPqWdtzZvtucQgyMJgJVUPrL74spaDDVsV7BMw87MgE7bQs4gSpJ7pvNfYWccjzkX4k_xsn7wzh7hVBJbL8Hkr9klgGRmf/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLQzVro_6s8D4vEnuQPv443bv_GRSVrmNmup0UtqKq6r5GMvrPqWdtzZvtucQgyMJgJVUPrL74spaDDVsV7BMw87MgE7bQs4gSpJ7pvNfYWccjzkX4k_xsn7wzh7hVBJbL8Hkr9klgGRmf/" width="240" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">To participate in Saturday Snapshot: post a photo that you (or a friend or family member) have taken then leave a direct link to your post in the Mister Linky on West Metro Mommy Reads'<b> <a href="http://westmetromommy.blogspot.ca/" style="color: #6bc545; text-decoration-line: none;">Blog</a></b>. Photos can be old or new, and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for all eyes to see. How much detail you give in the caption is entirely up to you. Please don’t post random photos that you find online.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Cousine; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;" /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO69so1jZqbS9OF6pikVNfx02wlMbpDP2kVbsUSYuXP-mRHDxb6swKRaFRr4opRagesdp9DlLd0LL4QMQCj9lqiYNjmbBtHyap5nrpqp_Cx9Ud3tdzk2yRQpaUIB3XEIPR1Twbb0IQK8vM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="768" height="411" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO69so1jZqbS9OF6pikVNfx02wlMbpDP2kVbsUSYuXP-mRHDxb6swKRaFRr4opRagesdp9DlLd0LL4QMQCj9lqiYNjmbBtHyap5nrpqp_Cx9Ud3tdzk2yRQpaUIB3XEIPR1Twbb0IQK8vM/w313-h411/cloudy.jpg" width="313" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">Happy Caturday from Cloud!</span></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><br /></span></p>Kimberly @ Turning the Pageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03631676112769349872noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792082939496415897.post-59092690101794675432018-02-07T00:00:00.000-05:002018-02-07T00:00:32.139-05:00Waiting on Wednesday #103<div style="text-align: center;">
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The Simplicity of Cozy: Hygge, Lagom & the Energy of Everyday Pleasures</h1>
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I love books about Hygge so this one really caught my attention especially since the cover screams cozy!</div>
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In 1908, a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow apartment. The police found a convenient but innocent suspect in Oscar Slater--an immigrant Jewish cardsharp--who was tried, convicted and consigned to life at hard labor in a merciless Scottish prison. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, already world famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was outraged by this injustice and became obsessed with the case. He scoured trial transcripts, newspaper accounts and eyewitness statements, meticulously noting myriad holes, inconsistencies and outright fabrications. Finally, in 1927, his work won Slater's freedom.</div>
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Conan Doyle for the Defense immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection, telling the story of how Conan Doyle managed to overturn a murder conviction in the era before modern forensics--simply by employing the methods of his most famous creation. Along the way, Fox illuminates a watershed moment in the history of criminal justice, when reflexive prejudice began to be replaced by reason and the scientific method.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Because Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that's why. Seriously though the man who created Sherlock Holmes helped solve a crime? How can I not want to read that.</span></span></div>
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These books have all been sitting on my Goodreads TBR pile since the day I joined in August 2008!</div>
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As you can probably tell I've always been an eclectic reader and that I may or may not have had a wee obsession with The Phantom of The Opera due to the 2004 movie staring Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum. It's crazy to think how much more my reading tastes have changed since I was 18. Clive Cussler is still one of my favourite authors (have always loved a good adventure novel!), but am not so much feeling the Christian historical romances by Lauraine Snelling anymore. However I think it would be fun to read these just to get them off of my list, so I think that's my plan for the year. <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBw-brj3vbIBep5nJwCFPLf9qFAZpb0MzaD6Y1qmEW6BuV-oJnUzsbrdpjqT32kNc1ghp-WbF5Gt3nr6V0FfwJhnqL4etOoPgYZHRP6LJ0hRiNBx2A-Gxad4pl3Zd8K4Q4__Z7k54c5RrK/s400/-Kimberly+%25281%2529.jpg" /></div>
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Kimberly @ Turning the Pageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03631676112769349872noreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792082939496415897.post-56126095040712066942018-02-05T00:00:00.000-05:002018-02-05T00:00:01.148-05:00It's Monday! What are you reading? #140<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: Cousine; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">
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Kimberly @ Turning the Pageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03631676112769349872noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792082939496415897.post-89815393387681232302018-02-04T00:00:00.000-05:002018-02-04T00:00:37.578-05:00The Sunday Post #68<div style="text-align: center;">
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I hope everyone had a good week! We had a really busy one what with Dad's PSWs coming everyday and having appointments at the doctors in the middle of snows storms. Not fun when someone is wheelchair bound I tell ya. Next week is also shaping up to be a busy one, but at least today I'll be doing something fun for myself with Mr. Turning the Pages. Today is Landmade which is a vendor showcase feature natural local ontario yarn, and fibre at a hotel in Toronto's west end so it will be an early morning for us. Also, today is a very special day for a certain member of the family:</div>
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Meet Fury! Our 20 week old Lab/Mastiff mix we adopted from <a href="http://petharbor.com/search.asp?searchtype=ADOPT&bgcolor=639ace&text=ffffff&link=FEFF81&alink=FF814A&vlink=FEFF81&col_hdr_bg=004d84&col_hdr_fg=efeff7&col_bg=004d84&col_fg=ffffff&SBG=004d84&rows=10&imght=120&imgres=thumb&view=sysadm.v_animal_short&fontface=tahoma&zip=80443&miles=10&shelterlist=%27TRNT1%27,%27TRNT%27,%27TRNT2%27,%27TRNT3%27,%27TRNT4%27,%27TRNT5%27">Toronto Animal Services</a>! </div>
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Tomorrow is Spartan's gotcha day when we adopted him at the humane society and now he has a new sister Fury, also a rescue to celebrate it with!<br />
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Kimberly @ Turning the Pageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03631676112769349872noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792082939496415897.post-6728398310907685102018-02-02T00:00:00.000-05:002018-02-02T01:07:15.388-05:00*[Review] Alice Close Your Eyes by Averil Dean<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Ten years ago, someone ruined Alice Croft's life. Now she has a chance to right that wrong–and she thinks she's found the perfect man to carry out her plan. After watching him for weeks, she breaks into Jack Calabrese's house to collect the evidence that will confirm her hopes. When Jack comes home unexpectedly, Alice hides in the closet, fearing for her life. But upon finding her, Jack is strangely calm, solicitous . . . and intrigued.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">That night is the start of a dark and intense attraction, and soon Alice finds herself drawn into a labyrinth of terrifying surrender to a man who is more dangerous than she could have ever imagined. As their relationship spirals toward a breaking point, Alice begins to see just how deep Jack's secrets run–and how deadly they could be.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Length:</b></span> 288 pages (paperback)</span><br />
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That is exactly how I feel about Alice Close Your Eyes. I have never found myself so confused by a book after reading it. I am well and truly lost at see with this one. </div>
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I bought this book a couple years back and it's another one that has been sitting, gathering dust for way longer than it should have before I finally got to it. In an effort to clean out my books I'm trying to read a lot of my older titles which is why I picked this one up when I did. I thought, that given how intense the synopsis was that I was going to be getting a hard hitting, complex, angsty romance bordering on bdsm.</div>
