Friday Finds #9

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This week’s Friday Find is The New Nancy Moser book, coming out in May (she says may amazon says June 1st). I found out about this one from the author herself as she was kind enough to email me back and agreed to answer some questions for my blog. So that interview will be coming up as well.

The year is 1845. Elizabeth Barrett is a published poet–and a virtual prisoner in her own home. Blind family loyalty ties her to a tyrannical father who forbids any of his children to marry. She has resigned herself to simply existing. That is, until the letter arrives… “I love your verses with all my heart,” writes Robert Browning, an admiring fellow poet. And as friendly correspondence gives way to something more, Elizabeth discovers that Robert’s love is not for her words alone. Could it be that God might grant her more than mere existence? And can she risk defying her father in pursuit of true happiness?
Nancy Moser has crafted a romantic, emotion-charged novel based on the true story of beloved poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Super Excited.

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I am happy joy joy happy right now. The UPS man was just here. And I had no idea what the UPS man was doing here. I had not ordered anything that I knew of. Well, he delivered me my very first book for my very first book tour! I am so excited. Hehe I don’t want to spill the beans on which book it is as the tour is not for a while yet. But I am very excited about it, and had to dance to show The Drummer that “see look look all my reading and they sent ME a book to review SEE SEE ahahaha!” I don’t think he understood it as much as he was supposed to. But, I am still happy. There is nothing like a brand new book, especially when it’s for a blog tour.

Booking Through Thursday:Worse?

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Which is worse?
Finding a book you love and then hating everything else you try by that author, or
Reading a completely disappointing book by an author that you love?
For me I think it is worse to read a disappointing book by an author that I love. Because you get so used to reading that author and loving all of their work. If you come up to a stinker your left going, Huh?! Or you’re left also wondering if the books you read before were actually that good or if you were just being biased. At least for me anyways, that’s how I feel.

Wicked Wednesday #3

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Wicked Wednesday a place to be wicked to other book readers and make them get those TBR piles growing. The concept is simple. Pick a book or two and tell s about them. If its one you read tell us what you liked. If its one you found tell us about that to. Than leave a comment to let us know where to find your Wicked Wednesday titles. Make sure to link back in your posts for other people to follow Wicked Wednesday.


I found this one while watching Kathie Lee and Hoda yesterday morning. I love them. Sometimes I think my insomnia keeps me awake just to see them. But this book looks interesting to me.

From Publishers Weekly: Birds do it, bees do it, but why do humans do it? In this wide-ranging look at the evolutionary reasons for sex, physiologist and evolutionary biologist Moalem says that it’s all about shuffling the gene pool and getting rid of any unwelcome guests, such as viruses, that may have latched onto human DNA. But why is one particular person attracted to another? Moalem relays the latest research showing that smell plays a very important role in attraction, and that even our genes may influence one’s smell, and thus a person’s desirability, to others. Scientists have found that women tend to be attracted to different types of men at different points in their ovulation cycles (dark and handsome hunks at their height; sensitive, care-giving types at other times). Moalem (Survival of the Sickest) whizzes through his discussion of homosexuality, neglecting angles that would have added to the book, but readers will find thought-provoking material in his chapter on differences in sexual anatomy and on how chromosomes and body parts aren’t always what we expect them to be. Moalem writes fluidly for the general reader, and when he necessarily goes into graphic detail, he does it gracefully. (May)
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Teaser Tuesday #10

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TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to: Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!Please avoid spoilers!
“We nodded at eachother in complete historical complicity. His hazel eyes caught mine. That look was an entire conversation itself…” pg 125 The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig

I know I cheated a little and did 2 1/2 but I felt it was more of a tease.


Musing Monday #9 Non Fiction

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This week’s post asks:
Do you read non-fiction regularly? Do you read it in a different way or place than you read fiction?
(question courtesy of Diane)

I do not read non fiction regularly. And when I do read it I don’t approach it any different than my fiction, unless it’s for a research project. Being a historian I do read non fiction but it’s not something I work into my general rotation. When I am doing a research project obviously I will pick books for that topic and generally pick it apart for what I need. If I am reading it just for pleasure, I pick whatever jumps out at me at the time.

