I have found a new author that I really like! Loree Lough has been around for awhile but I've just discovered her for myself. I just finished reading Beautiful Bandit. I really liked this one! This is the first book of hopefully many, that I'll be able to find of hers. I know there is at least one more in this series available because my librarian told me that she just brought Beautiful Bandit back yesterday when I went to the library and she was taking #2 home with her that night. Yeah for my awesome library! My librarian, who I am not on first base names with yet since we just moved, liked the book too.
In Beautiful Bandit Kate Wellington is held hostage during a bank robbery and made to look like part of the posse that did the robbing! She manages to escape but not before the ringleader does his damage on her. She is rescued in the middle of Texas by Joshua Neville who is on his way home from San Antonio, Texas where he not only sold some of his family's land but also witnessed the bank robbers leaving the bank! But he can't remember where he knows her from. So Kate makes up a fake name, Dinah, and goes home with Josh falling in love with him the whole way.
This story is about Kate and how she must learn to trust people again and God. She believes that he doesn't care about her anymore because of what she has gone through in her life. But we know that's not true. God cares about everyone big or small, robbers or innocents.
I liked this story because the way the author writes it just pulls you into the story. You feel like you're riding right beside Josh and Kate as they across the big state of Texas to get to the Neville ranch. You experience everything that the characters do. I love stories that do that! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and I'll let you know if #2 is as good as #1 was!
Tonight I'm going to start to read Head in the Clouds. It is by Karen Witemeyer. She also wrote A Tailor-Made Bride and To Win Her Heart . I've read A Tailor-Made Bride but haven't read To Win Her Heart yet. I'll have to add that to my list of books to look for at my library. For such a small town library my library sure is stocked up on great christian fiction books! I love that!
Friday, June 24, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Books I just finished reading.
Hi. Well it's finally time for me to tell you about some books I've been reading lately. I have discovered a new author, new to me any way. Lisa Wingate is who I have been reading lately. I just finished both "Talk of the Town" and the second book "Word Gets Around." I have to admit though, I did enjoy "Word Gets Around " more than "Talk of the Town." I was having a little bit of trouble getting into "Talk of the Town" for some reason. Maybe because my life got crazy and I kept getting interrupted while trying to read it. That's what happens when you have three little kids right?
Both books are set in Daily, Texas and involve some kind of media job involved with them. "Talk of the Town" is about an engaged woman, Mandalay, who works at American Megastar, which happens to be a lot like American Idol. She has the job of coming to Daily, Texas to set up a surprise concert for one of the top five American Megastar finalists, Amber, left on the show. It's supposed to be this big secret but you soon find out that everyone in town already knows what's going on. While there Mandalay meets a man, surprise! Things start to get crazy when the paparazzi arrive and pretty much take over the town. The book has some funny parts where Mandalay has to figure out how to get Amber into town and to the concert unnoticed. It was a good book overall. But like I said, it either lacked something or I just got interrupted too many times to hold my attention through the whole book.
Now on the other hand, "Word Gets Around" I really liked! But I did get to concentrate on this book more than the last. This book centers around a the same characters that were in the last book, which I appreciated a lot! I love when a book talks about someone and you know who they are. You feel like you've built up a history with that character. In this book it also features Amber but it focuses more on the actor, Justin Shay, that she is trying to help work out some issues and the actor's writer, Nate Heath. Okay. Pretty much this book centers on Nate and a horse trainer,Lauren, more than anything else. The actor is trying to get Justin Shay out of his self pity moods that he always seems to be in lately and get a big movie deal signed with a very well known director. Justin Shay has got all of the town's people so invested in the movie deal that if Nate and Lauren can't work together to make it actually happen a lot of people stand to lose everything they've worked so hard to achieve. Throughout the book both Nate and Lauren become attracted to each other but they first have to work through issues of their own before they can try to be together.
I liked this book. It, like "Talk of the Town" had some funny parts. Throughout both books the author, Lisa Wingate, adds insightful advice about how to grow in Christ and to get closer to God. She doesn't yell the message at you but adds it in subtle analogies, like the Pastor's message in "Word Gets Around." I think you'll enjoy both of these books. They are both worth making time to read.
Both books are set in Daily, Texas and involve some kind of media job involved with them. "Talk of the Town" is about an engaged woman, Mandalay, who works at American Megastar, which happens to be a lot like American Idol. She has the job of coming to Daily, Texas to set up a surprise concert for one of the top five American Megastar finalists, Amber, left on the show. It's supposed to be this big secret but you soon find out that everyone in town already knows what's going on. While there Mandalay meets a man, surprise! Things start to get crazy when the paparazzi arrive and pretty much take over the town. The book has some funny parts where Mandalay has to figure out how to get Amber into town and to the concert unnoticed. It was a good book overall. But like I said, it either lacked something or I just got interrupted too many times to hold my attention through the whole book.