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Unfortunately I had a barely pieced together story about a young girl with some very obvious mental health issues, a man with serious control issues and how they came to be...what ever it was they were for a time. I wouldn't say they were a couple, because apart from weirdly timed, poorly written sex scenes and some definite boundary issues on both their parts neither were developed as individual characters enough for them to actually have a relationship in the story. Alice, our protagonist, is in her early 20s and a cutter. Jack is a guy of unknown age and he's recently out of jail for maybe or maybe not killing his ex-wife (we were never told what happened to Rosemary). Neither were likable. I hated them both right away but, I kept hoping that maybe I was just in a mood. Sadly, this wasn't the case. There was a definite lack of character development for both of them. </div>
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In fact, I would say this is one of the most underdeveloped books I've ever read. I finished Alice Close Your Eyes feeling as though this was a rough draft of a novel someone pieced together from the jumbled remains of someone's cast off ideas. I just didn't see the real purpose of the story because the author wrote the story in such a way that it was obvious what Alice wanted with Jack, though her motivations were very cloudy due to her own issues. She was just completely distasteful. She was written as a tough character but just came off as a whiny little girl with some very serious problems. I found the same problem with Jack, although he was even more underdeveloped as a character that he may as well have been a prop.</div>
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There was no romance to this story as there really wasn't much of a story. There were actions, very little dialogue, lots of unnecessary inner monologues, awkward sex and very little plot. This was supposedly marketed as a psychological thriller/erotic read but lacked in both these aspects. I spent all 6 hours it took me to read this either shaking my head in confusion or disgust due to Alice's and later on Jack's actions. There was no cohesiveness and the broken timeline also added to the confusion. One minute Alice is cutting, the next she's remembering poisoning a dog in an act of revenge for a childhood bully calling her mother names. It was so out of whack I had no idea what was going to happen next in the mean time. </div>
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This is not a book I would feel comfortable recommending just because of the lack of any substance to it. There were no redeemable moments, just pure confusion and if I hadn't bought the book I probably wouldn't have stuck it out to read it in the end especially given how slowly the book went. </div>
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Alice Close Your Eyes was a definite case of overreaching for me, and I wish I could have enjoyed it more as I was looking forward to it. Unfortunately it didn't deliver and gets my second one star rating of 2018.</div>
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Kimberly @ Turning the Pageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03631676112769349872noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792082939496415897.post-76271385044614186222018-02-01T00:00:00.000-05:002018-02-01T14:57:44.212-05:00*[Review] The Ruins by Scott B. Smith<div style="text-align: center;">
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I love horror movies and I love horror novels. I love the feeling of reading and getting the heebie jeebies. Love it. So, after having The Ruins on my bookshelf since 2010. I have moved twice since I bought this, lived in three different homes but never read it until last week. </div>
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Maybe my reluctance to read it was due to the fact that I still haven't seen the movie, or maybe it was a feeling that this book just wasn't going to live up to the hype that kept it neatly sitting on my shelf waiting to be read. </div>
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When I started reading it, I had picked it up on a whim looking for a fast and easy scary read. Unfortunately, while I found it to be a fast and easy read it wasn't scary and wasn't very well written. I didn't care for how the story was told in alternating points of view (which I usually love) but found the way the author chose to switch between characters rather too quickly.</div>
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The characters weren't the greatest. They were a group of young twenty somethings that were vacationing in Mexico and decided to help a stranger find his brother in the jungle, among some Mayan ruins. We all know that these things never end well, but I was hoping to be at least slightly sympathetic to at least one character. This wasn't to be the case however, and I found them all to be very one dimensional, whiny, annoying and downright unlikable. For me, it seemed as though the author tried to make them to intellectual, too young, too sympathetic that it went the other way for me. They were all very childish and I didn't mind when some met their ends.</div>
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Now, I knew that I probably wasn't going to be reading an amazing book with great characters but I at least wanted to be scared. Unfortunately, this book was boring. There was absolutely nothing scary, spooky or remotely fear inducing in the entire book. The whole being trapped in Mayan ruins wasn't even part of the actual story other than, they arrived at the ruins. They were there for a couple days, some folks died. Seriously, the ruins were never even a main focal point of the story. Even the entity that haunted the ruins for lack of a better term wasn't even written well. It was just simply preposterous that the thing killing everyone was just so poorly written, that it was laughable. It just made no sense to me and I found it ridiculous. </div>
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I really did try to like The Ruins, I really did. I wanted to enjoy it but it was honestly one of the most boring books I've ever read. Yes, I was able to read it in one sitting but that's because I had nothing else to do and it was just so easy and bland the pages slipped by. It felt like the author took a bunch of outtakes from previous works and through so much at the wall hoping things would stick, and in the end this didn't work for me at all. The poor characterization, forced dialogue and awkward internal monologues from the character amid an underused plot and basically useless setting wound up in this being a dud for me. That being said though I do want to watch the movie just to see how it compares.</div>
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If you're looking for a fun horror novel, this isn't one I would recommend and why I gave it one star.</div>
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Then, one day, a handsome stranger ventures into the store. He claims to be a trapper come from away, and as Grace gets to know him, she becomes enamoured by his gentle smile and thoughtful ways. But after a several weeks, she discovers that Rudi, her mysterious visitor, is not the lonely outsider he appears to be, but someone else entirely—someone not to be trusted. When a shocking truth about her family forces Grace to question everything she has so strongly believed, she realizes that she and Rudi have more in common than she had thought. And if Grace is to have a chance at love, she must not only choose a side, but take a stand.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've reviewed Genevieve Graham's books here and there over the past several years and every time there's a new book coming out I know it has to be on my WoW post. I still have to review her last novel Tides of Honor (LOVED IT) and cannot wait until Come From Away is released. Fun fact: I've me Genevieve Graham and she's super nice and hilarious!</span></div>
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Audiences across Europe and the Americas clamored to see the divine Sarah Bernhardt swoon—and she gave them their money’s worth. The world’s first superstar, she traveled with a chimpanzee named Darwin and a pet alligator that drank champagne, shamelessly supplementing her income by endorsing everything from aperitifs to beef bouillon, and spreading rumors that she slept in a coffin to better understand the macabre heroines she played.</div>
