Month: April 2015

MS Tuesday-Pissed Off

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I am not sure where this post is going to take us because I just have been feeling pissed off at this stupid disease and it makes us go through.  I guess what I am really pissed off about is any invisible illness that makes our lives so hard.  I have been dealing with this for years and for the most part I don’t let myself get upset about the disease but lately I am just pissed off.

I am so tired of not knowing what any day is going to bring and how I am going to feel any given day.  It is hard to try and keep going every day when I have no idea what is going to happen that day.  I know that no one knows what will happen any given day but when you never know if it will be a good day or a bad day because of the MS it gets hard.

It just pisses me off that I am having more bad days than good days anymore.  I don’t know that there is anything that can be done so I just need to accept things as they are and stop being pissed off at the disease.  I know this will come in time but right now I just want to be pissed off even though I know it won’t solve anything.  I hope that this phase passes soon because it is no fun for me and it isn’t fun for the people who I snap at because I am so frustrated with everything right now.  Anyway that is all I have for today.

How are you doing?

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Secondhand Cowboy by Lacy Williams

Book Review

Secondhand Cowboy by Lacy Williams was a great book.  I have a soft spot for books that involve cowboys and this one didn’t let me down.  I loved the setting of this book and I loved the authors writing as well.  This book didn’t keep my guessing about what was going on but that was okay because I just loved the story and the characters in this book.  The author did a great job of making me feel like I was there with the characters and also making me understand why the characters made the choices that they did throughout the whole book.  If you love sweet contemporary romance books that I would recommend this book to you.

Second Hand Cowboy

About The Book

Iris Tatum hasn’t seen her high school sweetheart Callum Stewart since he left years ago without a single word. Then she witnesses an horrific hit-and-run accident, and comes face to face with her past–and Cal’s triplets. A volunteer paramedic, Iris can’t walk away. No matter how much she wants to.

Bull rider Callum Stewart was run out of town at age twenty and vowed never to return. Only one thing could bring him back: building a future for his sons. Now, thanks to the accident that left him with a broken leg—he needs help to care for his boys. He has no choice but to accept Iris’s grudging help.

As they rediscover a friendship–and the sparks that never faded between them–Callum’s secrets are brought back with a vengeance. How can they keep the past from destroying their future?

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About The Author

Lacy Williams is a wife and mom from Oklahoma. She loves dogs, reading, hiking, and watching movies.

Her debut novel won ACFW’s prestigious Genesis award before being published. She promises readers happily-ever-afters guaranteed.

Lacy combines her love of dogs with her passion for literacy by volunteering with her therapy dog Mr. Bingley in a local Kids Reading to Dogs program.

Lacy loves to hear from readers at lacyjwilliams@gmail.com . You can find more original fiction (short stories) and giveaways at her website and can be found on social media at http://www.facebook.com/lacywilliamsbooks andhttp://www.twitter.com/lacy_williams .

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Saving Justice by by Susan Crawford

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Saving Justice by by Susan Crawford was such a good book to read.  I loved the characters from the very first page right up until the end of the book.  I found myself getting caught up in what was  going on like it was a true story and not a work of fiction.  I often wonder what the world would be like if there were more people like Kinley in this world.  Anyway lets get back to the book review.  I loved this authors style of writing and the plot of this story.  It was a great story that wasn’t hard to read so I read it in a day or two which is nice.  If you love christian fiction than I would for sure recommend this book to all of you.

Saving Justice

About The Book

After losing her brother to gang-related violence, elementary schoolteacher Kinley is on a mission to help her at-risk students. When one of them, Justice, is caught in an act of vandalism, she intervenes.

Entrepreneur Nash McGuire has gone to great lengths to overcome the poverty he grew up in. When working on a renovation project in his old neighborhood he collides with a juvenile delinquent and his do-gooder teacher.

Kinley believes Justice can overcome the influence of his environment; Nash knows the odds and has little patience with Kinley’s naivety. But as the boy’s mandatory community service forces Justice and Kinley into Nash’s life, he can’t help but discover a boy searching for love and purpose–a boy very much like he once was.

Then Justice is accused of another crime. And Kinley’s stubborn belief in the boy’s innocence is just too much for Nash to accept…

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About The Author

Susan Crawford is an author of inspirational contemporary romance, published by Redbud Press. Before publication, her debut novel, Saving Justice, was named a finalist in the 2014 American Christian Fiction Writers Genesis writing contest. Susan lives in Oklahoma City, where she happily crams writing in between being a wife, mom, and small business owner.

Visit her online at http://www.susancrawfordbooks.com to sign up for her email newsletter and be the first to hear about her writing news and upcoming releases.

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Visiting The Sins by Melanie Denman

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Visiting The Sins by Melanie Denman was an interesting book to read.  I am going to start by saying that if you are offended by some swearing than this book isn’t for you.  The only reason I say that is because it happens throughout this book.  It didn’t happen a ton and it wasn’t anything that bothered me but it may bother some other people.  I had a hard time reading this book at times because one of the last names of one of the characters is the same last name of someone I know so it was weird for me to read this book and not think of the person I know.

Anyway lets get back to the review of this book.  This book did make me smile while I was reading it quite often.  I have to say that my favorite character was Pokey and that is because she reminded me of people I used to work with when I worked at the nursing home as a CNA.   I wasn’t a huge fan of Rebanelle and I am not 100% sure why but she really did get on my nerves.  I loved reading this story and see things through the characters eyes.  I loved how different people narrated throughout the whole book so you were always getting different views and that is always a fun change from books where just one character narrates the story.  I really did enjoy this book and I can’t wait to read other  books by this author.

Visiting the Sins

About The Book

Set in the Bible Belt of Deep East Texas, Visiting the Sins is a darkly funny story about mothers and daughters, naked ambition, elusive redemption, and all the torment it’s possible to inflict in the name of family.

Down through the decades, the lofty social aspirations of the feisty but perennially dissatisfied Wheeler women — Pokey, the love-starved, pistol-packing matriarch; Rebanelle, the frosty former beauty queen turned church organist; and Curtis Jean, the backsliding gospel singer — are exceeded only by their unfortunate taste in men and a seemingly boundless capacity for holding grudges. A legacy of feuding and scandal lurches from one generation to the next with tragic consequences that threaten to destroy everything the Wheeler women have sacrificed their souls to build.

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About The Author

Melanie Denman is a native of Nacogdoches, Texas and a graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University. An eighth-generation Texan, and a former banker and cattle rancher, she currently lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is working on a second novel.

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