Here are my reading stats for May! Books read: 11 Books I read: Natchez Burning — Greg Iles Dear Carolina — Kristy Harvey Woodsen (e-book) The Bone Tree — Greg Iles (audio book) Moonlight on Butternut Lake — Mary McNear Cat and Jemima J — Jane Green (e-book) The Summer Girls — Mary Alice Monroe (audio book) I Regret Nothing — Jen Lancaster Your Next Breath –Iris Johansen (audio book)…
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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. So, I’m back from BEA…what a fun time!!! I’ll be…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About So, I was in NYC Tuesday thru Saturday morning for BEA (Book Expo America). While I did quite a bit of walking around on the floor of the show each day, walking from one booth to the next and then back again later in the day for another signing or galley drop, the days with…
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Title: An Island Christmas Author: Nancy Thayer Narrator: Tanya Eby Published: October 2014, Brilliance Audio Length: 4 hours 39 minutes Source: Library In this enchanting holiday novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer, family and friends gather on Nantucket for a gorgeous winter wedding with plenty of merry surprises in store. As Christmas draws near, Felicia returns to her family’s…
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Title: The Christmas Bouquet Author: Sherryl Woods Series: Chesapeake Shores, #11 Narrator: Christina Traister Published: October 2014, Brilliance Audio / Harlequin MIRA Length: 6 hours 33 minutes / 288 pages Source: Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley When it comes to family and Christmas, #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods always looks to the O’Briens for a little holiday magic… For the…
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Title: Cross Bones Author: Kathy Reichs Series: Temperance Bones, #8 Narrator: Michele Pawk Published: June 2005, Simon & Schuster Audio Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Source: Library When an Orthodox Jew is found shot to death in Montreal, Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the body and to figure out the puzzling damage to the corpse. Unexpectedly, a stranger slips her…
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Title: Cold Cold Heart Author: Tami Hoag Narrator: Julia Whelan Published: January 2015, Brilliance Audio Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Source: Publisher #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag delivers a shocking new thriller Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until a notorious serial killer tried to add her to his list of victims. Nearly a year has passed since surviving…
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Title: Your Last Breath Author: Iris Johansen Series: Catherine Ling, #4 Published: April 2015, St. Martin’s Press From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes an explosive new thriller Catherine Ling is one of the CIA’s most prized operatives. Raised on the streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of fourteen. If life has taught her…
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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’s BEA week…I’m off to the city on…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About It was a crazy-busy week, work-wise, as I was trying to finish up some projects before starting my vacation on Friday. I started the week off strong, but then my back started acting up again, so I decided to take it easy the rest of the week. I’m heading into the city next week…
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Please join me in welcoming Kristy Woodson Harvey to Always With a Book. Kristy’s debut book, Dear Carolina, is now out and she’s been busy promoting it. You can read my review of the book here. Today, is Kristy talking about her blog tour. Hi, Always With a Book readers! I’m so excited to get to be here with all of you today. Thank you so much, Kristin for having…
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Title: A Small Indiscretion Author: Jan Ellison Narrator: Kathe Mazur Published: January 2015, Random House Audio / Random House Length: 10 hours 15 minutes / 336 pages Source: Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley Fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Girl on the Train will devour this page-turning literary debut about a harrowing coming-of-age and a marriage under siege from O.…
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Title: I Regret Nothing: A Memoir Author: Jen Lancaster Published: May 2015, NAL Format: Hardcover, 320 pages Source: Publisher New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster has lived a life based on re-invention and self-improvement. From Bitter Is the New Black to The Tao of Martha, she’s managed to document her (and her generation’s) attempts to shape up, grow up, and have it…
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Title: Moonlight on Butternut Lake Author: Mary McNear Series: The Butternut Lake Trilogy, #3 Published: May 2015, William Morrow & Company Format: ARC Paperback, 384 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours From the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Up at Butternut Lake comes the third novel in the Butternut Lake series—a dazzling story of two wounded souls seizing…
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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. Only one week of work left until BEA!!!…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About So, this week I gave myself the goal of getting 100,000 steps during the week (M-F)…and I did it!!! I basically made sure to get 20,000 steps each day and therefore I was able to reach the goal, but that did mean a lot of walking while watching tv towards the end of the…
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Please join me in welcoming Beth Albright to Always With a Book. Beth’s newest book, Daydreams in Dixie, part of her In Dixie series, is now out and she’s been busy promoting it. I’ll be reviewing this soon. Today, Beth is talking about an old-fashioned summer and she’s also provided a special giveaway for one lucky winner! Title: Daydreams in Dixie Author: Beth Albright Series: In…
