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Book Review: Did You Ever Have A Family

Book Review: Did You Ever Have a Family I knew I was going to love this book. Almost like when you know without a shadow of a doubt that the gift under the Christmas tree is the exact gift you have been pining after for months but you have to wait to unwrap it. I saw this book in my "to-read" list for months and each time I saw it, a tingling started in the back of my brain in anticipation of reading it. I may have even prolonged reading it because I didn't want it to end, even before I had read the first page. The characters in this book live in a small town in  Connecticut. They are torn apart when a fire takes the lives of  several of their loved ones and suddenly, instead of the wedding they had all been planning for, they are planning funerals. In their own words, mothers, fathers, lovers, friends and acquaintances share their stories of the loved ones they have lost. By coincidence, some of the characters end up in a tiny little hotel thousa

Show Us Your Books

Show Us Your Books: October, with Steph and Jana:  Talk about your books, you ask? Well that's sure easy! Thanks Steph and Jana for having such a fun link up  and thanks to me, for FINALLY remembering to write a post for it. I seriously intend to recap the books I've read every month but I always forget and then face palm myself as soon as I see everyone else's posts. Seriously, this is the best way to add some great reads to your "to read" list so go check out the other bloggers' lists!  This past month I found some really good ones, especially considered I spent most of the weeks leading up to Halloween reading  "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" with R1. Which I can't say I minded one bit!  This doesn't really count since I just started it last night, but I wanted to share this beauty because I know I am going to love it:    Wildflower by Drew Barrymore I'm super excited that she put some of ther quirkiness o

Something I Never Thought I'd Say...

This picture is by far one of the my favorite serendipitous moments... How put together I am, drinking my morning coffee on a calm, quiet morning, sitting at my clean kitchen bar, reading a book and all of the sudden, I look down and notice that my coffee mug and book match... How perfect is that? Who am I kidding. We all know that I went searching for that exact mug in the cabinet and placed it perfectly next to my book and even held down the corner of the book because it was bent up and looked a little wonky. But dang it, is that not a cute as hello photo?  But I really did drink the coffee and I really did sit and read, so that counts.  Anyway... the point is, I read a book this week and wanted to share. Mostly because something has happened to me that has never, ever happened before. The book, Brooklyn by Colin Toibin , is short and sweet. I knew half way through that it was too short to be a really great saga, which is what I love. The story had potential t

Review: After You by JoJo Moyes

Let's talk about a really good book, okay?  And you know what's better than a really good book? TWO really good books.  There aren't that many great sequels in books. It's a lucky of draw, just like movies.  A couple years ago, I sat crying my eyes out while reading Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, After that, I obsessively read her others, The Last Letter from Your Lover , One Plus One  and The Girl You Left Behind  I LOVED Me Before You. It was such a compassionate, non-traditional love story. I love the stories where you don't think love is even possible but then suddenly, it's there, right in front of the character and you're as happy for them as you would be if you yourself had just found the love of your life.  After You was a little bit a curve ball, especially after the page turner of its precursor. I hated finding Louisa Clark so sad and broken at the start of the book, but I don't know why I expected any less. (I won'