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Charissa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Charissa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Charissa Stastny’s Followers (81)
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Charissa Stastny
Goodreads Author
Born
in Las Vegas, Nevada, The United States
Website
Genre
Influences
Member Since
June 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/charissastastny
More books by Charissa Stastny…
Coming soon! More book makeovers.
My cover artist, Susie Poole, has been working on new covers for my Bending Willow Trilogy. I unpublished these three titles earlier this year and will be re-releasing them in the fall. I'm excited for you to enjoy the new makeovers. These were the first books I wrote about ten years ago. I've learned so much since then, and had to redo them, using the new knowledge I have gained. I've cut a lot o
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Charissa’s Recent Updates
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| This was a cute romance set around Christmas time. It has the friends to lovers trope and features Elliott and Ryanne, who are co-managers at a Paper company. Unknown to Ryanne, Elliott is going blind. That’s why he’s never been able to commit to a r ...more | |
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| Listened to the audio version and absolutely loved it! This has so much symbolism and is just such a great story! | |
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| How I love The Book of Mormon! I just finished it again, and I love how it brings me closer to Jesus Christ each day as I read its words. | |
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| Fun holiday chick lit, with a best friends turn into lovers trope; also a celebrity romance. I really enjoyed the story, the main characters and quirky side characters, the setting, and the humor and romance. It was a fun book to read during the down ...more | |
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| Such a good memoir about growing up in communist-ruled Czechoslovakia. Olga’s story about how totally the communists suppressed any free-thinking about religion, spiritual growth, and joy is very eye-opening and fascinating. She discovers through a y ...more | |
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| This cozy murder mystery had a lot of humor and quirky characters you grow to love. It does have some language in it. I really loved the plot of the neighbors getting to know each other as they try to solve a murder that happens right outside one of ...more | |
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| Very fascinating historical fiction about Taiwan. The MC's grandmother calls her to come to Taiwan to help her find her 4th daughter, who, she learns, was stolen from her grandmother at 18 months by her husband who thought 4th daughters were bad luck ...more | |
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| This story is very action-packed, but quite gruesome in parts. I didn’t really like the “abomination” creature that shows up deeper in the story. Gave me nightmares. I enjoyed the characters though. The author did a good job on them, and the ending f ...more | |
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| This book was intense. Lucca Marino’s job is to take on new identities her “boss” gives her and steal information. Some jobs are quick, a few months. Some much longer. This current job casts her in the roll of Evie Porter, where she has hooked up wit ...more | |
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| The Green Jell-O ...: Bloggers, introduce yourselves here. | 25 | 35 | Apr 29, 2016 04:35PM | |
| The Green Jell-O ...: Summer 2016 Reading Challenge: Try Three New Authors | 118 | 63 | Jun 17, 2017 07:21PM | |
| The Green Jell-O ...: Giveaways | 70 | 99 | Dec 21, 2019 09:13AM | |
| The Green Jell-O ...: Books on sale | 204 | 126 | Dec 15, 2020 08:24AM | |
| The Green Jell-O ...: Free books | 174 | 145 | Sep 06, 2021 07:55AM | |
| Happily Ever Afte...: * Free or Cheap Kindle Books | 3513 | 932 | May 08, 2025 04:42AM |
“We read to know we're not alone.”
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The Green Jell-O Book Club: A Goodreads Group about Fiction Written by LDS Authors
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— last activity Jan 04, 2026 12:53PM
This is a club for readers who enjoy fiction written by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and for LDS authors. An interest ...more
Swoony Awards
— 379 members
— last activity Aug 28, 2021 08:07AM
The Swoony Awards are a reader’s choice award recognizing excellence in clean secular, wholesome romance. We wanted a way to show our appreciation to ...more
