"Alice at Heart" is a beautiful book by Deborah Smith. It is a book about a young woman that finds out she is a mermaid - to put it very simply. I kept reading the book thinking Pam would LOVE this book! It entwines mythology and fairy tale lore into to a beautiful story. Alice's philosophy is:
"Wish it - believe it and it will be so." I fell in love with Deborah Smith's writing because of the Mossy Creek books. I have read a couple of her novels and she has not disappointed me. As with all of the authors that I have started reading from the Mossy Creek books - I have become a big fan! I have just about decided that if I pick up a book published by 'Belle Books', I know I will like it!
I am not sure what possessed me to download
"The Little Lame Prince" onto my Kindle. I hadn't even thought of this book in decades! My daughter Pam asked on her reading blog for ideas of books that she has read in her past. This book popped into my head but it is a book from my past not hers. It is a children's book about a baby prince that is dropped at his christening and because of being dropped he is paralyzed. Then he is orphaned and his uncle steals his throne away! What a sad premise for a children's book! Naturally in the theme of
Little Lord Fauntleroy and
Pollyanna -he is wonderfully optimistic. For some bizarre reason I loved this book as a young girl. It is very old fashioned. I doubt anyone would want to read it now (except my daughter Carianne).
I know - another Mossy Creek book!
"At Home in Mossy Creek" was as wonderful as the others. I love these books!
"Take Two" was a free download on my Kindle. An interesting book. Not one I am interested in pursuing further though.
Why
"Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell? I was bored and I needed an actual book. I looked on my bookshelf and realized I had not read this book in probably 40+ years. I decided to read it and thoroughly enjoyed it. I loved this book as a young girl and read it frequently. By the time I hit Jr. High though, I doubt I ever picked it up again. It was a delightful read - very entertaining. There was one quite profound quote in the book.
"Do you know why the world is as bad as it is?...It is because people think only about their own business and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrongdoer to light.... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."
"The Forbidden" is the second book after
"The Parting". I am looking forward to the next book. The funny thing about these books was that I couldn't wait to share them with my daughter Carianne. She beat me to them! She is a Beverly Lewis fan and has been reading her books too! Not to worry, I have other daughters that will love her.
"The Parting" by Beverly Lewis was a book I bought while we were in Virginia. I bought it because I so enjoyed "The Shunning" which was a free download on my Kindle - also by Beveryly Lewis. I am finding I like the way she writes. It is in the 'Amish Genre' that Beverly Lewis writes so well. It was a good book I looked forward to the next one so, I bought it.
"Silver Borne" is the newest Mercy Thomspon book by Patricia Briggs. Heather called me weeks ago and said that I could download it onto my Kindle. I could download it but I couldn't read it until the 30th just like everyone else. It was as wonderful as the others! By the way - the cover does not have one thing to do with what I envision Mercy to look like - or anyone else that I talk too that is a fan of the books. In fact most of us that read the books would never read the books based on the cover!
"Alice at Heart" is a beautiful book by Deborah Smith. It is a book about a young woman that finds out she is a mermaid - to put it very simply. I kept reading the book thinking Pam would LOVE this book! It entwines mythology and fairy tale lore into to a beautiful story. Alice's philosophy is: "Wish it - believe it and it will be so." I fell in love with Deborah Smith's writing because of the Mossy Creek books. I have read a couple of her novels and she has not disappointed me. As with all of the authors that I have started reading from the Mossy Creek books - I have become a big fan! I have just about decided that if I pick up a book published by 'Belle Books', I know I will like it!
I am not sure what possessed me to download "The Little Lame Prince" onto my Kindle. I hadn't even thought of this book in decades! My daughter Pam asked on her reading blog for ideas of books that she has read in her past. This book popped into my head but it is a book from my past not hers. It is a children's book about a baby prince that is dropped at his christening and because of being dropped he is paralyzed. Then he is orphaned and his uncle steals his throne away! What a sad premise for a children's book! Naturally in the theme of Little Lord Fauntleroy and Pollyanna -he is wonderfully optimistic. For some bizarre reason I loved this book as a young girl. It is very old fashioned. I doubt anyone would want to read it now (except my daughter Carianne).
I know - another Mossy Creek book! "At Home in Mossy Creek" was as wonderful as the others. I love these books!
"Take Two" was a free download on my Kindle. An interesting book. Not one I am interested in pursuing further though.
Why "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell? I was bored and I needed an actual book. I looked on my bookshelf and realized I had not read this book in probably 40+ years. I decided to read it and thoroughly enjoyed it. I loved this book as a young girl and read it frequently. By the time I hit Jr. High though, I doubt I ever picked it up again. It was a delightful read - very entertaining. There was one quite profound quote in the book. "Do you know why the world is as bad as it is?...It is because people think only about their own business and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrongdoer to light.... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."
"The Forbidden" is the second book after "The Parting". I am looking forward to the next book. The funny thing about these books was that I couldn't wait to share them with my daughter Carianne. She beat me to them! She is a Beverly Lewis fan and has been reading her books too! Not to worry, I have other daughters that will love her.
"The Parting" by Beverly Lewis was a book I bought while we were in Virginia. I bought it because I so enjoyed "The Shunning" which was a free download on my Kindle - also by Beveryly Lewis. I am finding I like the way she writes. It is in the 'Amish Genre' that Beverly Lewis writes so well. It was a good book I looked forward to the next one so, I bought it.
"Silver Borne" is the newest Mercy Thomspon book by Patricia Briggs. Heather called me weeks ago and said that I could download it onto my Kindle. I could download it but I couldn't read it until the 30th just like everyone else. It was as wonderful as the others! By the way - the cover does not have one thing to do with what I envision Mercy to look like - or anyone else that I talk too that is a fan of the books. In fact most of us that read the books would never read the books based on the cover!
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