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My pick for Day 13: #BeautifulWriting is #KateMorton‘s #TheLakeHouse. Her writing has a way of transporting you. If you have read her novels, I am sure you know what I mean. If not, I highly recommend you read this one. 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #JPBookReview | #ReadingResolutions

“Her father had once said that the poor might suffer poverty, but the rich had to contend with uselessness, and there was nothing like idleness to eat away at a person‘s soul.”

Jess7

Caroline2 Oh this has been on my TBR pile for months!! Time to move it up esp as it looks like a good spring book (I like reading books in season!) 🍃 🌺 7y

Jess7 @MinDea 🤗 7y

GondorGirl I adore every thing Kate Morton has written! She's amazing! 7y

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Hmm75 I love Kate Morton!! I need her to write more books! 7y

TNbookworm I loved this book! Love all Kate Morton's books! 7y

KarynGood I adored The Lake House! (edited) 7y

Jess7 Haha! That sounds better 😉 @KarynGood ! It‘s just one of those books that stays with you! 🤗 7y

Jess7 @KarynGood @TNbookworm @Hmm75 @GondorGirl @Caroline2 - BIG NEWS - KATE MORTON HAS A NEW BOOK COMING OUT SEPTEMBER 2018!! 7y

Jess7 #thegreeneyedreader 6y

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You're All My Favorites | Sam McBratney

@amabear
#booksandshelfiesM18
#LitsyChallenge

TODAY'S PROMPT: BEST BOOK EVER

I featured this book the other day, but it is making an appearance again today. :)

My all-time favorite book is: SHADOW OF THE WIND.

Second place, but still LOVED a LOT is: THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN.

ItsAngel Shadow of the Wind is fantastic!! One of my favorites. 7y

SilversReviews @ItsAngel It is. :) 7y

Jess7 @MinDea - Kate Morton 😍 7y

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CordeliaGrey11 Why did you love each? :) 7y

rachelk I love Shadow of the Wind! I‘ll have to look into

The Forgotten Garden

SilversReviews @Jess7 😍 7y

SilversReviews @Amabear Great story line, setting, characters. 7y

SilversReviews @rachelk 😍 The Forgotten Garden isn't the same as Shadow in terms of subject, but it is really good. All of her books are good. 7y

Jess7 Yes - I love Kate Morton! I have only read #TheLakeHouse so far, but her writing is truly beautiful! 7y

SilversReviews @Jess7 It is. Loved The Lake House too. 7y

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The Lake House | Kate Morton

I read and loved #TheLakeHouse by #KateMorton a couple years before I joined #Litsy. 📚 I absolutely love her beautiful writing style. 📝 I still have yet to read her other novels, but I want to eventually—once I finish a few other books at the top of my #TBR. If you like beautiful writing, nice character development, and reading a cross between #literaryfiction and #mystery, this is the book for you! 💙📚#ThrowBackThursday - #TBT

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margreads I always look forward to a new Kate Morton book *goes off to check when the next one is due* 7y

MidnightBookGirl I have not read Morton yet, but a fellow Kate is always worth a read! 7y

Cinfhen I really loved

Forgotten Garden

Scarlett_ohara That sounds like a nice read! 7y

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The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden | Kate Morton

Day 16: #Historical (fiction) - #ReadingResolutions :
The #KateMorton Collection: #TBR
- The House at Riverton
- The Forgotten Garden
- Distant Hours
- The Secret Keeper

All of these are on my list of books I do not own (yet), and want to read. I thoroughly enjoyed #TheLakeHouse. It was so beautifully written, and I fully anticipate I will love these too. Has anyone read these? What did you think? Which is your favorite/least favorite?

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Ruri_kaichou I have only read the Secret Keeper. Some parts of it seemed long and I wasn't a fan of how it was written, but I did like it overall, and the end had a great twist 7y

PurpleyPumpkin I really enjoyed The Forgotten Garden. I‘m hoping to read more of her work in future!👍🏽 7y

shahn77 I really loved the forgotten garden, the distant hours, and the house at Riverton. I plan to read the other two this year! 7y

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ShookBelf I have read them all and they are all great in their own way. I particularly enjoyed The Distant Hours. 7y

MaureenMc I‘ve read all but The Distant Hours and really loved them all. Hoping to read that one and The Lake House soon. 7y

Jess7 The Lake House is amazing. One of my all time favorite books. It‘s a little slow to start, but the middle is great and the ending is phenomenal. 🤗 Highly recommend it. @MaureenMc 7y

GondorGirl I will insta-buy anything Kate Morton writes. She's one of my favorites. 7y

Jess7 @MinDea - I think we should read one of these books together. I think these will be up your ally and I loooooovvvveeeeee Kate Morton‘s eloquent writing. You have the Lake House btw. 🤗🤗🤗 7y