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Title: The Bone Tree Author: Greg Iles Series: Penn Cage, #5 Narrator: Robert Petkoff Published: April 2015, Harper Audio / William & Morrow Company Length: 32 hours 25 minutes / 816 pages Source: Personal copy via Audible / Publisher Greg Iles continues the electrifying story begun in his smash New York Times bestseller Natchez Burning in this highly anticipated second installment of an epic trilogy of…
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I am pleased to welcome author Mary Ellen Taylor to Always With a Book. Her latest book, At the Corner of King Street, is now available. I’ll be reviewing the book here on the blog in a few weeks. Today Mary Ellen discusses her new book, which is the third in her Union Street Bakery series and then shares some recipes with us!!! Be sure to enter the giveaway at…
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Ten Most Memorable Moms in New Fiction What better time of year than Mother’s Day to showcase some of the most memorable fictional mothers in some of the best new novels? From loving, supportive mothers to complex, trailblazing mothers to selfish, vindictive mothers, this list has it all! 1) The Perfect Son by Barbara Claypole White (Lake Union, July 2015) Ella Fitzwilliam, the mom in THE PERFECT SON, quit…
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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. All my tv shows are slowing winding down,…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About While I didn’t make it to the gym this week, I definitely took advantage of the nice weather and took lots of walks with the dogs. My older dog, Maddie is great on walks, so she and I have been talking longer walks first thing in the morning. The puppy, Chloe, isn’t as great…
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Title: The Far End of Happy Author: Kathryn Craft Published: May 2015, Sourcebooks Landmark Format: Paperback, 432 pages Twelve tense hours, three women, and the suicide standoff that turns one family’s little piece of heaven into a scene from hell After enduring years of a struggling marriage, Ronnie Farnham has decided to divorce her husband and is beginning to hope for a happy future–until the…
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Title: Dear Carolina Author: Kristy Woodson Harvey Published: May 2015, Berkley Format: ARC E-copy, 320 pages Source: Author via Netgalley A moving debut novel about two mothers—one biological and one adoptive—from a compelling new voice in Southern women’s fiction. One baby girl. Two strong Southern women. And the most difficult decision they’ll ever make. Frances “Khaki” Mason has it all: a thriving interior…
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Title: A Desperate Fortune Author: Susanna Kearsley Published: April 2015, Sourcebooks Landmark Format: ARC Paperback, 528 pages Source: Publisher For nearly 300 years, the mysterious journal of Jacobite exile Mary Dundas has lain unread — its secrets safe from prying eyes. Now, amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas has been hired by a once-famous historian to crack the journal’s cipher. But when she arrives in…
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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. What a beautiful weekend we are having here!!!…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About I decided to take it easy again this week…my back is still bothering me a bit. Moving around seems to help a little – I guess keeping everything loose and limber. I’ve found, though, that if I sit at my desk too long, it starts bothering me, so it’s making me take frequent breaks,…
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Here are my reading stats for April! Books read: 11 Books I read: Mrs. Grant & Madame Jule — Jennifer Chiaverini Crash & Burn — Lisa Gardner (audio book) An Island Christmas — Nancy Thayer (audio book) Last Night at the Blue Angel — Rebecca Rotert (print/audio book) A Desperate Fortune — Susanna Kearsley Cross Bones — Kathy Reichs (audio book) The Bookseller — Cynthia Swanson (audio book) Legacy: An…
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Title: The Mapmaker’s Children Author: Sarah McCoy Published: May 2015, Crown Format: Hardcover, 320 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Book Tours When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad’s leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and…
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Last year, I read The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd when it was first released, and I really enjoyed it! You can find my thoughts on the book here. On May 5 the book is being released in paperback and to celebrate, I am helping the publishers get the word out. I also have 1 copy of the book to giveaway – be sure to read all the…
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Title: Monday Mourning Author: Kathy Reichs Series: Temperance Brennan, #7 Narrator: Michele Pawk Published: June 2004, Simon & Schuster Audio Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible The secrets of the dead are in her hands. The bones of three young women are unearthed in the basement of a Montreal pizza parlor, and forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan has unsolved…
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Title: Legacy: An Anthology Author: Various Authors Published: April 2015, Velvet Morning Press Format: ARC E-copy, 206 pages Source: Publisher What will you leave behind? Long after we’ve left this world, our legacy remains. Or doesn’t. Or remains only in the minds of those who knew us, those whose lives we’ve touched. Those we’ve written to, or about. If you had a choice,…
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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. One month from today, I will be heading…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About So, I decided to take it easy this week. My back was bothering me (and for those that remember, I took a bad fall last year, landing on my tailbone and have had issues with it on and off ever since). Besides walking the dogs, I took a few easy walks outside, but refrained…
