Lady In Waiting - Book Giveaway!

I am giving away a copy of 'Lady in Waiting' by Susan Meissner.

 I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for review- which can be seen here.

This is a great book - read once and in Like -NEW condition.

Win It: One lucky reader will a copy of 'Lady in Waiting' by Susan Meissner! For your first required entry, just leave a comment below telling me why you want to read this book. All entries must be received by 11:59 PM EST on February 28th. The Winner will be announced on the 1st of March.

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Do you Communicate or Connect?

A Book Review of 'Everyone Communicates, Few Connect What the Most Effective People Do Differently' By John C. Maxwell.

This book review took forever to do because my Pastor - husband loved this book and would not return it for me to finish. So, it's a VERY good book. My husband plans for all small group leaders and all senior leader in our church to go through the principles in this book

With an easy reading style and an approach that reaches every reader and gives practical tips on how to make a meaningful connection with others you are trying to communicate with. I have found that the main focus is to put one's self aside and value and empathize with what others are saying. There are so many tips and how-to's in this book that I believe everyone would benefit from reading it.



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For Your Sweet Tooth

A Book Review of 'Always the Baker, Never the Bride' by Sandra D Bricker.

If you love Cupcake wars or Cake Boss then this book is for you!
With an engaging opener and a twist of diabetes, this book has something for every romantic and christian reader.

Emma is a talented baker who can't even taste what she creates because of her diabetes. Her creations earn her awards and with that comes demand for her as an asset as an employee. She gets offered a job as Head baker for a new specialty boutique hotel catering for one stop weddings - from the celebration dinners to the venues and honeymoon. A recently widowed man takes on the job of creating this hotel from top to bottom out of an older hotel with the help of his 4 sisters (all of which are southern, and care greatly for their brother and others).

A relationship blossoms and others are brought to full light, and through it all remains family, friends and prayers.

There are recipes throughout this book - adding to the charm.

This story has all the right amounts of everything to bake up a delicious story... including twists and prayers. And I'd ask for seconds!

A delightful, fun read!

5 out of 5 stars

I received no compensation for this review.

This book was a free Amazon ebook download.

An Interwoven Story of Jane

A Book Review of 'Lady In Waiting' by Susan Meissner

The cover and the teaser at the back of the book do not do this book justice. With an interesting twist of parallels and a soul searching look at ones self and ones definition of happiness and joy... this book has a way of reaching into you and touching a cord.

Starting in the present, Jane an Antique store owner, is faced with a blow that shakes her to her toes. Her husband leaves her, and with that her stability and her understanding of happiness. The story explores all the supporting relationships Jane has with her family and friends as she discovers a ring in a locked box...

Switching to the Story of Lady Jane Grey and her relationship with a dressmaker and friend. And the discovery of truth, loss, sadness, choices and loss of choice, and love. The history is woven with hope of joy in this sad tale. Although the character of the Dressmaker is fictional the insight of relate-able things are brought to light and the joy and hope of love is paralleled by this character. The Ring and all that it symbolizes is explained.

Back to the Present Jane, we see that she is trying to discover her self, her joy, her strength to stand on her own and decide for herself what those things hold.

This is a book that highlights pain, and shows you how to heal. Also, it does not throw Christianity in your face... nor does it use Christian principals to solve the pain in the characters.

This is a good read... I enjoyed it. I really LOVE history and historical fictions, so I loved the story about Jane Grey more then the Modern Jane. But I must admit I took a long hard look at what makes ME happy because of the modern Jane story.

Thank you Susan for such a heart searching book!

4 out of 5 stars

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review

Review of "Crossing Oceans"

The review of "Crossing Oceans" by Gina Holmes

This is a very poignant story of a lady who is estranged from her
family, because of an unplanned pregnancy, as she finds out that she
is terminally ill and has to make a real solution for her daughter's
welfare. So many years have gone by and feuds have been caused by her
leaving and having and raising the baby that there is much hurt and
anger to deal with from all sides.

Jenny, the main character, is trying to make the right decision when
they are all hard and all seem so unfair. Having left her family to
have her baby and raise her away from judgement and stigma - now has
to make a choice between her estranged family or her ex- boyfriend's
family to raise her daughter Isabella.

Amid all the turmoil is a few light hearted hopeful moments of prayer,
reflection and healing. There is a budding relationship with a man
who rents a room above the barn, with love and hope... But as all hard
decisions happen she has to put the welfare of her daughter over even
her own desires. The fact that she is dying is painful and constant
during the whole story. It taints all the decisions and all the
moments that are precious seem more fleeting.

This book has a lot of emotion and heavy subjects in it, like
rejection, illness, death, and how children handle all of that. It is
one of the few books that made me cry with all the grace and
selflessness the whole situation was handled.

It is a heavier read because of all the topics in it, but is a very
good read and VERY well written.

4 stars out of 5

This was a free ebook Amazon Download. 

Book Review - Two Ticket's to the Christmas Ball by D K Paul

This book was an easy, light romantic, fun read. The book's premise of comfort zones, expectations and hopes of each of the characters is what makes all the twists and turns of the plot believable, even though there is an undercurrent of mythical-ness in it.

As a christian - who does not believe in faeries or such... the mixing of wizards and myths is a little hard to swallow. But the true level headed attitude of the author's approach to a Christians response to problems is relate-able and can show flaws in even a seasoned Christians attitude.

I really appreciated the "non- preachy" dialogue in this book and the light approach to some hard subjects like anger towards a family that do not believe as you do. Or hurt and how that can cut us off from even those people God puts in our path to help us grow.

Over all a nice book to curl up with on a cold winter's night.

Book By - Donita K Paul

This book was given to me to review by WaterBrook Multnomah.

I give this book 3 out of 5 Stars.

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