Hooks Can Be Deceiving Review

                                                           
Hooks Can Be Deceiving   By: Betty Hechtman
Published By Crooked Lane Books     Published Date 11 December 2018
Mystery and Thriller                 320 Pages
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I just love her books. I have read a few of her books and enjoy them. At the end of the book she always has a pattern or two for you try and also recipes. These recipes and pattern are mentioned in the book.
The main character in this book is Molly Pink. She works in a book store which has a yarn area to do projects. Within the first couple of chapters in these books there is always a murder. Molly usually gets herself involved with trying to solve them.
I won't go into too much detail because it is a mystery novel and I don't want to give too much away. The story is about a fellow crocheter who is killed. They want to put it as an accidental death but there are too many discrepancies. Molly gets involves because a friend asks her to do some quite investigating.  Molly finds out some things and more questions come and a lot of other people need to be questioned by the police.
This was one of her better books because it had me guessing all the way to the end and I was surprised by who the murderer was.
I highly recommend this book when it comes out. I gave it 5 stars.

My Heart Belongs In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Review

                                                     
My Heart Belongs In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
By: Murray Pura
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc
Published Date: November 1, 2018
256 pages          Christian, Romance
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I greatly enjoyed this book. I gave this book 4 stars. I love history and this book was about the civil war one of my favorite subjects.
Clarissa is a 19 year old girl who has a lot of spunk and energy. She is a conductor on the underground railroad. She has a love interest in Kyle and Liberty. She doesn't know which one to choose. She likes both in different ways. Liberty is also on the underground railroad but she doesn't know what he looks like because he always wears a hood over his head. Kyle is studying to be a clergyman. When the war breaks out she is upset that Kyle won't join the army instead he stays behinds and helps the head clergyman.
During one of the underground escapes with Liberty they are caught and Liberty gets hurt. Who is Liberty? Why does he hide his face?  What happens to Kyle? You need to read the book to find out.
Clarissa has some more adventures during the war. At the beginning of the book I didn't like her but throughout the story she grows and learns, which makes her a better person.
I was able to figure out a few things that happen in the book fairly quickly so it brought down my rating just a little. The author did a great job on the history. I would recommended this book for those who love history and a romance story.

Louisiana's Way Home Review

                                                              
Louisiana's Way Home  By: Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick Press
Published date 2 October 2018
Children's Fiction        Middle Grade      240 pages
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I know that this book has already been out in the stores for a while but I just couldn't get my review up before now. I did get the book finished before the publish date though.
I have greatly enjoyed this book and a few others that she has written.
This book is about a 12 year old girl named Louisiana and her grandma, who leave the state of Florida at 3 in the morning. Louisiana doesn't know why just that her grandma woke her up and told her to get into the car. She had to leave behind her friends and pets. She has been told that a curse has been passed down from her great grandfather and that it was time to end the curse. The curse is known as a Sundering. The story goes on to explain how the curse was started and why it is called this name. They travel with no money or means on how to get where they are going.  Grandma ends up needing some dental care and time to recover so she has Louisiana help pay for things by her wit and voice. She has a beautiful singing voice. During this time Louisiana meets some a boy who befriends and they are able to have some fun while grandma recovers. On her trip back from one of the visits her grandma has taken off and left her a note. This note explains somethings to Louisiana that changes her life and questions everything that has happened. What did the note say and what does she do?
I do recommend that you read this book or have your middle grader read it. It is a fun and adventurist book.

24 Hour Read Your Face Off

I decided to do this challenge that took place on the 8th of September. It started at 9 am and ended on the 9th of September at 8:59 am. I was able to get a lot of reading done. I read 5 books.  These are the books that I read.

                  
These books have been on my to be read pile for a long time and this was a perfect tome to read them. All but one book received 4 stars. Candide received 3 stars. Total pages were 802. As you can see 3 books are about history, one is a classic and the other a novella. I had fun doing this and will most likely do this again next month. This goodread group does a 24 hour reading day once a month. The next one is schedule for the 13th of October. Come join us next month. Until next time keep eading.
                        

                                                         

Barnes and Noble Summer Blow-Out Haul

For Labor Day Barnes and Noble had a huge summer blow-out sale. Mike let me go to the store and buy a few things. He even went with me. I have a membership which saves me an additional 10 %. I also had a 15%  coupon off your entire order. 1 item is missing because it is a gift for Aryan on his birthday and I don't know if he reads my blog but just in case I didn't picture it here. I bought 6 books and two backpacks. The purple bag was free when you bought three books. You could get only one free bag. The backpacks were 50% off and then I got another 10% and 15% off because of my membership and coupon. 4 off the books that I bought were 50% off and then I was able to add my discount and coupon on top of that. Fly Girls was 20% off and then my discount and coupon on top. The Gentleman's Guide to vice and Virtue I paid full price before my discount and coupon. So for everything we spent just under $107. 4 books I don't know too much about but heard a lot of hype about them so want to give them a try. Aryan's book is part of a series he is reading. Fly Girls is a non fiction book about the history of ladies who fly airplanes and the struggles they went through. I hope you able to take part of this sale. Sorry I didn't get this post out earlier for you to know about it.
I will try to better to let you know about sales like this.
Until then keep reading.

