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Hi, reader friends! Life has been beyond crazy here on the home front for the last couple of weeks so allow me to get y'all up to speed with my chaos. Two weeks ago, we went camping at one of our favoriteย local campgrounds and we had quite a scare with myย sweet Suzie Q.
Hi, reader friends! Exciting announcement time!!! We are now officially connected via MailChimp! Besides being an impressive visual upgrade from the standard, plain-Jane WordPress JetPack email subscriptionย service, I plan to reward my loyal reader friends with exclusive newsletter subscriber giveaways!
Hello, reader friends! Let's have some bookish fun with our author friend Toni Shiloh! Follow the clues to for a chance to win a $10 Amazon gift card and see the full cover of herย Finally Accepted, book 3 in the Freedom Lake series. Welcome to the Finally Accepted Cover Reveal Scavenger Hunt! If you are joining the fun for the first time, make sure you start at stop #1! You have arrived at stop #3.
Hi, reader friends and happy weekend to you! We ended up going camping last week in Shawnee National Forest! Iย can't believe we haven't ventured down that way to camp before now! It's only a couple hours drive for us and it is a completely different landscape compared to our neck of the woods. Speaking of camping, this week's featured book has a sweet little camper trailer right on the cover!
Hello, reader friends! I don't know about y'allย but I seem to haveย less time to read during the summer. No long, lazy days on the beach or by the pool or anywhere for this desperate reading addict. I'm not sure where the month went but I certainly didn't spend as much time here on the blog as I had planned!
Hi, reader friends and happy weekend to you! Around here weekends have been few and far between due to my husband's work schedule and overtime. On the rare occasion that we actually get the chance to enjoy a weekend (usually because he has taken a vacation day), we embrace it wholeheartedly! I think y'allย can figure out where I'm going with this, yes?!ย
Hello, reader friends!!! Have y'allย seen the Moms' Night Out movie?! There's a book too but the movie came first. I've never read a novelization of a movie and now I'm curious, which is better, the book inspired movie or movie inspired book? Anyway, there's a scene in the movie (several scenes actually but this one in particular) that I completely relate to on a regular basis...
Hello, reader friends!!! I apologize for being scarce this week, life has been a bit crazier than usual! I've been busy driving our kids to daily swimming lessons (forty minutes each way) and it hasn't been smooth sailing for all of them so we spent an afternoon getting some extra practice in a friend's pool, too.
Hello, reader friends!!! We're celebrating our nation's birthday this week (or your nation if you are an international reader friend) with a special patriotic edition of First Line Friday!ย
Hello, reader friends! Soooo... what do y'allย think of the new colors and blog style?! Tell me what you like as well as anything you'd like to see changed or added. I appreciate all y'all and want your reading experience here to be as appealing and streamlined as possible so we can all be on our way to reading more of our favorite books!
Faithfully Bookish 