Jessieleah These books are all fantastic. House at Riverton was my favourite! 7y

ErikasMindfulShelf All her books are great. 7y

TNbookworm I love her books❤ 7y

sprainedbrain I freaking love Kate Morton! I‘ve read all except The Distant Hours, and enjoyed every one of them. The House at Riverton is my favorite. Also, they are incredible on audio read by Caroline Lee! ❤️ 7y

Becker You can really rely on Kate Morton for a great story. The House at Riverton is also my fav. (edited) 7y

LMJenkins I have read all of them and I looooove them. I wish she would write a new one! 7y

Jess7 I wish she would too!! It‘s been a couple years since The Lake House! I need a new one!! 💙💙 @LMJenkins 7y

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Lake House | Kate Morton

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My pick for day 27 of #AwesomeAutumnBooks #ShhSecrets is #TheLakeHouse by #KateMorton ? This is a "moody, #suspenseful page-turner filled with #mystery and spellbinding #secrets." One night after a party with 100s of guests, the Edevanes discover their youngest child, 11 mo Theo, has vanished. He is never found, and the family is torn apart, the house abandoned. Decades later, Det. Sadie and novelist Alice set out to uncover the truth. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Jess7 @Josie this is the book I highly recommend. 7y

Jess7 @MinDea I see you stacked this book. Have you ever read Kate Morton before? Her writing is really beautiful. The description I shortened from amazon really doesn't do it justice. This is such an amazing story that transcends generations. This was a book that consumed me and I absolutely loved her writing style. (edited) 7y

SilversReviews Ohhhhh....LOVED this book as much as I loved THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN. All of her books are so good. @katemorton #katemorton 7y

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MinDea I have not read her stuff before but interested to check her out! 7y

MinDea Also, check your email... 7y

squirrelbrain I loved loved loved this too and have The Forgotten Garden on my TBR pile! 7y

avalinah Intrigued :) I know I loved The Forgotten Garden.

Forgotten Garden

Josie @Jess7 added to my TBR!! 7y

BekaReid I actually just finished reading this book today. Loved it! 7y

Pagehabit Hey Jess!! We're PageHabit, a book subscription box with a twist. We're going to be doing a very large giveaway soon and we'd love to work with you on promoting it on Litsy. We'd love it if you could email us at hello@PageHabit.com so that we can share the details and compensation with you. Thanks for your consideration 😊😊❤️ 7y

KarynGood Loved this one! 7y

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The Lake House | Kate Morton

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#BooksAcrossOceans | Day 3 | #AzureColouredBooks
#AugustLibrary17 | Day 3| #BookStack
#BackToReading | Day 3 | #BooksandNooks
#BookColorTag (Green)

#TheLakeHouse| My Rating: 5⭐️s: Living on her family‘s idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, #England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented 16 yo who loves to write stories. But the #mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure.

JoeStalksBeck, BibliophileMomma, beachbookworm7, mellisarock, pri_bibliophile

LauraBrook 😍😍😍 #stacked 8y

JoeStalksBeck ❤️❤️❤️‼️ 8y

Jess7 Thanks to @beachbookworm7 for the #BookColorTag challenge (green - see bottom shelf in picture above) - the five people I am nominating for the color #YELLOW 💛💛💛💛 💛 are: @LauraBrook @JoeStalksBeck @rubyslippersreads @tiffy_reads and @MinDea - to join the fun please post a photo of #Yellow books with the hashtag #bookcolortag and nominate 5 people to do the same with another color of your choosing! 🤓🤗 (edited) 8y

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BibliophileMomma Oh. Let me see what yellow books I have. Now I have 🎶Follow the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick road...🎶 in my head. 😂 8y

Jess7 @Tiffy_Reads feel free to get as creative as you want with it and make it work for you. You could interpret it to mean books with the word yellow as well. Whatever you feel like doing that fits the #bookcolortag challenge for #yellow 🤗 8y

mellisarock 💙💙💙💙 8y

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Summer and the City | Candace Bushnell

#SizzlinSummerBooks Day 29: ☀️ #SummerTitles ☀️
Books featured: #SwimmingLessons | #SummerAndTheCity | #TheLakeHouse

Summer and the City is a young-adult novel written by #CandaceBushnell. The #sequel to #TheCarrieDiaries and the #prequel to #SexandtheCity | Set during the summer before her freshman year at Brown, #Carrie meets #SamanthaJones, a true Manhattan fashionista and the opinionated feminist #MirandaHobbes who is a freshman at NYU.

BibliophileMomma

TheBookStacker Love Kate Morton. She's perfect for summer. 8y

GondorGirl I adore everything Kate Morton has ever written. She's one of my favorites. 8y

KarynGood Loved The Lake House! 8y

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SilversReviews Nice books. LOVE Kate Morton. THE LAKE HOUSE was fab as all of her books are. 8y

EllieDottie I've never read Kate Morton! Have you read any of her other books? Do you have any recommendations of where to start? 8y

Jess7 @EllieDottie I've only ever read this one #TheLakeHouse , but it was very, very good. It starts off a little slow, but once it picks up, you will likely not be able to put it down. It was so good I didn't really want it to be over. If I didn't already have so many new books coming in from holds' list at the library I would have already read more by her. Next up on my list by her is #TheSecretKeeper.

