Here I was reading a Carrie Ann Ryan's novel and what do I read?!:
And Kindle tells me it's a popular emphasis among people that are reading, or read, this book.
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Aug 19, 2025
Aug 6, 2025
The Importance of Storytelling
“There were
six,” he said, still watching the fire while the children’s whispers silenced
and their squirming stilled in anticipation. “And each had the choice to accept
or refuse. For even when worlds are held in your hands, you must choose to face
what would destroy them, or to turn away. And with this choice,” he continued,
“there are many other choices to be made.”
“They were
brave and true,” one of the children called out. “They chose to fight!”
The old man
smiled a little.
Valley of Silence
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Airman 1st Class Preston Cherry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The
importance of storytelling for preschool children - why it’s not just about
keeping them entertained
Oct 7, 2022
Start reading Nora 📖
Bookbub says:
If You’ve Never Read Nora Roberts Start with One of These 7 Books
If you haven’t read one of Nora’s books before, you might be
too overwhelmed by choice to know which one to pick up. So to celebrate her
birthday on October 10, we’ve made your life a little easier: Here are seven books
that are great entrance points into Nora Roberts’s canon.
I will be re-reading, this weekend, my favoutite from all:
Jul 2, 2022
5 best Nora Roberts books you should read
"Why do you read it?"
She frowned; he hadn't turned one of her questions back on her for some time. "I don't as a rule, except yours."
"I'm flattered. Why mine?"
"Your first was recommended to me, and then…" She hesitated, not wanting to say she'd been hooked from the first page. Instead, she ran her fingertip around the rim of her glass and sorted through her answer. "You have a way of creating atmosphere and drawing characters that make the impossibility of your stories perfectly believable."
Second Nature
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Dev Librarian, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
American author, Eleanor Marie Robertson,
famous under her pen name Nora Roberts, is credited with over 225 romance
novels to date, and if you haven't her works yet, it is high time you do.
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"Why did you read his book?"
"Because it was fascinating," Bryan answered immediately. "Because by the time I was on page three, I was so into it you couldn't have gotten the book away from me with a crowbar."
Second Nature
MY - 5 Best Nora Roberts books you should read - CHOICES
This is one of the hardest challenges for me.
We all go through different moods through the day, month, life... and Nora has so many books that you should could read a book per day during a year, with a few days to spare and re-read your favorites 😀; hence it is very hard for me to commit to a TOP 5/10/15 or what-book-would-I-take-to-a-desert-island?...
Read the TOP 5 on top and then follow with my, today's, top 5:
📕 1 The Witness
📗 2 Three Fates
📘 3 Sea Swept
📙 4 The Search
Mar 21, 2022
Readers Share 📖 BookBub
For me this is the One (I reread the Most):
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The Book I Reread the Most
Even though there are so many new and exciting books out in the world, there’s something so comforting about rereading an old favorite.
BookBub readers tell us what book they
reread the most — whether it’s a beloved classic or a newer release they can’t
stop thinking about. Read on to see their recommendations!
(Read the article to learn which book from a friend of a friend 😉 shows in the thread)
Oct 16, 2019
It’s National Book Month — Give Your Reading Spot Some Love
He wanted nothing rigid or forbidding about
the room. Between the two tall windows he'd set a huge, festive,
ornamental lemon tree in a brass pot. A gift from his parents. They
always knew what suited him best, he thought, smiling
as he trailed a fingertip over a glossy leaf.
He'd already arranged the seating area. A long, take-a-nap sofa
in cheerful blue, a pair of wide chairs, low tables that invited the
occupants to put up their feet and relax. Naomi had helped him
choose the lamps, he recalled—the charming die-cut tin shades, the
romantic globes—on one of their shopping forays.
The stately pewter candlesticks that graced the mantel were
heirlooms, housewarming gifts from his grandparents.
The bronze-colored
mums that stood in a Wedgwood vase between them
had come out of his own garden.
There was a great deal of himself in the room, Ian realized.
And pieces of those he loved.
~Ian~
@MacGregor Grooms
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Let these cozy nooks and light-washed corners inspire you to
make your reading space special
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Her next choice was the library, which she
thought of as the main artery of the heart.
Morrigan's Cross
Jan 28, 2019
📖 Is it July already?! 📅
“This July,” Layla finished. “Another cheery thought.”
Blood Brothers
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Laura - at Fall Into The Story - published and excerpt of Nora Roberts' next stand alone.
Go there, Read the Excerpt and brace yourself for thoughts that July can't get here soon enough 😏
"Within the walls of a tasteful,
perfectly kept house in
North Carolina’s
Blue Ridge Mountains,
young Zane Bigelow..."
perfectly kept house in
North Carolina’s
Blue Ridge Mountains,
young Zane Bigelow..."
