It's Monday! What Are You Reading? September 30, 2024 #IMWAYR

   

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are! 

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I hope everyone who's reading this and was affected by Hurricane Helene is safe. My son and his family live in eastern Tennessee where all the flooding happened. They personally are safe and at this point only have an issue with getting safe drinking water. I'm supposed to be going down to visit them in about two weeks, flying into Asheville, NC. Don't think that is going to happen now. I'll have to check to see what my options are. Stay safe everyone.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. 

Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

Beneath the Carolina Sun

by Ashley Farley

(Sandy Island #2)

eARC from the author for review

Pub date ~ October 22

Echoes of Us

by Joy Jordan-Lake

print ARC for review

Pub date ~ October 8

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

audio-book from my shelves

Published June 2017

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

e-book from my shelves/my slow read

First published July 30, 1860

What I recently finished

Miss Moonchild Starbeam

(The Seaside Saga #22)

by Joanne DeMaio

e-book from author for review

Published September 17, 2024

Bring Me Back

by Paris, B.A.

audio-book from my shelves

Published March 2018

What I am going to read next

Lookin' for Love

by Susen Edwards

print ARC for review

Pub date ~ October 15

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? September 23, 2024 #IMWAYR

  

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are! 

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Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. 

Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

Miss Moonchild Starbeam

(The Seaside Saga #22)

by Joanne DeMaio

e-book from author for review

Published September 17, 2024

Echoes of Us

by Joy Jordan-Lake

print ARC for review

Pub date ~ October 8

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

e-book from my shelves/my slow read

First published July 30, 1860

Bring Me Back

by Paris, B.A.

audio-book from my shelves

Published March 2018

What I recently finished

Love Is for the Birds

by Diane Owens Prettyman

print ARC for review

Pub date ~ October 8

The Prince and the Troll

(Faraway Collection #1)

Rainbow Rowell

audio-book from my shelves

Published December 2020

What I am going to read next

Beneath the Carolina Sun

by Ashley Farley

(Sandy Island #2)

eARC from the author for review

Pub date ~ October 22

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? September 16, 2024 #IMWAYR

           

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are! 

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Pretty uneventful week here. The weather is getting cooler, definitely moving into fall. I'm a Nebraska Cornhusker 🏈 fan, born and raised in NE, so I have been enjoying watching them win this year, after many, many years of not winning very many games. It's fun watching them do so well. Hope it continues!

I've started reading Great Expectations. I read it in middle school, or early high school maybe, and remember loving it. I've had it on my TBR list for a long time and am finally diving into it. It'll be interesting to see what I think of it now. Do you have a book from your past that you want to re-read?

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. 

Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

Immersion: A Linguist's Memoir

by Linda Murphy Marshall

print ARC for review

Pub date ~ September 24

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

e-book from my shelves

First published July 30, 1860

Bring Me Back

by Paris, B.A.

audio-book from my shelves

Published March 2018

What I recently finished

Closet Full of Time and Other Dark Tales:

by Susan Kaye Quinn

eARC for review

Pub date ~ September 17

What Was Mine

by Helen Klein Ross

print from my TBR shelves for a challenge

Published January 2016

Hannah: The Soldier Diaries

by Steve Wallis

audio-book for review

Published September 2022

What I am going to read next

Love Is for the Birds

by Diane Owens Prettyman

print ARC for review

Pub date ~ October 8

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? June 25, 2018

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

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I'm four weeks out since my knee surgery. I'm kind of amazed at how slow the recovery has been for me. I've never had surgery before and thought I would be back to 'normal' a lot sooner than I have been. I guess the doctor knows what he's talking about when he told me to take 6 weeks off of work. And I guess having to miss 6 weeks of work in the summer time isn't necessarily a bad thing either, right?

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

Before and Again
by Barbara Delinsky
I love her books and this one releases tomorrow!!

Rattling the Heat in Deadwood 
(Deadwood #8)
by Ann Charles 

(audio-book)
I love this author and her Deadwood series. I attended a library event last week and got to meet her again.

What I recently finished

A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman

This was a reread for me for my book club. I love Ove!

Bring Me Back
by B.A. Paris
Read my thoughts here.


Heaven Adjacent
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Another wonderful story by this fabulous author. Read my thoughts here.

What I am going to read next

House of Belonging 
(Hesse Creek #3)
by Andrea Thome
I read and loved book 2 in this series. I'm excited to go back to that world.

