#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in October 30

#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog  and That’s What I’m Talking About     This was a tough week. Friday was supposed to be my last day of week but I had to move that up to Tuesday due to a family emergency. I spent Wednesday and Thursday at my sister’s watching my 2 nieces, which was fun, but quite tiring…and I’m heading back there for a few days…

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Review: Gossamer Ghost by Laura Childs

Title: Gossamer Ghost    Author: Laura Childs     Series: A Scrapbooking Mystery, #12      Published: October 2014, Berkley   Format: Hardcover, 336 pages    Source: Library   Carmela Bertrand knows that Halloween in New Orleans means a week of rabble-rousing, costumed craziness—and she can’t wait to get the party started. But when a local antiques dealer turns up dead, Carmela suddenly finds herself in a real-life danse macabre……

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Book Spotlight: The Barter by Siobhan Adcock

Title: The Barter      Author: Siobhan Adcock    Published: August 2015, Plume   Format: Paperback, 320 pages    In today’s “lean in” era, debut novelist Siobhan Adcock casts the issue of whether women can ever “have it all” into a superbly written novel that will have readers everywhere talking. Bridget has given up her career to raise her daughter, but now a terrifying presence has entered their Texas home—and…

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Book Spotlight & Giveaway: Untimely Death by Elizabeth J. Duncan (Giveaway Closed)

Title: Untimely Death    Author: Elizabeth J. Duncan      Series: Shakespeare in the Catskills Mystery, #1      Published: November 2015, Crooked Lane Books   Format: Hardcover, 304 pages    A Catskills resort’s production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet takes a wickedly ironic turn when the leading lady, Lauren Richmond, is first poisoned and then stabbed. Who would extinguish the life of such a beautiful young thespian? Who wouldn’t?…

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Review: Nine Lives by Wendy Corsi Staub

Title: Nine Lives    Author: Wendy Corsi Staub          Published: October 2015, Crooked Lane Books   Format: ARC Paperback, 288 pages     Source: Publisher   After the death of her husband, Bella Jordan and her son need a fresh start. But on their way to stay with family in Chicago, they stop in Lily Dale, New York and a storm forces them to spend the night. Brimming with…

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Book Spotlight & Giveaway: Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams (Giveaway Closed)

Next week, Along the Infinite Sea, the latest book by Beatriz Williams comes out (November 3rd!) and I’m super excited about this one. This is the third and final book of the Schuyler sisters and I’ve been looking forward to reading it since finishing the last one, Tiny Little Thing over the summer.  I had the please of meeting Beatriz quite a few times and will be seeing her again…

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#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in October 23

  #FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog  and That’s What I’m Talking About     Another week of just squeaking by with my step goal (10k/day) this week, except for Wednesday. I’ve had some long days at the computer this past week, trying to finish up projects at work before my last day, which is this Friday.  I foresee another long week of computer time and meetings ahead of…

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Review: Marry Me at Christmas by Susan Mallery (audio)

Title: Marry Me at Christmas    Author: Susan Mallery     Series: Fool’s Gold, #19    Narrator: Tanya Eby   Published: September 2015, Brilliance Audio   Length: 6 hours 37 minutes   Source: Publisher  Wish upon a Christmas star with New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery’s sparkling Fool’s Gold romance! To bridal boutique owner Madeline Krug, organizing a Christmas wedding sounds like a joy—until she finds out she’ll be…

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The Sunday Post #88 (10.18.15)

 The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Kathryn’s It’s Monday post over at Book Date.          Fall is definitely here! We had our…

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#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in October 16

  #FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog  and That’s What I’m Talking About   I ended up going away last weekend and I didn’t get a chance to post, so here is 2 week’s worth of steps. I haven’t made it to the gym in a while, but last week, I forced myself to hit my goal of 10k steps each day and I felt good doing that.…

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Book Spotlight & Giveaway: Nine Lives by Wendy Corsi Staub (Giveaway Closed)

Title: Nine Lives    Author: Wendy Corsi Staub     Published: October 2015, Crooked Lane Books    Format: Hardcover, 288 pages     After the death of her husband, Bella Jordan and her son need a fresh start. But on their way to stay with family in Chicago, they stop in Lily Dale, New York and a storm forces them to spend the night. Brimming with psychics and mediums, Lily Dale…

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Review: Winter Stroll by Elin Hilderbrand

