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Belong to Me

Belong to Me by Laura Howard
Series: Moore Crossing #1
Publication date: March 26th 2015
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

Kate and Noah thought they had the kind of love that could last through anything. Until their world crumbles out from beneath them.

After months of separation, the tragic death of Jack, Kate’s twin and Noah’s best friend, throws them back together. As they try to heal from the horrific loss, will they be able to overcome old wounds or are they destined to live separately forever?

My thoughts about Belong to Me ~~ 

First, I have to say how much I love this cover. If I wasn't already a huge fan of Laura's books, I would have wanted to take a closer look at this book because of the cover .... so beautiful! 

And then there's the story inside that beautiful cover. Kate and Noah have been thrown back together for Kate's twin brother, Jack's funeral. Jack was Noah's best friend. The two of them have to deal with all the emotions of this horrible loss of their loved one as they also try to work through the emotions that split them apart all those months ago. 

'I pushed that memory into the back of my mind, because that's what I always did. Repress things.'

I immediately loved the back and forth bantering between Kate and Noah as they each tried in their own way to come to grips with what had happened in the past. Can they forget, forgive, and move forward? Or do they each need to go their own separate ways? 

'My lips and body remembered him, and they responded on cue, as if ecstatic to finally return home after a long journey. But my mind remembered everything, too. And everyone.'

Belong to Me is a story that I loved reading, one that kept my interest to the very end. This is book one in the Moore Crossing series and I can't wait to see where Laura takes us next. She is such a wonderful storyteller and I am excited to head back to that world. 

About the author

Laura Howard lives in New Hampshire with her husband and four children. Her obsession with books began at the age of 6 when she got her first library card. Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High and other girly novels were routinely devoured in single sittings. 

Books took a backseat to diapers when she had her first child. It wasn’t until the release of a little novel called Twilight, 8 years later, that she rediscovered her love of fiction. Soon after, her own characters began to make themselves known. 

The Forgotten Ones is her first published novel.

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? August 17, 2015

Hello! Welcome to It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? This weekly meme, hosted by Book Journey, is where we share what we have read this past week and what our plans are for the upcoming week. It’s a great way to see what others are reading and to discover books to add to your own To Be Read list. You never know where that next great read may come from!

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What I'm currently reading/listening to

A Measure of Happiness

by Lorrie Thomson

I found me a new author to follow. Loving this book.

Dead Case in Deadwood (Deadwood #3)

by Ann Charles (audio book)

The continuing saga of Violet Parker. I love this series!

What I recently finished reading

Belong to Me (Moore Crossing Book 1)
by Laura Howard 
Wonderful. My thoughts will be posted later this week.

Becalmed

by Normandie Fischer
Another great story from Normandie. My thoughts will be posted soon. 

What I am going to read next

The Duality Bridge (Singularity #2)

by Susan Kaye Quinn

I waiting to get this from the author, hopefully soon, and I can't wait to dig in! 

I love my reading world!
What's going on in your reading world this week?

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Cover Reveal: Belong to Me by Laura Howard

Belong to Me

Belong to Me by Laura Howard 
(A Moore Crossing Novel) 
Publication date: March 31, 2015
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

Kate and Noah thought they had the kind of love that could last through anything. Until their world crumbles out from beneath them.

After months of separation, the tragic death of Jack, Kate’s twin and Noah’s best friend, throws them back together. As they try to heal from the horrific loss, will they be able to overcome old wounds or are they destined to live separately forever?

Preorder from Amazon

About the author 

Laura Howard lives in New Hampshire with her husband and four children. Her obsession with books began at the age of 6 when she got her first library card. Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High and other girly novels were routinely devoured in single sittings. Books took a backseat to diapers when she had her first child. It wasn’t until the release of a little novel called Twilight, 8 years later, that she rediscovered her love of fiction. Soon after, her own characters began to make themselves known. The Forgotten Ones is her first published novel.

Connect with Laura

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Book Spotlight and a Giveaway! Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos

Belong to Me

Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
Paperback, 398 pages
Published March 31st 2009 (first published January 1st 2008)
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks

"On a recent rainy Monday, I'd tried imagining the last month and a half of my life as a feature film, a game I play, secretly, fairly often, and that I'm convinced other people play, secretly too," confesses Cornelia Brown, whose witty observations and small epiphanies in the pages of Marisa de los Santos' Belong to Me surround readers like the warm embrace of an old friend. Cornelia and her impossibly handsome husband, Teo Sandoval, made their debut in the author's Love Walked In.

As this book begins, the couple is settling into their first house on an idyllic street in a picturesque Philadelphia suburb. Cornelia is inexplicably drawn to "this unsurprising place" that she yearns to call home, but her neighbors are less sure of how these transplanted, apparently childless urbanites will fare in their midst. Especially Piper Truitt. The epitome of blonde cool, this demanding mother of two has created her own version of perfection within the walls of a home that sits across the street from Cornelia's. From their early encounter at a dinner party, the two are at odds, a situation that Cornelia, adrift from her familiar surroundings, cannot conceive how to navigate.

As the novel progresses, new characters emerge. We meet Elizabeth, Piper's best friend, who's battling cancer, as well as Toby, Cornelia's brother, and Clare, the bright and compassionate teen familiar to readers of Love Walked In. Then there's Lake, a single mother working at a local Italian restaurant, who throws Cornelia a timely lifeline in the form of a dish of spaghetti alla puttanesca. Lake's son Dev, a preternaturally gifted 13-year-old, becomes Cornelia's unexpected kindred spirit. Deftly blending several tales at once, de los Santos' narrative is richly embroidered with intertwined lives and loves. As present circumstances are threatened by the revelation of past secrets, the friends forge a circle of strength and forgiveness that the reader, too, belongs to -- and will hate to leave when the last page is turned. A triumphant testimony to the power of love, Belong to Me hums with the hope that pulls friends through the ups and downs that the years hold in store for everyone.

About the author

Marisa de los Santos was a poet for a very long time, with an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston. Her first book, From the Bones Out, a collection of poems, was published in 2000.

She and her husband, writer David Teague, lived in Center City, Philadelphia for a number of years before moving to Wilmington, Delaware in spring of 2003. That summer, Marisa began writing what would become her first novel Love Walked In (Dutton, 2006). Love Walked In was translated into fourteen languages, was optioned by Paramount pictures, and was a trade paperback bestseller. William Morrow published her second novel Belong to Me in April 2008, and it was an instant New York Times Bestseller.

Marisa, David, and their two children, Charles and Annabel, live in Wilmington, where Marisa takes as many ballet classes as she can, volunteers at her kids' school, and is working on her third novel.

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In My Mailbox (11)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by  

The Story Siren. 

Each week we spotlight the books we've received 

for review, swapped, won or purchased.

I didn't get very many books in my mailbox this week which is okay. I have a lot of books in my TBR pile that I need to read and this will give me a chance to work on making that pile smaller.  

I am not going to list all of the free or very cheap e-books that I downloaded onto my Kindle, there are way too many. 

Hello, my name is Susan and I am a book-aholic.

For Review 

Banana Split by Josi S. Kilpack
Swapped

Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos

I have been wanting to read this one for awhile so I finally just got a copy so I can put it in my TBR pile. 

So many books! So little time!!