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Carrie Schmidt

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Carrie Schmidt is an avid reader, book reviewer, story addict, KissingBooks fan, book boyfriend collector, and cool aunt. She also loves Jesus and THE Story a whole lot. Carrie started the popular blog ReadingIsMySuperPower.org in 2015 and since then has had the honor of co-founding the Christian Fiction Readers' Retreat and JustRead Publicity Tours. In addition to these endeavors, she has written for magazines such as RT Book Reviews and Christian Market, and she co-wrote the book Getting Past the Publishing Gatekeepers. Carrie now lives in Georgia with her husband, though her roots range from East Tennessee to Central Kentucky and northern Illinois. ...more

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Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Love in the Castle Library by Ann Swindell

LOVE IN THE CASTLE LIBRARY by Ann Swindell SERIES: In the Castle Library #2 GENRE: Contemporary Romance (Christian) PUBLISHER: WhiteCrown Publishing RELEASE DATE: October 15, 2025  PAGES: 357 Predictability and efficiency have marked Delphine DuVert’s orderly life as Castle Stewardess in the small European country of Lethersby—until she is tasked by the monarchy to hire […]

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"Christian Contempory Romance with a Christmas Theme are a genre that I truly enjoy! A Christmas in Shady Springs by Sarah Anne Crouch is the latest in this genre that I have read. It is Book 3 in the Shady Springs series.

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“…there was nothing like coming back to Nalani, Hawai’i.”

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The Wolfe siblings, their mom Beth, and their team of hilariously endearing bloodhounds have thoroughly entertained me and claimed my heart over these last six books, with Scent of Sabotage wrapping everything up
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