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Read-n-Bloom

Read-n-Bloom

Joined November 2024

Christian(striving2BlikeChristeachday); Happy wife, &mother; caretaker for my88yrold mother; BibleJournler; Reader(readingislikeacozyblanket)🕯️🍁📚
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Sitting on my porch listening to the birds 🐦 sing 🎶 or just watching the deer 🦌. Also, of course, reading on the porch ☺️
#serenesaturdays

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1. New book I started this week, which I‘m really enjoying :)
2. Loved this picture of Gerald my youngest daughter sent to me.
3. Loved this picture of RaRa she sent me too. He started laying in his bed again I bought him.🤗👏🏻
4. My husband sent to me. He‘s my sweetheart ❤️
5. Got my mom to laugh 😆
#5JoysFriday

@DebinHawaii

TheBookHippie ♥️ 6d
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Columbine | Dave Cullen
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I thought I‘d reviewed this 😔 I finished multiple books at a time and was trying to review them all and forgot some along the way, I guess. This one is a hard one to review which might be a reason as well. But Columbine was a really interesting and gripping read, but a heartbreaking one. It still left me wondering and still wanting answers. I can only imagine what the parents and those who lost loved ones feel.
#LitsyReads #Read2025 #nonfiction

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I thought I had already reviewed this one here but alas I have not 😬 so here I go 😁…I love history. Not all history, mind you, but still lots of certain history. Anyway, this is on the Plantagenets. The rise and fall of them. There was much turmoil within all this family. I believe it was the reason for their downfall. A house divided cannot stand. .Great read, ifyoulikehistory.
#LitsyReads #history #nonfiction #Plantagenets #captivatinghistory

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We do not care that ____ is happening in the world. Wait 🫢….yes I do care. But I don‘t need to hear about it each second ! Please news give it a rest!! Who started news every second of every day anyway??!! When did that start?? It should never have started that‘s for sure! Thank the Good Lord we can change the channel!
Rant about news constantly, over 😂
#wedonotcarewednesday

dabbe Avoiding the news is necessary these days. 🩵💙🩵 2w
Read-n-Bloom @dabbe it‘s been that way for a while now for me. I had to stop watching for my peace of mind. 2w
dabbe @Read-n-Bloom 🎯🩵🎯 2w
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LiseWorks Yep me too! 2w
Read-n-Bloom @LiseWorks 👍🏻🙂 2w
lil1inblue Hallelujah! 🙌🏻 I only read news, and I take breaks from that so I don't get so overwhelmed! 🫩😵‍💫🤯 2w
Read-n-Bloom @lil1inblue I do that too. 2w
Amiable You can blame Ted Turner for that. He created CNN in 1980 to be a 24-hour news channel. 😬 2w
Read-n-Bloom @Amiable You‘re right.🤔 I had forgotten that. He needs to be tied and feathered! 2w
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WOW is all I can say on this one. I gave it 4🌟s. It‘s about a southern church town and you won‘t believe what‘s going on in that small town. Shew. I‘m just glad it‘s fiction 😂 but if you like psychological thrillers you will like this one.
#LitsyReads #Read2025 #psychologicalthriller #fiction #bookreview

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Hope everyone is having a blessed Sunday and a happy reading day 🙂📚🌷
#happysunday #happyreadingday #weareblessed

Texreader This was the first Bible verse I ever learned and remember it to this day 3w
Read-n-Bloom I‘m pretty sure it was my first too. There‘s a lot of love in that verse. 3w
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Happy Weekend you all! I‘ve been reading this book all day. I‘m almost done so should be reviewing soon. I have to say I‘ve never really read a book quite this disturbing with the characters. I‘m glad it‘s fiction just saying 😂 #LitsyReads #weekendreads #saturdayreading

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The Last Secret Agent: My Life As A Spy Behind Nazi Lines by Pippa Latour and Jude Dobson
Genre: Non-fiction
POV: Author Pippa Latour
Location: Early years: South Africa and years in World War II: France
Rating: 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I loved this book! Pippa Latour was the last secret agent in WWII. Yes she was a woman. Yes there were women secret agents behind enemy lines in France and were in many dangerous situations. This is an absolute Must Read.

