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Book Trailers Galore

There isn't anything in the entertainment category that I love more than reading.  Give me a blanket, a comfy couch, silence and book and I am good. Granted, if my house is totally silent, there must have been an apocalypse, but still. Getting off track here but I have a little funeral for nap time. I think it's time I finally come to the realization that my kids will no longer nap in the afternoons. Major Sad Face. Ok, so back to my happy place. Reading. But you know the next best thing? Movies. And even better, movie trailers. I love them. I love them so much that I have to give Christina from Easily Entertained a shout out for her awesome collection on winter movies. Go check it out!  Anyhooters, so imagine my utter glee a couple weeks ago when I discovered that  they make movie like trailers for BOOKS. It's like my too favorite things got together and made a love child and then cuddled afterwards. So here are some book trailers from

Book Review: The Light Between Oceans

Hey Franndss!  I am really excited to tell you about this next book! From Goodreads: After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there a