Description: When looking for a husband, it’s best to go where the odds are in your favor. And that would be Rocky Creek, Texas, 1880. But Jenny Higgins’s plan to find husbands for her two sisters hits a snag when enthusiastic applicants fail to meet her stringent requirements. Rejecting her sisters’ choices for mates and riding herd on her growing feelings for Marshal Rhett Armstrong, she refuses to give up. Jenny thinks choosing a husband is not a job for the heart. It’ll take one strong and handsome marshal to convince her otherwise. My Review: I’ve never been so delightfully surprised by a novel as I was with A Suitor...
My thoughts on the Narnia movies
Doesn’t the image just send chills down your spine? Okay, maybe that’s just me. I’m a huge fan of CS Lewis and a bigger fan of the Chronicles of Narnia series. I’ve read them in recent memory at least half a dozen times and as a child…more than that. So with the release of Disney’s “The Chronicles of Narnia” several years ago, I was first in line the day it hit theaters. In a world of constant negativity and bleak outlooks, the story is one of hope and faith. With “Prince Caspian” and “Dawn Treader” I was equally as excited. I felt Prince Caspian especially kept to the novel quite...
Book Review: The Master’s Wall
Description After watching Roman soldiers drag his parents away to their death, David, a young Hebrew, is sold and enslaved to serve at a villa outside of Rome. As David trains to become a skilled fighter, he works hard to please his master and hopes to earn his freedom. However, an opportunity to escape tempts him with its whispering call. Freedom beckons, but invisible chains hold him captive to the master’s granddaughter, an innocent girl with a fiery spirit. David vows to protect Alethea from his master, the murderous patriarch, and contrives a daring plan—sacrifice his own life to save hers. My Review: I’m a fan of this time period—the...
Thoughts on my first Audio Fiction Experience
So, I’ve listened to one or two non-fiction books on CD and it is quite like listening to professors lecturing in college. It is fine. I quite enjoyed some of it. But fiction was a whole new experience for me. Thanks to several business trips and events for work, I was looking at about 24 hours that I’d be spending in the car over the course of a week. I enjoy my time alone with a good CD and rocking out to various artists, but I wanted to accomplish something more in that time. So I dove into an audio book! Sara Gruen’s Ape House was on my to-read list...
Review: Timber Ridge Series
To put it simply, Tamara Alexander’s book, From A Distance, changed my life. I love, love, loved this story and Alexander’s beautiful writing and strong characters. (See my full review of it here.) So when it came to reading the rest of the series, I was on it. Description: Dismissed from the university where she served as Professor of Romantic Languages, Dr. Molly Whitcomb travels west to start over in the secluded mountain town of Timber Ridge, Colorado, where she’ll be teaching children. Her train stops in Denver, and on a whim, Molly purchases a wedding band–an attempt to cover a mistake, but also a chance at a fresh start....