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Cara Fiction Friday 52 Comments

I’m sitting here… a bit blank. So I’ve asked my 10 year old for a topic for today’s post. We’ll see how this goes.

He’s not exactly cooperating.

Ah, now he is. (BTW, isn’t his smolder the cutest?)

The topic: TEETH.

Really? Of all words he could choose? Teeth?

So he has a really loose tooth. That probably led to the word choice.

I don’t know about you, but one of the most stressful places I go is the dentist. If someone could invent a way to make a drill silent, he or she would be an instant billionaire. After all, the noise gets magnified because the tool is used inside our heads! That is so wrong. Yet necessary.

Have you watched Cast Away with Tom Hanks? The scene I cannot watch to this day is the one where he has to take out his tooth. By. Himself! I could not. I cannot. I will not. I shudder even thinking about that short scene.

You would think as an extrovert, that the being alone on an island for days, months, years, would be the worst part. No. It’s the tooth removal. Hands down. No question.

This is why I watch Marvel movies. Wait, that doesn’t make sense either.

Sometimes (when teeth aren’t being knocked out) it’s nice to sink into a story. Scratch that. It’s always nice to sink into a story. These are three books I’m excited about.

I LOVED The Heart’s Charge by our own Karen Witemeyer. Karen and I will chat about it on Tuesday, June 1st, at 8:30 p.m. EST over on my Facebook page, if you’d like to join us. I loved The Heart’s Charge and the way it featured two of Hanger’s Horsemen. Mark Wallace and Jonah Brooks find themselves in the middle of a mystery regarding missing children… or are they? No one seems to realize there are missing children. While they try to unwind what’s really happening, Mark is confronted by the one who got away. Could this be his second chance at love? Jonah finds a woman who doesn’t need a man. That indendepence tugs him to her. Overall, this book is a lovely blend of romance, mystery, and history.

I’m looking forward to reading On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor by Jaime Jo Wright and The Shell Collector by Nancy Naigle. Talk about very different styles of books!

On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor is a gothic tale that spans two times in one house. Jaime’s won numerous awards for her gothic novels, and I can’t wait to dig into this one. I love her books so much, I purchased a copy to giveaway below.

Then Nancy’s novel, The Shell Collector, is about starting over after tragedy and the grace to move on into love and hope. I’m so intrigued by the way the shells are used in the story. So far I’ve read the why she wrote it and can’t wait to get into the rest of it. I’ll never forget introducing her to the agent who sold this book for her. It’s her heart’s story, and a story that needed to be written.

By the way, Tuesday Lynn Austin and I discussed her June 8th release Chasing Shadows. You can join our conversation on YouTube here. It was so fun to talk about the Netherlands, bicycles, her most interesting research experience, and more. And don’t forget you can catch up on all of them as podcasts here.

What books are you looking forward to reading this holiday weekend?

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  4. I’m reading “Loved Defined” by Kristen Clark and Bethany Beal, “Idols for Destruction” by Herbert Schlossberg, and “The Number of Love” by Roseanna White. I plan on starting “The Fellowship of the Ring” soon. Of course, I take turns with each book.

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  10. Lots of good books. My tbr gets ever taller. I’m listening to In The Land of Everliving by Stephen Lawhead, #2 in series. I’m almost finished reading Elizabeth Goddard’s Present Danger. Your new one will be next. Grabbing the preorder ASAP.

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  11. I just finished The Heart’s Charge by Karen Witemeyer and I’m going to start To Find Her Place by Susan Anne Mason.

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  13. I just finished an arc of “The Bristol Park Detective” by Ellie Thornton. It was really so different than the usual romantic suspense and I loved it.

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  18. I’m reading Come Back to Me, from Jody Hedlund! Wow! Time travel! A new genre for her and for me, but I’m thrilled!
    Thanks for the chance!

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  20. I just finished Beguiled by Deanne Gist and J. Mark Bertrand. Next up is A Plain Leaving by Leslie Gould. Both are book challenges for the online book club I’m in this year. Thanks for the chance to win. BTW – I don’t like visiting the dentist, either.

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  22. I just finished Becky Wade’s “Let It Be Me”, and
    was excited to follow Sebastian’s story. Now, I’m currently reading “The Secrets of Paper & Ink” by Lindsay Harrel.

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  24. I’m reading Children of the Desolate, then I’m gonna read A Study in Sirens, both by Suzannah Rowntree. She writes historical fantasy. So. Good.

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  29. I’m currently reading Inheritance by Christopher Paolini, the final book in The Inheritance Cycle, with less than 100 pages to go!

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  33. I just finished Sticks and Stone by David James Warren last night and have not yet started a new book. It was great though! I read it in one night!

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  34. I am reading several books concurrently. What is wrong with me? I am reading Kill Shot by Susan Sleeman (nearly finished and loving it) on my Kindle, started on the newest Haunted Bookshop mystery by Cleo Coyle as the book arrived this week, and had started over on Dee Henderson’s O’Malley series as it has been a few years since I read them.

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