Overlooked Orchid

This was an interesting story. I was interested to see how it ended, and yet after reading the book, and finding out what happens…well let’s just say that it was not a book that I will be reading again any time soon. It was interesting, and well written, but just not a favorite of mine.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Patti Lacy graduated from Baylor University in 1977 with a B.S. in education. She taught at Heartland Community College in Normal, Illinois, until she retired in 2006 to pursue writing full time. She has two grown children with her husband, Alan, and lives in Illinois.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Far away from her Irish home, Mary Freeman begins to adapt to life in Midwest America, but family turmoil and her own haunting memories threaten to ruin her future.

A shattered cup. Cheap tea. Bitter voices asking what’s to be done with the “little eejit.” Mary, an impetuous Irishwoman, won’t face the haunting memories–until her daughter’s crisis propels her back to County Clare. There, in a rocky cliffside home, Mary learns from former neighbors why God tore her from Ireland forty-five years earlier. As she begins to glimpse His sovereign plan, Mary is finally able to bury a dysfunctional past and begin to heal. Irish folk songs and sayings add color to the narrative.

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I absolutely loved this book!!! It was entertaining, endearing, set in the old west (which is one of my favorite times to read about), and it had charactors that you could see yourself being. I am truly sorry that I have missed out on the other books in this serious, and will be keeping my eyes open to get them!!

I see myself as being Ginger, very easily. Wearing the clothes she did, having the “don’t touch me” attitude, and yet having the soft heart underneath. Who do you see yourself being??

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Tracey Bateman published her first novel in 2000 and has been busy ever since. There are two other books in the Westward Hearts Series, Defiant Heart (#1) and Distant Heart (#2)

She learned to write by writing, and improved by listening to critique partners and editors. She has sold over 30 books in six years.
She became a member of American Christian Fiction Writers in the early months of its inception in 2000 and served as president for a year.

Tracey loves Sci-fi, Lifetime movies, and Days of Our Lives (this is out of a 21 year habit of watching, rather than enjoyment of current storylines).

She has been married to her husband Rusty for 18 years, has four kids, and lives in Lebanon, Missouri.

ABOUT THE BOOK

For the past seven years, Ginger Freeman has had one goal: find Grant Kelley and make him pay for allowing her brother to die. Growing up motherless with a father who leads an outlaw gang, Ginger isn’t exactly peaches and cream. So when she finally tracks down Grant on a wagon train headed west, she figured providence had stepped in and given her the chance she’s been waiting for.

On the wagon train, finally surrounded by a sense of family and under the nurturing eye of Toni Rodde, Ginger begins to lose her rough edges. She’s made friends for the first time and has become part of something bigger than revenge. Not only has her heart softened toward people in general, but God has become a reality she never understood before. And watching Grant doctor the pioneers, she’s realized she can’t just kill him and leave the train without medical care. Putting her anger aside, before long, Ginger’s a functioning part of the group.

But when the outlaw gang, headed by her pa, shows up and infiltrates the wagon train, she is forced to question her decision. Only self-sacrifice and her new relationship with God can make things right. But it might also means she loses everything she’s begun to hold dear.

If you would like to read from the first chapter of Dangerous Heart, go HERE

I never have been one to blow my own horn, or to brag a lot about what I can do, or what I have done, or what I will do. I don’t suppose I have the confidence in myself to have a bragging personality. And it wouldn’t do me much good to brag about things that I have done, because it would be lie. Whatever I have done is because of God’s love and protection, and someone teaching me.

I mean really, how many things can WE ourselves do, that someone did not teach us to do?

I learned to dress myself, because someone taught me. I learned to ride a bike, because I watched others do it. I learned to read, because my parents taught me how. My sister taught me how to crochet. I know I can homeschool my girls, because my parents homeschooled me, taught me how to do it. My children and God, and my father have taught and guided me to be a good mother, although that is a lesson I’m still learning. *LOL*

If any of you know of something that YOU have done all on your own, leave a comment, because I’d be interested in knowing what that something is!!! I for one, can’t think of a single thing that I have not learned from someone else, in one way or another.

Blessings!

The bar stools were lined neatly up to the shining bar. The floor was swept clean under the very neat and tidy tables. It was quiet, with only the bartender quietly drying glasses behind the bar while watching the latest news on the tv that hung behind the bar.

She walked farther into the bar, wondering to herself what she was doing here. She had never set foot inside a bar before, even if it was a clean and neat. Life had changed so much in the past few months, it seemed unbelievable even to her, and she was the one living through the changes.

The following book I found to be interesting, mysterious, and captavating. It was a good book, and I would be interested in reading another book by this author, which I’m sure you know by now is a good sign from me!! *LOL* If I don’t like how a book is written, than I don’t usually read another by the same author. However Tim Downs did the job here! The job is to keep me turning the pages. The main woman in this book reminded me a lot of myself, tucked away on a mountain-top, turning to her animals for companionship and love. I couldn’t help but want to know what happened to her father, and wondered almost the entire book if that would be revealed.

Without further wait, here it is…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Tim Downs is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Indiana University. After graduation in 1976 he created a comic strip, Downstown, which was syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate until 1986. His cartooning has appeared in more than a hundred major newspapers worldwide.

