This was so good, I highlighted up to the limit of what my kindle would allow, exported the notes, and then both meditated upon and journaled about the notes after I reread them. At the time I was reading Ephesians 1, trying to understand what it means that we are seated with Christ in heavenly ...
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The Never Hero, T Ellery Hodges
Fantastic! This reminded me quite a bit of "Spider-Man," as Jonathan Tibbs is very much a nerd who doesn't expect to, nor does he want to, become a superhero. But there's a significant twist: his challengers come from another dimension, and when he fights to defend the earth and vanquishes them, the ...
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3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years, John Scalzi
This was utterly brilliant! It's a short story, mostly about the technicalities of a futuristic time-travel business. It reminds me a lot of Brandon Sanderson's "The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England," which was pretty similar in concept, though it interspersed the rules for ...
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Beth Moran
Beth Moran continues to be one of my favorite authors! All of her books manage to share enough common features that I know what I'm getting -- a cozy read with plenty of heart, but no cheese, realistic and well-fleshed-out characters, and real life challenges that still manage to end with a ...
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The Man Who Fell From The Sky, Anita Frank
This was a wonderfully different WWII love story! I was engrossed from start to finish. It follows a British farm girl named Joan whose brother is in the British Air Force and is missing in action, who encounters a downed German airman (Deter) on her farm. He doesn't believe strongly in the war ...
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Order of Swans, Jude Deveraux
This is a very strange story that doesn't entirely fit into a genre... it's fantasy, romance, and sci-fi, and normally these aren't incompatible, but the narrative voice of this story makes me think that it's far from the author's normal genre (which I know happens to be the case -- she's generally ...
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Anyone Can Play Music, Josh Turknett
I played piano all growing up. I got really good, too--but all I could ever do was read music. I'd always wanted to learn to improvise, but that wasn't the way that any of my teachers taught me. Eventually I stopped playing (just got busy with life), but every few years I always pick up a book or ...
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Cozy for the Holidays, Liz Maverick
I listened to this one during the holidays of course... and it's a perfect fluffy rom-com, friends-to-lovers story set in a cozy (hence the name) bookstore with a quirky cast of characters next door. Won't change your life or anything, but it's a fun listen anytime of year.
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Alchemy of Secrets, Stephanie Garber
One of the most compelling reads I've picked up in a long time! First of all, it's set in Hollywood, but even though it's modern day, it seems to evoke the Golden Age Hollywood glamour. Second, it takes the fabled idea of people making a deal with the devil in exchange for fame quite literally... ...
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Famous for a Living
This is a fun, clean rom-com about opposites attracting... an internet influencer gets "cancelled," and her park ranger uncle invites her to try to rebuild her career while at the same time building the social media accounts for the park, in order to try to boost its funding. While there, she falls ...
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