December 31, 2014

Looking Back at Books 2014: Overall

We've reached the last day of 2014.  It's hard to believe and so I have been doing a little looking back and counting all my book blessings!

Reading Challenges:
I completed all the challenges I set this year.  I didn't always remember to link up reviews where and when they could have been, but I was satisfied with my organisation, and have a plan or two to help me be even more organised with 2015 ones.  I know challenges aren't for everyone but while I enjoy being involved I will continue with them.


  1. TBR Pile Reading Challenge                        Completed October 2014
  2. The Eclectic Reader Challenge                     Completed December 2014
  3. Read It Again Sam Challenge                       Completed December 21st 2014
  4. I Love Library Books Reading Challenge     Completed May 2014
  5. Full House Reading Challenge                      Completed September 2014
  6. EBook Reading Challenge                            Completed December 24th 2014
  7. 2014 Audiobook Challenge                           Completed  August 2014
  8. The Prequel and Sequel Reading Challenge        Completed August 2014
  9. The Romance Reading Challenge 2014         Completed November 2014
  10. 2014 NetGalley Reading Challenge               Completed
  11. Goodreads Reading Challenge                       Completed
  12. Reading Challenge Addicts                            Completed on 24th December.
My biggest challenge was the rereading challenge and I won't be doing a reread challenge in 2015. Maybe in 2016! There are books I want to reread, but then..... I want to clear some of the books in my TBR piles.

I also hosted the Full House 2014 reading challenge and this will continue for 2015.  Thanks to all those who joined in.

Loved being part of:
I found this challenge very motivating.  I was very faithful for ten months of the year.  November and December saw me slip a little as end of year responsibilities and then tiredness overtook me.  But I am back to it now and have signed up for FitReaders 2015 - the newer version of this challenge.

Holiday Cards
I also participated in the exchange of holiday greeting cards and linked up with someone from the Netherlands, India and the USA.  It was a wonderful experience and I will certainly do this again, although I'll be more prepared this time.  I wasn't quite sure what it exactly looked like, but thanks to three wonderful book bloggers I now have more of a handle on it. I feel I didn't do such a good job... but next time moving onwards and upwards!  One book already taken out of the library that came as a recommendation and finding another blog with similar reading tastes was an added bonus. Thanks book bloggers and thanks to the organisers  Judith and Courtney.

Book Bloggers
I enjoyed interacting with more bloggers in 2014, I thank each and every one of you for including me in this world and for your many book recommendations.  I can't read all the books, but some I have moved to higher priority and some I have pursued and read.  


Stats - pic from Goodreads
Book Stats 2014


I read at least twenty three books by Australian authors in 2014 and nine by New Zealand authors. (Nalini Singh helped raise that total, hope I can count her as an NZer!)  In total 157 books and 47 723 pages.

Five of my top books
The Glass Kitchen.  Linda Francis Lee
No River Too Wide. Emilie Richards
Heroes Are My Weakness Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Do or Die. Suzanne Brockmann


There were more and I keep changing my mind, so much great reading in 2014.

Best of audiobooks
The Rosie Project. Graeme Simsion
The Husband's Secret.  Liane Moriarty
What Alice Forgot.  Liane Moriarty
Breathing Room.   Susan Elizabeth Phillips



Surprise Books of the Year
The Promise of Jenny Jones
Really enjoyed The Promise of Jenny Jones.  Wonderful western romance, published in 1997.

An amazing 5 star read, Seldom Come By, all thanks to Sheree over at The Eclectic Reader highlighting this book.


Kleenex Awards
The Promise of Jenny Jones
Seldom Come By

Disappointing - Not for me books
Happily Ever After - Elizabeth Maxwell
Better Than Chocolate - Sheila Roberts
Rock Addiction - Nalini Singh


I wanted to like these books but for various reasons they just didn't float my reading boat.

Next Year I am looking forward to:
Books by favourite authors:

  • Marie Force                       Fatal Scandal and all her other books out in 2015
  • Catherine Anderson           Silver Thaw  
  • Kristin Hannah                   The Nightingale
  • Robyn Carr                         One Wish
  • Sarah Addison Allen          First Frost
  • Emily March                      Teardrop Lane
  • Susan Mallery                    The Girls of Mischief Bay
  • Emilie Richards                 The Color of Light - next one in her Goddess series
  • Nalini Singh                      Next ones in her paranormal series
  • Lisa Kleypas                      Brown Eyed Girl  #4 in Travis Family series
  • Jill Shalvis                         Still The One - Animal Magnetism #6
  • Wendy Wax                      A Week at the Lake
That's to name but a few.  Other authors I am expecting a new book from, but not quite sure what they are publishing exactly in 2015.


