Wednesday

Posted on August 28, 2019 by flaca63

Hello! One Girl and a Book welcomes, you all to my little corner of the web and Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived here on Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses. Please, take some time to visit the other participants and see what others are reading. So, let’s get to it!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently reading: I am reading The Chain by: Adrian McKinty. Wow and Wow this book is awesome, I have to make myself put it down.

Recently finished: I have finished The War Reporter By: Martin Fletcher, The Lost Sister By: Tracy Buchanan and Someone Else’s Daughter. The War Reporter was not what I had expected and I’m glad that I found it at bargain store. I loved the other two and will be looking for more from the authors. Both were great reads.

Reading Next: Don’t Wake Up By: Liz Lawler,

Here are my Three Ws:

What I am currently reading? The Chain By:

What I recently finished reading? The War Reporter By: Martin Fletcher, The Lost Sister By: Tracy Buchanan and Someone Else’s Daughter

What I think I’ll read next? Don’t Wake Up By: Liz Lawler

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Favorites

Posted on August 27, 2019 by flaca63

Hello book bloggers and reviewers! How is your Tuesday going? So far mine is going well, I am working on getting my reviews done; hope to share them later in the week. Today I thought I would share my top five favorite books so far this year. Although I am sure that I more than five that were my favorite. What are your favorites?

I can Only Imagine By: Bart Millard

The Story That Inspired the Major Motion Picture.”

The captivating story behind the bestselling single in the history of Christian music—and the man who wrote it

MercyMe’s crossover hit, “I Can Only Imagine,” has touched millions of people around the world. But few know about the pain, redemption, and healing that inspired it. Now Bart Millard, award-winning recording artist and lead singer of MercyMe, shares how his dad’s transformation from abusive father to man of God sparked a divine moment in music history.

Go behind the scenes of Bart’s life—and the movie based on it—to discover how God repaired a broken family, prepared Bart for ministry through music, and wrote the words on his heart that would change his life forever. I Can Only Imagine is a front-row seat to witnessing God’s presence throughout Bart’s life. Whether falling in love with his childhood sweetheart or mourning his father’s death, founding MercyMe or flailing in the midst of its success, Bart continues to place his trust in God’s plans—plans that continue to surprise and surpass what Bart could have ever imagined.

2. The Good Daughter By: Karin Slaughter

The stunning new novel from the international #1 bestselling author — a searing, spellbinding blend of cold-case thriller and psychological suspense.

Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind…

Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn’s happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father — Pikeville’s notorious defense attorney — devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night.

Twenty-eight years later, and Charlie has followed in her father’s footsteps to become a lawyer herself — the ideal good daughter. But when violence comes to Pikeville again — and a shocking tragedy leaves the whole town traumatized — Charlie is plunged into a nightmare. Not only is she the first witness on the scene, but it’s a case that unleashes the terrible memories she’s spent so long trying to suppress. Because the shocking truth about the crime that destroyed her family nearly thirty years ago won’t stay buried forever…

Packed with twists and turns, brimming with emotion and heart, The Good Daughter is fiction at its most thrilling.

3. After Anna By: Lisa Scottoline

Riveting and disquieting, After Anna is a groundbreaking domestic thriller, as well as a novel of emotional justice and legal intrigue. New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline keeps readers on their toes until the final shocking page.

Nobody cuts deeper than family…

Dr. Noah Alderman, a widower and single father, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie Ippolitti, and for the first time in a long time, he and his young son are happy. Despite her longing for the daughter she hasn’t seen since she was a baby, Maggie is happy too, and she’s even more overjoyed when she unexpectedly gets another chance to be a mother to the child she thought she’d lost forever, her only daughter Anna.

Maggie and Noah know that having Anna around will change their lives, but they would never have guessed that everything would go wrong, and so quickly. Anna turns out to be a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules, though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble brewing in a once-perfect marriage and home.

Events take a heartbreaking turn when Anna is murdered and Noah is accused and tried for the heinous crime. Maggie must face not only the devastation of losing her daughter, but the realization that Anna’s murder may have been at the hands of a husband she loves. In the wake of this tragedy, new information drives Maggie to search for the truth, leading her to discover something darker than she could have ever imagined.

4. The Date By Louise Jensen

One night can change everything.

‘I know it as soon as I wake up and open my eyes… Something is wrong.’

Her Saturday night started normally. Recently separated from her husband, Ali has been persuaded by her friends to go on a date with a new man. She is ready, she is nervous, she is excited. She is about to take a step into her new future. By Sunday morning, Ali’s life is unrecognisable. She wakes, and she knows that something is wrong. She is home, she is alone, she is hurt and she has no memory of what happened to her.

