I'm somehow drawn to challenges. Song challenges, writing challenges, Sims challenges, just about any challenge. While tossing around blog ideas with my partner in crime the idea to do a monthly challenge came up. I was hesitant to move this to the blog but then tossed it up and said 'why not?'. ...
BOOK REVIEW: Breakwater by Catherine Jones Payne
Let's chat shall we? I want to talk about this book before I actually talk about this book. Honestly, I've never really thought about mermaids. Yes as a teen or early adult I watched 'The Little Mermaid'. Yes, if I wasn't older than a couple of decades I might remember a fascination or ...
BOOK REVIEW: A Gift for Anne Marie by Kathleen Fuller
You know how I always, well OK sometimes, complain that a novella tries to be too much? I've been really lucky here lately with novellas understanding their amazing role in literature and stepping up to the plate in amazing ways. 'A Gift for Anne Marie' by Kathleen Fuller takes one for the team ...
BOOK REVIEW: The Storekeeper’s Daughter by Wanda E. Brunstetter
I really enjoyed this book. No, I'm not biased because it's Wanda, who happens to be one of my favorite Amish authors. Seriously, I'm not biased, it's just that good. Take a typical Amish family with a kid or two at an age where they start thinking about branching out and starting their own ...
BOOK REVIEW: Mister B by A. Lynn Byk
When I first started reading this book I felt like I'd just friended a friend on Facebook who was the quintessential vague-booker. You know exactly what I mean. We all have at least one friend who drops hints about something going in as if begging for you to pay attention, and when you do they ...