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Literary Friday, ya’ll….

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Hello, it’s Fri-yay!!! 🙂 We’re 2 days in December and my Christmas tree is all lit up and my burlap snowman is happy and I’ve had at least 2 talks with the cats about staying away from the tree (which reminds me of this image that Karin Slaughter posted on Facebook yesterday- cat people will LOL!)

 

1. Deep South Magazine and their Literary Friday: Want to celebrate #literaryfriday? Pick a book to read off Deep South Magazine’s Fall/Winter Reads list or check out this review of The Orphan Mother. And be sure to mark your calendar for January 13th– Deep South Magazine Twitter chats will return with author Kimberly Belle (The Marriage Lie) that is sure to have chat attendee’s running to the library for this book!

 

2. All month long, the event #AMonthOfFaves2016 is happening. Created by Tanya at GirlXOXO and co-hosted by myself and Andi from Estella’s Revenge- it’s a fun month long of prompts to post about and reasons to check out other blogs! Here is the line-up and for your reading pleasure- A Few of My Fave Things and 5ish Popular Books That Were Worth The Hype. Continue reading →

#AMonthOfFaves2016: 5ish Popular Books Worth The Hype

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Hello! Today is the 2nd day of the month long #AMonthOfFaves2016 event! Tanya at GirlXOXO and Andi from Estella’s Revenge and I really enjoyed reading your posts about a few favorite things (here is my post about My Fave Things ICYMI!)

Today’s prompt:

Fri. | Dec. 2 – 5 Popular Books Worth the Hype #AMonthofFaves2016

For this prompt, I headed over to Goodreads to check out my 2016 shelf. Any guesses at what books I think were worth the hype in 2016? Continue reading →

Well-Played: The Ultimate Guide to Awakening Your Family’s Playful Spirit

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This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.

Well Played

Summary: From Today show contributor Meredith Sinclair comes this ultimate resource for awakening your playful spirit, jumpstarting your relationships, and upping your happiness quotient.

In our age of digital addiction, many of us have lost our ability to be spontaneous. More parents are complaining that they no longer even remember how to play…with their children, their spouse, and even with their own friends. Don’t fret! In Well Played, expert Meredith Sinclair helps readers relearn what used to come naturally and shows how to find happiness through play.

For children, playing comes naturally…or at least it used to. But today that kind of spontaneous fun is harder to come by, for both kids and their parents. With hectic lifestyles and constant technology overload, we have simply forgotten how to play. The solution? Relearn the art of integrating fun and creative play into our day-to-day lives.

Well Played will show you how to fit play into your overscheduled lives with plenty of original and entertaining ideas, including:

Why a disco ball is an essential kitchen appliance
Lip Sync Battle, family edition
Parent-child slumber parties…don’t forget the popcorn!
Party like it’s 1949 with old-school table games
12 dates that are way better than dinner and a movie
Stop helicopter parenting yourself—find things that thrill and slightly alarm you all at the same time!
Grown-up field trips to slap on your schedule
“Vino pong”—beer pong’s classier cousin

Packed with fun and engaging line drawings, Pinterest-worthy DIY projects, and hundreds of lists and tips on reintroducing play into your lives, Well Played is an indispensable guide for incorporating quality fun and playtime into our daily lives. Continue reading →

#FuturisticFriday Review: Crepe Factor by Laura Childs

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This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.

Crepe Factor

Summary: The Winter Market in the French Quarter is in full swing, but murder isn’t taking a holiday in the latest from the New York Times bestselling author of Parchment and Old Lace…
 
The holidays are a busy time for scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand—but not so hectic that she doesn’t have time to enjoy browsing the booths at the Winter Market with her best friend Ava. The last thing the ladies expect to see is a thrashing man stabbed by a serving fork, dying in front of them.

The victim is loathed restaurant critic Martin Lash, who posted his scathing reviews on the Glutton for Punishment website. And the prime suspect is New Orleans restauranteur Quigg Brevard—who was seen giving the critic a tongue-lashing minutes before someone stuck a fork in him. An old flame of Carmela, Quigg asks for her help, which does not please her current beau, Detective Edgar Babcock, to say the least.

Before her relationship is the next victim, Carmela needs to find a murderer who had no reservations about punishing the culinary curmudgeon… Continue reading →

#FuturisticFriday: When All The Girls Have Gone by Jayne Ann Krentz

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Photo Credit: Berkley, 11/29

This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.

When All The Girls Have Gone

Summary: Jayne Ann Krentz, the New York Times bestselling author of Secret Sisters, delivers a thrilling novel of the deceptions we hide behind, the passions we surrender to, and the lengths we’ll go to for the truth…

When Charlotte Sawyer is unable to contact her step-sister, Jocelyn, to tell her that one her closest friends was found dead, she discovers that Jocelyn has vanished.

Beautiful, brilliant—and reckless—Jocelyn has gone off the grid before, but never like this. In a desperate effort to find her, Charlotte joins forces with Max Cutler, a struggling PI who recently moved to Seattle after his previous career as a criminal profiler went down in flames—literally. Burned out, divorced and almost broke, Max needs the job.

After surviving a near-fatal attack, Charlotte and Max turn to Jocelyn’s closest friends, women in a Seattle-based online investment club, for answers. But what they find is chilling…

When her uneasy alliance with Max turns into a full-blown affair, Charlotte has no choice but to trust him with her life. For the shadows of Jocelyn’s past are threatening to consume her—and anyone else who gets in their way… Continue reading →

#FuturisticFriday review: Miracle on 5th Avenue by Sarah Morgan

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Photo Credit: Harlequin, 11/29

This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.

Miracle on 5th Avenue

Summary: It will take a Christmas miracle for two very different souls to find each other in this perfectly festive fairy tale of New York!

Hopeless romantic Eva Jordan loves everything about Christmas. She might be spending the holidays alone this year, but when she’s given an opportunity to house-sit a spectacular penthouse on Fifth Avenue, she leaps at the chance. What better place to celebrate than in snow-kissed Manhattan? What she didn’t expect was to find the penthouse still occupied by its gorgeous—and mysterious—owner.

Bestselling crime writer Lucas Blade is having the nightmare before Christmas. With a deadline and the anniversary of his wife’s death looming, he’s isolated himself in his penthouse with only his grief for company. He wants no interruptions, no decorations and he certainly doesn’t appreciate being distracted by his beautiful, bubbly new housekeeper. But when the blizzard of the century leaves Eva snowbound in his apartment, Lucas starts to open up to the magic she brings…This Christmas, is Lucas finally ready to trust that happily-ever-afters do exist? Continue reading →

A Wedding for Christmas by Lori Wilde

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This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.

A Wedding for Christmas

Summary: The whole town is ready for the holidays: The Cookie Club is baking, Main Street glitters with lights, the carolers sing . . .There’s even a Christmas wedding.

When bodyguard Ryder Southerland sees his best friend’s sister Katie at an L.A. Christmas party, he mistakes the slinky blonde for a celebrity stalker and tackles her. Then they tackle each other . . . at his place. The next morning, Katie’s gone, and Ryder tells himself it’s for the best. It isn’t. Now, one Christmas later, Ryder’s falling for the woman he’s been missing in the town he hasn’t missed at all . . .

Katie Cheek’s outgrown the romantic fantasies she had about Ryder when she was fifteen. Katie’s packed their hot night away in a box labeled “fling”—or tried to. But Twilight’s bad boy is the best man in her brother’s wedding. And up-close and personal, Ryder’s impossible to ignore. So Katie can either go into hiding—or surrender to Christmas magic. Continue reading →