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    Review: A Ballad of Love and Glory by Reyna Grande

    by Joli March 10, 2022
    by Joli March 10, 2022

    What an epic story A Ballad of Love and Glory is! I’m glad I was able to read an Advanced Reader’s Copy of this one. Read on for my full review! The Synopsis A forgotten war. An unforgettable romance. The…

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    Book Review: The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin

    by Becky February 18, 2022
    by Becky February 18, 2022

    The Summary August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler’s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and drawn curtains that she finds on her arrival are not what she…

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    Review: The Painted Castle

    by Becky October 25, 2019
    by Becky October 25, 2019

    Story: The final book in Kristy Cambron’s Lost Castle trilogy centers around a painting of Queen Victoria. In The Painted Castle, Keira Foley – sister to Quinn and Cormac of The Lost Castle and Castle on the Rise – is asked to authenticate a rare painting…

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    Review: Castle on the Rise

    by Becky April 25, 2019
    by Becky April 25, 2019

    Story: As the second title in author Kristy Cambron‘s Lost Castle Novel series, Castle on the Rise follows a similar construction to its predecessor, The Lost Castle. Three strong women are connected over generations by the ruins of a castle on the…

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    Review: The Lost Girls of Paris

    by Becky February 4, 2019
    by Becky February 4, 2019

    Story: As World War II is ramping up, the British military is working hard to sabotage German efforts in and around France in advance of the Allied invasion. As a member of the Special Operations Executive, Eleanor Trigg is the…

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    Review: Atlas of WWII

    by Becky December 7, 2018
    by Becky December 7, 2018

    Today, on the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, I have an excellent resource for those of us interested in learning more about WWII. I recently reviewed National Geographic’s Visual Atlas of the World, and while the topic of…

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    Book Review: The Fox Hunt

    by Caleigh April 17, 2018
    by Caleigh April 17, 2018

    First of all, I have to say thank you to Joli for choosing me to review The Fox Hunt, by Mohammed Al Samawi. So many of my passions and “bookish interests” came together and made reading Mohammed’s book a privilege.…

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    Review: The Lost Castle

    by Becky February 6, 2018
    by Becky February 6, 2018

    Story: The Lost Castle by Kristy Cambron is the tale of one castle’s impact on three women from very different generations. From the French Revolution we meet Aveline who is set to marry and become duchess of the castle until the…

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    Review: Goodnight from London

    by Amber August 3, 2017
    by Amber August 3, 2017

    I have been obsessively following along with Booksparks’ Summer Reading Challenge (#SRC17) and for participating in one of their weekly contests, I won a book! The book was Goodnight from London by Jennifer Robson. I was excited about this one…

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    Review: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

    by Becky June 30, 2017
    by Becky June 30, 2017

    Why: Joli put this book in my line of vision and, as she predicted, I jumped at the chance to read another wartime novel. Just when I think I’ve read all the different views or spins one can take, an author produces…

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Little free library jackpot 🪙! Somebody is going to love finding The Candid Life of Meena Dave in my LFL 😄. I enjoyed this one! It was a light read with some real depth of characters and feelings. These kinds of books always seem to get a little too cute towards the end, and this one did too...but I expect that now and just enjoy them anyway 🤷‍♀️. Did you read this one? Thoughts?

In other news, my LFL now has bookmarks, pencils, patriotic erasers, and temporary tattoos 🤩. It's so fun to delight some kiddos!

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When it's a bazillion degrees outside, you wait til the sun goes down to read outside. And then still sweat 😂. Loving this forthcoming @kevinwilsonauthor book so far! Having a hard time putting it down 🤩.

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I should definitely leave on vacation and come back to #bookmail more often 😜. More on these to come!

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As far as bookstore locations go, this one's got to be one of the very best 😍🌊. @drurylanebooks you are amazing!

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We are currently at the cabin on Lake Superior! We've been working here for the week, but tomorrow my husband and I are both off work to take our daughter up to Grand Marais. We're kind of thankful for "nature's AC" (Lake Superior)...the highs for the next 3 days there are in the 60s! And it's getting hot everywhere else in the state. So although we won't be wading in the lake, it'll be beautiful for walking around. Hopefully our next trip up will feature reading in the hammock 😊.

Is it getting hot where you are? Do you love the heat or not so much? I'm in the not so much camp, hence living in Minnesota 😄

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I interrupt our normal feed of nice book pictures to tell you two BIG things!

1. I made a very extensive list of the best books set in Ireland. I dare you to scroll through without expanding your TBR by at least 5. Link in bio.

2. See that pretty purple mauve color? I'm excited to tell you that LQ glowed up today 🤩 and that's our new logo color! I loved that sweet pastel pink when I created LQ back in 2016, but my tastes have changed over the last 6 years. So, it was time! You'll now find the mauve color, plus a darker blue and a lighter blue for accents on the site. I hope you like it as much as I do 😊.

Thanks for being here with us on this wild book blog ride!

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💕 #10ivereadandloved challenge 💕

Apparently I have a tendency to like blue books 🤔🤷‍♀️

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☆ Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
☆ Ways the World Could End
☆ A Piece of the World
☆ Nothing to See Here
☆ The Seed Keeper
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☆ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 
☆ Outlander

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The Physicists' Daughter was published this week, and my fellow WWII fiction lovers will love the intriguing home front tale! Strong female characters anchor this mystery story and remind us of the strength of women working together. - Becky

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Justine is proud to be an outsider, raised by her late physicist parents to think outside the box. She’s a welder and a scientist at heart, even if right now all she can do is work in a monotonous assembly line at an Allied factory in New Orleans – until mysterious, frequent machinery failures put the lives of her coworkers and the entire war effort at risk. Justine doesn’t know what she helps construct in that factory. She doesn’t know who can be trusted, including her unpleasant boss, her colleagues, and the two charming men vying for her attention. But she does know she must expose and thwart the Axis saboteur to prove her worth, honor her parents’ legacies…and save her country.

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