December 30, 2014

Treading Water. Marie Force

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Treading Water
Marie Force
Publisher: HTJB Inc
Date: 2011
Format: Kindle
Pages: 370
Genre: Contemporary romance
Source: Own book

Love is the last thing on Jack Harrington’s mind when he sets out to meet Andi Walsh’s flight. Recently back to work after spending more than a year tending to his comatose wife, Jack is focused on getting through each day and caring for his three daughters. However, the moment he sets eyes on Andrea Walsh, the interior designer who has come to decorate the hotel his company is building in Newport, Rhode Island, Jack begins to wonder if Andi might be his second chance.

After a disastrous marriage, Andi, single mom to a hearing-impaired son, isn’t exactly looking for love, either, but that’s what she finds with Jack. The two embark on a long-distance relationship fraught with challenges as they balance the needs of their children and dueling careers while Jack continues to care for his wife, Clare. Just when Jack thinks his life is once again settled, he is confronted with a new challenge that tests him in ways he never could've imagined, leaving him to wonder if "happily ever after" is in the cards for him.
My thoughts
At the moment I am taking part in thee COYER challenge - Clean out your E-reads.  As this book has been on my Kindle for over a year and cost me nothing it was a high contender because anything written by Marie Force is a sure winner with me.  There is however one problem, this book is going to lead me into clogging up my E-reader, because there are three more in this series and I am just going to want to read them all. I know it!

As I readied myself to read this book I noticed a note from Marie Force saying this was her first ever novel written, and so carries a very special place in her heart.  Treading Water was published in 2011 and in those three years she has become an author machine with runaway series that have grabbed the world over. I first caught up with her by reading some of the Gansett series, although it is her Fatal series that I most love.

Treading Water is a wonderful read.  I loved all the characters, the setting and the plot.  Jack has three girls - two teenagers and one nearing that age.  He is dealing with an accident where is wife is severely injured and not expected to live. However he fights for her, cares for her and when it looks like there will never be any improvement manages to take up his life again, care for his girls and unexpectedly finds the love of another woman and in doing so gains a 'son' Eric who adores him.

Andrea or Andi is a beautiful woman, inside and out.  She manages her Eric wonderfully well and is a great mom.  When she finds love with Jack she finds herself on a journey that may bring her many blessings but ultimately if may bring heartbreak.  I wasn't so prepared to like Clare - Jack's wife, but her side of the story is deftly developed and I fell for her too.

The three girls, Jill, Kate and Maggie, along with Eric are very much part of this story. As is Frannie - Jack's sister and Jamie his business partner.  Together they all give a family feel to this story. I smiled, I worried, I cried as I went on that journey with them.  

Readers of contemporary romance - this book is for you.  At this moment of writing this book is still $0 over on Amazon!  Feel like clogging up your e-reader anyone!
4 stars

The Reading Addict Challenge 2015

Reading Challenge Addict
I am taking part in the Reading Addict Challenge again for 2015.  If anything I have become a far worse addict, but in my defense I did complete all my challenges in 2014 and if I ever tire of them, well I can step back. (Yeah! Right!)

I am signing up at the 16+ level  "Out of This World".

Here are the year long ones I have signed up for. I am doing a few shorter ones as well.

The Eclectic Reader Challenge 2015

The Official TBR Challenge 2015

Alphabet Soup Challenge  Completed October 2015

New To You Reading Challenge Completed

NetGalley Reading Challenge   Completed August.

2015 Library Challenge

Aussie Author Challenge 2015

2015 Reading Assignment Challenge

2015 Audiobook Challenge    Completed in September

The Color Coded Reading Challenge 2015   Completed

The Prequel and Sequel Reading Challenge 2015

2015 Bookish Resolutions Challenge   Got lost on the way - not completing.

Women's Fiction Reading Challenge 2015  Completed November 2015

Full House Reading Challenge 2015   Completed October 2015

Goodreads Challenge of number of books    Completed.
Wait till New Year to sign up for.

