Friday Favorite

Editors Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wednesday Letters and The Cross Gardener, a story of small kindnesses-and life- changing miracles. 

Seventeen seconds can change a life forever. This is what Rex Connor learned on a gorgeous summer afternoon in 1970 when he diverted his gaze for seventeen seconds and tragedy occurred. Forty years later the waves of that day still ripple through the lives of countless people, including his son, Cole.

Cole Connor is a patient teacher, and now he has invited three struggling teenagers to visit him to learn about Rex Connor-and the Seventeen Second Miracle. Together they will learn how Rex Connor could have allowed seventeen seconds to destroy him, but instead he chose to live every day believing the smallest acts of kindness could change the world. Cole's students come to understand miracles can happen-but you must participate in them. A seventeen second miracle can change a life-if you let it.

My Review: ♥♥♥♥ Random Acts of Kindness!!! I just keep thinking about ways to spread the lessons I learned from this book. Can you hold the door for a stranger? Can you smile to another? Can you carry shopping bags for someone else? Give a hug or a kind word to another? It can be so easy... and it can change a life. 

You really never know who you might touch and it doesn't have to take hours or days. I really liked this book. I definitely recommend this book to anyone and everyone. Take the lessons from this book and use them to change a life even if that life is yours. Come on count with me... 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17... wow that didn't take long. Go grab this book and go change a life!  

Apologies!!!

I'm sorry its been a while since my last blog. I've had lots of studies to do... Finals ya know! Thank goodness they're over for the semester. Soooo any who, TGIF!!! Well almost. I have to work tonight, but not the weekend. So lots of time for reading... what's on my shelf to read???

Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
Kisses from Hell - Kristin Cast, Alyson Noel, Kelley Armstrong, Richelle Mead, and several others.
Round Robin by Jennifer Chiaverini

Lots to read this weekend. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

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A Great Tuscany Adventure

From the Editor: Lisa Tawn Bergren’s new YA series, River of Time, is romantic, historical fiction in which the plucky heroine doesn’t have to fear a vampire’s bite but must still fight for her life.

In Book One, American teenager Gabi Betarrini accidently finds herself in sixteenth-century Italy . . . Knights. Swords. Horses. Armor. And Italian hotties.

Most American teens want an Italian vacation, but the Bentarrini sisters have spent every summer of their lives there with their archeologist parents. Stuck on yet another hot, dusty dig, they are bored out of their minds… until they place their hands atop handprints in an ancient tomb and find themselves in the sixteenth-century—and in the middle of a fierce battle between knights bent on killing one another.

My Review:  I spent all day yesterday listening to this book on CD. What an amazing adventure... time travel back with Gabi and Leah to ancient Italy. The history and fiction of this book blend so well together that you're gripped in awesome drama from the very instant the book starts. Gabi's 17 and she's spent most of her life near archeological digs and absorbing the history first hand whether she intends on learning it or not. Leah is a couple of years younger, she's artistic, a great archer and a little to trusting. Gabi talks Leah into getting a sneak peak at one of the tombs her mother is working on. Inside that tomb on the wall are two hand prints... of course Gabi can't resist touching the one that fit her hand and then talks Leah into touching the other. When both girls touch the prints at the same time they're sent back in time to sixteenth-century Italy. 

There they encounter to different feuding families and are caught up in a battle of a lifetime for land, fortune and for Gabi LOVE. 

This is the first book in the River's of Time series. The next book Cascade is due for release in June ... I totally can't wait for its release. I want to read it NOW...LOL. I'm giving this book ♥♥♥♥ out of 5. Its absolutely one I'd recommend if you want to get away for a nice trip back in time!

YA Saturday Special

Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann


From the Editor: Kendall loves her life in small town Cryer's Cross, Montana, but she also longs for something more. She knows the chances of going to school in New York are small, but she's not the type to give up easily. Even though it will mean leaving Nico, the world's sweetest boyfriend, behind.

But when Cryer's Cross is rocked by unspeakable tragedy, Kendall shoves her dreams aside and focuses on just one goal: help find her missing friends. Even if it means spending time with the one boy she shouldn't get close to... the one boy who makes her question everything she feels for Nico.

Determined to help and to stay true to the boy she's always loved, Kendall keeps up the search—and stumbles upon some frightening local history. She knows she can't stop digging, but Kendall is about to find out just how far the townspeople will go to keep their secrets buried....

My Review:  Although the book kept me wanting to read the next page and the next page to get to the end of the mystery, I was left with the question ... REALLY? I read this book WHY? Don't get me wrong the writing is good, the though behind it is strong, it just left me with .... I don't know (issues). I had heard and read mixed reviews on this book to begin with. Now I just can't believe I read it. I'll give this book ♥♥♥, only because it kept me reading, captured my attention. Generally I'm not a tough reviewer, this book just wasn't what I thought it was going to be. 

From My Shelf

Morning Fellow Readers,


Tough week so far and its not over yet!!! I am excited to say I finished another book... WoooHooo! 


I honestly thought I'd read it over a year ago, only to discover that wasn't the case. "Hunting Ground" by Patricia Brigg's has been sitting on my shelf since I made the purchase. Waiting so patiently for me to pick it up and dive in. I did!!! I ♥ the Alpha and Omega series, which to me is just an extension of Mercy Thompson's world. This is the second book in the Alpha and Omega Series. One of my favorite worlds to escape into, this book gave me a way to let the stresses of the day just disappear with each word I read.  I give this one ♥♥♥♥.


From The Editors: Anne Latham didn't know how complicated life could be until she became a werewolf. And until she was mated to Charles Cornick, the son—and enforcer—of Bran, the leader of the North American werewolves, she didn't know how dangerous it could be either...

Anna and Charles have just been enlisted to attend a summit to present Bran's controversial proposition: that the wolves should finally reveal themselves to humans. But the most feared Alpha in Europe is dead set against the plan—and it seems like someone else might be, too. When Anna is attacked by vampires using pack magic, the kind of power only werewolves should be able to draw on, Charles and Anna must combine their talents to hunt down whoever is behind it all—or risk losing everything...

Off to read "Cryer's Cross" by Lisa McMann. 

From the Editor: Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two teenagers go missing within months of each other, with no explanation.

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