Worse still, when she looks in the mirror, Ali doesn’t recognise the face staring back at her…

5. Perfect Imprefections By Taryn Leigh

51+vQ4UTomL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_ Sarah Lewis desires nothing more than to begin again after a failed marriage and a tragedy so terrifying, it forces her to leave her life in London to stay with her best friend a world apart in South Africa. Despite immediate success in her business, she struggles to understand who she really is and where she belongs in the world. So begins a journey of discovery as Sarah re-unites with Katy in the land where she was born, where the air is lavender scented, and weekends are spent cycling on the beach.Until the day when she has to return to London to face the ghosts of her past and confront a situation that has grown more complicated in her absence.Perfect Imperfections is an intriguing tale which hints at wrongdoings and deceit without giving too much away. The author cleverly weaves a tale around fragile yet strong Sarah as she tries to reconcile her past with her future, engaging the reader to the point where we simply want the best for her and for happiness finally to come her way

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Welcome to Monday

Posted on August 26, 2019 by flaca63

Wow and here, it is Monday again and August is just about over. I hope that everyone had a great weekend and had time to read.

Its Monday what are you reading? A place to meet up and show what you have been reading over the week.

It’s an opportunity to visit and comment and er… add to your groaning TBR pile! So welcome in everyone. This meme started on J Kaye’s blog and then was hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn here at The Book Date. So I thought I would try it and see if I could keep up with it and share what I am reading and planning on reading.

🌼What I read last week:

The War Reporter: You Can Purchase it HERE

The Lost Sister: You Can Purchase it HERE

Someone Else’s Daughter: You Can Purchase it HERE

🌼What I am reading now:

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You Can Purchase it HERE

🌼Up next:

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You Can Purchase it HERE

I am now off to write some reviews of the books that I have read, also planning on what I want to post in the upcoming days. I hope that everyone has a great week and happy reading.

The War Reporter: A Novel

Posted on August 24, 2019 by flaca63

518m6jbeZNL._SX328_BO1,204,203,200_ Winner of a Jewish National Book Award and author of The List and Jacob’s Oath, both of which achieved outstanding critical acclaim, NBC Special Correspondent Martin Fletcher delivers another breathtaking tale of love, war, and redemption.

Tom Layne was a world-class television correspondent until his life collapsed in Sarajevo. Beaten and humiliated, he fell into a hole diagnosed as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Eleven years later he returns to the Balkans to film a documentary on the man who caused his downfall: Ratko Mladic, Europe’s biggest killer since Hitler, wanted for genocide and crimes against humanity. Mysterious forces have protected Mladic for a decade, preventing his arrest, and these shadowy but deadly foes swing into action against the journalist. Tom soon falls into a web of intrigue and deceit that threatens his life as well as that of the woman he loves.

Drawing upon his own experiences reporting on the wars in Bosnia and Sarajevo, Martin Fletcher has written a searing love story and a painfully authentic account of a war reporter chasing down the scoop of a lifetime.

You Can Purchase it HERE

Hardcover:320 pages
Publisher:Thomas Dunne Books; First edition (October 6, 2015)

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Anderson Cooper called Martin Fletcher the gold standard of TV war correspondents, and he is rapidly building a new reputation as an author. His second book, “Walking Israel,” won the National Jewish Book Award, after he won almost every award in TV journalism. They include five Emmies, the du Pont, the TV Pulitzer, several Overseas Press Club awards and the Edward R. Murrow award for excellence several times.
For three weeks he walked across the Hindu Kush mountains from Pakistan into Afghanistan with the Mujahideen, he was the only television reporter to join the Khmer rouge in Cambodia, the only reporter to enter the American embassy in Tehran when Iranian students held American diplomats hostage for 444 days.
His new novel, Promised Land, draws on his decades of reporting in Israel to paint a searing, intimate portrait of a struggling family set to the story of a struggling nation. Nelson deMille wrote, “historical fiction doesn’t get much better than this.”

You can follow Martin Fletcher on Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/martinfletcherFPAGE/

https://www.martinfletcher.net/

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https://twitter.com/martinfletchnbc?lang=en

🌼My Thoughts

This is the first time for this author, seen this book at an airport book shop, but I passed it up, sound interesting but I didn’t want to pay the price for it. After my trip I had to stop at our local Dollar Tree and seen it there and thought what a $1.00 for this book, I put it in my basket.

I don’t remember much about the war in Bosnia and I was interested in what it is like to be a foreign correspondent in a dangerous setting. So I selected The War Reporter by former NBC journalist, Martin Fletcher.