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Started this one a week or so ago and I‘ve been reading it most all day. I‘m getting to the good part now or at least I think it is 😆 . It was a slow start for me but it‘s picking up now. #LitsyReads #psychologicalthriller #sundayreading #fiction #ReadYourKindle

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Happy Sunday everyone! Hope your day is full of reading blessings!

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This Tender Land: A Novel | William Kent Krueger
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Just started this recently in the last couple days. About 2-3 chapters in. I don‘t know if I‘m going to like it or not. I‘m sure it‘s good but not sure if it‘s one of those I‘m indifferent to right now. But I will keep reading and find out. This is my Book of the Month for June and I‘m just now getting to read it. 🤨🙂🌷Hope everyone is having a good Thursday!

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Mehso-so

This book was good but okay good. It was up and down for me so I gave 3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️s. I thought it was more of a history of Mount Rushmore, but it seemed more of a history of Native American people that lived there and lives there now. And I sympathize with them for sure but just thought it was a different type of story & it was up & down on that. So it was good but just so so for me this time.
#LitsyReads #Reads2025 #NetGalley #BiographyofaMountain

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Read-n-Bloom It‘s good. But it‘s mostly about how it‘s on Native American land which is okay and which was really interesting and I sympathized and empathize with them but I was just wanting to learn more about Mount Rushmore itself I guess. You will like it, I believe. 🙂 1mo
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1. The Pastor‘s Wife - Just started today. Downloaded from Kindle Unlimited so it was free.😃
2. The Last Secret Agent - Started recently . Will be continuing. 🙂 Net Galley Arc.
3. Columbine - Started recently as well. Will be continuing. This one is hard to read. 😔 Received through Kindle Unlimited.
4. The Plantagenets - History doesn‘t hurt anyone, if taken in the right context. And I love me some history🙂. Also an Arc.
#WeeklyForecast

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Sorry I‘ve been MIA but I‘ve been really busy and tired from trying to organize my house and take care of my mother at the same time. But The Last Secret Agent is a new book I‘ve started reading this past week. I am only into it a chapter or two, maybe three, but so far it‘s very interesting. Can‘t wait to read more. #LitsyReads #2025Reads #SundayReading #NetGalley #nonfiction #memoir

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I really liked this Christian fiction by Jill Eileen Smith! Great fiction faith-filled writing . My first by this author. I will have to get more of her books because I really liked this one. A fictional story of what maybe might have happened from her point of view. I can only imagine what it was like to walk with Christ face to face. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
#LitsyReads #ChristianFiction #2025Reads #NetGalley #DawnofGrace

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Just giving a heads up…I didn‘t finish this book. I will be shelving and maybe giving another try another time. . I just couldn‘t get into it. Didn‘t want to pick it up and read it. So I don‘t like forcing myself to read something I‘m not interested in. Nothing to do with the author at all. Just me. I may pick it up again sometime. What I read there was no bad language or inappropriate content that I remember. ⭐️⭐️ #DNF #LitsyReads #fiction

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Read-n-Bloom It‘s a good book I believe. I just wasn‘t into it at the time. Maybe another time I can finish. 1mo
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I thank all who serve and those especially who gave all serving. #memorialday2025 #memorialday

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A Last Hope | Verity Sandahl
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A Last Hope by Verity Sandahl. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I really liked this beautiful faith entwined story of a Royal couple to be married when they came of age but evil always comes to mess with everything good. I loved it! Clean romance. From not trusting to realizing they‘re the only one who they can trust. It is a beautiful story to me.

