“The Offering” by Angela Hunt

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“The Offering” by Angela Hunt was a good book but I did have trouble in the beginning getting into the book and I am not sure why.  In the end I really did enjoy the book but it was a slow starter for me.  I really did enjoy the authors writing and all the details she put in the book.  She didn’t put so many details that you got lost but just enough so that you understood where the characters were coming from.  Once I got into the book it was defiantly a page turn and I didn’t stop reading it until I was finished with the book.  This book was also different from other books I have read and that made it a great change from the other ones I have been reading.

About The Book

From bestselling author Angela Hunt, the heart-wrenching story of a young mother who unknowingly gave away her own child after serving as a surrogate for a childless couple.
After growing up as an only child, Amanda Lisandra wants a big family. But since she and her soldier husband can’t afford to have more children right away, Mandy decides to earn money as a gestational carrier for a childless couple. She loves being pregnant, and while carrying the child she dreams of having her own son and maybe another daughter. . .
Just when the nearly perfect pregnancy is about to conclude, unexpected tragedy enters Mandy’s world and leaves her reeling. Devastated by grief, she surrenders the child she was carrying and struggles to regain her emotional equilibrium.
Two years later she studies a photograph of the baby she bore and wonders if the unthinkable has happened—could she have inadvertently given away her own biological child? Over the next few months Mandy struggles to decide between the desires of her grief-stricken heart and what’s best for the little boy she has never known.

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About The Author

With over four million copies of her books sold worldwide,Angela Hunt is the bestselling author of more than one hundred books, including “The Nativity Story”. Hunt is one of the most sought-after collaborators in the publishing industry. Her nonfiction book “Don’t Bet Against Me”, written with Deanna Favre, spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Angela’s novel “The Note” (with sales of over 141,000) was filmed as the Hallmark Channel’s Christmas movie for 2007 and proved to be the highest rated television movie in the channel’s history. Angela’s novels have won or been nominated for several prestigious industry awards, including the RITA, the Christy Award, the ECPA Christian Book Award, and the Holt Medallion. She often travels to teach writing workshops at schools and writers’ conferences, and she served as the keynote speaker at the 2008 American Christian Fiction Writers’ national conference. She and her husband make their home in Florida with mastiffs. In 2001, one of her dogs was featured on Live with Regis and Kelly as the second-largest dog in America.
Learn more at http://www.angelahuntbooks.com

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May 2013 Favorites

May Favorites

 It is that time of the month again and here are some of the things I have loved during the month of May.

  • Here are a list of books that I have totally loved during the month of May: Catching A Falling Star, Once Upon A Prince, A Noble Groom, & The Cat That God Sent.  The review on Catch A Falling Star will go live on Tuesday the 4th of June.  If you ever are in need a good book to read let me know because I read pretty much everything.
  • I loved changing up my cell phone case’s often.  I am not sure how many I have but I have tons and I keep buying new ones because they are a good deal.  I am going to do a post in the coming weeks on all of my cases.
  • I had this in my favorites a few months ago but it is still something I use almost all day long and that is my iPod.  I love it even more since my laptop has died and I don’t have access to my music that was on there.
  • I just discovered this song at the end of the month but since I bought the song I have basically had it on repeat and it is pretty much all I listen to.  I have been loving Thrift Shop by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.  Here is the link to the music video.   I can’t help but smile when I watch it.
  • I have been loving the new Brown Rice Baked with Sweet Potato Triscuits in the Roasted Sweet Onion flavor.  One I start eating a box I tend to eat the whole thing in just one sitting.  If you have never heard of these click here to see and read about them.

Those are some of the things I loved during the month of May.

What did you love during May?

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15 Reasons I Am Awesome

15 Reasons I Am Awesome

This week I was so excited that I could actually participate in the writers workshop and I chose to write about 15 reasons I am awesome.  I chose this one because there are times you just need to read a list of good things about yourself so it was a great way to make the a list like that.  So here it goes :

