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    Mama's Boy : Currently Reading

    Mama’s Boy ReShonda Tate Billingsley Gallery Books July 7, 2015 Book Description When her son is in trouble, a heartbroken mother finds the courage and faith to save him, in ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s powerful family drama MAMA’S BOY—a novel as timely as today’s headlines. The breaking TV news rocks Jasper, Texas, to the core: a white police officer is fatally shot in a scuffle with three black youths—and a cellphone video captures Jamal Jones, the sixteen-year-old son of esteemed Reverend Elton Jones, escalating the tragic encounter. Now, as the national spotlight shines on a town already rife with racial tension,…

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    Nightlife Series: Currently Reading

    Not the usual genre I read but enjoyable all the same – the Nightlife Series : NIGHTLIFE: NIGHT TERRORS “Thrilling, edgy, and scary as hell, Nightlife is an outstanding debut and––along with Justin Cronin’s The Passage and Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse novels––it’s also one of the most original takes on the vampire novel I’ve ever read.” —Jason Starr, Bestselling Author of The Pack Matthew Quinn Martin first terrified horror fans with NIGHTLIFE (Pocket Star EBooks; October 2013; $5.99), the captivating story of two unlikely monster hunters determined to save the city of New Harbor from the Night Angels—bloodthirsty creatures that feed…

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    Where Do You Read? #MicroblogMondays

    The Goodreads’ blog requested members : ‘Show us where you read” and started me off on this post. Where Do You Read? It’s confession time for me. I, despite best advice to the contrary, enjoy reading in bed. If that wasn’t bad enough, I read late into the night until I finish the book. It was difficult to do after marriage, when I couldn’t keep the light on and disturb my husband. But that was until I got my Kindle – most times I will read until the book is over or the battery dies! 😉 Want a worse confession.…