#LitsyReads #2025Reads #ChristianFiction #ALastHope

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Been reading this all day for my #Saturday. I‘ve had it on my Kindle for a bit so thought I‘d read it.
#LitsyReads

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Just sharing my mom‘s/daughter‘s kitty 🐱 His name is RaRa or just Ra. I can‘t have cats because my husband is severely allergic (cannot breathe around them 🥺) so I live my cat life with my daughter‘s cats 🐈🐈‍⬛🐕 (and dogs) 😂
Hope everyone is having a good #saturday . #chatterday - Sitting here with our power off. 🤨 Yesterday it was out during the day, came back on in evening. 😃 Then bad storm hitinthenight, powerwentoutagain&itsstillout🫤

dabbe Hope your power is back on! 🖤🐾🖤 3mo
Read-n-Bloom It is! 😃🙌🏻 Thank you! 🩷 3mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🐾 ❤️ 1mo
Read-n-Bloom @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🐈🐈‍⬛🐕🐾❤️ 1mo
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Just started reading today 🙂📚🌷Haven‘t read this author yet. This is first time. Pretty much read on it all day. So far so good. 😊

#currentlyreading #amreading #christianfiction #dawnofgrace #Read2025 #netgalleyarc

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1. Kinda….does my TV cabinet count as a library?? I have about 50+ on the shelves of my TV cabinet. 😁 +have books in baskets, and in decorative boxes all over my house +more books in closets everywhere ☺️

2. It‘s too hard to choose. 😫

#TwoForTuesday

TheSpineView ❤️ books everywhere! Thanks for playing 3mo
Read-n-Bloom Yep 😂 much to my husband‘s dismay😬 You‘re welcome 🙂 3mo
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Started this evening. So far so good what I‘ve read. This was my BOTM for April, but I didn‘t get to it to read it, so I‘m reading it for May 🙂🌷🌱 Hope everyone had a great Tuesday! Oh yeah! I love the cover of this book! I know it‘s not this great beauty but there‘s something about it that just makes me just want to keep looking 👀 at it ☺️😁

BooksandCoffee4Me I agree the colors used and the picture are beautiful. 3mo
Read-n-Bloom Yeah and I usually don‘t go for those colors but I love how these are used. 3mo
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Between Heaven and the Real World: My Story | Ken Abraham, Steven Curtis Chapman
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5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Wonderful book and story from Steven Curtis Chapman! Loved it! So full of wisdom and insight into our Lord and how good and holy he is! Very emotional as well.

#LitsyReads #ChristianBooks #Read2025 #ReadYourKindle #ReadYourEbooks #nonfiction

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Loved this book by James Collins! The book listed at top of my post is not this book, as you can see 😂 but this book I‘m reviewing wasn‘t listed so I couldn‘t post unless I picked a book…..so…the book at top is a book by him, but The Overcomer is his newest. Recommend to anyone, but especially anyone needing help with overcoming and struggling through some challenges and needs some help.
#LitsyReads #Read2025 #2025nfBookChallenge

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My #weekendreads is Between Heaven and the Real World: My Story by Steven Curtis Chapman.
Close to finishing. Trying to finish it this weekend. @rachelsbrittain

#LitsyReads #Read2025 #ReadYourKindle #ReadYourEbooks

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#5JoysFriday

1. Furgrandbabies 🙂
2. Flowers, particularly tulips today 🙂🌷
3. A good storm ☔️ Had one today 🙂
4. Cake (doesn‘t that look 👀 good 🤤😋 No, didn‘t have any cake today ☹️ but I still like it 😂
5. Spring. Especially enjoying that we‘re in the season of Spring. 🙂💐🪺🌱🌈☀️

Hope everyone is having a Happy Friday! God bless you all!

Read-n-Bloom @DebinHawaii I tried to tag you in the post but it wouldn‘t let me 🤨 3mo
mcctrish Tulips are life giving imo 3mo
Read-n-Bloom @mcctrish I agree! I love them! 😍🌷 3mo
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Wanted to share for #TuesdayTunes since Sunday was Easter/Resurrection Day. 🙂 Hope it‘s okay.
But I truly thank Jesus for his blood that was shed for us all. ❤️❤️❤️

https://youtu.be/dhU-Omwg2rU?si=z7VOCEarRY2xMPtG

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 4mo
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The Dark Library | MARY ANNA. EVANS
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Okay I liked this one, but I thought the dark library was actually dark and scary 🫣. I guess it is kind of 🤔 but not in the way I thought. 😂 Anyway…it‘s a 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ to me. I recommend to anyone who likes mysteries, and stories with timeline around WWII. There is hardly no language, if any, and no sexual content. (Just in case some would like to know) It kept me interested from start to finish. 🙂📚
#LitsyReads #NetGalley #Read2025

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1. Yes, always. Never know when you will need it.

