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Weekend Book Buzz – 17/18 March 2018

Hey there, book lovers! Welcome to the Weekend Book Buzz—full of all sorts of bookish news for you. I hope you have a great weekend in store. Summer’s making a last-ditch comeback here at the moment with some high temps over the weekend, so we’ll be chilling in the air-conditioning—with a good book of course! Have a good one!

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Top Ten Tuesday – Food in Fiction

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday post should come with some kind of a health warning, because once you start, you may find yourself craving all kinds of foods, and I can’t promise all of them will be kind to your figures! Yes, the girls at The Broke and the Bookish have set a food theme for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday post, so don’t say you haven’t been warned!

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Weekend Book Buzz – 23/24 September 2017

Welcome to the weekend! Hope it’s a good one, wherever you are. In my part of Australia we seemed to have skipped spring and gone straight to summer. Today is mid-30s (85-95 degrees Fahrenheit) with a warm, gusty wind. Ick! Nice day to be inside checking out all the bookish news!

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Top Ten Tuesday – My Fall (*ahem* Spring) TBR

I’m back to Top Ten Tuesday after a two-week hiatus! And this week’s topic from the girls at The Broke and the Bookish is one of those topics that I don’t even pretend to limit myself to a mere ten books! However, I have managed to be somewhat restrained. Limiting this list to books that are actually releasing between September and November went a long way towards that restraint! And obviously, this is actually my Spring TBR, because here in the antipodes, spring is in the air! September    Read my reviews for Crown of Souls, A New Shade of Summer,

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Finding Love (Toni Shiloh) – Review + Giveaway!

~ About the Book ~ Delaney Jones has finally started to pick up the pieces of her shattered life after the death of her husband, Parker. Just as life enters a new normal, in walks Army soldier, Luke Robinson. Just when she makes the decision to trust him, life deals her a heavy blow. Sergeant First Class Luke Robinson can’t get over his part in the death of Delaney’s husband. In hopes to assuage his guilt, he offers to lend a hand. Only, he never counted on the feelings she evokes with just a smile. Will his secrets widen the

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Weekend Book Buzz – 13/14 May 2017

Hello book lovers! Boy am I buzzing with book love this month! So many excellent new releases, sales, cover reveals, and more! But before we get into that, let’s recap the week here at Fiction Aficionado:

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Top Ten Tuesday – My Reading Wishlist

It’s Top Ten Tuesday, and today’s topic from the girls at The Broke and the Bookish is Ten Things on Our Reading Wishlist. My list today will be generally referring to things I’d like to see more of in Christian fiction, as that is where I pick up most of my books. Well, where to start? 😉

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