15 Reasons I Am Awesome

  1. I learn things fast.  I usually only need to be shown once maybe twice I have it down.
  2. I will do anything for just about anyone.  I love to help out when needed and I hardly ever say no.  Now this can always be a bad thing but I try to stay positive about things.
  3. I can piss off one of my cats in 5 seconds flat just by looking at her.
  4. I can always hit a curb while driving even when I think I am no were near them.
  5. I am very loyal and will stay at a job even when I know it isn’t the right place for me.
  6. Being single!
  7. Washing clothes and then just throwing them in a pile somewhere and never putting them away.
  8. Not following through with everything I say I am going to do because like I said in #2 I have a really hard time saying no.
  9. Doing the exact opposite of what someone tells me to do.
  10. Not listening to my doctors unless they say what I want to hear and I am also great at not being afraid to go to other doctors and get a second opinion.
  11. Dealing with drug & insurance companies.  For instance I get my Multiple Sclerosis medication for $10 a month instead of $6300.
  12. Talking about my experience with adoption and my experience being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis so young.
  13. Watching the same movie 100 times and never getting tired of it.
  14. Blasting my music even when I have a headache.
  15. Getting place on time which in my world means early!

Those are some of the reasons I think I am awesome.

What makes you awesome?

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“Once Upon A Prince” by Rachel Hauck

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My Review of “Once Upon A Prince” by Rachel Hauck

I read this book in 8 hours from cover to cover and lets just say I instantly fell in love with the characters. From the moment I started the book I fell in love with Susanna and Nathaniel or Nate. I love how this book was a modern take on a fairy tale. This is the sweetest story I have read it months and I was sad when it ended. I can’t wait to read more books in this series because I loved this book so much. If you love sweet stories you will eat this one up.

About The Book

The Royal Wedding Series Book One
 
Susanna Truitt never dreamed of a great romance or being treated like a princess–just to marry the man she has loved for twelve years. But life isn’t going according to plan. When her high-school-sweetheart-turned-Marine-officer breaks up instead of proposing, Susanna scrambles to rebuild her life.
The last thing Prince Nathaniel expects to find on his American holiday to St. Simon’s Island is the queen of his heart. A prince has duties, and his family’s tense political situation has chosen his bride for him. When Prince Nathaniel comes to Susanna’s aid under the fabled Lover’s Oak, he is blindsided by love.
Their lives are worlds apart. He’s a royal prince. She’s an ordinary girl. But everything changes when Susanna receives an invitation to Nathaniel’s coronation.
It’s the ultimate choice. His kingdom or her heart? God’s will or their own?

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About The Author

Rachel Hauck is the bestselling author of Carol Award winner “Sweet Caroline”, and RITA Finalist “Love Starts With Elle”, and of the critically acclaimed fiction collaboration with multi-platinum country artist Sara Evans, “The Songbird Novels”. She lives in sunny, though sometimes hurricane plagued, central Florida with her husband and their ornery pets. Rachel earned adegree in Journalism from Ohio State University and isa huge Buckeyes football fan. She is the past President of American Christian Fiction Writers and now sits on the board as an Advisor.
Find out more about Rachel at:http://RachelHauck.com

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“Undeniably Yours” by Becky Wade

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“Undeniably Yours” by Becky Wade was an amazing book.  I loved Meg and I loved following along with her journey and hoping she got all she wanted in the end.  I was hooked from the first page right up until the last page.  This book follows Meg and her journey to take over her fathers business’s after he passes away.  You first meet Bo when she calls him in because she is going to shut down the horse farm that he runs for her father.  He gets her to give him 6 months to earn back the money that was invested into the farm before he shuts it down.  As I am sure you can guess they start to fall in love throughout the book.  I am not going to say anymore because I don’t want to give anything away.  I loved this book and I can’t wait to read more books by this author.

About The Book

When Meg Cole’s father dies unexpectedly, she’s forced to return home to Texas and to Whispering Creek Ranch to take up the reins of his empire. The last thing she has the patience or the sanity to deal with? Her father’s Thoroughbred racehorse farm. She gives its manager, Bo Porter, six months to close the place down.

Bo knows he ought to resent the woman who’s determined to take from him the only job he ever wanted. But instead of anger, Meg evokes within him a profound desire to protect. The more time he spends with her, the more he longs to overcome every obstacle that separates them and earn her love.

Just when Meg realizes she can no longer deny the depth of her feelings for Bo, their fragile bond is broken by a force from Meg’s past. Can their relationship-and their belief that God can work through every circumstance-survive?

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About The Author

Becky Wade is a graduate of Baylor University. As a newlywed, she lived for three years in a home overlooking the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, as well as in Australia, before returning to the States. A mom of three young children, Becky and her family now live in Dallas, Texas.

Visit her website at http://www.beckywade.com.

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