2. The God of the Woods: The main family of this book is wealthy and yes in this book it does affect the character/characters, not in a good way but a bad way. Money to me is something we all have to have. Some have more than others. And it can be used in a bad way or a good way. Just like not being wealthy can affect you in a good or bad way. We all have the same choices, to be good or 2b bad.

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Loved this book on Cherokee Native American History! I have always been interested in the Cherokee because my Grandma told my dad about her mother telling her they were part Cherokee. So I‘ve always been very curious about the Cherokee. It‘s very interesting, informative, and fascinating. I loved it!

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A Flicker in the Dark | Stacy Willingham
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Well this novel is a WOW in my opinion! I just want to say it does have language throughout the book. Not an extreme lot, but it was there.. Anyway…about the story and characters. The story , characters and ending is THRILLING. I mean I really liked it! What I liked most was the ending ‼️ I did not know who the killer of the girls were until the very end‼️Such a twist ‼️and wasn‘t expecting it at all! I gave it 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Great read! #Read2025

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Started this one recently. So much information on the Bible! And it‘s a chonker too 😁

#LitsyReads #Read2025 #currentlyreading #christianbooks #nonfiction

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1. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham.
2. What the Bible is All About by Dr. Henrietta C Mears.

My #weekendreads . Both really good! 👍🏻🙂

God bless and hope you all are enjoying your weekend!

bellabella Persuasion, by Jane Austen. ❤ I haven't gone too far into the book yet because I've been busy. 4mo
Read-n-Bloom Good one! We get busy at times. Sad it keeps us from our books lol 4mo
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A Flicker in the Dark | Stacy Willingham
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Been reading, A Flicker In The Dark by Stacy Willingham, all day today. Really enjoying so far. I‘m about halfway through.

#LitsyReads #Read2025 #amreading #FridayFun

nelsonmatt890 Do you happen to use Goodreads? I‘d love to add you what‘s your username? 4mo
Read-n-Bloom @nelsonmatt890 Same as here. Read-n-Bloom 🙂 4mo
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My five joys this Friday are:

1. The sun shiny day! The sun is beaming! ☀️
2. My books! 📚I love the books I‘m reading now and the books I haven‘t read yet that‘s in all my little places around the house.
3. The love of God and the love of family. God is love, so love is all around us.❤️
4. My glasses so I can read my books. 👓
5. I can‘t even tell you how blessed I am this Friday. 5th joy…Blessed! @DebinHawaii

#LitsyEvents #FiveJoysofFriday

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A Flicker in the Dark | Stacy Willingham
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“I thought I knew what monsters were.”

#FirstLineFridays #LitsyEvents #FridayFrights #GetToReading

@ShyBookOwl

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The Dark Library | MARY ANNA. EVANS
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Just started this one today! It‘s a Net Galley ARC. It seems pretty good so far. It‘s not out yet. Doesn‘t come out until June 24th. Can‘t wait to continue to read more!
#MondayReads #MondayReading #LitsyReads #NetGalleyARC #amreading

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Wilamina enjoying the sun on #caturday 🐈‍⬛☀️

kspenmoll 😻😻 5mo
Read-n-Bloom @kspenmoll 🙂🩷☀️🐈‍⬛ 5mo
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A Flicker in the Dark | Stacy Willingham
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Starting tonight! If I can keep myself awake 🥱
This is an old #BOTM for December 2021. I didn‘t like the books for that month (in the month I was supposed to be choosing from), or none appealed to me, so they allowed me to choose from certain other BOTM‘s, so I did and something happened that I didn‘t get to read it until now. I can‘t remember what it was bc I have to remember so much that my brain can‘t contain it all.😑Butimglad2breadingnow

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@ShyBookOwl #FirstLineFridays

“No house as ancient as Winter‘s End was ever entirely silent: even at eight years old, Sophy Winter knew that.”