I found the writing is slow with minimal action inserted. The storytelling is average. I just couldn’t get into the story line, there were times that I found that the chapters were so long and drawn out.

I had to force myself to finish. The first half of the book was great, the second half was horrible. I am so glad that I got this book at a discount store instead of paying full price for it. I am give it 3 stars out of five. It just wasn’t what I thought it was going to be.

HELLO HELLO

Posted on August 23, 2019 by flaca63

Good afternoon and it’s Friday and jut 4 more hours until I am done with work. So how did everyone’s week go? Mine was excessively busy, but at least the week went by fast. I had so much planned and wanted to get done during the week, but no luck in finishing some of those projects. Although in the evenings, I did find time to read and finished two books: The first book was The War Reporter by: Martin Fletcher which I have reviewed and will post here on my blog tomorrow. I had a hard time with book. If you read I would love to know how you felt about it.

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You Can Purchase it HERE

The second book that I finished was The Lost Sister by: Tracy Buchanan and what an 0008264643 awesome read This is the first book that I have read by this author and I noticed there are more to this series and I am on the hunt for them. I will be doing my review on this, later this weekend.

You can purchase HERE

I have started another one called The Chain by Adrian McKinty, which I have been hearing a lot about. So I looked for it at my local library and placed it on hold and its finally available. I am only on Chapter 4 but so far I love it and I need to go home and read instead of being at work.

I hope that everyone has a great weekend.

Happy reading and reviewing!

Final Review

Posted on August 22, 2019 by flaca63

51N60zXWgNL In Reconstructing Amelia, the stunning debut novel from Kimberly McCreight, Kate’s in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter’s exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter—now. But Kate’s stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it’s already too late for Amelia. And for Kate.

An academic overachiever despondent over getting caught cheating has jumped to her death. At least that’s the story Grace Hall tells Kate. And clouded as she is by her guilt and grief, it is the one she forces herself to believe. Until she gets an anonymous text: She didn’t jump.

Reconstructing Amelia is about secret first loves, old friendships, and an all-girls club steeped in tradition. But, most of all, it’s the story of how far a mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she couldn’t save.

Fans of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl will find Reconstructing Amelia just as gripping and surprising.

File Size:1945 KB
Print Length:400 pages
Publisher:Harper (April 2, 2013)
Publication Date:April 2, 2013
Sold by:HarperCollins Publishers
Date Read: August 12 – 15, 2019

You can Purchase it HERE

About Kimberly McCreight

Kimberly McCreight is the New York Times bestselling author of RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA, WHERE THEY FOUND HER and THE OUTLIERS TRILOGY. She’s been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Alex awards and her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. She attended Vassar College and graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters. Her next book, a new mystery for adults, is forthcoming from Harper Books in Summer 2020.

You can follow Kimberly McCreight on Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/mccreight.kimberly/

https://www.instagram.com/kimberlymccreight/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/kimmccreight?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

My Thoughts

So I have been hearing about this book, I kept putting it off, I finally decided to give it a shot. The authors writing style was a little different from what I usually read. I felt that it was more of a diary form writing. Don’t get me wrong I enjoyed and now for my honest opinion of it.

I liked so many things about this book. It had a great way of going back and forth through time to piece together what happened up to Amelia’s death and what was happening after her death. Her mother, after receiving a message on her phone, decided to go to the police and insist they look past the idea that this was a suicide.

In an age where we’ve been tempted to judge people by their worst moments, McCreight brings us a tale of a promising young student’s death from a fall off her prep-school’s roof. What it her choices that brought her there? Or, was there something darker, more sinister at work? Reconstructing Amelia brings a cast of characters, all flawed, and all with secrets that weave a tapestry of deception, bullying, and cruelty.

In the end, the case is solved. Things come to light about Amelia’s friends, things she was involved in, and what really happened to her.

I did enjoy this book. It was about 380 pages but it was a fast read. It was a true page turners. There were a lot of surprises throughout the book and it didn’t drag. I am giving it 4/5 stars and If you haven’t read pick up a copy and read it.

WWW.Wednesday

Posted on August 21, 2019 by flaca63

Hello One Girl and a Book followers welcome to my little corner of the web and Welcome to WWW Wednesday! This meme was formerly hosted by MizB at A Daily Rhythm and revived here on Taking on a World of Words. Just answer the three questions below and leave a link to your post in the comments for others to look at. No blog? No problem! Just leave a comment with your responses. Please, take some time to visit the other participants and see what others are reading. So, let’s get to it!

The Three Ws are:

What are you currently reading?

What did you recently finish reading?