Australian Women Writer's Reading Challenge 2015  Completed November


Lost in Translation Reading Challenge     Completed


2015 Book Blog Discussions Challenge   Didn't complete
Bites nails!

Authors A - Z Reading Challenge



2015 Books in Translation Reading Challenge

Books in Translation Reading Challenge hosted at The Introverted Reader
Image courtesy of hywards at FreeDigitalPhotos.net
This challenge is being hosted by The Introverted Reader.   Normally I don't read books translated from one language to another but I have one suggested to me by a reader from the Netherlands so I thought I might go into this challenge at the Beginner 1 - 3 level.

If you would like to know more about this challenge head on over to The Introverted Reader to gather the details.

1.  Bride Flight.   Marieke van der Pol
2.  The Little Paris Bookshop  Nina George

2015 Book Blog Discussions

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As you can see on the banner above this is hosted by Feed Your Fiction Addiction and It Starts at Midnight.

This time its not so much about reading as writing discussion posts and adding your twopence to discussions going on.  Now first of all I love the banner, so cute. So I have gone back and forth for a number of days considering this as I don't know if I have any 'discussion' topics much in me.  However I would like to get my little toes slightly wet on this one.  Head over to Feed Your Fiction Addiction blog to get the details.  Discussions are in regard to books or book blogging - no off topic discussions.

I am going in at Level 1 - Discussion Dabbler.  1 - 12 discussions.  Surely I can manage one, but if I achieve say 4 or 5 I'd be very delighted.


2015 Authors A-Z Reading Challenge

2015 Authors A-Z Reading Challenge

This Challenge is hosted over Samantha Lin. I thought I'd give it a go after some thinking and research.  There are not many authors out there with a surname starting with U.  Hardest letter as well as X of course, but even that had a possibility.  Eventually found a U I might do.  Although I am against reading books 'just to meet the criteria of a challenge'.  All the details are over on the Samantha Lin blog so go there to find out.  Update. For X, so long as somewhere in name.

A    Sarah Addison Allen     First Frost
B     Rebecca Burns        The Settling Earth
C    Sherryl Caulfield    Come What May
D    Susan  Donovan      Sea of Love
E    Lily Everett        Heartbreak Cove
F     Marie Force     I Saw Her Standing There
G    Emily Gee       Thief With No Shadow
H     Kristin Hannah   The Nightingale
I       Eva Ibbotson     Magic Flutes
J      Rachael Johns   Jilted
K     Jayne Ann Krentz   Trust No One
L     Laura Lippman    Baltimore Blues 
M    Jojo Moyes   One Plus One
N     Brenda Novak   The Secret Sister
O     O'Neal Barbara   The Secret of Everything
P     Marieke van der Pol    Bride Flight
Q     Amanda Quick     Quicksilver
R     J. D. Robb           Purity in Death
S     Maggie Shayne   The Littlest Cowboy
T     K A Tucker         Ten Tiny Breaths
U     Lisa Unger          The Whispers
V     Penny Vincenzi   An Absolute Scandal
W   Sherryl Woods    Welcome to Serenity
X     Jude Deveraux     First Impressions
Y     Helene Young     Safe Harbour
Z     Markus Zusak      The Book Thief

My Full House Reading Challenge 2015




I like to take part in my own challenge and will be joining in - but not eligible for any giveaways of course!  This post is here to help me record my reads.
Full House Challenge Board


1.  One Plus One     Jojo Moyes                              Set in Northern Hemisphere    (U.K)
2.  Jilted      Rachael Johns                                      Set in Southern Hemisphere.  (Australia)
3.  Come What May    Sherryl Caulfield.                Won                
4. I Saw Her Standing There                                   2nd or more book in a series (3#)
5. The Littlest Cowboy  Maggie Shayne                 Author new to me
6.  First Frost           Sarah Addison Allen               Published 2015
7.  Bride Flight        Marieke van der Pol                 Library book
8.  The Rosie Effect   Graeme Simsion                    Author outside own country
9.  Fatal Scandal        Marie Force                            Author I really like
10. Purity in Death    J. D. Robb                               Published 2000 -2013
11. Teardrop Lane    Emily March                           Free Choice
12.  Beach Girls        Luanne Rice                            A Keeper
13.  Dark Witch        Nora Roberts                           1st in a series
14.  The Nightingale    Kristin Hannah                     Outstanding heroine (2 actually)
15.  Silver Thaw       Catherine Anderson                 Love the cover.
16.  Snowy River Man    Lizzy Chandler                  Novella
17.  Baltimore Blues    Laura Lippman                     Type of book rarely read
18.  Jubilee's Journey   Bette Lee Davis                    Award winning
19.  Thief With No Shadow     Emily Gee                Been on my TBR forever!
20.  Written in Red    Anne Bishop                            Heard about on line - and how.
21.   Amy Snow         Tracy Rees                               Debut novel
22.  The Summer Wind   Mary Alice Monroe            Published in 2014
23.  Wild at Heart     Patricia Gaffney                         Published pre 2000
24.  Archangel's Enigma  Nalini Singh                       A top book 2015
25.  Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga. Kate Lynch.  Setting now want to visit!



