Passionate, stirring and faith-inspiring, this autobiography captures and transports the reader's mind and heart to a village in Transylvania beginning in the early 20th century. As the story unfolds, the struggles of a son born into a large family, the dividing effects of World War II, and the oppression of Christian believers in Communist-dominated countries … Continue reading Review: Called to Serve
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time . . .From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes Tales from the Cafe, a … Continue reading Review: Tales From the Café
Two kings now claim the throne of Camelot, but only one is the True King. Nearly every kingdom of the Woods has pledged their loyalty to King Rhian over the Storian; all but one. The ring of Camelot is the only ring that stands, keeping the Storian alive, and now that Tedros has it, the … Continue reading Review: One True King
Is it me, or did January seem to last a long time? I feel like all January's feel longer than 31 days. It's weird. On one hand, it makes it easier to read more books in the month. Especially if they're shorter books. This month was about average for me, reading wise, as I read … Continue reading January 2022 Wrap Up
A false king has seized Camelot’s throne, sentencing Tedros, the true king, to death. While Agatha, narrowly escapes the same fate, Sophie is caught in King Rhian’s trap. With her wedding to Rhian approaching, she’s forced to play a dangerous game as her friends’ lives hang in the balance.All the while, King Rhian’s dark plans … Continue reading Review: A Crystal of Time
After a tragic accident that forever changed the lives of the Murder Crew—killing one of their own—the students at Blackbrook Academy are just trying to get by. As relationships evolve, strain, and break, Orchid, Green, Scarlett, Mustard, Plum, and Peacock find themselves lost. When the dark secret at the heart of Blackbrook forces its way … Continue reading Review: In the Ballroom With the Candlestick
Andrea McNulty goes to sleep on her eighteenth birthday with a near-perfect life: she's a high school field hockey star, a doted-upon big sister, the beloved daughter of two happy parents. But when she wakes up in a motel room the next morning, unable to remember what happened the previous night and covered in blood, … Continue reading Review: The Girl in the Headlines
Seventeen-year-old Evie Parker is devastated in the wake of her father’s sudden death. But she knows something her mother doesn’t: the day of his heart attack, her dad was planning to move out. After finding his packed bags, an impulsive Evie puts everything away, desperate to spare her mom more heartache.To make matters worse, Evie … Continue reading Review: When We Were Strangers
Bailey Briggs is counting down the days to Christmas: she lives for holiday music, baking cookies, going on snowy sleigh rides, and wearing her light-up reindeer ears to work at Winslow's bookstore. But all she really wants this year is the one thing she doesn't have: someone special to kiss under the mistletoe. And she's … Continue reading Review: All I Want For Christmas
Nora and her husband, Simon, have run the beautiful oak-beamed book shop in their small British village for thirty years. But times are tough and the shop is under threat of closure--this Christmas season will really decide their fate. When an elderly man visits the store and buys the one book they've never been able … Continue reading Review: Christmas by the Book
Thanks to the Reindeer Readathon, I had no trouble picking my books for the month. For the most part, I stuck to my TBR for that, only veering off to read some more Haikyu!! and one last (short) Christmas book on New Year's Eve. However, I didn't get around to finishing my Readathon TBR like … Continue reading December 2021 Wrap Up
When Graham Barnett named his diner The Tourist Trap, he meant it as a joke. Now he's stuck slinging reindeer dogs to an endless string of resort visitors who couldn't interest him less. Not even the sweet, enthusiastic tourist in the corner who blushes every time he looks her way…Two weeks in Alaska isn't just … Continue reading Review: The Tourist Attraction
We made it y'all! Happy New Year! Let me start off with saying that I destroyed my Goodreads Challenge of reading 70 books in 2021 and ended up reading 105 books. I still can't wrap my head around it because I've always been flabbergasted by readers who read that many books a year. I just … Continue reading Top 10 Books of 2021
I'm very glad that I started living by the mantra, "life's too short to read books you aren't enjoying" and no longer push through a book I'm just not interested in. It's saved me a lot of turmoil this year, and in the past couple of years, really. Thankfully, this year there were only three … Continue reading My 2021 DNF List
In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time.Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of … Continue reading Review: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Genie in a Novel 