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Eleonora Duse shied away from the spotlight. Born to a penniless family of itinerant troubadours, she disappeared into the characters she portrayed—channeling their spirits, she claimed. Her new, empathetic style of acting revolutionized the theater—and earned her the ire of Sarah Bernhardt in what would become the most tumultuous theatrical showdown of the nineteenth century. Bernhardt and Duse seduced each other’s lovers, stole one another’s favorite playwrights, and took to the world’s stages to outperform their rival in her most iconic roles.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b>1. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19141361-amity?ac=1&from_search=true">Amity by Micol Ostow</a></b></span></div>
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I chose these because these are the top ten books I can't believe I read because I cannot for the life of me fathom how I was able to make it through these without giving up. In looking through my old notes there was absolutely nothing redeemable about these reads for me but I powered through. Do I regret finishing them? No, many of these were the first in the series. Some of them were new to me authors so I think that me, reading them start to finish was a good thing because I know that these are authors I am not going near again. If I didn't finish these chances are I would have tried something else by the authors but I don't want to waste my time reading books I know I won't like because the authors left such strong impressions on me. </div>
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Kimberly @ Turning the Pageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03631676112769349872noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792082939496415897.post-35960996346205252272018-01-28T00:00:00.000-05:002018-01-28T00:00:00.225-05:00The Sunday Post #67<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAE7qH1FGBPTMrOusvak9WPZOj30K8hsfymeAtN_F0ayhPKYRGrIsSJEVFlCKJ-t_rBeMw8NIydPf9VivAAFWuIPbYb1JRBpHXaH5HzZtT_0Iui521PO5Z_XiVao9DdUTdFAbZfsW1q_fi/s1600/Sunday+Post.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: black; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAE7qH1FGBPTMrOusvak9WPZOj30K8hsfymeAtN_F0ayhPKYRGrIsSJEVFlCKJ-t_rBeMw8NIydPf9VivAAFWuIPbYb1JRBpHXaH5HzZtT_0Iui521PO5Z_XiVao9DdUTdFAbZfsW1q_fi/s320/Sunday+Post.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="text-align: center;">The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by <a href="http://caffeinatedbookreviewer.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer</a> It's a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week </span><span style="text-align: center;">ahead.</span></span></span><br />
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Welcome to the first Sunday Post of 2018 and my first Sunday Post in over a year! As you may have guessed, I am in fact back blogging (after a 7 month hiatus) and couldn't be happier. If you want to know what has kept me away from all you wonderful bookish people there's a blog post I did that explains where I've been which I included below.<br />
I have a busy week ahead of me with appointments and meetings almost everyday so I'm hoping to get some reading, crocheting and blogging time in.<br />
By the way what do you think of my new logo? That's right, Turning the Pages is going to be crochet and bookish this year! I hope you'll stick around even if you don't crochet.<br />
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<a href="http://turningthepagesx.blogspot.ca/2018/01/we-really-have-to-stop-meeting-this-way.html">The post in which I explain my absense</a><br />
<a href="http://turningthepagesx.blogspot.ca/2018/01/top-ten-tuesday-101.html">Top Ten Tuesday #101</a><br />
<a href="http://turningthepagesx.blogspot.ca/2018/01/waiting-on-wednesday-158.html">Waiting on Wednesday #158</a><br />
<a href="http://turningthepagesx.blogspot.ca/2018/01/review-little-book-of-hygge-danish-way.html">Review: The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking</a><br />
<a href="http://turningthepagesx.blogspot.ca/2018/01/review-silence-fallen-mercy-thompson-10.html">Review: Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs</a><br />
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Courtesy of Netgalley I received these ARCS:</div>
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Kimberly @ Turning the Pageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03631676112769349872noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792082939496415897.post-57116564716159428152018-01-26T01:11:00.005-05:002018-01-26T01:11:57.705-05:00*[[Review]] Silence Fallen (Mercy Thompson #10) by Patricia Briggs<div>
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Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. Is there no end to the kerfuffles that our favourite coyote shifter gets herself into? With Patricia Briggs behind the wheel I find that doubtful. I finally got around to reading this one a few weeks ago, and it popped up as available from my library at just the right time for me. </div>
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I had so much fun reading Silence Fallen, being back at Mercy's side was a real treat and I have to say she was in fine form in this installment of her whacky adventure filled, accident prone life. It was filled with the usual hilarity and light hearted moments that I love about this series but we also learned a lot about Mercy and her abilities as a shifter in this one as well which lead to a very balanced read.</div>
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Can I just say that it was great to see Mercy on her own though? With Adam stuck in the USA due to werewolf politics in Europe, we were able to get a bit of the old Mercy back. Not that new Mercy is bad, she's not. She's just as great with Adam as without him by her side but I really do miss when Mercy was on her own left to her own ingenious, reckless wits to depend on for survival. </div>
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I enjoyed how this installment was written in different timelines and view points. Sometimes it would be Adam, others Mercy. We might start off in the current time but the next time might be 4 days in the future or 8 hours in the past. It took a bit to get used to but I found it to be a very effective technique in keeping me interested. It was very fast paced and I loved the details that were given about the surroundings and it was also nice that some side characters made some appearances that surprised me as well. </div>
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Kimberly @ Turning the Pageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03631676112769349872noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792082939496415897.post-23670200825143803332018-01-25T01:08:00.000-05:002018-01-25T01:08:04.993-05:00*[[Review]] The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32497593-the-little-book-of-hygge"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: xx-small;">Summary & Cover taken from Goodreads.com</span></a></span><br />
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I'll admit I'm a little late to the Hygge (pronounced Hoo-Gah) bandwagon but, hot damn am I on bored. For those who do not know what Hygge is it's basically the danish way of being, kind of like the North American word cozy but with more feeling. During this past holiday season I was doing so much running around, cleaning up and stressing out because we brought my Dad home from the nursing home for a couple of days that I didn't have anytime to sit down and just read, so I downloaded The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well by Meik Wiking and away I went.<br />
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Firstly, can I just say how refreshing it was to have an author narrate their own book? While I was listening to the Little Book of Hygge I just could not get over how perfect Meik Wiking was at reading it aloud. I couldn't imagine anyone else reading it and I found his diction to be perfect. He was warm, and friendly and was just want this little book needed and made this a fun, easy and addictive listen.<br />
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While I am new to the term Hygge I would like to say that I'm not new to the concept. I love the idea of cozy living. I don't believe in spending vast amounts of money in the pursuit of happiness mostly because I don't have a lot of money and because money doesn't buy happiness. I was raised in a low income family and I suppose I still am in a low income family situation but to me that is a benefit. I've got to give it to my parents who put family togetherness before everything. We grew up thrifty and to me that is comfort, and comfort is hygge.<br />
