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Promise Canyon by Robyn Carr: Book Review and the Last Book to Complete a Yearly Reading Challenge
34-year-old Navajo Clay moves into a small town to become his friend, Nathaniel’s vet tech for his clinic. On his first day, he meets a petite Hopi woman, Lilly, unloading the feed for the animals. It’s not only a story about these two, but it’s a story about the small town in California as well. About…
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Throne of Glass: Book Review
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas is the first book of the Throne of Glass series.Calaena, an 18-year-old assassin is in a death camp but is taken out from there by the Crown Prince to compete in a competition to become his father, the King’s Champion for four years before being freed completely.While staying…
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A Healthy Dinner
I know you have probably been wondering when I’m going to get around to my health journey, right? Well, here’s a start. I made this Shrimp and Cauliflower Grits the night before last. It was so good. I got the recipe from MyFitnessPal app. The hardest part was grating the cauliflower without a grater. I…
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Phoenix Rising by V.S. Griffin: A Book Review
“Meet Victoria, a woman for whom motherhood is one of the proudest accomplishment in her life. But when her young son Colin dies suddenly, Victoria is thrown into a dangerous downward spiral. Suicidal, broken and desperate for love, she careens into a relationship with Dominic. At first, the relationship seems like the salvation that Victoria…
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Guess whhaaaaat?
So, I’m still up at 3:30 in the morning because I can’t sleep because, guess what? At around 5 pm yesterday, I started getting a scratchy throat and then around 9 or 10 pm…WHAM!! I get hit with dizziness, feeling achy all over, freezing my butt off when it is 71° outside and all I…
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Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult: A Book Review
In this multi-pov book, Jane Jones takes her daughter, Rebecca, and leaves her Marine Biologist husband and takes a trip across the United States to her brother, who sends her letters to guide her along the way. Little does she know what’s waiting for both her and her daughter at their destination and what they…
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Injury Update
Along with posting a book review (although a little late with the review), I figured I would give you a little update on how it is going with my latest injury…the one where my dogs decided to take me for a run as they chased a cat? That one. As far as my left arm…
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Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco: A Book Review
Audrey Rose, after losing her mother after both fight a battle with influenza, becomes obsessed with forensic medicine. Murders begin around town against women that are not only low-class, but also have been associated with Audrey Rose’s household. Audrey Rose is held back by polite society of the late 19th century but she continuously fights…
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Down For The Count
Hey, everyone!! I know you’ve been seeing nothing but book reviews from me lately, but all I’ve really been doing is reading and taking trips to the emergency room. I have been to the emergency room twice with injuries in maybe the last month to a month and a half for two different injuries. The…
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Book Review: Some Other Now by Sarah Everett
Some Other Now by Sarah Everett is based a year in the past and also in the present when teenager, Jessi Rumfield, lives her life with her surrogate family that she’s known for ten years, but when her best friend, Ro’s mother, Mel, becomes terminally ill, everything changes. Feelings get discovered and even hurt, but…