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Bring Me Back by B. A. Paris ~ My Thoughts #BringMeBack #NetGalley

Bring Me Back

Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris 
Print and e-book, 336 pages
Published  June 19th 2018 by St. Martin's Press 

Finn and Layla are young, in love, and on vacation. They’re driving along the highway when Finn decides to stop at a service station to use the restroom. He hops out of the car, locks the doors behind him, and goes inside. When he returns Layla is gone—never to be seen again. That is the story Finn told to the police. But it is not the whole story.

Ten years later Finn is engaged to Layla’s sister, Ellen. Their shared grief over what happened to Layla drew them close and now they intend to remain together. Still, there’s something about Ellen that Finn has never fully understood. His heart wants to believe that she is the one for him...even though a sixth sense tells him not to trust her.

Then, not long before he and Ellen are to be married, Finn gets a phone call. Someone from his past has seen Layla—hiding in plain sight. There are other odd occurrences: Long-lost items from Layla’s past that keep turning up around Finn and Ellen’s house. Emails from strangers who seem to know too much. Secret messages, clues, warnings. If Layla is alive—and on Finn’s trail—what does she want? And how much does she know?

A tour de force of psychological suspense, Bring Me Back will have you questioning everything and everyone until its stunning climax.

My thoughts about Bring Me Back ~~

(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first lines.)

First line—"We were on our way back from skiing in Megève. I decided to stop in Paris on the way up as a surprise for Layla, because she had never been there before."

I don't know how this author does it, book after book, but Bring Me Back is another unbelievable, psychological thriller that made me dizzy with all the twists and turns in the story. I was guessing and then second-guessing myself, thinking I had it all figured out. And then when the end came, I was totally wrong on my guesses. I love when that happens. What an amazing story! 

I received an ARC of Bring Me Back from St. Martin's Press in exchange for my honest review. 

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About the author

B A Paris is the internationally bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors and The Breakdown. Having sold over one million copies in the UK alone, she is a New York Times bestseller as well as a number one bestseller on Amazon and iBooks. Her books have sold in 37 territories around the world. Having lived in France for many years, she recently moved back to the UK, and has five daughters.

Connect with B. A.

Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads | Amazon

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Release Day! Bring Me Back by B. A. Paris #BringMeBack #NetGalley

Happy Release Day!! 

Bring Me Back

Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris 
Print and e-book, 336 pages
Published  June 19th 2018 by St. Martin's Press 

Finn and Layla are young, in love, and on vacation. They’re driving along the highway when Finn decides to stop at a service station to use the restroom. He hops out of the car, locks the doors behind him, and goes inside. When he returns Layla is gone—never to be seen again. That is the story Finn told to the police. But it is not the whole story.

Ten years later Finn is engaged to Layla’s sister, Ellen. Their shared grief over what happened to Layla drew them close and now they intend to remain together. Still, there’s something about Ellen that Finn has never fully understood. His heart wants to believe that she is the one for him...even though a sixth sense tells him not to trust her.

Then, not long before he and Ellen are to be married, Finn gets a phone call. Someone from his past has seen Layla—hiding in plain sight. There are other odd occurrences: Long-lost items from Layla’s past that keep turning up around Finn and Ellen’s house. Emails from strangers who seem to know too much. Secret messages, clues, warnings. If Layla is alive—and on Finn’s trail—what does she want? And how much does she know?

A tour de force of psychological suspense, Bring Me Back will have you questioning everything and everyone until its stunning climax.

Congratulations B. A.

 on the release today of

Bring Me Back!

I have Bring Me Back on my reading list and I will be starting it next. I loved this author's other books and I'm super excited to read this one!

About the author

B A Paris is the internationally bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors and The Breakdown. Having sold over one million copies in the UK alone, she is a New York Times bestseller as well as a number one bestseller on Amazon and iBooks. Her books have sold in 37 territories around the world. Having lived in France for many years, she recently moved back to the UK, and has five daughters.

Connect with B. A.

Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads | Amazon

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading? June 18, 2018

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

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It's been two weeks since my knee surgery. I haven't gotten a lot of reading done and I still need to catch up on my reviews. I am feeling better every day and am finally getting my reading mojo back. I have four more weeks off of work so I'm making it my goal to, not only rehab my knee as best I can, but to also catch up on my review TBR list and post all the reviews for the books I have finished. Lofty goals maybe but I can do it!! 

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week. Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

Heaven Adjacent
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
I love Catherine's stories.

Before I Knew 
(The Cabots #1)
by Jamie Beck

(audio-book)
I'm just starting this one.

What I recently finished

The Space Between
by Dete Meserve
Awesome! Coming July 24th.

Castaway Cottage

by Joanne DeMaio
I love this series. Read my thoughts here. 

What I am going to read next

Bring Me Back
by B.A. Paris
Releases tomorrow!

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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