an AUTUMN READING VLOG – finishing the You’ve Got Mail Readathon and reading atmospheric books
This week I finished the You’ve Got Mail Readathon and started a nice atmospheric read!
BOOKS MENTIONED
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Author: Jonas Jonasson
The international publishing sensation--over two million copies sold A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka) decides it’s not too late to start over... After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration…
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The Words Between Us
Author: Erin Bartels
finally found sanctuary in her rather unremarkable used bookstore just up the street from the marina in River City, Michigan. But the store is struggling and the past is hot on her heels. When she receives an eerily familiar book in the mail on the morning of her father's scheduled execution, Robin is thrown back to the long-lost summer she met Peter Flynt, the perfect boy who ruined everything. That book--a first edition Catcher in the…
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Sense and Sensibility
Author: Jane Austen
Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel…
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Skating Shoes
Author: Noel Streatfeild
Series: The Shoe Books
In the tradition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Little Princess come Noel Streatfeild's classic Shoes books. Skating Shoes is the perfect gift for figure skating fans! It's a stroke of great luck when Harriet Johnson's doctor prescribes skating after an illness that has left her feeling frail and listless. For on her very first day at the rink, Harriet meets orphaned Lalla Moore, who is being brought up by her wealthy aunt Claudia to be…
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Rilla of Ingleside
Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Series: Anne of Green Gables
Anne's children were almost grown up, except for pretty, high-spirited Rilla. No one could resist her bright hazel eyes and dazzling smile. Rilla, almost fifteen, can't think any further ahead than going to her very first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse and getting her first kiss from handsome Kenneth Ford. But undreamed-of challenges await the irrepressible Rilla when the world of Ingleside becomes endangered by a far-off war. Her brothers go off to fight, and Rilla brings home an orphaned newborn in a soup…
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Illusion
Author: Frank Peretti
In a world where nothing is as it seems, anything is possible. DANE AND MANDY, a popular magic act for forty years, are tragically separated by a car wreck that claims Mandy’s life—or so everyone thinks. Even as Dane mourns, Mandy awakes in the present as the nineteen-year-old she was in 1970. Distraught and disoriented in what to her is the future, she is confined to a mental ward until she discovers a magical ability…
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2 Comments
Brandi
I have loved these prompts so much! Love this movie! Just entered my accomplishments so far. I am still trying to finish “Awesomely Austen Pride & Prejudice” it’s a kids version of it by Katherine Woodfine. I’ve tried the real one and never make it through. UGH haha So, I am at least doing this one. Thanks for the fun prompts and opening me up to so many good books. My faves so far that you have reccomended are “A Place to Hang the Moon” Kate Albus {which counted as my library setting} and “The Nature of Small Birds” Susie Finkbeiner. Thanks for all you do!
Chantel
I’m so glad you enjoyed A Place to Hang the Moon and The Nature of Small Birds! It’s such a great feeling when others enjoy the books I’ve been loving!