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First Line Friday – Simply Starstruck (Aspen Hadley)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. I’ve found today to be a strange Good Friday, having been unable to go to church for our usual Good Friday service. I know we can commemorate Good Friday wherever we are, but for me, being able to attend a service where I can gather with others who are remembering the significance of today is very much a part of the holiness of the day. What’s more, in the years I’ve been doing First Line Friday, I seem to have exhausted my collection of novels that tell the Easter story in some shape or form. Obviously I will need to rectify that for next year!

In spite of all that, I hope and pray that you will all have a wonderful, if isolated, Easter break as we remember all that it means to be redeemed by Christ’s death.

10 April 2020

Faking Grace (Tamara Leigh) – Review

ALL SHE WANTS IS A JOB. ALL SHE NEEDS IS RELIGION. HOW HARD CAN IT BE?

Maizy Grace Stewart dreams of a career as an investigative journalist, but her last job ended in disaster when her compassion cost her employer a juicy headline. A part-time gig at a Nashville newspaper might be her big break.

A second job at Steeple Side Christian Resources could help pay the bills, but they only hire committed Christians. Maizy is sure she can fake it with her Five-Step Program to Authentic Christian Faith. If only Jack Prentiss, Steeple Side’s managing editor and British hottie, wasn’t determined to prove her a fraud.

2 April 2020

First Line Friday – Faking Grace (Tamara Leigh)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. Like most, if not all of you, we here in Australia are hunkering down at home in the spirit of social distancing. And after finishing a rather emotional read by Nicole Deese last night (Before I Called You Mine, featured over on the main Hoarding Books post today), I was in the need for something light. Tamara Leigh’s Head Over Heels series to the rescue!

27 March 2020

A Girl’s Guide to the Outback (Jessica Kate) – Review

How far will a girl go to win back a guy she can’t stand? This funny, sweet, and romantic story proves that opposites do attract—and that God has a sense of humor.

Samuel Payton is a passionate youth pastor in Virginia, but below the surface, he’s still recovering from the blow of a failed business and insecurities he can’t shake. His coworker, start-up expert Kimberly Foster, is brilliant, fearless, and capable, but years of personal rejection have left her defensive and longing for a family. Two people have never been more at odds—or more attracted to one another. And every day at work, the sparks sure do fly.

17 February 2020

Top Ten Tuesday – New-To-Me Authors I Read in 2019

Happy Tuesday, reader friends, and welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl.

I’m actually doing a double post today, because I read so many new-to-me authors last year that I can give you ten new-to-me Christian fiction authors and ten new-to-me general market authors! I had no idea I’d read so many, and five of them are Australian authors as well! I’m hoping to read more from these authors in the future.

14 January 2020

The Dating Charade (Melissa Ferguson) – Review

Just when you think you’ve met your match . . . the charade begins.

Cassie Everson is an expert at escaping bad first dates. And, after years of meeting, greeting, and running from the men who try to woo her, Cassie is almost ready to retire her hopes for a husband—and children—altogether.

But fate has other plans, and Cassie’s online dating profile catches the eye of firefighter Jett Bentley. In Jett’s memory, Cassie Everson is the unreachable girl-of-legend from their high school days.

13 January 2020

Top Ten Tuesday – Most Anticipated Reads for the First Half of 2020

Happy Tuesday, reader friends, and welcome to the first Top Ten Tuesday for 2020, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl.

Last week we looked back at some of my favourite reads for 2019, but this week we’re talking about our most anticipated reads for the first half of 2020. This is always a particularly difficult post for me, because how do you possibly narrow down six months worth of reading into your ten most anticipated reads?

7 January 2020

Best of 2019 – Emoji Files, Part V: The LOL Awards

Greetings, reader friends! Today we reach the end of my annual Emoji Files celebrating my best reads of 2019. If you’ve missed my previous posts for 2019, make sure you check out The Swoony Awards, Got Me in the Feels, The WOW Awards, and Take Me Away.

The LOL Awards are, not surprisingly, for those books that have made me laugh this year. In some ways, this is one of the most difficult awards to give because humour can be such a personal thing. One person’s idea of humour may not even garner a smile from the next person. Then there’s the fact that I didn’t really read that many books that were humorous. Sure, there were plenty of reads that had funny moments, but books that were memorable for being light-hearted or humorous were few and far between.

5 January 2020

The power of fiction, the beauty of words, and the God who made us to wield them for His glory.