December 29, 2014

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?
Sheila at Book Journey runs It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

I hope you all had a great Christmas break and enjoyed time with families.  I always enjoy watching all the youngsters in our family at Christmas. As I don't have immediate family of my own I enjoy all my grand nieces and nephews.  My favourite was watching one just 14 month old entertain himself by putting his finger in a hose and squirting himself in the face - he jumped in shock each time and then kept repeating forever.  (Remember summer here!)

I am celebrating my 2nd Blogoversary this week. If you have time pop in and take part in the blogoversary giveaway - warning its a short scavenger hunt, so will need about 5 minutes tops.

BookBlogWalkers
I've not been such a good walker this last week - got in a few steps and Sunday was my first real walk but back into the mode now. This challenge makes me accountable! I hate saying I didn't do much, but lets be honest - I didn't.  I have signed up for FitReaders for 2015 - the latest version of this challenge.  I just had a peek over there and I see there are quite a few joining in. 


What I read:
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Very good historical.

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Delightful.

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#1 in a series
Now will need to read the rest!

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Novella - like a reinvention of Scrooge!
Fantasy

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Okay - my least favourite by Kristan Higgans
The main male character  I didn't warm to.

What I am reading now:
Jilted by Rachael Johns


What's Next?
I will see how long Jilted takes me, if it brings me up short of 1st January and it may, I will read a novella by Suzanne Brockmann - Free Fall which is a little addition to her Troubleshooter series and another novella by Jenny Schwartz - Guarding Christmas. 



December 28, 2014

2nd Blogoversary and Giveaway


This week sees me celebrating my second blogoversary.  To mark this I am hosting a Giveaway for a $25 U.S. Amazon gift card or book(s) to that value from the Book Depository.  Open Internationally so long as you are able to access either Amazon or have free delivery from the Book Depository. To help me celebrate my blogoversary engage in a little sleuthing.

Answer all six questions correctly and it will give you an entry into the giveaway.  One entry form per person.  All answers are on this blog.

The Giveaway will go from 28th of December 2014 until the 9th of January - New Zealand time. (Most likely that means it ends on 8th Jan for many visitors). The winner will be notified by email and there will be an announcement on my blog. 

December 27, 2014

Spare Change. Bette Lee Crosby

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Spare Change
Bette Lee Crosby
Publisher: Bent Pine
Date: 2011
Format: Kindle
Pages: 281
Genre: Historical Fiction
Source: From the author
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Eleven year-old Ethan Allen Doyle has witnessed a brutal murder and now the boy is running for his life. In the time-tested tradition of Southern Fiction, Crosby unveils the darkest side of human nature and then rewards her readers with a beautiful tale of love, loss and unexpected gifts.

Olivia Westerly is the only person Ethan Allen can trust, and he's not too sure he can trust her. She's got no love of children and a truckload of superstitions--one of them is the belief that eleven is the unluckiest number on earth. Olivia avoided marriage for almost forty years. But when Charlie Doyle happened along, he was simply too wonderful to resist. Now she's a widow with an eleven-year-old boy claiming to be her grandson.

With a foul mouth, dark secrets and heavily guarded emotions, Ethan Allen Doyle is not an easy child to like. He was counting on the grandpa he'd never met for a place to hide, but now that plan is shot to blazes because the grandpa's dead too. He's got seven dollars and twenty-six cents, his mama's will for staying alive, and Dog. But none of those things are gonna help if Scooter Cobb finds him.
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Spare Change is the first book in the Wyattsville books by Bette Lee Crosby.  I found it a little different and delightful.  I loved the main characters, and disliked others. 

Olivia is a woman who never wanted to be loaded down with children, so she has worked all her life, remained single and forever been grateful that she has not been burdened by a family clinging to her skirts.  She is also very superstitious about the number eleven. When she meets Charlie at the age of fifty eight she is head over heels in love and marries.  When Charlie dies she mourns for weeks then returns to his apartment in Wyattsville and with the help of her neighbours in the building starts to live again.  I loved the neighbours, truly a formidable group.

