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February 28, 2019
His Encouragement #8- Falling and Faultless
I’ve joined my blogging friends for a new facet of my blog, called His Encouragement, inspiring scriptures shared each Thursday. My hope and my prayer is that these scriptures each week will bless your heart and encourage your soul.
Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
Jude 1:24 KJV
How often we fall? How often we fail? How often we’re at fault? Isn’t such a blessed hope that He can keep us from...
Ladies of Intrigue Blog Tour with Celebrate Lit
Title: Ladies of Intrigue
Author: Michelle Griep
Genre: Christian Historical
Release date: February 2019
Publisher: Barbour
3 Page-Turners Under One Cover from Reader Favorite Michelle Griep!
Can truth and love prevail when no one is as they appear?
The Gentleman Smuggler’s Lady
Cornish Coast, 1815
When a prim and proper governess returns to England from abroad, she expects to comfort her dying father—not fall in love with a smuggler. Will Helen Fletcher keep Isaac Seaton’s u...
February 26, 2019
Author Interview- Kaitlin Covel
Please give a warm welcome to Kaitlin Covel. This is the first interview that I have conducted myself, so please bear with me.
[image error]Kaitlin Covel released her debut novel on February 14, 2019, Valentine’s Day. To see my review, please click here: https://storiesbygina.wordpress.com/2019/01/14/atoning-for-ashes-a-book-review/
Let’s start at the beginning. When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
K: I was homeschooled and part of our homeschool curriculum was Charlotte Masons’ story...
Top Ten Tuesday- Book Settings I would love to Visit.
Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Artsy Reader. Each Tuesday, I will be bringing you a list of book-related “Top Tens.”
[image error]This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is Book Settings that I Would Love to Visit.
Now, I have traveled quite a bit in my life so far, so this was not an easy task. Many of the books I love, I have actually already visited their setting, so, I have decided to go with fictional settings or maybe locations that are greatly altered for the good or for the bad.)
I’d love to hear...
February 22, 2019
First Line Friday- No Greater Love
About the Book:There isn’t another smell like this in the entire world. The musty scent of vintage paper enveloped her like the familiarity of a security blanket, drawing her into her happy place.
Shadows Over Whitman Book One- No Greater Love
Releasing April 30, 2019
One Book Changed Her Life…And Her Eternity
Paige McDonald, an antique book collector and the adopted granddaughter of a firefighter, vows never to fall in love with a first responder. But an inscription in an old Bible disru...
His Encouragement #7- Learning to be a Nobody
I’ve joined my blogging friends for a new facet of my blog, called His Encouragement, inspiring scriptures shared each Thursday. My hope and my prayer is that these scriptures each week will bless your heart and encourage your soul.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found...
February 18, 2019
Top Ten Tuesday- Books that I Loved that have Less than 1,000 Ratings on Goodreads.
Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday hosted by The Artsy Reader. Each Tuesday, I will be bringing you a list of book-related “Top Tens.”
[image error]This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is Books that I Loved that have Less Than 2,000 Ratings on Goodreads. I had so many to choose from that I dropped the number of ratings down to 1,000.
I also call this post, I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU HAVEN’T READ THIS BOOK!
If you’d like to know more about a particular book, click on the link under the photograph. (These are not affiliated lin...
February 15, 2019
First-Line Fridays- Under the Midnight Sun
Friday, May 30, 1919
Estes Park, Colorado
White velvet and blue satin.
That’s what the snow on the mountains and the brilliant blue of the cloudless sky made thirteen-year-old Taylor Hale think of as she lay on her back on the ridge above the campsite.
I’m so excited to read this book! I enjoyed books one and two of “The Heart of Alaska” series and already this one is drawing me back to the wonderful Curry Hotel and the charac...
February 14, 2019
His Encouragement #6- Happy Valentine’s Day
I’ve joined my blogging friends for a new facet of my blog, called His Encouragement, inspiring scriptures shared each Thursday. My hope and my prayer is that these scriptures each week will bless your heart and encourage your soul.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 KJV
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I knew I wanted to share a scripture about love. This verse is one of my favorites. It’s also the them verse and inspiration for the titl...
February 13, 2019
The Seamstress- Blog Tour and Giveaway with Celebrate Lit
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About the Book:[image error]Title: The Seamstress
Author: Allison Pittman
Genre: Historical Fiction
Release date: February 5, 2019
Publisher: Tyndale
A beautifully crafted story breathes life into the cameo character from the classic novel A Tale of Two Cities.
France, 1788
It is the best of times . . .
On a tranquil farm nestled in the French countryside, two orphaned cousins—Renée and Laurette—have been raised under the caring guardianship of young Émile Gagnon, the last of a once-prosperous family....