His first book, a work of non-fiction, was awarded the Gold Medallion Award in 2000. His first novel, Shoofly Pie, was awarded the Angel Award in 2004, and his third novel, PlagueMaker, was awarded the Christy Award for best suspense novel of 2007. First The Dead, the third book in this Bug Man series came out earlier this year.

Tim lives in Cary, North Carolina, with his wife Joy.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Some secrets just won’t stay buried.
When strange bones surface on a U.S. senator’s property, the FBI enlists forensic entomologist Nick Polchak to investigate the forgotten graveyard. Polchak’s orders are simple: figure out the mess.

But Polchak, known as the “Bug Man” because of his knowledge of insects and their interaction with the dead, senses darker secrets buried beneath the soil.

Secrets that could derail the senator’s presidential bid.

Secrets buried in the history of a quaint Virginia town.

Secrets someone is willing to kill to protect.

With the help of a mysterious local woman named Alena and her uncanny cadaver dogs, Polchak sets out to dig up the truth.

But with a desperate killer hot on his trail, he’ll be lucky to wind up anything less than dead.

If you would like to read the first chapter of Less Than Dead, go HERE

My style all depends on what we are talking about. I don’t really have a style of book that I like to read, although I do tend to stay away from the horror stories, and books with lots of blood and guts.

If we are talking about my style of clothing, well generally I lean towards the simple jeans and a t-shirt, or shorts and a t-shirt, depending on the time of the year. I do like dresses, but just don’t find them practical for everyday wear. Those are for dress-up, at least in my mind.

Pastels are NOT my style. I much prefer bright, bold colors, unless we are talking about painting walls in a house that I live in, and than I go for the softer colors. Purples, pinks, reds, greens and blues are generally my style, at least as far as clothing goes. If we are talking wall colors, than it would all depend on what room we are talking about…I think a nice cheery yellow might be a good color for the kitchen, but I’d have to wait and see, as I live in a rental and can’t paint it.

A house with no pets is NOT my style. I grew up having all sorts of pets, and just can’t see myself without some sort of miniture zoo. *LOL* Right now my zoo is on the small side with 4 cats and a snake. We will be adding a few more kittens soon though, because they have disabilities, and I have a soft heart.

Life without my children is deffinitely NOT my style. They are my love, they are my life, and my soul!! I can not see my life without them, and simply can not understand people that are not involved in their children’s lives. I am not talking about people that have put their babies up for adoption, as I understand most of the reasons people choose to do that. I am talking about people that just don’t care about their children, and choose not to have any part in their life. My children are my joy, they are what keeps me surviving day after day, and forging on ahead with my life, to be better than what I am. They are the reason I homeschool, because trust me when I say it is not for my convience that I homeschool, it is because they are the most important thing in the world to me, and I think homeschooling is the best thing for them.

I have many styles, as you can see, and all of those styles are what makes me me.

Seeing a Washington DC dentist hadn’t been in her plans, but it didn’t turn out that she had much option. That’s what she got for putting off the obvious need to see a dentist for so long, but that is how she had always been. Putting off going to any type of a doctor for as long as possible, which of course usually ended her up in worse shape! Her father had always said she was stubborn about these things, but the fact of the matter was she was scared of doctors and had been since her mother had been diagnosed with cancer and had died 2 years later.

I’m not even sure what to write. I did an update about the accident over at my Prairie Roses blog, but it seems silly to repeat the same thing here.

I have read a few books in the last few days, to add to my sidebar, but don’t have the authors names handy to make sure I get them spelt right. I was especially glad to finally get The Hollow written by Nora Roberts! I have been looking for that book for months! I am even more excited that the third installment of that triology will be coming out in November. I do detest being left on the edge of my seat, with no way to know what happens until the next book is finally published.

School was put on hold over this past week, while we dealt with the after-accident mess. I still have plenty of phone calls to be made, but other than that and chiropractors appointments things are pretty well back to normal.

This week we need to go to Kansas City and get Des’s glasses, and get Megan’s fixed, as they both had their glasses broken in the accident. I am not looking forward to the trip, but yet I wish that it could have been this week, as I really hate them being without their glasses.

Please feel free to visit my other sites!! I have set up a new blog at Winter Lilies if you’d like to take a look, although it’s far from being that interesting right now!!

Well anyway, enough rambling I suppose. Please keep us in your prayers, especially about financial difficulties.

Whether it was a Toshiba Satellite or not didn’t really matter at all, at least not to Lainey, but than she’d never been really “into” the whole electronics thing. Guess that is what comes of having an old fashioned carpenter as a father, who didn’t use power tools but preferred to do it in the way of the Old People.

Sometimes you just don’t realize how lucky you are to have something, until you need that something. Take car insurance for example. Basically you see yourself paying month after month, but never need it…Than comes the time when you do….I would be in a huge hurt if I hadn’t had car insurance at the time of the accident!! Now my medical bill will be payed, as well as getting a settlement on my car, which I’m hoping will be enough to buy another car, of if not enough, at least get me started in the right direction.

I always thought it was kind of pointless to have full coverage insurance on older cars, and usually the settlement isn’t enough to do much with, but you know what, I might just decide to keep full coverage just for these times. Accidents don’t always involve more than one vehicle.