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Food is a main focus of Meik Wiking's guide to hygge and I couldn't agree with him more. Food is where I find a lot of my hygge. Is it because food uses so many senses? The human sense of smell has the strongest memory retention. When we smell something it is what helps us remember more than any other sense. Though it is not alone, taste, sight and the action of doing all make food hygge. For example, I lost my mum a little three years ago and when I want to shut the family in, have everyone all snug in the house after a rough week I make her spaghetti. We all bundle up and either eat together or go to our own corners of the house, and remember how she used to cook and keep her memory with us. It sounds silly to put an element of hygge so simply, however to me that is what hygge is it's simplicity. It is coziness, it is contentment, it is being in a large group of friends or it is being alone. It is spending a weekend away, or a weekend in. It is as different in what in means to different people as there are different people in the world.<br />
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Besides giving some tips on how to find hygge in our ever more hectic, high speed, ultra connected, impersonal world, Wiking spreads a message of happiness, gives an interesting look into the Danish way of life, and lays out some ways one might try to capture hygge.<br />
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I thoroughly enjoyed reading about his tips on creating hygge, little factoids about happiness and how it is measured in his job at the Happiness Institute, and sharing some personal stories about himself and some of his particularly hygge memories.<br />
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The audiobook of The Little Book of Hygge was only 3 hours 13 minutes long but it felt longer, and I don't mean that in a bad way. While it did seem like time flew by while I was listening to this, it certainly made an impact on me and now I find myself on a quest to be more hyggelig in the future and made me think about how I can be more hygge in my life. I feel as though there was a lot of personal reflection that happened after I finished this book, that I will be reading more books about hygge soon which is why I can't recommend this audiobook enough. Get some tips, add a few new recipes to you're recipes, and remember how to laugh and be happy without spending an arm and a leg.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">Think about that first tickle of hunger in your stomach. A moment ago, you could have been thinking about anything, but now it's thickly buttered marmite toast, a frosty scoop of ice cream straight from the tub, some creamy, cheesy scrambled eggs or a fuzzy, perfectly-ripe peach.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;">Eating is one of life's greatest pleasures. Food nourishes our bodies, helps us celebrate our successes (from a wedding cake to a post-night out kebab), cheers us up when we're down, introduces us to new cultures and - when we cook and eat together - connects us with the people we love.</span></div>
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In Eat Up, Ruby Tandoh celebrates the fun and pleasure of food, taking a look at everything from gluttons and gourmets in the movies, to the symbolism of food and sex. She will arm you against the fad diets, food crazes and bad science that can make eating guilt-laden and expensive, drawing eating inspiration from influences as diverse as Roald Dahl, Nora Ephron and Gemma from TOWIE. Filled with straight-talking, sympathetic advice on everything from mental health to recipe ideas and shopping tips, this is a book that clears away the fog, to help you fall back in love with food.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: her mother is stolen away―by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: “Stay away from the Hazel Wood.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First of all, I know I'm 3 weeks late but, HAPPY NEW YEAR!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Second of all, I've missed you all terribly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you're new to this blog and just stumbled upon it you may be wondering what I'm on about. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you're a longtime follower you've got to be getting pretty tired of my long, and often unexplained absences. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had a pretty good 6 months of blogging in 2017, until May that is. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately life really does have a way of well, getting in the way and unfortunately it's been staying in the way a little longer again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My elderly father (82) had a bad fall in July which has left him wheelchair bound and us his children acting as his caregivers until we can find him a placement in a long term care facility which could take 6 months or more. So I need something to keep me sane and here I find myself again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, I'm back. I won't make any promises about how often I'm going to post. It could be daily, could be 3 times a week or once a week. I just want to come back to my blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will not be taking any review copies on as I can't commit to timelines at the moment, unless you're an author I've worked with before or there is a flexible timeline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have another announcement, Turning the Pages will not be a books only blog. I've recently (in the past year) fallen in love with the wonderful world of fiber arts and am a certified crochet addict. So, there will be some non-bookish posts where I share things I've created, things I want to make and bring two of my favourite hobbies together. I toyed with the idea of creating a second blog but I think that would be folly. I have to get back into managing one blog let alone 2! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope you'll stick around and keep reading Turning the Pages and do let me know what I've missed since May! Also do any of you do crafty things? Do you blog about it? Feel free to share links!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;">Middle-aged Lily impulsively joins a touring folk-rock band, leaving her job and marriage behind in an attempt to find a second chance at life, passion, and art.</span></span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #a64d79;">It happens without warning: At a folk-rock show at her son s college, Lily becomes transfixed by the guitarist s unassuming onstage presence and beautiful playing and with his final note, something within her breaks loose. After the concert, Lily returns to her comfortable life an Upper West Side apartment, a job as a videographer, and a kind if distracted husband but she can t stop thinking about the music, or about the duo s guitarist, JJ. Unable to resist the pull of either one, she rashly offers to make a film about the band in order to gain a place with them on tour. But when Lily dares to step out from behind her camera, she falls deep into JJ s world upsetting the tenuous balance between him and his bandmate, and filling a chasm of need she didn't know she had. Captivating and provocative, Play for Me captures the thrill and heartbreak of deciding to leave behind what you love to follow what you desire."</span></span></div>
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Every now and again I really enjoy reading a book that isn't out of my comfort zone but isn't my usual type of read you know what I mean? Play For Me by Celine Keating definitely fit that bill for me because the main character is middle aged (I'm 27), and is dealing with both empty nest syndrome (I have pets not kids) and a romance. Lily's life and mine are drastically different, but that is really what I felt was compelling me to read Play For Me. I wanted to know why she decide to make such a profound change to her life trying to fulfill what she thought was missing while she was a wife and mother for the last 23 years.<div>
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Play for me was a real page turner. I couldn't get enough of the authors writing but I was very conflicted as I didn't agree with Lily on a great many things but I thought the book provided an interesting perspective into a life that will never be mine. It was rich in detail and was certainly very well written and was rife with emotions and I found myself battling a lot of turmoil on Lily's behalf because it seemed she was so wrapped up in her newfound love and adventures that the toll they were taking on her and those around her fell by the wayside. </div>
