Reviewed by Martha Artyomenko Description: A funny, heartfelt romance about how an antique shop, a wardrobe, and a mysterious tea cup bring two C.S. Lewis fans together in a snowy and picturesque Oxford, England. Emelia Mason has spent her career finding the dirt on...
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Can’t Help Falling by Kara Isaac
Child of the River by Irma Joubert
Reviewed by Martha Artyomenko About the book: Persomi’s dreams are much bigger than the world of poverty and deprivation that surround her in the Bushveld of the 1940s and 1950s in South Africa. Persomi is young, white and poor, born the middle child of...
Busy Days…
Life has been a bit busy and my internet on my computer has been spotty, which combined means I do not get to update my blog as much. I have tons of book reviews and pictures and activities to upload. But I guess on the good side, it means we are living life, and I...
The Cautious Maiden by Dawn Crandall (Giveaway!!!)
About the book: Violet Hawthorne is beyond mortified when her brother Ezra turns their deceased parents’ New England country inn into a brothel to accommodate the nearby lumberjacks; but when Violet’s own reputation is compromised, the inn becomes the...
The Power of Story
What makes a story come alive? Is it the author? The genre? If the facts are true or false? What is the power of story? For me, the power of story is whether or not you can place yourself inside that story and live it. It doesn’t matter it is fiction or non-fiction,...
The Artisan’s Wife by Judith Miller
Reviewed by Martha Artyomenko About the book: Ainslee McKay’s world is shaken when she discovers her twin sister has not only eloped with a man she barely knows but now Ainslee must fulfill their obligation at a tile works in Weston, West Virginia....
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