September TBR

can you believe it is already September. boy has this year flown by. I know I haven't posted a monthly TBR in a while so I decided to so again. This is only tentative and can change. So here we go with what I plan to read for this month.
The two audio books I will listen to in the car as I run errands and take the boys to and from school. I am a little afraid of listening to Pet Sematary by: Stephen King I hear it is scary. I don't do well with scary but we will see, it will be during the day most of the time. The other one is Seraphina by: Rachel Hartman. I have already started this one. I am only on the third disc. It is a bout a girl who is part human and part dragon. It is a fantasy. I can tell you Aryan is not enjoying this and shaking his head saying that things are impossible.
Strange The Dreamer By: Laini Taylor is one of many books that I am doing a read along for. I heard a lot about this book; some good and some bad. I want to form my own opinion and give this book a try. The second book comes out soon.
The Boys In The Boat By: Daniel James Brown is the book that the library has chosen for their book club. I have already read this book. It is about the 1936 rowing team from Washington who won the gold medal in Berlin. It is good and I will be putting up a review soon.
A Gathering Of Shadows by: V. E. Schwab is another book that I am doing a read along with. It is the second book of a series. I read the first book last month and loved it.
Godsgrave By: Jay Kristoff Is another book that I am doing a read along with. It is the second book to a series. There is to be a third book coming out soon. The first book was NeverNight which I did a review on.
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by: Mackenzi Lee is the last book this month for a read along. This is a book about a young man being raised as a gentleman and is having some life issues. It takes place in the 1800's. He goes and tours Europe before he takes over the estate in England. He doesn't get along with father.
The Bane Chronicles By: Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson. This book is full of short stories about Magnus Bane from the Series that Cassandra Clare writes. I am trying to read one story a day.
This may change or I may add more books depends on what I am in the mood to read. I can already tell you that it is the 4th and I am already behind on my read along books. That is pretty normal because if the book is good and know that two of them are I will read them quickly. I am not sure about the other though.
Let me know what your reading plans are for the month. I would like to know maybe I will add them to a future TBR.
Until next time keep reading.

August 2018 Wrap up

Okay it is the end of August well actually the 1st of September. I had a great reading month and did a lot of readathons. I read 30 books which totaled 6926 pages. Of those books 16 were female authors and 14 were male authors. I read 2 classics, 6 middle grade, 6 children's, 2 cozy mysteries, 4 young adult, 3 fantasy, 1 novella, 2 mysteries, 1 historical fiction, 1 biography, and 2 horror books.
As you can see I read a variety of different genres this month. Even a few I usually don't read. I will give you a quick reminder of the books that I read and the order that I read them.
Little Lord Fauntleroy By: Frances Burnett
Haunted House By: Jan Pienkowski
A Skeleton In The Family By: Leigh Perry  I have a review up
Persuasion By: Jane Austin
The Lost Continent (Wings of fire #11) By: Tui t. Sutherland
Bob By: Rebecca Stead and Wendy Moss   I have a review up
Hooked On Murder By: Betty Hechtman   I have a review up
The Giraffe and Pelly and Me By: Roald Dahl
Ready Player One By: Ernest Cline
The Red Queen By: Victoria Aveyard
The Shape Of Water By: Guilleimo delToro
Nevernight By: Jay Kristoff    I have a review up
The Hidden Oracle By: Rick Riordan
Freaky Friday By: Mary Rodgers
Hello, Universe By: Erin Entrada Kelly
The Deal Of a Lifetime By: Fredrik Backman
Chato's Kitchen By: Gary Soto
Martin's Big Words By: Doreen Rappaport
Flossie and The Fox By: Patricia McKissack
Hershel and The Hanukkah Globin's By: Eric Kimmel
The Jefferson Key By: Steve Berry
A Darker Shade Of Magic By: V. E. Schwab
The Girl Who Came Home By: Hazel Gaynor
Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground By: T. R. Simon  I have a review on this (comes out 9-11-18)
Wonder Girl By: Don Van Natta Jr.
One Of Us Is Lying By: Karen M. McManus
Coma By: Robin Cook
Blaze By: Stephen King
The Body By: Stephen King
The Raven Boys By: Maggie Stiefvater
I hope you try one or all of these books that I have listed above. I am trying to do more reviews but time is not always on my side. Until next time keep reading.