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1. My oldest daughter‘s German Shepherd. She is so sweet. 🥹
2. My mom. She‘s 88 & I‘m blessed to still have her with me. ❤️
3. My oldest daughter‘s cat, Bats. He‘s a cutie ☺️
4. My youngest daughter‘s babies, RaRa & Gerald. RaRa used to be my mom‘s cat, but she wasn‘t able to take care of him anymore so my daughter took him. 🐈 #5JoysofFriday
5. Wilamina, my oldest daughter‘s other cat. She is sweet too 🥰

BooksandCoffee4Me Ah, going to visit my 88-year old mom tomorrow. 💛 5mo
Read-n-Bloom I would have tagged you @DebinHawaii in the post but it would not let me. 🤨 lol 5mo
Read-n-Bloom @BooksandCoffee4Me Mine lives with me. I‘m her caregiver . It gets really hard sometimes but I‘m still grateful to have her with me. I‘m an only child and I‘m her only caregiver. 5mo
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BooksandCoffee4Me @Read-n-Bloom I will pray for you. Your mom is so blessed to have you as you love her so well. 5mo
Read-n-Bloom @BookandCoffee4Me Thank you so much for your prayers. ❤️ I need them so much. Have a great and blessed day with your mom. ❤️ (edited) 5mo
kspenmoll Such wonderful joys! 5mo
Read-n-Bloom @kspenmoll Thank you! They are! 5mo
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Penitence: A Novel | Kristin Koval
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4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - This was a really good read. I would have given it 5 ⭐️s but I was disappointed in the ending. It wasn‘t bad, just not enough to me. I hope you get what I mean. It was very interesting. Read it fairly quickly for me. Some language, but not much. No bad sexual content, but some. Just giving those who look for those things a heads up. Recommend to all. This was my Book of the Month for February. #BookoftheMonth #LitsyReads #Read2025

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My New Year Kindle Challenge accomplishments 🙂 I think I‘m doing pretty good. I‘ve read a lot more but this is just my Kindle. Happy Sunday and Happy Reading to everyone! #NewYearKindleChallenge2025 #KindleChallenge #ReadingGoals

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Penitence: A Novel | Kristin Koval
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Reading this today. It‘s my Book of the Month pick for February. Yep I‘m late getting started 😩 but it‘s been busy this month for me, in my mind and just stuff going on to keep me from starting. This book is a crime/mystery/fiction novel by Kristin Koval. So far it‘s a great read. So I‘ve high hopes for this one. Happy Reading! #LitsyReads #BookoftheMonth #crimemystery #fiction #crime #Reads2025

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Mehso-so

This one was just okay for me. I liked the still-yet-to-figure-it-out romance between Leo and Jasper. I liked the mystery and story. But it wasn‘t really intriguing or interesting. Interesting, but not REALLY interesting. I wanted to know what happened next but not in-a-way like I gotta know NOW. Towards the end it did get more intriguing, but it was still just an okay read for me. #LitsyReads #2025Reads #NetGalley #ARC #Mystery

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A Winters Tale | Trisha Ashley
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My #ChatterDay is full of rain. Lots of rain expected and possibly flooding. ☔️🌧️🌂 Right now I‘m getting ready to read some and thought I would introduce you to my #WinterRead2025 🙂

Update : I bailed on this one bc it was my winter read & I wasn‘t able to get it finished in the winter, so now I‘m uninterested in it 🤭😂. I put it back on my shelf. May start again next winter 😂

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Been reading this all day. Trying to get it finished. #LitsyReads #NetGalley #crimemystery

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Great mystery by Darcie Wilde. Loved the story and writing! Very intense and suspenseful, but not overwhelmingly disturbing. Just a little more than a cozy mystery. I love that Rosalind Thorne is a somewhat detective.😃 A woman and in that day?!😎 I loved Rosalind‘s and Adam‘s romance . So much love, respect and understanding. I have read this author before but I think this one is my favorite and most interesting.
#LitsyReads #NetGalley #Read2025