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I'm a reader who enjoys posting comments and recommendations about the books I read. You will not find a synopsis with my recommendations because you can just click on the book title for a link to www.goodreads.com for a synopsis and reviews by other readers. I prefer the 3 Reason format: the reason I chose to read it; the reason I liked (or disliked) the book; and the reason I recommend it.

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Hidden

Hidden (Sisters of the Heart, #1)Hidden by Shelley Shepard Gray
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This e-book was in My Digital Library since June 24, 2016.
I lower my rating to 2 stars when I start rolling my eyes at the plot twists and also at the over-simplified characters.

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Monday, December 30, 2024

Overcoming: Lessons From Life's Challenges

 

I highly recommend this memoir for a either a book club or for a Bible study group which enjoys books about living individuals.
This is well-written, and many other people may enjoy it.



Sunday, December 22, 2024

The Unforgivable Fix

This e-book has been in My Digital Library since July 6, 2015.  
The author paced the story well and has interesting characters.  This is the third book of a six-book series, and I had no difficulty starting with the third book in the series. 
I recommend it because the story is more about the mystery than about too many gruesome details of violence.  
i gave it 4 stars.  
 

Monday, December 16, 2024

Becoming Us

This e-book has been in My Digital Library since April 3, 2016.  
 Sometimes I wish these characters would seek therapy, but maybe colleges did not have mental health services available when the book was written in 2014. 
I gave it two stars.    

Sunday, December 15, 2024

Forever Dreams

This e-book has been in My Digital Library since January 30, 2016.  
I enjoyed the premise of the story; but I dropped it down to 3 stars because some scenes were too graphic for this prude to recommend it to my friends.  
 

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff

This is the book I went to the library for because many influencers recommend it as a good place for more information when one is decluttering our own memorabilia plus the stuff we have inherited or been given as gifts from family and friends.  You know what I am talking about--some simple thing that has an emotional attachment--but now there just may not be space for it now.  
This book has 30 pages of Resources.  

The most important task is to tell the story that this thing triggers, and write it down.  Then take a photo.  Will that be enough of a memory for you?  

I give this book 5 stars.    
 

Sunday, December 08, 2024

Yesterday's Gone: Episode 1

This E-book has been in My Digital Library since June 20, 2015.  
 It is science fiction/fantasy so I have given up on the expectation that the ending will be sensible. 

It gets 2 stars.  

 

Saturday, December 07, 2024

Only Time Will Tell

This e-book has been in My Digital Library since November 6, 2015.  
Aagh! I hate how this book ends because you know that there HAS to be more to the story!
And there are, six more books in The Clifton Chronicles.  
I remind myself I have been decluttering books this year by reading the books on my shelves, and I still have 286 more books in My Digital Library as part of the 407 on my Goodreads Want-To-Read list, and right now I am not interested in adding 6 more this year. 
I might have given this book four stars if it did not have such a cliff-hanging ending; but I dropped it to three stars.   
 

Wednesday, December 04, 2024

it's Hard to Make a Difference When You Can't Find Your Keys

Finding gems, like this book, are a reason I often pick up the book next to the one for which I was looking at my library.  It was located in section 648.8.  I renewed it two times and took pages of notes from the questions asked to help me break through my resistance to actually starting many projects I moved when my husband and I downsized 7 years ago.  Yes, my "going-to-do" needed grounding and put on the actual schedule.  There is progress.  

I highly recommend this book.  I gave it 5 stars.     
 

Tuesday, December 03, 2024

Grave Talk

When you need a good laugh about a difficult topic, this may be a book.  It helped me recognize how awkward I am when someone I care about is still grieving, and I just want to get on and see they are feeling better and done with the grief.  
4 stars for I might recommend it to a friend.  
I downloaded it to my Kindle library on October 3, 2024.