Month: February 2024
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The Lindbergh Nanny
The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks, a historical fiction novel, reads like a thriller–even though you probably know the ending. This story of baby Lindbergh’s kidnapping is told from the perspective of Betty Gow, the baby’s nurse. From the beginning of the book, you get the sense that she might be an unreliable narrator (which… Read more
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Yesterday’s Tides by Roseanna M. White
Yesterday’s Tides features a family owned and operated inn on Ocracoke as a character throughout this dual timeline story. The inn and its family weather literal and figurative storms, and wartime with grace. Evie, the main character of the World War 2 timeline, fashioned jewelry and artwork from found pieces of sea glass, all the… Read more
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My Reading Life Lately and a TBR Spreadsheet
Right now I’m listening to All My Knotted Up Life by Beth Moore. Beth Moore narrates the audiobook, and reads section based on the earlier years in a more Arkansas twang, depicting how she would have sounded in that time. I love that. This seems to be a huge two weeks in publishing- Embers in… Read more
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Tracking Reading and TBR
I’ve been feeling the strong urge to re-organize my physical TBR (to be read), and I’m sure my husband would be glad to not have towering stacks of TBR books to trip over. We’re not even going to talk about the Kindle TBR…because I don’t even know. Any thoughts on organizing ebook TBR? I also… Read more