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

Top Ten Tuesday – Best of 2018 So Far

Happy Tuesday, readers! Today’s topic at That Artsy Reader Girl is Series I’ve Given Up On/Don’t Plan to Finish. Since I found that to be an uninspiring topic, I’m going rogue again, and a couple of events have conspired to convince me that there is no better time to post my ‘best of’ list for January to June: Today is the last Top Ten Tuesday post for the first half of 2018. (I’ll pause for a moment to give you the chance to process that last sentence!) My hubby is going away at the end of the week for a little

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26 June 2018

Top Ten Tuesday – Books That Gave Me Literary Indigestion (in a Good Way)

Happy Tuesday, readers! Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic at That Artsy Reader Girl is Books I Decided to DNF (did not finish) Too Quickly. I have this little OCD tendency that means I very rarely DNF anything—when it comes to books, at least! 😉 If I’ve started it, I finish it—even if it means skimming to the end of the story—just so that I get resolution. And if I DNFed it, then it certainly wasn’t a decision I made too quickly! But it occurred to me, when I was trying to work out what kind of a spin to give this

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5 June 2018

Wolfsbane (Ronie Kendig) – Review

~ About the Book ~ A Rapid-Fire Rewrite of the 2012 Christy Award Winner–Expanded & Updated with 100 new pages! Army demolitions expert Danielle Roark narrowly escaped a brutal guerrilla general. Months later, she’s charged with espionage and forced to return to the very jungle where her nightmares began. Her only hope rests in the former Special Forces operator who escorts her down and vows they’ll both come back alive. Disgusted with the suits on Capitol Hill, Canyon Metcalfe is still wrestling with memories of a mission gone bad. But taking the role of protector, he’s determined to make this

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2 June 2018

Top Ten Tuesday – Favourite Character Names

Happy Tuesday, book lovers! This week’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl is Best Character Names. Rather a subjective topic, and with the exception of the first three books on this list, I had no idea what names I would include! The biggest obstacle was separating the names from the characters they represented, because I naturally gravitated to the names of my favourite characters. But in the end, I think I’ve managed to come up with a reasonable list. Let me know what you think!

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22 May 2018

Top Ten Tuesday – Animal Inspiration

Happy Tuesday, book lovers! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday post is all about titles. Technically, the topic according to That Artsy Reader Girl is Frequently used words in ________ Titles, with __________ being where you insert genre of your choice. Well, I could have done fall or love for romance titles, but that was a little uninspiring. I thought of conspiracy because that’s in the title of the book I’m currently reading, but aside from a few favourites it was taking too long to come up with a list.

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24 April 2018

Top Ten Tuesday – Favourite Secondary Characters

Happy Tuesday, book lovers! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday with That Artsy Reader Girl has stumped me a little: Characters I liked that were in non-favourite/disliked books. So I decided to take the ‘character’ theme and come up with my own topic today: Favourite secondary characters.

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3 April 2018

Top Ten Tuesday – Ten Countries I've Visited Through Books

Happy Tuesday! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic made me laugh: Books that Take Place in Another Country. Since I live in Australia, almost every book I read takes place in another country. 😄 So I’ve decided to tweak the topic a little and share ten different countries I have visited in books. Since the vast majority of books I read are set in the US, I’ve decided to exclude that country from the list, and since I live in Australia, I’m not going to include books set here either. (But if you’re after a good one, check out Kara Isaac’s Then There

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27 March 2018