Dec 6, 2018
Cozy Nooks, Daybeds and Corners for Reading
"Lucky me. You've got a lot of books," she commented.
She studied his profile, the sexy, angular lines of it,
the way the dark glasses concealed the fascinating
contrast of those eyes of pure, light green.
"It's hard to picture you curling up with a good book."
"Stretching out," he said, correcting her. "Women curl up
with books, guys stretch out."
"Oh, I see. That's entirely different."
Night Shield
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These snug spots may make you want to put on fuzzy
socks and hunker down with a good book
Jun 4, 2018
Decor Tips for Book Lovers
Within a day Xander moved everything he wanted into the house on the bluff. The books
presented the biggest challenge. The library wouldn’t hold all of them.
“I never imagined this house would be too small for anything.”
He shrugged, studying the shelves, now filled with books. And the tubs on the floor, still full of them.
“You don’t want all your books in one place anyway. We should scatter some around.”
“There are too many to scatter.”
“Don’t even think about saying I should get rid of some.”
“Wouldn’t think of it.”
Maybe she had—just for an instant—and had just as quickly rejected the idea.
“I just don’t know where to put them. They don’t deserve to be stuck in tubs either. How will I know what’s in there I want to read?”
“Kevin could do another wall of books.”
“I’d love a wall of books,” she considered. “But I don’t know where.”
The Obsession
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As PBS launches ‘The Great American Read,’ designers
and actor Ming-Na Wen weigh in on building around books.
Where you read can be almost as important as what you read.
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"That's quite a library."
"Oh, that's just some of them."
He stayed where he was when she crossed over. Joyce, Yeats, Shaw. Those were to be expected. O'Neill, Swift, and Grayson Thane, of course. But there was a treasure trove of others. Poe, Steinbeck, Dickens, Byron. The poetry of Keats and Dickinson and Browning. Battered volumes of Shakespeare and equally well-thumbed tales by King and MacAffrey and McMurtrey.
"An eclectic collection," she mused. "And there's more?"
"I keep them here and there around the house, so if you're in the mood, you don't have to go far. A book's a pleasant thing to have nearby."
Born in Shame
Dec 8, 2017
“It’s the story that matters.”
Dear husband isn't (fully) into Midnight Bayou... yet... he says I sent him from Laura (Templeton), whom he seems to have a crush on, to the middle of the jungle... no idea why he says this... I'll have to reread MB to learn what he's talking about.
Midnight Bayou's a book in the maybe-some-day-when-I-grow-up-shelf for years. I couldn't go beyond the first pages. Too intense for me. So I put it aside; besides at the time I still had dozens of Nora books to go through. One day I put my grown-up-and-face-the-life's pants and in two days I read it. And Loved it.
I was a bit afraid to give it to my husband, bearing in mind my own reaction to the first read of it. But I'm running out of Portuguese versions of Nora Novels and it was either Midnight Bayou or Homeport.
I'm planning to give him books on Christmas.
I'm thinking of Key trilogy which I still don't have in Portuguese.
Win win situation: a Christmas Gift that he'll really like and enjoy and my collection keeps growing.
Oct 13, 2017
Book Nooks
"I keep them here and there around the house, so if you're in the mood, you don't have to go far.
A book's a pleasant thing to have nearby."
A book's a pleasant thing to have nearby."
Born in Shame
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15 Cozy Book Nooks and What They Want You to Read
Put the beach reads away; these comfy spaces are creating a fall reading list. What books do they suggest to you?
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My suggestions of Nora Novels for each of these rooms:
The Search
(Fiona's Home once she tears that kitchen wall down.
The suggested solarium turned into a reading nap and cuddle nook)
“A good, generous window would give you a view into the woods.
Maybe wide-planked floors. You’d have room for a table if you wanted an alternate to eating in the
kitchen.”
“A good, generous window would give you a view into the woods.
Maybe wide-planked floors. You’d have room for a table if you wanted an alternate to eating in the
kitchen.”
The Return of Rafe MacKade
(Rafe's home)
waiting to be lived in."
Once More with Feeling
(Brand's home in Cornwall)
roar of the sea outside her window and the breathtaking view."
Home for Christmas
(Jason's home)
places, Jason. Were they as exciting as you thought?""
Sacred Sins
(Teresa's home)
Comfortable wealth, a knowledge of art and style."
For Now, Forever
(Daniel MacGregor's home, before Anna)
"The first time I walked into the bedroom, I saw how little of yourself was there."
"The first time I walked into the bedroom, I saw how little of yourself was there."