The Lake House

EllieDottie That sounds amazing! I've added it!! 8y

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Pretty Baby | Mary Kubica

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📚AMAZON KINDLE MAY DEAL ALERT 📚 - My top 2 Mystery/Thriller books for May are #AsGoodAsGone and #PrettyBaby 📚 I loved reading both of these. Both are fast-paced, edge of your seat type reads. This is Amy Gentry's break-out novel and I look forward to reading more! Mary Kubica is an established author (The Good Girl and Don't You Cry). Great deals! Highly recommend both!

melbeautyandbooks I agree! 8y

Jess7 @melbeautyandbooks I'm glad you liked these and recommend them! I have liked Mary Kubica for awhile, but I was super impressed and beyond excited to discover Amy Gentry. I love stumbling across new authors and expanding my goto author list for mystery/thriller novels bc I have read plenty of books by new authors that were just so-so. Not the case with Amy Gentry! She is excellent! 8y

melbeautyandbooks @Jess7 - Yes! Mystery/thrillers are my favorite! It is so great to find a new author that you really like. The only downside is, there are no other books of theirs to read right away. There are so many mystery/thriller authors out there, but they are definitely not all fabulous. I'm looking forward to Amy Gentry's next book (whenever she writes one). And Mary Kubica's is coming soon! Yay for us. 8y

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Jess7 @melbeautyandbooks absolutely! I'm excited for #EveryLastLie ! I discovered Gilly MacMillan the same time I found Amy Gentry. If you haven't read her books yet, try them out #ThePerfectGirl and #WhatSheKnew. I haven't read WSK yet, but I plan to. She also has a new one coming out, Odd Child Out. Who are some of your favorite mystery/thriller authors? 8y

melbeautyandbooks @Jess7 - I read both of those. They were really good. Tana French is a favorite for sure. Linwood Barclay and Chevy Stephens. The late, great Henning Mankell. Karin Slaughter, Jennifer McMahon, and SJ (Sharon) Bolton. Who are your favorites? 8y

Jess7 @melbeautyandbooks I haven't read #TanaFrench yet, but she is on my list. Which of her books should I read first? The only #KarinSlaughter book I read was #PrettyGirls and although is was suspenseful, the torture scenes were too much for me and that's saying a lot bc I like dark twisted characters. #TheOneILeftBehind by #JenniferMcMahon is on my to read list. Never heard of the others. 8y

Jess7 Some of my favorite authors of this genre: Gillian Flynn, Mary Kubica, Amy Gentry, Gilly MacMillan, Abigail Haas, Holly Brown, Megan Miranda, Kate Morton, Kimberly McCreight, Liane Moriarty, Ruth Ware, Herman Koch. (edited) 8y

melbeautyandbooks @Jess7- I would start with In the Woods. It is the first in the series, although that doesn't matter that much because this series doesn't follow the same main character in each book. The main character of one, might be a secondary character in another. It's just a really good book of hers. Yes Karin Slaughter does write some rough stuff.

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Jess7 I've also read some by these authors that were good, but not great for me: Jessica Knoll, Emma Healy, Calia Reed, Lauren Oliver, and Kate Morietti. I liked William Landay (Defending Jacob) too. On my to read list: Erin Kelly, Barbra Kingsolver (the poison wood bible), Peter Swanson, BA Paris, Louise Jenson, Heidi Pitlor, Kate Hamer, AJ banner, Marcia Clark (I've read her nonfiction, but not fiction), Terri blackstock, Fiona Barton, Sharon guskin 8y

melbeautyandbooks We have similar tastes for sure. I have read all of them except Abigail Haas, Holly Brown, and Kate Morton. I will have to add them to my list. I just finished All the Missing Girls and I'm about to start The Perfect Stranger. 8y

Jess7 @melbeautyandbooks I liked #DangerousGirls by Abigail Haas. I haven't read her second one Dangerous Boys yet. I read #DontTryToFindMe by Holly Brown. I couldn't get through #TheNecessaryEnd (too slow of a start). I loved #TheLakeHouse by Kate Morton. She is very detailed which I don't usually like, but I loved this book. I plan to read #DistantHours or #TheSecretKeeper next 8y

melbeautyandbooks @Jess7 - Defending Jacob was great. I was just talking to someone on Litsy recently about how he hasn't written another book since then. I recognize some of those names, but I don't think I have read any, except Peter Swanson-liked. BA Paris- only read one and it was good not great for me. I've heard Marcia Clark's fiction is pretty good. Haven't read any yet though. 8y

Jess7 @melbeautyandbooks #WilliamLanday had two other books - #MissionFlats and #TheStrangler but I haven't read them yet. #ThekindworthKilling by #peterswanson is first on my list 8y

melbeautyandbooks @Jess7 The Kind Worth Killing was really good. I liked Her Every Fear, too. I read Mission Flats, but not The Strangler. 8y

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