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I found it interesting, and refreshing though that the author was able to convey such a wide range of emotions and keep my reading if not for the pure cathartic release of seeing how Lily's decisions were going to effect her long term. I was really invested in the outcome and I usually don't get that way if it's not a character that I love. Not that Lily wasn't a good character, she was very much so however, I didn't agree with so many things she did that I didn't love her. </div>
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Celine Keating provided a wonderful departure from my recent reading choices and I thought she wrote beautifully conveying a story about one woman's choice to find out "what if?". Fast paced, realistic and captivating from page one this is one I will definitely be passing on in terms of recommendations and absolutely put Keating on my list of authors to watch out for. If you love women's fiction or chick lit with more substance I can't tell you to give this one a try enough. So give it a try folks!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Céline Keating is the author of novels <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: blue; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://03198aa.netsolhost.com/wordpress/layla/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: blue; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Layla</a></span> </em>(2011) and<span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: blue; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://03198aa.netsolhost.com/wordpress/play-for-me/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: blue; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Play for Me</em></a> </span>(2015), which was a finalist in the International Book Awards, the Indie Excellence Awards, and the USA Book Awards. Céline is also the co-editor of <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On Montauk: A Literary Celebration</em> (2016).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Her short fiction has been published in many literary magazines, including <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Appearances</em>, <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Echoes</em>, <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Emry’s Journal</em>, <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mount Hope</em>, <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The North Stone Review</em>, <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prairie Schooner</em>, and the <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Santa Clara Review</em>. Céline’s short story “Home” received the first-place <span style="border: 0px; color: blue; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://hackneyliteraryawards.org/winners" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: blue; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">2014 Hackney Award for Short Fiction</a></span>. Céline is also a music journalist whose work has appeared in <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Minor7th.com</em>, <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Guitar World</em>, and <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Acoustic Guitar</em> magazines</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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Kimberly @ Turning the Pageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03631676112769349872noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792082939496415897.post-51797603771253934132017-04-26T03:21:00.000-04:002017-04-26T03:21:00.112-04:00[Blog Tour Review, Excerpt & Giveaway] The Blue Hour by Vicki Righettini <br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span id="freeText12683367502725069885" style="background-color: white;"><br />In this epic tale of love, loss, and redemption, the year is 1861, a time when women are expected to be married by a certain age. At 26, spinster Emily Wainwright has no reason to believe her sheltered life will ever change — until the charming Samuel Todd unexpectedly crosses her path.<br /><br />Samuel yearns to homestead and start a family in Oregon, but he first needs to find a wife. Blinded by Samuel’s good looks, and grasping at her final chance to have a husband and children, Emily accepts his marriage proposal. However, Samuel is not the man she thought he was, and her marriage becomes a cold, cruel prison, offering her no solace amidst the hardships of farm life.<br /><br />When Samuel dies and a second chance at love and happiness arrives in the form of farmhand Cole Walker, Emily must overcome her bitter past—or risk losing Cole and the life she has always dreamed of having.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><br />
It's no secret on the blog that I'm an avid lover of historical fiction especially historical fiction with a strong female lead and Vicki Righettini put forth a wonderfully written debut showcasing her newcomer talents.<br />
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Emily Wainwright is our 26 year old heroine, She's intelligent, resourceful, steadfast and very much a woman after my own heart. I loved everything about her. She was perfectly imperfect in her actions through out the whole novel. I might not have always found myself agreeing with her choices that she was making especially in terms of Samuel (her husband). Yet, there was so much to like about her. Her kindness, her willingness not to give up in the face of extreme adversity while dealing with her husband's wretched red hot temper and the uncertainty of being a woman travelling the Oregon trail in the 1860's. I found her to be rather inspiring, perhaps because I, like Emily am 26 and I find our lives so different from each other. In her day at 26 years old she was shelved as a spinster, yet my peers are considered much to young to get married. I found Vicki Righettini writing of her to be beautiful. Rarely do I find such a character that is so well written that I should like to be their friend but in The Blue Hour she certainly did it.<br />
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In my reading of it, found it to be rich in historical details. As a Canadian I have very limited knowledge of many things that American's would know already. I'd never even heard of the Oregon Trail before and I'm a die hard reader. I enjoyed seeing the authors take on the social injustices that were the norm of Emily's day. To me there's nothing like reading a book about women pioneers and Emily certainly was a trailblazer that while not a real person, was inspiring nonetheless.<br />
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I reveled in being transported to the Oregon Trail with Emily. The smell of the rich dirt, mixed with the musty smell of leaves, to the warm smell of valley's of tall grass baking in the sun I couln't help but fall in love with the picture of the setting that the author put forth.<br />
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For me this book was part historical fiction (with a tad bit of romance to help our dear Emily get through hell), and part love letter to the world of yesterday. From the rich, vibrant details of the setting to the outstanding characters falling all over the spectrum from ally to enemy I couldn't help but fall in love with the Oregon Trail of The Blue Hour.<br />
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I would highly recommend this to anyone looking for an amazing historical fiction read with a great character who will make your heart ache when hers break and glow in her times of joy as well as an amazing plotline. This is a book I can see re-reading this one later on if life.<br />
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The travelers arrived at Independence Rock – the great register of the desert – on schedule and in
time to observe the Fourth of July. One man dug a string of firecrackers out of his wagon, and
the young boys had a fine time setting them off. But this was mere overture to the bombs
bursting in air for the country’s 86th birthday celebration. As was his custom – and against Jack
Brand’s decree – Jim Connor lifted the ban on rifle fire for this one night. Gun shots and
inebriated, patriotic oratory soon echoed throughout the camp.<br />
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Emily escaped the free-for-all by joining a group of women trekking to Independence Rock, the
most famous landmark on the trail. On this night the excursion seemed fitting, even after walking
all day. More to the point, if she stayed in camp she might be hit by a stray bullet. If the men
were so intent on shooting each other, why didn’t they go fight in the civil war?<br />
As they walked to the vast monument, Delia mused that it looked like a giant turtle’s back.