Quotable Sunday #6

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Welcome to Quotable Sunday! I can’t wait to get around and read your quotes today. The rules of course are never changing but in case this is your first time joining in, I would like to welcome you and let you know the basics:~Post one or more of your favorite quotes on your blog in a post.~Come back here and link your post in the mister linky below(on http://www.juststopscreaming.com/ ).~Check back throughout the day and go read some awesome comments and leave some luv!


This week I have decided to pay hommage to one of my favorite Vampire’s. Spike! (and yes that is just a photo of James Marsters but its one of my fav’s)

Spike: Ahhhh, my head. I think I’m sobering up. It’s horrible. Ah… God… I wish I was dead.

Spike: What’s this? Sittin’ around watching the telly while there’s evil still afoot? It’s not very industrious of you. I say we go out there and kick a little demon ass! What, can’t go without your Buffy, is that it? Let’s find her! She is the chosen one, after all. Come on! Vampires! Grrr! Nasty! Let’s annihilate them, for justice, and for… the safety of puppies… and Christmas, right? Let’s fight that evil! Let’s kill something! Oh, come on!

Spike: Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What’s it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that’s the secret. Not the punch you didn’t throw or the kicks you didn’t land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.

Spike: So when do we destroy the world, already?

Spike: It’s a big rock. I can’t wait to tell my friends. They don’t have a rock this big.

Spike: You’re not friends. You’ll never be friends. You’ll be in love ’til it kills you both. You’ll fight, and you’ll shag, and you’ll hate each other ’til it makes you quiver, but you’ll never be friends. Real love isn’t brains, children. It’s blood. It’s blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love’s bitch, but at least I’m man enough to admit it.

Spike: I did a couple of slayers in my time. I don’t like to brag. Who am I kidding? I love to brag. One time, during the Boxer Rebellion…

Spike: If every vampire who said he was at the Crucifixion was actually there it would’ve been like Woodstock. I was at Woodstock. I fed off a flower person and I spent six hours watching my hand move.

(In response to being asked to fight a troll)
Spike: I would, but I’m paralyzed with not caring very much.

Book Review: The Lady of Milkweed Manor by Julie Klassen

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Even a proper vicar’s daughter can make a mistake…. and now Charlotte Lamb must pay a high price for her fall. To avoid the prying eyes of all who know her, she hides herself away in London’s forbidding “Milkweed Manor,” a place of mystery and lore, of old secrets and new birth.

But once there, she comes face-to-face with a suitor from her past-a man who now hides secrets of his own. Both are determined, with God’s help, to protect those they love. But neither can imagine the depth of sacrifice that will be required.

Sprinkled with fascinating details about the lives of women in Regency England, “Lady of Milkweed Manor” is a moving romantic drama about the redemption of past failings and the beauty of sacrificial love.

The story of Charlotte Lamb is a story that will pull at your heart strings. We come upon Charlotte when her Father and Sister have turned their back on her. Because she made the unfortunate mistake of getting pregnant. At the time of course that was the fastest way to ruin yourself, and so they shunned her and tossed her out to a lying in hospital. While Charlotte has to learn how to deal with things in a much different way, and constantly reminds herself of her sin, she does in the end make some friends.

The Lady of Milkweed Manor takes us through so many twists and turns in the story. We have beautiful highs and heart wrenching lows. From when Charlotte gives birth to her little babe, to finding that she needs to take the humiliating job of wet nurse, and excelling at it. This poor woman finds herself constantly sacrificing and constantly giving up her own chances, for the sake of others. She rarely asks why, and tends not to dwell on the negative, always pushing forward.

More than half way through I found myself wondering if Charlotte would ever have a happy ending. She is given the choice of one at one moment, but she doesn’t take it. You can not help but feel pulled to her and find yourself urging her to take something for her own benefit. The Lady of Milkweed Manor is written beautifully. Julie Klassen does a wonderful job, and you will find yourself reading the book from cover to cover without looking up to see how much time has passed. And while it may take a while to come to happen, this story does make you believe happy endings do happen.

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