• Books & Book Reviews - Fiction

    The Old Ducks’ Club

    Reading The Old Duck’s Club made me think of Judy Leigh’s Chasing The Sun and Heading Over The Hill. I’m really starting to enjoy reading about older folks redefining themselves and finding adventure, romance and love again. The Old Ducks’ Club Sophia Gregory is fading away… Recently split from her married lover and about to turn sixty, Sophia doesn’t recognise the old woman staring back at her in the mirror. Where has her life gone so wrong? How has it come to this? A quiet holiday in beautiful Rhodes is the perfect chance for her to find herself again.   Until…

  • Books & Book Reviews - Fiction

    When Stars Rain Down

    I honestly didn’t bargain for how When Stars Rain Down was going to affect me so deeply. Once I started reading it, I had to read it all through. This summer has the potential to change everything. The summer of 1936 in Parsons, Georgia, is unseasonably hot, and Opal Pruitt can sense a nameless storm coming. She hopes this foreboding feeling won’t overshadow her upcoming eighteenth birthday or the annual Founder’s Day celebration in just a few weeks. As hard as she works in the home of the widow Miss Peggy, Opal enjoys having something to look forward to. But…

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    From This Moment

    From This Moment is the first book I’ve read by Kim Vogel Sawyer. The blurb caught my attention and I wanted to read it right away. From This Moment A lost ring brings together two wounded souls–a youth minister haunted by the past and a spunky church custodian–in this heartwarming romance from the bestselling author of The Librarian of Boone’s Hollow. Growing up in the foster care system, Jase Edgar always dreamed of one day starting his own family. But his fiancée’s untimely death shattered his plans. Moving to Kansas and serving as a youth minister should be a fresh start,…