Chasing Fire
(Ella's Home)
know much—or anything, really—about decorating, but it felt like it looked. Bright, happy,
relaxed."
Northern Lights
(Meg's Home)
throw on the sofa told him she'd had a nap in front of the fire at some point."
Born in Shame
(Murphy's Home)
ceiling, and the little room off the right where his mother still liked
to sew when she came to visit."
Reflections
(Ruth's bedroom at Seth's home)
She should have known that she would find exactly what she had needed at the Cliff House."
True Betrayals
(Gabe's Home)
through archways. Glass doors invited the night inside."
Obsession
(Naomi's home)
place anyway. We should scatter some
around.”"
Born in Shame
(a reading nook for Shannon's bedroom at Brie's home)
Wide and airy with a charming window seat set under the sloping
eaves"
Second Nature
(Hunter's home)
was airy, sunny in the afternoon light. Cheerful. Yes, Lee realized, that was precisely the
word that came to mind. No shadowy corners or locked doors."
For The Love of Lilah
(Lilah's Books&Naps' Nook)
the mood struck her, she could sit, sprawled in a chair, prodding little details of his
life from him. Or she could curl up in a sunbeam like a cat, blocking him and
everything else around her out of her thoughts while she drifted into one of her private
daydreams."
Sep 29, 2017
Authors' thank you notes
"To the woman I lost. To the woman I found. To the only woman I've loved.
How fortunate for me that all three are one."
How fortunate for me that all three are one."
She looked back at him as she reached for a book. "What was that about?"
"It's the dedication I just wrote in my head for the book I'm working on now."
Key of Knowledge
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By Christopher Michel - Ladakh, CC BY 2.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37116911
Are these the best book dedications EVER?
Authors' witty, cruel and downright baffling thank you notes
Jun 6, 2016
Books Smell So Darn Good
He liked the smell of the place, of books and wood and people come in out of the
rain. Another time he’d have enjoyed just the being there. And though Gideon was
the keenest reader in the family, Malachi would have found pleasure in simply
choosing a book and settling down with it in this palace of literature.
Three Fates
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By NYC Wanderer (Kevin Eng) - originally posted to Flickr as Gutenberg Bible,
CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9914015
Science Finally Explains Why Books Smell So Darn Good
Ask an avid reader what their favorite scent in the world is, and the answer is almost immediate: the intoxicating smell of old books.
Whether you’re taking a good whiff in an indie bookstore or breathing in the delicate pages of an ancient volume at a local library, there’s no denying that old books smell damn good.
But why exactly is that?
Well, thanks to Andy Brunning, a Cambridge chemistry teacher who devotes his free time to debunking complicated chemistry, you don’t need a master’s degree to find out.
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The smell caught her instantly. Books, a world of books.
Key of Knowledge
May 8, 2016
Book Organization Style
And Naomi stared, with wonder and delight, at the living room wall of books. “Wow, the rumors of book lover are true. That’s quite a collection.”
“Part of it.”
“Part? You’re a serious man, Xander.”
“About books, anyway.”
She glanced around. “Very efficient space, and that is one of the best uses of a wall I’ve ever seen. Color, texture, dimension.”
“Not to mention words.”
He walked over, offered her a glass of wine, took the bottle from her.
“Yeah, words. I like to read as much as the next guy—unless you’re the next guy.”
“That’s the plan.”
She laughed, waving him off as she walked up and down the wall. “But this is art.
You’re smart enough to know your furniture is absolute crap. You don’t care about that.
You’ve arranged your space for efficiency and highlighted a passion.
And by highlighting it, created art.”
The Obsession
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By David Joyce (http://www.flickr.com/photos/deapeajay/2701178993/) [CC BY-SA 2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
What Your Book Organization Style Says About You
It's almost more telling than what you read.
It's not just the subject matter of the books you read that reveal insights into your personality — the way you organize said spines is very telling, too. You see, some arrangements are all about being practical, while others focus more on being style-forward. Find out what your method says about you:
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“Is there a system to the way you shelve the books?”
He glanced up. “Where they fit, why?”
“You have Jane Austen beside Stephen King.”
“I don’t think either one of them would mind, but if you do, you can move books around.”
“No, that’s part of the point. It’s a wall of stories. Take out any one, go anywhere.
It’s . . . Storyland.”
The Obsession
He glanced up. “Where they fit, why?”
“You have Jane Austen beside Stephen King.”
“I don’t think either one of them would mind, but if you do, you can move books around.”
“No, that’s part of the point. It’s a wall of stories. Take out any one, go anywhere.
It’s . . . Storyland.”
The Obsession
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