Another woman said it resembled an enormous whale from Melville’s Moby-Dick. Emily
remembered reading the book by the fireside in her father’s study. Heavens, how long ago had
that been? Not that long, really. It was hard to imagine she’d ever had time to settle in for a good,
long read; harder still to imagine she ever would again.<br />
At the rock, the women hiked up their skirts and scaled the crumbling granite, combing the
surface for recognizable names, daubed in axle grease or carved into the rock. Some of the
carvings were beautifully rendered and must have taken days to complete.<br />
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When they reached the top, Emily settled in to admire the sunset while the others added their
names to the rock. She wondered how they could think their marks would last. Inscriptions just a
few years old were fading, blasted away by wind-driven sand. A few perused the monument as if
it were a newspaper, their eyes bright with hope that someone they knew had gotten this far –
anything to give them the will to continue. Emily let them search. Instead, she reveled in the cool
evening and the fiery sunset. For the rest of her days, whenever she thought of the American
West, she would recall the vivid scene before her: the vast darkening sky with its massing clouds
of purple and blazing scarlet, the glowing russet sandstone, and at the horizon a sunset of pure,
molten gold.<br />
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Before lighting their candles to descend the rock, the women stood with her and watched the
fading rays. Ahead was a sobering view of the Wind River Mountains, their snow-capped peaks
aflame in the setting sun. The thought of scaling those mountains stirred in them equal parts
anticipation and dread. Perhaps the men were right to celebrate and forget about the road ahead.<br />
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They arrived back at camp only to step into the middle of a heated debate over hunting rules and
the rate of travel. Emily went directly to the wagon. As she slipped under the covers, she prayed
she’d get to sleep before any fighting broke out. The Indians must be laughing at them, the way.their men were always at each other. There was nothing the Indians could do to them that they
weren’t already doing to themselves.<br />
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The first book in the cozy Mrs. B mystery series was just as delightful as you would expect with an older sleuth in the leading role. I was a little partial to the her because I had a delightful teacher once upon a time that went my the name Mrs. B so I was already set to like her, but I ended up loving her just for who she was.<br />
Mrs. B was a lovely character. She wasn't the bumbling kind of older sleuth at all, she was kind, intelligent and ultimately has a flare for solving crime. I loved that she didn't pretend to be anyone other than herself. In solving the mystery she isn't afraid to help out a friend indeed, making new friends (and enemie) along the way.<br />
At 133 pages long this was a warm, feel good, all around well written first book in a delightful cozy mystery series from an author that was new to me, but one who I will be sure to check out further and hopefully read more from soon.<br />
I would recommend this to any one. From fans of the genre to newcomers this is a great little intro to the world of cozies. There's plenty of laughs to be had and I can't see where Mrs. B's antics take her next.<br />
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*Note I'm posting this a few days late and would like to extend my apologies to the author an organizer of the tour. I was dealing with a private family matter at the time and got my post dates confused*<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mrs. B did her best to focus on the pinochle game. They played another hand, and only bickered once when Don was dealing and Vic thought he had dealt Mike one too many cards and shorted Vic. Which, to no one’s surprise, turned out not to be the case. After the second hand they all got up, took a restroom break, got another cup of coffee—or in Old Mike’s case, tea—and went back to the table.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mrs. B stood behind her chair for a second, to see if she could see what Myrtle was doing, but from that vantage point all she could see was the back of Myrtle’s head.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The deal and the rest of the game, as usual, were silent except for the bidding and an occasional exclamation or grunt if someone made an unexpected play. Vic tallied up the score and read it off. Then all four of them got up and walked toward the kitchen and then to the back of the room for lunch. The men headed toward long tables to the right. Mrs. B went to the left where the ladies congregated at little card tables, each with a centerpiece of cheerful pink plastic roses.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes I feel like a kid in a school cafeteria, Mrs. B thought as she made her way toward Anne, Myrtle and Rose, already sitting at one of the square tables toward the back of the room.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On her way, Mrs. B passed the mahjong ladies. Most of them spoke only Chinese, so they usually kept to themselves. Lily, who spoke English, waved her hand in greeting as Mrs. B passed.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mrs. B said “Nee how” to everyone, the way Lily taught her to years ago. Two of the ladies looked up and said, “Ni hao!” The others waved and smiled.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the lunch table, Mrs. B’s beige plastic tray made a comforting sound as it hit the tabletop. Myrtle looked good. Cheerful, even.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These three women were Mrs. B’s closest friends at the Senior Center. She met Anne Barker when she and Albert first moved to Burchfield. Anne’s cousin Mary owned the Burchfield Grill, where Mrs. B and Albert used to stop for fish sandwiches on Friday nights before the children were born. Anne had lived in Burchfield all her life and she seemed to be related, through blood or marriage, to half the people in the neighborhood. Glamorous by Burchfield standards, Anne had been a model in the days when artists drew clothing for newspaper ads. She still got her hair done every week at the beauty parlor, and her clothes were always the prettiest colors.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rose O’Malley—little, quiet Rose—moved to Burchfield when she got married, just like Mrs. B did. A private person, Rose was. None of the other ladies at the table had ever even met her before she started coming to the Senior Center, though of course</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they would see her at Mass from time to time. Rose’s husband was retired from the police force and her son was a detective. That was all they knew about her. Rose looked like she might be Italian, but Mrs. B wasn’t even sure about that.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We were talking about something on TV last night,” Anne said as Mrs. B steadied herself on the table with one hand and pulled out her chair with the other.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Did you watch channel 13? It was one of those nature specials,” Myrtle said. Rose looked up and nodded at Mrs. B, then continued fussing with her macaroni and cheese.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I was watching a movie,” Mrs. B said.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It was all about walruses. They’re big, fat buggers,” Myrtle said.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I think my first husband was a walrus,” Anne said. They all giggled.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rest of the lunch was like any other of the numerous lunches they had shared together. Myrtle seemed perfectly fine. Why, Mrs. B thought. Why the sudden change? </span><br />
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Kimberly @ Turning the Pageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03631676112769349872noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792082939496415897.post-26803558116153086222017-04-12T01:54:00.000-04:002017-04-12T01:54:07.496-04:00[Blog Tour Review & Giveaway]* A Fine Yar For Murder (A Thorny Rose Mystery #2) by Lauren Carr<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;">After months of marital bliss, Jessica Faraday and Murphy Thornton are still discovering and adjusting to their life together. Settled in their new home, everything appears to be perfect … except in the middle of the night when, in darkest shadows of her subconscious, a deep secret from Jessica’s past creeps to the surface to make her strike out at Murphy.</span></span></div>
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Determined to uncover the truth and find justice for the murder victims, Jessica and Murphy return to the scene of the crime with Dallas Walker, a spunky bull-headed Texan. Can this family reunion bring closure for a community touched by tragedy or will this prickly get-together bring an end to the Thorny Rose couple?</div>
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Set a few months in the future from the events that took place in the first book in the series and it was nice to see Jessica and Murphy again and see who they've settled into their marriage along with their merry band of animal sidekicks whom I was so happy to see again. Seriously the animal shenanigans in the books give the books some really good laugh out loud which I soooo loved.</div>
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This one was again surprising, even though I was surprised that Kill and Run (the first book) was a little more on the darker side than I expected I thought that it might be one of those deals where that was just to get readers attatched to the characters. But, this one was just as dark as the first and even more gut wrenching.</div>
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This was such an exciting, thrilling, gut wrenching follow up to the first book in the series that I read it in one sitting. Well one day/evening. Seriously! We had a bit of nasty weather the day I read this one and I was super excited to spend the day snuggled up with the furbabies seeing the story unfold on my mind. This book breaks the usual standard that sophmore books in a series have of not standing up to the first book. The mystery was flawlessly woven together and I really enjoyed how the ending came to fruition. The characters were more at home with themselves (nothing wrong with them in the first book btw) but it was nice to catch up with them and see how their work is changing not only them but their relationship.</div>
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This is another one that I would absolutely recommend to people but I have to say based on my experience, read the first book. I know someone who read these out of order and while she didn't have any issues in doing so, when she finished the first book (after she mistakenly read book two first) said that it filled in some gaps for her. In general though, mystery fans who want a hot couple as the main characters in a crime solving duo that is a medium on the dark aspects of the genre check these books out.</div>
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If you haven't yet read the first book, and this series is completely new to you, I reviewed the first book on my blog yesterday and you can find my review by clicking here.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lauren Carr is the international best-selling author of the Mac Faraday, Lovers in Crime, and Thorny Rose Mysteries—over twenty titles across three fast-paced mystery series filled with twists and turns!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="background-color: white;">Five women with seemingly nothing in common are found brutally murdered in a townhome outside Washington, DC. Among the many questions surrounding the massacre is what had brought these apparent strangers together only to be killed. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Taking on his first official murder case, Lieutenant Murphy Thornton, USN, believes that if he can uncover the thread connecting the victims, then he can find their murderer. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Before long, the case t</span><span style="background-color: white;">akes an unexpected turn when Murphy discovers that one of the victims has a connection to his stepmother, Homicide Detective Cameron Gates. One wintry night, over a dozen years before, her first husband, a Pennsylvania State trooper, had been run down while working a night shift on the turnpike.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In this first installment of the Thorny Rose Mysteries, the Lovers in Crime join newlyweds Lieutenant Murphy Thornton and Jessica Faraday to sift through a web of lies and cover-ups. Together, can the detectives of the Thorny Rose uncover the truth without falling victim to a cunning killer? </span></span></div>
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I've been meaning to read Lauren Carr for years, I remember when I first started blogging and everyone was reading her books and I had every intention of trying her sooner...but well..you guys probably know what happened. My little to read pile took on a life of its own and a lot of books got pushed down on my list.</div>
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Do not let the purple cover lull you into a false sense of security. This is not your grandma's cozy mystery. Kill and Run is the first in a surprisingly dark and sexy mystery/thriller series. I was one of those people who took one look at the cover and thought I knew what I was getting into but ended up being pleasantly surprised!</div>
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I enjoyed that Kill and Run was not just my first venture into Carr's writing but also Murphy (the male lead's) first case as well and what a case to have. Five dead women seemingly unconnected at first but as he pulls the threads of their lives finds a connection that's closer to home than he'd like and with a little help from his new bride Jessica Faraday things become very clear to him that nothing is as it seems.</div>
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There were lots of plot twists and turn in this one and just when I thought I knew what was going on with the murderer and the characters, the author switched things around on me and I loved it! The characters were great and there was more than just brutal murders to keep me interested in the story. The two main characters Murphy and Jessica were great together. They played off each other well and they sounded like a real married couple to me. I love how they bickered together but boy the steam coming off them sometimes made it hard to read! Plus there were a lot of laughs (and a lot of animals) to off set the darker undertones of the series as well.</div>
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Overall, this one surprised me a lot in a great ways. The writing is great, face paced and both the characters and the plot had substance. I didn't find either lacking and I'm super stoked that the author lived up to my expectations. I'm only sorry that I haven't tried Lauren Carr's books sooner. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a murder mystery with an edge. Not sure I would call this a thriller but it's definitely very edgy and isn't one that I'd miss.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Lauren Carr is the international best-selling author of the Mac Faraday, Lovers in Crime, and Thorny Rose Mysteries—over twenty titles across three fast-paced mystery series filled with twists and turns!</span></span></div>
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Kimberly @ Turning the Pageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03631676112769349872noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792082939496415897.post-88942883783316076692017-04-10T00:30:00.000-04:002017-04-10T00:30:00.174-04:00[Review]* Geekerella by Ashley Poston<div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span id="freeText12731265648390823241" style="background-color: white;"><br />Part romance, part love letter to nerd culture, and all totally adorbs, Geekerella is a fairy tale for anyone who believes in the magic of fandom. Geek girl Elle Wittimer lives and breathes <i>Starfield</i>, the classic sci-fi series she grew up watching with her late father. So when she sees a cosplay contest for a new <i>Starfield</i> movie, she has to enter. The prize? An invitation to the ExcelsiCon Cosplay Ball, and a meet-and-greet with the actor slated to play Federation Prince Carmindor in the reboot. With savings from her gig at the Magic Pumpkin food truck (and her dad’s old costume), Elle’s determined to win…unless her stepsisters get there first.<br /><br />Teen actor Darien Freeman used to live for cons—before he was famous. Now they’re nothing but autographs and awkward meet-and-greets. Playing Carmindor is all he’s ever wanted, but the <i>Starfield</i> fandom has written him off as just another dumb heartthrob. As ExcelsiCon draws near, Darien feels more and more like a fake—until he meets a girl who shows him otherwise.</span></span><div>
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I've reviewed a lot of books over the last 6 years on my blog, but one genre that seams to be under represented on here is Contemporary YA. That's because I'm not the biggest fan of the genre because so many of the stories seem the same to me so when I got the review request for Geekerella I was both excited and hesitant. Excited because I loved the synopsis on the back. Who doesn't love cosplay? Hesitant because I was slightly worried that it the quirkiness of Elle would be mentioned a few times and then be left sitting in a pile of used plot devices. But dear reader I am beyond pleased to say that Geekerella blew my mind. In a completely awesome, unexpected, so much more than I expected kind of way. <div>