Ethan Allen has seen too much in his young life, the victim of circumstance and others evil ways.  He's tough and resilient and when he is faced with a terrible situation he goes in search of his grandfather.  When he arrives finally he only meets up with Olivia and so begins their relationship. It is a little disconcerting for Olivia of course that Ethan is aged eleven!  It is this part of the book that warmed my heart as Olivia and Ethan gradually bond.  Many of their moments together were filled with humour, that I loved about this book.

However Ethan Allen and Olivia have one final battle to fight and a little surprise at the end.  I loved the epilogue that shows Ethan Allen with a family of his own, and then Olivia's final revelation.

This book was a mixture of horror, loss, and love.  It was heart warming and funny too.  I liked the way the author told the story from various points of view - it worked so well and I enjoyed seeing events from various characters standpoint.  A special mention to Jack Mahoney - another character whose wisdom and the way he did his job touched me.  

I highly recommend this book.
4 stars




December 26, 2014

Blessed is the Busybody. Emilie Richards

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Blessed is the Busybody
Emilie Richards
Published: Berkley  2005
Format: Paperback
Pages: 262
Genre: Mystery/Crime
Source: Own book
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Meet the unconventional Aggie Sloan-Wilcox, a minister's wife with her own calling: helping troubled  souls in need of justice.  When the naked body of a murdered woman turns up on Aggie's front porch--and suspicion falls on Aggie's husband--she doesn't have a prayer of clearing his name unless she can uncover the truth in a town not known for confessing its sins.
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I am not a big cozy mystery type of reader, but being a fan of Emilie Richards other novels I decided to try out the first one in her Ministry is Murder series.  

There are the murders that are a puzzle to the local community, and  Aggie finds herself caught up in the unravelling of the various clues that lead back to some interesting liaisons and a murderer who just might put a stop to Aggie's new found skills and interest.  Her husband Ed is a good guy and they have a very good relationship, with two 'adorable' girls - one who insists on burying their cat numerous times and one who is just beginning to stretch her independence as a middle grade young teen.  Aggie is not about to have the wool pulled over her eyes by them or indeed anyone.  

While the murders and mystery were interesting, it was the small town comings and goings of a small church community that was so entertaining and so recognisable the world over, whatever the church denomination.  Emilie Richards nailed this aspect, with I am sure her first hand experience of being a minister's wife helping her to make it so real.

Well written - and if I empty my TBR shelf fairly well over the next year, I will be delving into another Aggie mystery.
4 stars



December 24, 2014

Looking Back at Books 2014: Authors

New to me authors


Long loved authors

Women's Fiction Reading Challenge 2015


I am hosting this challenge and you can read about it on the post Women's Fiction Challenge 2015.

I ask anyone joining the challenge to define women's fiction as there are a number of thoughts and ideas about it around the globe.  

For me I would label a book women's fiction if the main focus of the book is on a woman or women and how they change and develop throughout the book.  Really its my favourite kind of book these days.  It may involve romance, but that is not the main focus, it may or may not have a happy ending, but it does have a satisfying one.

The post by Amy Sue Nathan on Women's Fiction Writers best spells out what I call women's fiction.

I am going to make this a challenge to myself so I am going to go for 
Fearless: 30+

1.  One Plus One    Jojo Moyes
2.  Come What May     Sherryl Caulfield
3.  First Frost          Sarah Addison Allen
4. Bride Flight          Marieke van der Pol
5.  Beach Girls          Luanne Rice
6.  The Nightingale    Kristin Hannah
7.  The Secrets of Midwives    Sally Hepworth
8.  Looking For Me        Beth Hoffman
9.   The Girls of Mischief Bay  Susan Mallery
10. The Last Time I Was Me   Cathy Lamb
11.  Before the Storm   Diane Chamberlain
12.  Never Too Late   Robyn Carr
13.  Sense and Sensibility Joanna Trollope
14.  One Summer in Venice   Nicky Pellegrino
15.  What I Remember Most  Cathy Lamb
16.  The Summer Girls   Mary Alice Monroe
17.  The Lake Season   Hannah McKinnon
18.  The Guest Cottage   Nancy Thayer
19.  Amy Snow     Tracy Rees
20.  Blueprints   Barbara Delinsky
21.  Julia's Chocolates   Cathy Lamb
22.  A Year of Marvellous Ways    Sarah Winman
23.  The Lives Between Us     Theresa Rizzo
24.  The Flower Arrangement   Ella Griffin
25.  Bitter Greens   Kate Forsyth
26.  The Summer Wind   Mary Alice Monroe
27.   Summer Secrets   Jane Green
28.  The Color of Light     Emilie Richards
29.  My Very Best Friend   Cathy Lamb
31.  If You Only Knew    Kristan Higgins
32.  Starlight on Willow Lake    Susan Wiggs
33.  The Patterson Girls   Rachael Johns
34.  The Infinite Sea   Beatriz Williams
35.  Dear Carolina   Kristy Woodson Harvey


