I had to sit back and remind myself that this was a middle grade book. I didn’t keep that in mind before I jumped in reading and I found myself getting frustrated that it was all too easy. But in reality it wasn’t. Yes, Daisy and David caught some lucky breaks but that’s not always the reality of ...
Family & Relationships
BOOK REVIEW: A Baby for the Doctor by Stephanie Dees
Welcome back to Red Hill Farm, which is crawling with children and farm animals and those magical men of the Sheehan family. Claire and Joe are running a gaggle or twenty of foster children while expanding their own family as well. Claire's twin sister Jordan is working on expanding her equine ...
BOOK REVIEW: Year of Jubilee by Peggy Trotter
Imagine being 18 years old and starving, isolated, abandoned, and frightened of literally everything. Imagine being in that situation through only the actions of others. Being orphaned as a child, put out to work by the orphanage to learn life skills before you age out of their system and have not ...
BOOK REVIEW: As the Tide Comes In by Cindy Woodsmall and Erin Woodsmall
Truth. I feel like the Ya-Yas took a field trip to Chinquapin Parish to hang out at Truvy's for the day and then they all hoped on over to St. Simon Island to chill with the Glynn Girls for the rest of the weekend. It's a legit thing, though part of me struggles to see any of those gals leaving ...
BOOK REVIEW: Christmas Embers by Chautona Havig
You know that moment when you read the last word on the last page of a book and you aren't emotionally ready for it to be over. How dare the author think that it's a good time to end! You aren't ready, there's still so much more to do, so much more to know, so much more to encounter, it can't be ...