Katie – Fiction Aficionado
Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. Jennifer Rodewald is one of my favourite contemporary romance writers, so I look forward to any book she releases, but I have to tell you, When I Lost My Way quickly shot to my list of favourites. I will have my full review up closer to release, but for now, here’s a preview: It presents such a rich, panoramic view of the love between a man and a woman, from the heady mix of euphoria and uncertainty that comes with instant mutual attraction right through to the deliberate, purposeful, unconditional love that weathers disappointments and rides out the tough stuff.
It’s up for pre-order now and releases 26 May, so don’t miss out!
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A HEARTLESS NORMAN
Chevalier Maël D’Argent lost more than his striking looks when he aided the Duke of Normandy in taking the English throne from King Harold. As much by his own actions at the Battle of Hastings as those of the enemy, he lost his sire and his honor in breaking faith with his family. Believing himself unworthy of forgiveness, his ruined face the least due him, Maël now serves a ruthless man bent on subduing Saxons resistant to Norman rule. But when his mission to safeguard King William’s dignity leads to the rescue of a curiously familiar Saxon woman who causes the empty place inside him to strain its seams, he discovers he may not be as heartless as the one he serves—nor resistant to the wiles of one he ought to count an enemy.
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Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt originally had me stumped. Things I’d Have at My Bookish Party. You’d think that at this time in our lives—a time when we’re all fondly remember that thing we used to call “being social”—I’d be extra keen to dream up a bookish party, but I just wasn’t feeling it today…until I started thinking about which characters I would invite to a bookish party.
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Celebrity chef Maxwell Cavanagh is known for many things: his multiple Michelin stars, his top-rated Culinary Channel show To the Max, and most of all his horrible temper. Hadley Beckett, host of the Culinary Channel’s other top-rated show, At Home with Hadley, is beloved for her Southern charm and for making her viewers feel like family.
When Max experiences a very public temper tantrum, he’s sent packing to get his life in order. When he returns, career in shambles, his only chance to get back on TV and in the public’s good graces is to work alongside Hadley.
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Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. If you don’t know how much I love Tamara Leigh’s medieval romances, then you haven’t been hanging around here long enough. Lol! HEARTLESS, Book four in her Age of Conquest series, released a little over a week ago, and I’m taking the opportunity to read it for the second time! Some of you may remember I received a very special early copy when Tamara visited Australia earlier this year (back when we were actually allowed to travel!), but I now have a Kindle copy as well so that I can highlight all my favourite parts. ❤️️ Anyone else have their favourite books in more than one format?
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When the tribal elders make marriage a requirement for claiming her land, Milcah bat Zelophehad must find a betrothed straightaway. The only problem in finding a husband is that all her suitors were slain while conquering the land of Canaan. Men avoid her in order to stay alive.
After praying to God to send her a bold suitor, a man from her father’s clan plummets from a tree right on top of her. Is this God answering prayer, or a foolish antic by Eli, the war-scarred brother from one of her clan’s rival families.
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Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt is technically Books I Wish I Had Read as a Child, but I’ve just given it a slight twist and made my post about Children’s Classics I Missed in my Childhood. When I thought about some of the books I would include in my list, I found I didn’t necessarily wish I had read them in my childhood, sometimes because I think I had a much greater appreciation for the story when discovering it as an adult, and sometimes because I’ve enjoyed discovering these classics alongside my own children. In fact, I’m still waiting to discover some of these!
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It Doesn’t Have to Be This Weird
When it comes to relationships between men and women, we have more questions than answers:
How do we keep relationships with the opposite sex healthy—and still hug each other after small group?
Is it possible for married men and women to be friends with people of the opposite sex?
What does it mean to be a woman if you’re not a wife, or a man if you’re not a husband?
Jesus’ pattern for church living was one of family—of brothers and sisters living in intimate, life-giving community with each other…
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