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Just Look Up by Courtney Walsh (Reveiw with a Giveaway)

July 3, 2017 by Suzie Waltner 31 Comments

This was one of those books that once I started, I could not put down. In fact, I started reading it one evening after work and finished in the wee hours of the next day.

In part because I could empathize in a way with Lane Kelley. While I’m not estranged from my family, I do live 2500 miles away and often feel out of the loop when I get together with them. And none of them betrayed me the way a member of Lane’s family did hers. There’s so much pain and hurt to Lane’s story, I couldn’t help but feel for her.

 

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Filed Under: Book Review, Contests and Giveaways Tagged With: book launch, Busy, Chicago, Courtney Walsh, Family, Giveaway, Just Look Up, Michigan, Summer, Tyndale House Publishers

Book Review: Life After by Katie Ganshert

March 16, 2017 by Suzie Waltner Leave a Comment

Life After

Katie Ganshert

Available 4/18/17

 

My review

This story. Wow! There is so much I want to say about this book, so many things I want you to know but at the same time, I want readers to experience it for themselves. Katie Ganshert has outdone herself with this one.

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Filed Under: Blog Tours, Book Review Tagged With: Chicago, Christian Fiction, Clean Reads, Katie Ganshert, Life After, Life After Katie Ganshert, Life after Tragedy, Living, Survivor, Waterbrook Multnomah, Widower

Who or What Shapes Our Future?

November 2, 2015 by Suzie Waltner Leave a Comment

Who or What Shapes Our Future?

Two years ago, I read a little book called Dear Mr. Knightley and every year since, I’ve looked forward to seeing what Katherine Reay comes up with next. Lizzie & Jane did not disappoint and neither does Reay’s 2015 offering, The Bronte Plot.

the bronte plot

Lucy Alling has a great job in which she passes her love of books and a great story on to other collectors. Through that job, she meets a great man, James. But when it’s discovered that she’s using less than honest methods of selling those books and stories, she loses James’s love and faith in her.

When his grandmother, Helen, recruits Lucy for a trip to England to procure some items, Lucy is forced to go along. Spending time in London and Haworth, home of the Bronte sisters, allows Lucy to breath the lives of her beloved authors, to examine her motives and her reasons behind them. But Helen has secrets of her own, and as the two embark on this journey of releasing the past and embracing what’s ahead of them, they discover that things don’t always turn out the way you want them to.

Through Victorian-era fiction, especially the works of the Bronte sisters, Lucy discovers there’s more to life than what she’s been allowing herself. I appreciated the way literature is woven throughout the book and I felt like I was visiting the sites of London, Haworth, and The Lake District right along with Lucy. And I always love a book that brings another place to life.

In the end, it’s C.S. Lewis’s words that have the most influence on both Lucy and Helen. Come further up, come further in.

Don’t miss this endearing and thought-provoking book from Katherine Reay.

***Thomas Nelson provided me with a complimentary copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest and fair review. All opinions expressed are my own.

Filed Under: Book Review Tagged With: Booklook Bloggers, Bronte Sisters, Chicago, CS Lewis, England, Jane Eyre, Katherine Reay, London, The Lake District

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