Now on the other hand, "Word Gets Around" I really liked! But I did get to concentrate on this book more than the last. This book centers around a the same characters that were in the last book, which I appreciated a lot! I love when a book talks about someone and you know who they are. You feel like you've built up a history with that character. In this book it also features Amber but it focuses more on the actor, Justin Shay, that she is trying to help work out some issues and the actor's writer, Nate Heath. Okay. Pretty much this book centers on Nate and a horse trainer,Lauren, more than anything else. The actor is trying to get Justin Shay out of his self pity moods that he always seems to be in lately and get a big movie deal signed with a very well known director. Justin Shay has got all of the town's people so invested in the movie deal that if Nate and Lauren can't work together to make it actually happen a lot of people stand to lose everything they've worked so hard to achieve. Throughout the book both Nate and Lauren become attracted to each other but they first have to work through issues of their own before they can try to be together.
I liked this book. It, like "Talk of the Town" had some funny parts. Throughout both books the author, Lisa Wingate, adds insightful advice about how to grow in Christ and to get closer to God. She doesn't yell the message at you but adds it in subtle analogies, like the Pastor's message in "Word Gets Around." I think you'll enjoy both of these books. They are both worth making time to read.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Starting Out!
Hi! I have been wanting to start a blog for a long time now and finally decided to just do it. The way I figure it there are blogs for all sorts of different areas of life so why not one for Christian books? Before I get too gung-ho about all of the hundreds of books that I have read in my lifetime, I want anyone who might be reading this to know that most of the books that I read are Christian romance fiction. There's just something about that genera that I really enjoy. I do occasionally read Christian non-fiction books but most of my pleasure reading, which I'll mainly be focusing on in this blog, will be the Christian fiction.
So moving on here is a little about me. I am a 27 year old who loves to read! I've always loved to read. In middle school and high school my parents thought there was something wrong with me because I'd come home from school, go up to my room, read until dinner, and then after dinner go back up to my room and keep reading! I can't get enough of it!
I am a Christian that is why I love to read Christian fiction. I asked Christ into my heart when I was 7 years old. Almost 20 years from the day that I am typing this = ) My Mom, also a lover of Christian books-she brought me up well, explained to me that I was a sinner and I needed Christ in my life to take away all of my sin. She also explained the importance of Jesus dying on the cross to take away my sins so that I can live with him in eternity when he calls me home. I like the fact that each Christian book I have ever read, whether fiction or not always has some message in it. Whether it is the plan of salvage or a message about how to find your way back to Christ after a trial. The books always have something that pertains to your day to day walk with Christ that you can take with you and use to grow as a Christian.
I love the romance fictions books the best because of the different plots that all of the authors think up! It is amazing how many different ways an author can have their characters fall in love! It never gets old! The thing I like the most about Christian romance books is the fact that I know I'll never have to be too careful about what is IN the book. There won't be any sex scenes or swearing to be found in these books! It makes for much more enjoyable reading that way.
Well enough about me. I just wanted to get an introduction in here and I hope to be able to post at least once a week, if not more than that to give you a heads up about books that are super good finds for you to scope out for yourself! But you'll never have to worry about one thing. I'll never give away the ending = ) I hope you'll enjoy the books that I post on here as much as I have.
So moving on here is a little about me. I am a 27 year old who loves to read! I've always loved to read. In middle school and high school my parents thought there was something wrong with me because I'd come home from school, go up to my room, read until dinner, and then after dinner go back up to my room and keep reading! I can't get enough of it!
I am a Christian that is why I love to read Christian fiction. I asked Christ into my heart when I was 7 years old. Almost 20 years from the day that I am typing this = ) My Mom, also a lover of Christian books-she brought me up well, explained to me that I was a sinner and I needed Christ in my life to take away all of my sin. She also explained the importance of Jesus dying on the cross to take away my sins so that I can live with him in eternity when he calls me home. I like the fact that each Christian book I have ever read, whether fiction or not always has some message in it. Whether it is the plan of salvage or a message about how to find your way back to Christ after a trial. The books always have something that pertains to your day to day walk with Christ that you can take with you and use to grow as a Christian.
I love the romance fictions books the best because of the different plots that all of the authors think up! It is amazing how many different ways an author can have their characters fall in love! It never gets old! The thing I like the most about Christian romance books is the fact that I know I'll never have to be too careful about what is IN the book. There won't be any sex scenes or swearing to be found in these books! It makes for much more enjoyable reading that way.
Well enough about me. I just wanted to get an introduction in here and I hope to be able to post at least once a week, if not more than that to give you a heads up about books that are super good finds for you to scope out for yourself! But you'll never have to worry about one thing. I'll never give away the ending = ) I hope you'll enjoy the books that I post on here as much as I have.
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