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Leaving Carolina by Tamara Leigh
I’m thoroughly enjoying this book. Unfortunately, the day job has me working so much that I’ve had very little time to read. I love the author’s voice.
What you’ll find in the book:
A woman who carries a go-anywhere Bible and a gun in her purse
Family Secrets
Great cover art
Romance
Summary:
Piper Wick left her hometown of Pickwick, North Carolina, twelve years ago, shook the dust off her feet, ditched her drawl and her family name, and made a new life for herself as a high-powered public relations consultant in LA. She’s even “engaged to be engaged” to the picture-perfect U.S. Congressman Grant Spangler.
Now all of Piper’s hard-won happiness is threatened by a reclusive uncle’s bout of conscience. In the wake of a health scare, Uncle Obadiah Pickwick has decided to change his will, leaving money to make amends for four generations’ worth of family misdeeds. But that will reveal all the Pickwicks’ secrets, including Piper’s.
Though Piper arrives in Pickwick primed for battle, she is unprepared for Uncle Obe’s rugged, blue-eyed gardener. So just who is Axel Smith? Why does he think making amends is more than just making restitution? And why, oh why, can’t she stay on task? With the Lord’s help, Piper is about to discover that although good PR might smooth things over, only the truth will set her free.
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This book was provided for review by the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group.
A friend posted this to facebook. I must confess that I am guilty of not telling. I say I’m waiting for the right moment.
He (or she) is my soul mate.
Have you heard those words from someone?
I have. I didn’t believe them. It seems when I’ve heard those words, the relationship that seems so perfect and so right, isn’t. And it ends.
Did God create us to find a soul mate?
I didn’t think so(a true one where there is only one man for one woman), until I read Kiss Me Again–Restoring Lost Intimacy in Marriage by Barbara Wilson. I didn’t realize that there is a chemical in our bodies that bonds us to someone. Very fascinating.
This book is addressed to married women who have lost desire in their marriage.
I had a give-a-way copy, so I chose to have a drawing at a church meeting. I only allowed the married women to enter. So, after explaining the purpose of the book, I drew a name. And the man whose wife won, jumped up and said, “I won. I won.”
At the time of the drawing, I had not read the book and didn’t understand how absolutely valuable this book is. And it is not just for married women. I feel so strongly that young single women should also read Kiss Me Again.
The back cover:
Do you ever wonder why marriage can seem like the end of intimacy and sexual desire instead of the beginning?
Ever wonder why it was so hard to resist sex before marriage—and so easy to resist it now? If so, you’re not alone! Many married women genuinely want to feel more desire toward their husbands…and can’t figure out what went wrong. But there’s good news. In Kiss Me Again, Barbara Wilson shows how powerful “invisible bonds” from past relationships can cause heartache, disappointment, and distance for couples in the present. Then—with sensitivity, honesty, and hope—Barbara walks you step by step toward healing…and a rekindling of the closeness and passion with your husband that you really want.
You don’t have to live any longer with confusion, disappointment, resentment, or shame. You can rediscover desire. You can say Wow! again.
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This book was provided for review by the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group.
Read this post from Brandilyn Collins about including faith in fiction:
http://forensicsandfaith.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-faith-in-fiction.html
Click on the above for a book from 1909. I personally enjoyed reading it. It contains a good many insights on Men and Women that still apply today, 100 years later.
Reading old books has made me realize how dumbed down our language has become.
Visit Testify’s website to learn more about the group’s music.
Rekindled was a book I had in my “To be Read” shelf for over a year. I regret that it took me this long to read it, because it is a great book.
I can’t even begin to summarize it or do it justice in the way of review.
When Larson Jennings returns home after months being away and recuperating from a brutal attack and subsequent fire, he sees his wife (shockingly and obviously pregnant) standing over a grave. At closer inspection, he finds his own name engraved on the headstone.
I’m writing from the Blue Ridge Mountains at a place call Ridgecrest where I’m attending a writer’s conference.
I love it here.
Last evening there was a question and answer session with editors, authors and agents. The last question was how long was it from the time you decided to write to the time you were published?
Some published almost immediately. One of the authors waited over 20 years. That same author had polled 60 authors and found that on average they had not published until age 48. (I have eight years to go–I hope I publish before that time.)
Before this question and answer session, I was questioning whether there would be a next year for me. It gets discouraging. This year the discouraging thing is that my novel doesn’t have the word count needed for most of the major publishers.
One liked my hook. One liked my voice. Those were women. I pitch to men today. It’s a romance, so I don’t know how that will go.
I have tons of revision to do on my first chapters.
My prayer this week has been, “How long O Lord?”
In 1996 I thought I might like to write, so I bought a box of paper. Yes, my first act of writing was to buy a box of paper. For years that box of paper sat in storage.
In 2000 I took some online writing classes, because I didn’t even know how to start a story. I had the setting but no character or plot. The first writing class helped me find the story. Now stories are everywhere for me. In fact, I have so many it is almost paralyzing, because I don’t know which one to write. I like them all.
Psalm 13:1-3 (New International Version)
For the director of music. A psalm of David.
1 How long, O LORD ? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and every day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?
3 Look on me and answer, O LORD my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death;
I’ve been thinking about the best place for evangelizing.
There are people who evangelize on street corners with megaphones. Some go door to door.
I believe the entrance to this amusement park ride would be the best venue for evangelizing.
“Do you know for certain if you were to die on this ride you’d go to Heaven?”
or
hand out gospel tracts. “Read this before getting on this ride.”
The people wearing the yellow T-shirts are a part of my son’s school band. And no, my son wouldn’t ride it.
1 John 5:13 (New International Version)
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
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