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Title: The Bookseller Author: Cynthia Swanson Narrator: Kathe Mazur Published: March 2015, Blackstone Audio / Harper (print) Length: 11 hours 32 minutes / 338 pages Source: Personal copy via Audible / Publisher A provocative and hauntingly powerful debut novel reminiscent of Sliding Doors, The Bookseller follows a woman in the 1960s who must reconcile her reality with the tantalizing alternate world of her dreams Nothing…
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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. Spring is here and I am loving it!!!…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About It was such a nice week, weather-wise and the dogs and I definitely took advantage of that. We took more walks each day. They are loving that Spring is finally here!!! Here’s how my week went: Apr 11: rest (4,678 steps)Apr 12: rest day (8,814 steps) Apr 13: 5k on treadmill – 50 minutes…
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Title: The Burning Author: Jane Casey Series: Maeve Kerrigan, #1 Narrator: Sarah Coomes Published: May 2012, Brilliance Audio Length: 14 hours 53 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible A determined young police constable goes it alone against an enigmatic killer and her bosses in a series debut for fans of Sophie Hannah and Tana French The Burning Man. It’s the name the media has…
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Title: Perfect Fling Author: Carly Phillips Series: Serendipity’s Finest, #2 Narrator: David Barker Published: 2014, Recorded Books Length: 8.5 hours Source: Publisher In the picturesque town of Serendipity, New York, three siblings have grown up in the shadow of their proud and respected police chief father. But what do love, fate, and fortune have in store for the next generation of Serendipity’s finest? Assistant D.A.…
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Title: Last Night at the Blue Angel Author: Rebecca Rotert Narrator: Andrus Nichols, Caitlin Davies Published: July 2014 Harper Audio / April 2015 William Morrow Paperbacks Length: 9 hours 42 minutes / 352 pages Source: Personal copy via Audible / Publisher Set against the turbulence of 1960s Chicago, a city in transformation and its legendary jazz scene, Last Night at the Blue Angel is a lush…
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Title: The Headmaster’s Wife Author: Thomas Christopher Greene Narrator: Stephen Hoye, Kevin T. Collins, Tavia Gilbert Published: February 2014, Audible Studios Length: 6 hours, 12 minutes Source: Personal copy via Audible Inspired by a personal loss, Greene explores the way that tragedy and time assail one man’s memories of his life and loves. Like his father before him, Arthur Winthrop is the Headmaster of…
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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. This past week was a week filled…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About It was a good week. I made it to the gym 3 days – once just to walk on the treadmill and twice for yoga. It feels so good to be back practicing yoga – not only for the stretching and strength-training, but also the mental aspect. It always brings such a calming sense over…
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Title: Searching for Grace Kelly Author: Michael Callahan Narrator: Kristin Kalbli Published: February 2015, ListenUp Audiobooks Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Source: Publisher For a small-town girl with big-city dreams, there is no address more glamorous than New York’s Barbizon Hotel. Laura, a patrician beauty from Smith, arrives to work at Mademoiselle for the summer. Her hopelessly romantic roommate, Dolly, comes from a working-class…
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On Monday, the gals at She Reads announced the three ‘Books of Spring’ selections. Be sure to visit the She Reads website – they have a great giveaway going on – but visit soon as the giveaway is only open until April 12th. So without further ado…here are the Books of Spring: Title: The Precious One Author: Marisa de los Santos Published: March 24, 2015, William…
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Title: Mrs. Grant & Madame Jule Author: Jennifer Chiaverini Published: March 2015, Dutton Format: ARC Paperback, 400 pages Source: Publisher The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general’s wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who…
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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. Spring is finally here and hopefully that…
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#FitReaders is hosted by Geeky Bloggers Book Blog and That’s What I’m Talking About I had a session with a personal trainer on Thursday and let me tell you – I’m still sore today! What a workout. He walked me through the machines I should use to do lower body one day and upper body another. Hopefully I will remember what machines and how to use them the next…
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Title: The Tapestry Author: Nancy Bilyeau Series: Joanna Stafford, #3 Narrator: Nicola Barber Published: March 2015, Highbridge Company (audio)/ Touchstone (print) Length: 13 hours 19 minutes / ARC E-book 400 pages Source: Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley via HF Virtual Book Tours The next page-turner in the award-winning Joanna Stafford series takes place in the heart of the Tudor court, as…
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Title: The Marriage Game: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth I Author: Alison Weir Narrator: Julia Franklin Published: February 2015, Recorded Books / Ballantine Books Length: 16 hours 18 minutes / ARC e-copy 400 pages Source: Personal copy via Audible / Netgalley via publisher In this compelling novel of Tudor drama and suspense, acclaimed author Alison Weir brings to life one of England’s most scandalous royal love affairs:…
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