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Write about your dream home.
I don’t really have a dream home. A dream home to me is one where my family is happy and healthy our pets are well cared for and loved and laughter rings out. And we have this so I believe we have our dream home. 🏡😺🐾😃
You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do?
Probably feel like this isn’t real. Then tell my husband so he can share in my joy and feel very grateful.
Are there any activities or hobbies you’ve outgrown or lost interest in over time?
I used to spend a lot of time doing digital scrapbooking. I still enjoy it but haven’t actively participated in it in a few years .
What’s your favorite candy?
I like lots of different candies. Sadly addiction to sugar is very hard to give up. My favorite type of Christmas candy is the old fashioned ribbon candy.
Do you need a break? From what?
Sure could use a break from spam in my email 📨.
Happy Friday & welcome to the First Line Friday hosted at Reading is my Super Power. It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line. Today I’m delighted to feature The Indigo Heiress by Laura Frantz. I really enjoy her books and have read all but one.
Royal Vale Plantation, Virginia
February 1774
Amid the timeless silence of the verdigris parlor, Juliet remained seated in her Chippendale chair… for the third hour.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Virginia plantation life is all she has ever known.
But could the life she was meant to live be waiting on a distant shore?
In 1774, Juliet Catesby lives with her father and sister at Royal Vale, the James River plantation founded by her Virginia family over a century before. Indigo cultivation is her foremost concern, though its export tethers her family to the powerful Buchanan clan of Glasgow, Scotland.
When the heir of the Buchanan firm arrives on their shores, Juliet discovers that her father has arranged for one of his daughters to marry the Scot as a means of canceling the family’s crippling debt. Confident it will be her younger, lovelier sister, Juliet is appalled when Leith Buchanan selects her instead.
Despite her initial refusal, Juliet realizes that fleeing Virginia is her only choice after finding herself in the midst of a scandal. The ship just leaving the harbor for Glasgow is her only hope. But she will soon realize that being part of the complex and calculating Buchanan clan is not the sanctuary she imagined–and the man who saved her from ruin is the very one she must now save in return.
426 pages Revell Publisher December 3,2024 publication date
Will you be reading this one? I hope to soon.
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313 pages G.P. Putnam’s Sons publisher Pub Date Feb 18 2025
ABOUT THE BOOK
A darkly beautiful, eerie, hypnotic novel about two elderly sisters living alone at the edge of the world.
In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. Evelyn and Lily have only ever known each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know. Each day is spent in languid service to their home: tending the bees, planting the crops, and dutifully following the instructions of the almanac written by their mother.
When a nameless boy is found hiding in the boarded house at the center of their isolated grounds, their once-solitary lives are irrevocably disrupted. Who is he? Where did he come from? And most importantly, what does he want?
As suspicions gather and allegiances falter, Evelyn and Lily are forced to confront the dark truths about themselves, the garden, and the world as they’ve known it.
MY THOUGHTS
I enjoy trying new authors. The book wasn’t anything like I expected it to be. I guess I was expecting something along the lines of The Secret Garden but not even close.
I expected two charming elderly sisters living together as neither had married and they’ve never ventured outside of their garden walls. Instead, the sisters fight constantly. Taking place mostly in modern times, of what year it is we have no idea.
We also have a lot of flip flopping back and forth from this modern time to whenever the mother was alive. The mother put a lot of restrictions on the sisters, they couldn’t do many things and even in their elderly age she still has control over them with their thoughts.
The sisters spend their days taking care of bee hives, farming, cleaning and raising chickens. These are elderly women who have no help and no contact with the outside world.
No mention of anything modern like tv’s or phones. All of the sudden a ragged boy shows up and totally disrupts their world, one sister likes him the other doesn’t.
Part of the huge house is boarded up from the time the mother was living, and it still is. The mother had a huge influence on them and still does.
The whole book has a strange and unsettling vibe to it. I have many questions that were not answered in the book and I’m sure there won’t be a sequel to answer them.
I was given a complimentary copy of the book.
All opinions expressed are my own.
MEET THE AUTHOR
Nick Newman is the author of THE GARDEN.
He has also published four critically acclaimed children’s novels under the name Nicholas Bowling.
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The most important invention in your lifetime is…
An important invention that started in my lifetime is one I actually use daily. Digital books or ebooks. I used to say I’d only read books I can hold in my hand and still love trips to the library. I will admit ebooks are rather convenient, don’t take any extra room up and I always have them available since my phone is in my purse when I go out. How do you feel about ebooks?
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Paris Bookshop for the Broken-Hearted
Coco is having a hell of a month. She’s lost her boyfriend and her business, been forced to uproot her daughter to move back in with her parents in Paris, and now an infuriatingly handsome stranger is yelling at her for acting like a tourist… Right underneath the Eiffel Tower.
Storming away from him – and swearing off men for life – she decides she’s going to take the first job that comes her way.
Then, as if fate hears her, later that day she stumbles into a little bookshop – but not any old bookshop. This one comes complete with a café, cocktail bar, reading room and secret tunnel of books, and just a little hint of magic in the air. So when Coco’s offered a job selling books there, it feels like the perfect fit.
There’s only one problem… propping up the bar in the bookshop is none other than the grumpy, gorgeous stranger she’d met earlier that day…
A totally romantic, bookish and gorgeously escapist romantic novel, set in Paris in Springtime. Perfect for fans of Emily Henry, Abby Jimenez, and Sarah Morgan.
MY THOUGHTS
I really loved the book. Taking place in the romantic city of Paris, the city of lights and love.
A delightful romance but the book didn’t solely focus on romance. It was female friendships, mother daughter relationships. These newly formed friendships were so lovely to see how supportive they were of each other.
Paris……….. I don’t think you can say anything bad about it. I became more enamored with-it page by page as I read about the charming descriptions.
The bookshop was truly magical, a place for romantic relationships to be made and great advice to be had.
This is truly a book to read when you have afternoon to yourself to devote to it because once you start you won’t be able to put it down.
I was given a complimentary copy of this book.
All opinions expressed are my own.
VISIT OTHERS ON THE TOUR
Purchase Link – https://mybook.to/theparisbookshop
MEET THE AUTHOR
Rebecca Raisin writes heartwarming romance from her home in sunny Perth, Australia. Her heroines tend to be on the quirky side and her books are usually set in exotic locations so her readers can armchair travel any day of the week. The only downfall about writing about gorgeous heroes who have brains as well as brawn, is falling in love with them–just as well they’re fictional. Rebecca aims to write characters you can see yourself being friends with.People with big hearts who care about relationships and believe in true, once-in-a-life time love.
Social Media Links –
Facebook: @RebeccaRaisinAuthor
Twitter: @jaxandwillsmum
Instagram: @rebeccaraisinwrites2
Newsletter Sign Up: bit.ly/RebeccaRaisinNews
Bookbub profile: @RebeccaRaisin
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Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done.
Well yes, there is something I keep putting off. Cleaning out my walk in closet’s closet. I know it’s going to take me hours to remove everything, sort into keep, giveaway . Fold,rehang, stack, sort. This closet is used as a catch-all for not just my clothes but extra blankets and pillows,purses, Christmas wrapping paper…….. Yeah you get the picture. I dread going through it all but really need to, eventually 🥱🤣
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