Title: Winter Stroll    Author: Elin Hilderbrand      Series: Winter #2       Published: October 2015, Little Brown & Company   Format: ARC Paperback, 272 pages    Source: Publisher   The Quinn family celebrates their most dramatic Christmas yet in this enchanting sequel to Elin Hilderbrand’s bestselling Winter Street. Christmas on Nantucket finds Winter Street Inn owner Kelley Quinn and his family busily preparing for the holiday season. Though…

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Review & Giveaway: Parchment and Old Lace by Laura Childs

Title: Parchment and Old Lace     Author: Laura Childs     Series: A Scrapbooking Mystery, #13      Published: October 2015, Berkley    Format: Hardcover, 336 pages    Source: Author   The New York Times bestselling author of Gossamer Ghost returns to the Big Easy and the historic Garden District, where scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand discovers a bride-to-be murdered in the legendary Lafayette Cemetery… Carmela couldn’t imagine a…

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Book Spotlight & Giveaway: Another Woman’s Daughter by Fiona Sussman (Giveaway Closed)

Title: Another Woman’s Daughter     Author: Fiona Sussman     Published: October 2015, Berkley   Format: Paperback, 304 pages      Set against the tumultuous background of apartheid South Africa, a powerful and moving debut about family, sacrifice, and discovering what it means to belong… Celia Mphephu knows her place in the world. A black servant working in the white suburbs of 1960s Johannesburg, she’s all too aware of her…

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Review: The Admissions by Meg Mitchell Moore

Title: The Admissions    Author: Meg Mitchell Moore           Narrator: Allyson Ryan   Published: August 2015, Random House Audio   Length: 14 hours 34 minutes   Source: Personal copy via Audible   The Admissions brilliantly captures the frazzled pressure cooker of modern life as a seemingly perfect family comes undone by a few desperate measures, long-buried secrets—and college applications! The Hawthorne family has it all. Great jobs, a beautiful…

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Book Spotlight & Giveaway: Chance Harbor by Holly Robinson (Giveaway Closed)

Title: Chance Harbor    Author: Holly Robinson     Published: October 2015, NAL   Format: Paperback, 448 pages    From the acclaimed author of Beach Plum Island and The Wishing Hill… “No one does it better than Holly Robinson.”—Susan Straight, National Book Award Finalist and Author of Between Heaven and Here Catherine and Zoe are sisters, but even their mother, Eve, admits her daughters are nothing alike. Catherine is calm…

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The Sunday Post #87 (10.4.15)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. I’m also going to link this up with Sheila’s It’s Monday post over at Book Journey.          It was a crummy week weather-wise, which…

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#FitReaders: Weekly Check-in October 2

  #FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog  and That’s What I’m Talking About   This week I had no motivation…none! Work is definitely getting the best of me and not in a good way 🙁  I’m frustrated beyond belief and stressed but have no desire to workout. The steps I got were from walking the dogs and then from running around like a crazy woman at work –…

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Review: The Dance Begins by Diane Chamberlain Plus Spotlight of New Book

Title: The Dance Begins     Author: Diane Chamberlain           Published: August 2015, St. Martin’s Press   Format: E-book, 44 pages    Source: Personal copy   In this short story prequel to Pretending to Dance, psychologist Graham Arnette longs to dance the way he used to, before illness stole his ability to walk. Graham lives on one hundred acres of family land with his daughter Molly and…

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Book Spotlight & Giveaway: Night Blindness by Susan Strecker (Giveaway Closed)

Title: Night Blindness    Author: Susan Strecker      Published: September 2015, St. Martin’s Press (first published 2014)  Format: Paperback, 320 pages    One October night, when Jensen Reilly is sixteen, she and her high school sweetheart are involved in a horrible accident. Ever since then Jensen has been running from her past. But when Jensen’s beloved father is diagnosed with a brain tumor, she returns to her childhood home…

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Month in Review: September 2015

Here are my reading stats for September!  Books read:  13  Books I read: Come Away With Me — Karma Brown 206 Bones — Kathy Reichs (audio book) The Girl in the Spider’s Web — David Lagercrantz (audio book) The Paris Key — Juliet Blackwell (e-book) Real Murders — Charlaine Harris (audio book) The Middle of Somewhere — Sonja Yoerg The Admissions — Meg Mitchell Moore (audio book) Little Black Lies…

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