A Light in the Wilderness. Jane Kirkpatrick

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A Light in the Wilderness
Jane Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Revell
Date: August 2014
Format: e-ARC
Pages: 320
Genre:  Historical fiction
Source: Publisher via NetGalley
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Letitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave. They may not cause white folks to treat her like a human being, but at least they show she is free. She trusts in those words she cannot read--as she is beginning to trust in Davey Carson, an Irish immigrant cattleman who wants her to come west with him.

Nancy Hawkins is loathe to leave her settled life for the treacherous journey by wagon train, but she is so deeply in love with her husband that she knows she will follow him anywhere--even when the trek exacts a terrible cost.

Betsy is a Kalapuya Indian, the last remnant of a once proud tribe in the Willamette Valley in Oregon territory. She spends her time trying to impart the wisdom and ways of her people to her grandson. But she will soon have another person to care for.

As season turns to season, suspicion turns to friendship, and fear turns to courage, three spirited women will discover what it means to be truly free in a land that makes promises it cannot fulfill. This multilayered story from bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick will grip readers' hearts and minds as they travel with Letitia on the dusty and dangerous Oregon trail into the boundless American West.

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A Light in the Wilderness is a work of fiction based on the African American woman Letitia Carson who lived in the nineteenth century.  It is a very inspiring story and left me in awe of women who lived at that time firstly, and then Letitia herself, Black African in a time where many were still slaves and women did not have that many rights.

Jane Kirkpatrick with the help of the research of others has taken the facts of Letitia and asked herself what may have been to put flesh and blood on Letitia, to explore her possible feelings and motives. The fictitious Letitia is a woman of courage and kindness, a woman who faced many difficulties that a lesser woman would have turned up her tail and let outer circumstances dictate her life.  I suspect the actual Letitia must have been something like her.

Her husband Davey is an interesting character, a mixture of good and not so good, he is portrayed as basically a kind individual but at times he appeared a little dense and weak.  

The friendships that develop in this book are significant among the three women - Letitia, Nancy a woman she meets as they are beginning the long trail west and Betsy the native American of the Kalapuya.  They provide kinship, support and care for each other.  

Jane Kirkpatrick has many details of the journey of the wagon train to the West which helps the reader be there and picture a little of what it was like.  You had to be tough and you had to have the support of others.

If you like books that speak of the empowerment of women, the search for justice and freedom and the wonderful kinship of good men and women, in an historical setting of the early west then I highly recommend this book.

You can read a little more about this book on Jane Kirkpatrick's website and there is also a map that shows the journey Letitia and Davey took across the country to Oregon.
5 stars


December 23, 2014

Looking Back at Books 2014: Covers

The Best Book Covers

2015 Bookish Resolutions Challenge


This challenge is being hosted by Michelle @ Because Reading and Laura trips down imagination road.  You can read the full details by clicking on the badge above.

Rules.

1.  Create between 1 and 5 resolutions related to books/book blogging (there are examples below but you can make up your own)
2.    If you have 2 or more resolutions then 1 can be unrelated to books/book blogging
3.    Create a sign up post and add it to the Linky on this post (sign up before Feb 1st)
4.    On the 30th of each month (and the 28th for February) create an update post about your goals and add the post to the Linky that will be on Laura’s or My blogs
5.    This is a year long challenge, so you can’t add resolutions that could be done in a day these must be year long goals.
6.    For each goal you complete you get one entry into the giveaway that will be in our wrap up post on December 31, 2015

My Bookish Goals

1. Complete all the reading challenges I have signed up to for 2015.

2.  Ensure I post all book reviews to Amazon and Goodreads as well as on my blog.

3.  Visit and comment on ten different reading blogs per week in 2015. (Does not include meme commenting)

4.  Limit spending on books by checking at the library first for a book.  Track my spending on books and see what I do spend over a year - this does not include Audible credits or book gift vouchers received.

My Not So Bookish Goal

5.  Try a new meal recipe at least once a fortnight.  ( I am such a boring cook!)

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