What do you think you’ll read next?

Currently reading: I am a little behind reading The War Reporter by: Martin Fletecher this week. I am not really feeling it. What do you do when you are just not feeling the book? Leave it and go onto a new one? I would love to hear what your opinions are.

Recently finished: Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight and I my review of Don’t Blink by L.G. Davis yesterday so please check that out when you can. I gave it Five out of Five Stars. In addition, I will be looking for more of her books.

Reading Next: I put off reading the Suite Case Girl by Ty Hutchinson and decided to go with The Lost Sister by ML Rose. My TBR pile is still growing as we speak.

Here are my Three Ws:

What I am currently reading? The War Reporter by Martin Fletcher

What I recently finished reading? Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight

What I think I’ll read next? The Lost Sister by ML Rose

Don’t Blink: A gripping psychological thriller Kindle Edition

Posted on August 20, 2019 by flaca63

Hello and Good Morning, I hope that your day is going great.

I have finally finished my last review. Now to finish reading those books that I have started and to finish updating my business Craft Page. So on to the review.

41nLPsWqkPL Two years ago, Paige Wilson watched helplessly as her brother Ryan was shot, right on her doorstep.

He survived the attack, but never fully recovered from the trauma.

Stuck in a wheelchair, Ryan refuses to accept the life of a paraplegic. His idea of fun is coming up with new ways to torment Paige, who has sacrificed her own happiness to care for him.

He feels she’s responsible for what happened to him that night, and he’s determined to make her life a living hell.

Pushed to her limits, Paige wants to turn her back on her brother’s abuse, but when she finally takes steps toward getting her life back, tragedy strikes.

One day she’s walking toward her freedom, and the next, she’s on the run. A terrible crime has been committed and she might be in danger.

She finds safety and a new life in the small town of Faypine, Maine. But someone knows her hiding place, and they are determined to use her secrets to tear her world apart. They will stop at nothing to get rid of her.

File Size:1656 KB
Print Length:465 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN:1091466424
Simultaneous Device Usage:Unlimited
Publication Date:March 31, 2019
Date Read: July 26, 2019 – August 12, 2019

You Can Purchase it HERE:

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Author L.G. Davis writes novels that will send chills down your spine, and keep you up at night.
She also writes in other genres under the name Liz Grace Davis.

You can follow L.G. Davis on Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/LGDavisBooks/

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44664762-don-t-blink

🌼My Thoughts

I had seen and heard this book being talked about on one of my Facebook groups I belong to so I thought I would try it. The story was well written and pretty believable. This is the first book that I have read by this author. And I definitely will add L.G. Davis to my list of authors i’ll be looking for in the future.

Do you like a book you can’t put down? If so, this is one for you. Though the events in the life of the main character are almost unbelievable, the story is so fast paced that a reader can hardly wait to see how it evolves. I liked the Paige character but her brother Ryan was so cruel to her. Paige would stand up to him, then back down. There were times that I wanted to knock Paige upside the head and tell her to stand strong with the brother and not back down. The theme of love for a sibling, a man (two actually) and a child is woven into the story; but I found this brother was just too much and to blame his sister for his accident. I found the storyline was really good and I did not see the end coming.

I highly recommend this book. A lot of twists and turns. Well written book! I am giving this 5/5 stars.

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Hello Monday

Posted on August 19, 2019 by flaca63

Hello its Monday again, where did the weekend go? I sure could use another day off. How about you? Well I missed a Monday of this but now I back on.

Its Monday what are you reading? A place to meet up and show what you have been reading over the week.

🌼What I read last week:

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You Can Purchase HERE

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You Can Purchase HERE:

🌼What I am reading now:

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🌼Up next:

Leaving my options open. Happy reading everyone!

Book versus E-books

Posted on August 17, 2019 by flaca63

Books versus E-books

So here is a question that I was asked from a family member, Do I like actual books or reading from Kindle / Ipad? What do you prefer Books or e-books?

Now to answer that question I like both, I have no preference, although when I travel I do prefer the e-books as I can add as many as I want to my Kindle / Ipad, yes I have both and I usually travel with both. I love to buy books but my book shelfs were getting full and then I asked what you do with those books that you have read? Me personally I keep those that I really like and some I have sent to my Aunt and others I just give away. However, most are just sitting on my bookshelf.

I decided to do a little google search and see what others thought of this topic. There were some articles on this, and then I found one that was a catchy read, called

50 Reasons Real Books are Vastly Superior to E-Books By: David Ferrer. I will share a few of these, reasons and include the link to this article and you can read further. The top 10 that I found interesting, and funny way of explaining Books versus E-books: