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20 Dec

Word Nerd Wednesday – Christmas

Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël! Frohe Weihnachten! Bon Natale! Buon Natale! Feliz Navidad! However you say it, I send you greetings of the season. 🙂 Today’s word nerd choice was a fairly obvious one: Christmas. Do you know how the word came about? What about the phrase ‘merry

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20 Dec

The House on Foster Hill (Jaime Jo Wright) – Review

~ About the Book ~ Kaine Prescott is no stranger to death. When her husband died two years ago, her pleas for further investigation into his suspicious death fell on deaf ears. In desperate need of a fresh start, Kaine purchases an old house sight unseen in her grandfather’s Wisconsin

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19 Dec

Top Ten Tuesday – Books I Want For Christmas

Merry Christmas! Since this is the final Top Ten Tuesday post before Christmas, I thought I’d get in early. 😊 We’re going with a Christmas theme today, too, thanks to the girls at The Broke and the Bookish: Top Ten Books I Hope Santa Brings. Whenever someone asks me what I’d

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18 Dec

Beneath Outstretched Arms & A Little While Longer (Venessa Knizley) – Review

~ About the Books ~ The year is 1348—and the Black Plague has reached England. Forced to leave her betrothed behind, Lady Velena Ambrose arrives at her father’s countryside castle, grief stricken—and burdened with fears. She embraces her seclusion, but she is not to remain alone. Though

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17 Dec

Weekend Book Buzz – 16/17 December 2017

Merry Christmas, readers! Although this won’t be my last post for the year, it will be my last Weekend Book Buzz before Christmas. As much as I love you all, I won’t be doing a post next weekend(!) so I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and

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15 Dec

First Line Friday – 15 December 2017 – The House on Foster Hill (Jaime Jo Wright)

Welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. If you’re into romantic suspense with a bit of a Gothic feel to it, you need to get your hands on a copy of the book I’m featuring this week: The House on Foster Hill by Jaime Jo Wright.
15 Dec

12 Days of Christmas Reads – The Twelfth Day: 'Lygos' by Ronie Kendig

Welcome to the twelfth and final day of Christmas reads! I hope you’ve enjoyed sharing Christmas with some of your favourite authors—I’ve sure enjoyed bringing them to you. And we’re going out on a bang with some Rapid-Fire Fiction from Ronie Kendig. For fans of

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14 Dec

Meet the Writer + Giveaway with Sarah Monzon

If you’re looking for a unique contemporary romance, look no further than The Esther Paradigm. I had the pleasure of reviewing this novel earlier this year, and I was absolutely entranced—firstly by the hero, Karim Al-Amir, 😊 but also by the way in which Hannah and her family immersed

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