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Elle is hands down, not a doubt in my mind one of the best main characters in a young adult novel that I've ever read. She's everything I wanted in a modern day Cinderella. She was sweet and sassy, quirky and in your face about what she does or doesn't like and I loved her for it. She's a straight shooter, no holds bar type of girl who while she can be shy doesn't let it define her and she's all about her fandom and cosplaying. Basically she is who I wanted to be in high school but didn't feel free enough to be. I thought that having a geeky Cinderella was amazing. Nothing against the traditional Cinderella, but it was nice to see her getting a bit of an alternative spin and a very well written one.</div>
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Darien was a great male lead. I was a little iffy about him in the beginning because I had the same reservations about him that Ella did but halfway through and he had my inner teenage girl swooning. He was the perfect imperfect prince charming and I loved seeing his own insecurities come out. As a whole the two of them were just adorable.</div>
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Ashley Poston did the old fairy tale justice by giving it a funny modern twist. It was cute and sweet with out being toothachingly so and had just amount of edge to make the characters seam realistic. I love how no character was really perfect, because no one is in real life and it was nice to see geek culture represented so well. My only issue with the author is since Geekerella just came out there's an unknown wait for her next book (which I'm hoping there will be!).</div>
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Kimberly @ Turning the Pageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03631676112769349872noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792082939496415897.post-79850763019262985582017-04-10T00:00:00.000-04:002017-04-10T00:00:14.585-04:00It's Monday! What Are You Reading #139<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After ten months of marital bliss, Jessica Faraday and Murphy Thornton are still discovering and adjusting to their life together. Settled in their new home, everything appears to be perfect … except in the middle of the night when, in the darkest shadows of her subconscious, a deep secret from Jessica’s past creeps to the surface to make her strike out at Murphy. <br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">When investigative journalist Dallas Walker tells the couple about her latest case, known as the Pine Bridge Massacre, they realize Jessica may have witnessed the murder of a family while visiting family at the winery near-by, and suppressed the memory. </span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Determined to uncover the truth and find justice for the murder victims, Jessica and Murphy return to the scene of the crime with Dallas Walker, a spunky bull-headed Texan. Can this family reunion bring closure for a community touched by tragedy or will this prickly get-together bring an end to the Thorny Rose couple? </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>The Weight of Him by Ethel Rohan </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In <i>The Weight of Him</i> Billy Brennan undergoes an unforgettable journey in a startling attempt to resurrect his family and reignite hearts, his own most of all.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Former Texas Ranger Arlo Baines didn’t come to the tiny West Texas town of Piedra Springs to cause trouble. After his wife and children were murdered, Arlo just wants to be left alone. Moving from place to place seems to be the only thing that eases the pain of his family’s violent end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="freeText9842221505595068074">One of the most vicious archangels in the world has disappeared. No one knows if Lijuan is dead or has chosen to Sleep the long sleep of an immortal. But with her lands falling into chaos under a rising tide of vampiric bloodlust, a mysterious and ancient order of angels known as the Luminata calls the entire Cadre together to discuss the fate of her territory.<br />Accompanying her archangelic lover Raphael to the Luminata compound, guild hunter-turned-angel Elena senses that all is not as it seems. Secrets echo from within the stone walls of the compound, and the deeper Elena goes, the uglier the darkness. But neither Raphael nor Elena is ready for the brutal truths hidden within—truths that will change everything Elena thinks she knows about who she is…<br />Nothing will ever be the same again.</span> </span></div>
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Kimberly @ Turning the Pageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03631676112769349872noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5792082939496415897.post-91474669316115151642017-03-31T03:20:00.002-04:002017-03-31T03:20:58.887-04:00[Blog Tour Review]* The Munich Girl by Phyllis Edgerly Ring <div>
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<a href="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1448382212l/27914910.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Munich Girl" border="0" height="400" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1448382212l/27914910.jpg" width="265" /></a><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span id="freeText2152426746582396547" style="background-color: white;">Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends. The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s. Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged. With Hannes’s help, she retraces the path of two women who met as teenagers, shared a friendship that spanned the years that Eva Braun was Hitler’s mistress, yet never knew that the men they loved had opposing ambitions. Eva’s story reveals that she never joined the Nazi party, had Jewish friends, and was credited at the Nuremberg Trials with saving 35,000 Allied lives. As Anna's journey leads back through the treacherous years in wartime Germany, it uncovers long-buried secrets and unknown reaches of her heart to reveal the enduring power of love in the legacies that always outlast war.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><b>Publication Date:</b></span><span style="color: #a64d79;"> November 14th 2015 by Whole Sky Books</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>M</b></span>any of you know how much of a historical fiction fan I am. I love the genre, I love how authors are able to capture history and bring it to life....and I generally like all historical periods though there is one subset that I don't venture into very often and that is WWII historical fiction. Then there are books that come a long and make me question why? <div>
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The Munich Girl was rich with historical details. Chronicling three different women Anna, Peggy, and Eva Braun and told in different timelines as Anna is in 1995 and she's set to solve the family mystery that began 50 years before during the Second World War.</div>
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I'm a sucker for books that are told in alternating timelines, and from multiple points of view. It's one of my favourite ways to read a historical fiction novel and the way that the author was able to bring all of her characters, the setting, and the emotions to life was amazing. I found Munich Girl to be an emotional read, I was torn between loving and hating certain characters but I do applaud the author for being able to really evoke those feelings in me.</div>
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The Munich Girl was fast paced, well written and heartwrenching. I appreciated the amount of research that obviously must have gone into constucting the backdrop of the story. I felt as though I'd been transported back in time, it was almost as if I was in the story myself. I found the lives of the three women in the book to have come together so wonderfully. There were many different threads to follow in the story and everything came together very well. The side characters were also very well fleshed out. They were not used as mere props but had quirks, and there were some I loved and some I hated for various reasons.</div>
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Overall, I know I've been slightly vague in my review but fear not dear reader, this was intentional! With how interwoven the stories of the three women are I'd rather not give away any plot twists and believe me The Munich Girl has its fair share of twists. Is it a book that I would recommend? Absolutely. It was a unique story, and I think historical fiction enthusiasts should give it a try, and if you're new to the genre or are just curious about delving into this particular era in history I'd say this is a lovely place to begin and I can't wait to read more by the author. </div>
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