July Reading Wrapup – #ReadingforPleasure #BookTours #LBTCrew #BookBlogger

Wherin My Reading List Keeps Growing! Oh my gosh! At this rate, by December I’m somehow going to read 100 books in a month. That’s not even physically possible for me, since I am a writer – I did get just a speck of writing …

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June Wrapup – #ReadingforPleasure #BookTours #LBTCrew #BookBlogger

June was a huge reading month! I hope you all had a gorgeous Pride Month and had fun with your own reading. I’ve rounded up the books I read in June, and wowzers! I did not realize I had read 14 books. That is probably …

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Book Review – Enchanted Flames – #wildfireprevention #authors4acause #buyabookmakeadifference #booktwitter

If you enjoy fantasy stories and helping people, then this is the book – and even better book series – for you! This group of fantasy writers has banded together to bring you short stories from their various fantastical worlds and each time they work …

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Cozy Up with “Cupcakes and Cupid”

Make “Sweet Caroline” Yours This Valentine’s 5/5 stars If you’re a fan of baking shows or culinary-based cozy mysteries (and don’t mind reading cozy sans dead body), you’ll love Sweet Caroline, one of the six novellas in “Cupcakes and Cupid.” I was gifted with an …

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Transcend From the ‘Hall of Ignorance’

Love Delivers Near Spiritual Experience 5/5 Stars The first surprising thing about Lali A. Love’s “The De-Coding of Jo: Hall of Ignorance,” the first book in her Ascending Angels Academy, was the peppering of Tupac Shakur quotes throughout. The opening quote was surprising enough, but …

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Find forgiveness in ‘Tikkun Olam’

Waters helps us restore what was lost 5 out of 5 stars “Forgiveness doesn’t mean you’re required to trust someone who hurt or wronged you.” Forgiveness is the overarching theme in “Tikkun Olam: Restoring What Was Lost,” the latest installment of Ana Waters’s “Beauty for …

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Don’t Go Banning My Books

You Should Not Even Try When I was pretty young, a freshman in high school, I had to find something to write a speech on for a class. Around this time, I also learned about Banned Books Week which ends October 2. I was a …

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Happy Fall Y’all

photography of maple trees

Flipping the Page on a New Season I have always loved fall. I’m one of those. Not a Pumpkin Spice Latte lover, but falling leaves and pumpkin décor and a crisp almost chill to the air–it’s the South. We barely get real sweater weather. Is …

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Self-Care: Good for the Soul and Productivity

Vacations and Quitting Time If you’ve ever been a mom (or any sort of caregiver really) and stepped into a counselor’s office, probably with much protest on your part, you’ve heard about how important “self-care” is. It’s like the buzz-word of the time. Especially during …

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