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C.G.Koens

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As a marketing consultant, copy editor, and proofreader, C.G.Koens has been working professionally with individuals, corporations, and non-profits for over a decade to ensure their core messages are clearly communicated to the intended audience, whatever the medium.

Married to a fellow INTJ, she's also an adoptive (homeschooling) mom of five, loves a good skinny, decaf, caramel macchiato, and is a fan of BBC mystery shows, Indian curry, Parisian cafes, and her passport. A "work in progress" Jesus-follower, she embraces a lifestyle of thankfulness, simplicity, stewardship, and personal growth.

Favorite Genres/Authors: Food/travel, historical non-fiction/biographies, cozy British mysteries, Agatha Christie, Alexander McCall Smith, Miss Read, J
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September In the Books

I love a good calendar. I live and die by the digital calendar on my phone. Go to a dental or eye appointment with my kids and set up a follow-up for a year out? It's already in my phone for next year. I've often said, "If it's not in my calendar, it's not happening. It doesn't exist." But recently, I realized that digital-only may not be cutting it for some of my family members, including the Hub

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Out to Canaan
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C.G.Koens C.G.Koens said: " 11/18/21 UPDATE: I just love reading and rereading this series. They never get old. "Out to Canaan" has all the warm fuzzies...with Christmas wrapping it up. Will the mayor win the election? Who is H.Tide? What about Buck? And what's going to happen ...more "

 

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NOT at "The Thursday Murder Club" Level

This was an okay "who-done-it" written by a first-timer. The relationship aspect felt forced and cheesy, and I could have done without that. As a fan of both "The Thursday Murder Club" and "Only Murderers in the
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I cannot get beyond the writing style

It's an interesting premise, following the recorded clues and reading the transcripts, eventually seeing the dual stories unfolding and starting to piece together what actually happened. However, just didn't enjo
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Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”
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Jim Elliot
“Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”
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Jane Austen
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

William Nicholson
“I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.”
William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

Ravi Zacharias
“What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate...”
Ravi Zacharias

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