The Hemingway Stories: As featured in the film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS by Ernest HemingwayMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
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Welcome to my altered journey through life. You never know if I will be into home improvements, knee deep in a good book, on an Alaskan cruise or just being silly. I hope this blog will give you tips, tricks, ideas and books to add to your TBR list. Thanks for stopping by.
28 April 2021
Review: The Hemingway Stories: As featured in the film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS
The Hemingway Stories: As featured in the film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS by Ernest HemingwayMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
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27 April 2021
25 April 2021
It's Gonna Be May----Book Pick
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner is a book I fell in love with the minute I began chapter one. Let me try to sum this up without ruining any plot lines for you.
The book takes place in two time periods, the late 1790s and the present day. In the past timeline, we meet an old woman that makes poisons to kill men and only men. These men would have wronged a woman in some way or they would not have been poisoned.
The present-day timeline introduces us to a woman that is very unhappy in her lot. She is looking for something to complete the empty spot in her life when she joins a group and discovers a vial that once belonged to an apothecary. This little action starts a journey to discover the past and creates a new problem as well.
I thought this book was perfect from start to finish. I would not change a thing from the cover to the last page.
24 April 2021
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28 March 2021
Review: The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago by Douglas PerryMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Murder! Mayhem! Girls with no scruples! This is the true story of Chicago. Hang onto your seat, these girls are out for murder. It was interesting to see the Chicago play how it really was and then how it became the hit plays/movies that we all know (and love). For all the Roaring 20's fans out there.
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22 March 2021
April Book Pick
The book pick for April is......
I will admit I had no idea what this month's pick was about when I put it on hold. I only knew that anything Susan Meissner writes, Michelle will read. I loved this one from the first page.
Imagine a mail-order bride traveling across the country to an unknown place knowing she will become a wife and mother almost the minute she steps off the train in San Francisco. Martin (her new husband) will, at first, seem like a perfect husband, gentle, patient, giving, that will soon fall as Sophie sees he is a bit standoffish with his child, a bit evasive with her, and not willing to share much about his life. He is a man with a secret, but then she is a bride with a secret, and the child will also have a secret. Secrets tend to have a way of revealing themselves, and come out when you least expect them to. Throw in a natural disaster like an earthquake and you have lots of drama that will literally keep you on the edge of your seat.
I don't think there is anything about this book that you won't like.
16 March 2021
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01 March 2021
Review: The Echo Wife
The Echo Wife by Sarah GaileyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I was excited to read this one from the first second that I heard about it, and it did not let me down. Imagine a woman's husband is leaving her for another woman. She only has to sign the divorce papers and it is all done. He and his secret love can do whatever they want. The problem is he just didn't fall in love with any woman, he fell in love with her clone. A clone he created from her genetic makeup. She wasn't quite the perfect woman for him, so he made the perfect woman. All is fine until the close, Martina, calls her on the phone and says "I need help." From this moment the two women form a bond that will never be broken and they will take the reader on a journey of all types of twists and turns.
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26 February 2021
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17 February 2021
March comes in with a book pick
I know that March is still a bit away, but I simply could not wait to share this book with you.
Ruth had a grand life in Chicago, America was on the brink of Barack Obama becoming the 44th President, and Xavier, her husband, wants a baby and possibly a career like Barack. A life that is vastly different from where Ruth grew up. Ganton was a town full of depression, racial injustice, and unemployment. Ruth loved her family, but she wanted out.
Ruth went to Yale, landed a great job as an engineer, and a good husband, but she has a secret she has told no one and it is time to make amends. Ruth had a child in her youth. A child she has not seen since the day it was born. She doesn't even know what happened to the child. To move on, Ruth must go back to Ganton and face her past.
I loved this book for the first moment I read the first paragraph. So much so that I have been excited all weekend to tell you all about this debut novel by Nancy Johnson. Like Obama's motto, this book is full of HOPE.
16 February 2021
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