Reading Excursions

  What in the world???  🫣 Yup  …  that’s the subject of this bookish blog  …   I want to address something that happened to me a few nights ago. And, while I wanted to go in depth on social media … this was more appropriate for a blog.    Before I continue – this is a long blog, but it was necessary. Even more so as the person continued to escalate the harassment.    I first found myself tagged in this comment ( 8/20/2024 – approximately 7pm PDT)   ⤵️     😳   To say I was at a loss for words is just not even accurate or adequate. I really didn’t even know WHAT to say.     Where did that comment come from? I literally had no idea. And, one person I told said it was terrible.    That comment was left in response to an author who posted about low-star ratings without reviews. I don’t even know the author or follow them. I do understand the author’s problem though. Leave a review ...

MY REVIEW       Paperback:  318 pages  Publisher:  Marlayne Giron (October 13, 2023)  Language:  English   ISBN-13:  979-8218953775 ⬅️   Click Photo for Purchase Information    “ Rachel Winston  is suddenly and tragically widowed in her early 30s. She and her adopted, teenaged daughter, Karen, are forced to leave everything behind in Southern California. She purchases an Amish farmhouse in Lancaster County, PA to open an Amish-style Bed & Breakfast Inn. The farmhouse she purchases was put on the market by a young Amish widower, Samuel Miller, who recently lost his wife and five children in a buggy accident. He has moved into the Dawdi house to maintain the farm and Rachel happily cooks, cleans, and does his laundry in exchange for his help.   Thrown together by tragic loss, their mutual suffering draws them together against the rules of his community. Solace and friendship soon turn into something deeper, pu...

  MY REVIEW     Paperback:  272 Pages Publisher:  Chrism Press (May 2, 2022) Language: English ISBN-10:  194172079X ISBN-13: 978-1941720790 ⬅ ️ Click Photo for Purchase Information   “ Sabina Mancari never questioned her life as the daughter of Chicago’s leading mob boss until bullets tear apart her world and the man she thought she loved turned out to be an undercover Prohibition agent. Now she sees how ugly the underworld can be. Ambushes, bribes, murder, prostitution—she thought her beloved Papa was above all that, but clearly he isn’t. What does that mean, though, for her and their family? Maybe Lorenzo, the fiancé who has barely paid her any attention in the last two years, has the right idea by planning to escape their world.   All his life, Lorenzo’s family assumed he would join the Church, but he has different ideas—marrying Sabina and pursuing a career in the law. But despite his morals, he knows at the core he isn’t so u...