At Home Is it Friday already? Well, I'm not sure where, exactly, the week has gone, but I'm glad it's a three day weekend. Even if I'm up to my knees preparing for the summer and our vacation. I did so much laundry this week to wash a ton of new clothes we've gotten for … Continue reading The Lily Cafe Weekly Highlights – May 26, 2023
Title: The Wishing Game Author: Meg Shaffer Publisher: Ballantine Publication date: May 30, 2023 Genre: Women's Fiction One Sentence Summary: When Lucy gets the chance to be in the running to receive the sole copy of the next book in a children's series, she sees the chance to make her dreams, and those of the orphaned … Continue reading Book Review: The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
At Home This past week has actually been quite uninteresting. We're starting to get ready for summer vacation and our first family vacation ever in July, so lots of prep work (mostly buying clothes) has been going on. My son isn't really interested in buying clothes, but my daughter is in rainbow unicorn heaven. Her … Continue reading The Lily Cafe Weekly Highlights – May 19, 2023
Title: Annie's Apple (Second Chance #2) Author: John A. Heldt Publisher: Self-published Publication date: April 1, 2023 Genre: Historical Fiction, Family Saga One Sentence Summary: A few years after the events of The Fountain finds the growing Carpenter family in NYC with Annie taking a job as a society writer after surviving one of the city's … Continue reading Book Review: Annie’s Apple by John A. Heldt
At Home Where the last couple of weeks were full of errands and other not fun things (with a few fun things mixed in, of course), this past week has kind of felt like a massive social call. We spent Saturday at Disneyland with another family, which could have gone horribly wrong, but ended up … Continue reading The Lily Cafe Weekly Highlights – May 12, 2023
At Home I thought last week was a bit nutty, but turns out even that could be beat. I have both been more absent from this blog than I had planned and literally absent from my home as nearly every day has had errands that needed to be run. And the one day that didn't? … Continue reading The Lily Cafe Weekly Highlights – May 5, 2023
At Home For so many reasons, I'm glad it's Friday. It's been a very long week, though much of it has been for planning for stuff going on next week. I like planning, but this has felt a little like overkill with everything that's been going on. I had meant to start responding to comments, … Continue reading The Lily Cafe Weekly Highlights – April 28, 2023
Title: Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust (Deep Dish Mystery #2) Author: Mindy Quigley Publisher: St. Martin's Publication date: April 25, 2023 Genre: Cozy Mystery One Sentence Summary: Pizzeria owner Delilah is hoping the upcoming "Taste of Wisconsin" culinary contest will help keep her restaurant afloat, but when a customer at the juice bar her ex's … Continue reading Book Review: Ashes to Ashes, Crust to Crust by Mindy Quigley
Title: Merry Arlan: Finding The Heir (Guardian Cadet Series #2) Author: Will Soulsby-McCreath Publisher: nopoodles everything books Publication date: March 14, 2023 Genre: Fantasy One Sentence Summary: After the events of the first book, Merry finds herself part of a team to bring former Lackey Nathaniel Larrings to the Elven Court for trial, where the Queen … Continue reading Book Review: Merry Arlan: Finding The Heir by Will Soulsby-McCreath
Title: The Bone Shard War (Drowning Empire #3) Author: Andrea Stewart Publisher: Orbit Publication date: April 18, 2023 Genre: Fantasy One Sentence Summary: Two years after the events of the second book finds Phalue traveling with Lin as she seeks to obtain swords than can kill an Alanga while Ranami deals with the Shardless Few, Nisong … Continue reading Book Review: The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart
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