End of Week Check in: How did you do?

I don't know about you but I am tired.  Today I had to take my youngest to her Gymnastics class that so far she is loving and she gets to do it for free which is awesome!  I hope that she gets to continue once Ballet starts as she has wanted to do that for ages.  

#Discussion: Just Keep Swimming

Todays discussion is about how do you keep going when everything around you is trying to make you fail? The last few years have been horrible for us and it seems this year is going to be the worse one yet.  We've had to get another car, fix both vehicles, had hours cut, and now we're having issues with the house we live in. It just seems that it's one thing after another.  

Sign up for #AuthorChat!

#AuthorChat is still going but we are taking a break for the summer.  If you would like to book the show please check out the link above!  Each show will last for up to 30 minutes (might be more if we have a great turn out). And each show is set up to bring you the most promotion possible.  

#Discussions: The role of boys in YA. DISCUSS. (Is it okay that they’re idealised heart throbs??)

So romance is never as good in real life as it is in books and we all know why.  Because the best boys are written by women.  So sad that we can't find these boys IRL though.  So how important are these sexy boys and do they set the bar so high that we will never find real love?

#BookTour: Naturally Curly by Kristi Sanders Lasher @RABTBookTours

 

A Memoir

Christian living, Black and African American Biographies

Date Published: January 25, 2022

Publisher: Lucid Books Publishing

 

The complexities of a racially divided culture are too numerous to count, and with one glance around the globe, it is easy to see why no one is immune to its effects. With so many stories, personal experiences, and misunderstandings, it is all too much to contain and sort out. Thankfully, we serve a God who will do the sorting if we simply keep our eyes on Him. The One who truly knows us and sees us as we are understands our deeply rooted issues; there is no condemnation in Him.

In her memoir Naturally Curly, Kristi shares a true account of how she was nearly engulfed by a deeply rooted lie accepted by many in our country. Kristi takes you on a journey from her early years when the lie first took root in her life to its massive and subtle manifestations in adulthood, which culminated in God’s grand rescue. Finally, she thoughtfully explores some aspects of what she believes the racial divide means for the church.

#Bookclub: King of Battle and Blood with @ScarlettStClai1

So this week for bookclub I had the fortunate opportunity to have my bookclub chat with author Scarlet St. Clair and I have to tell you she is the nicest person ever!!! She just out of the freaking blue tweeted me on twitter and asked if she could crash my bookclub.  I was like YES! I swear I spent most of the day either screen shooting the fact that she followed me on instagram and that she was already following me on twitter than I did anything else that day.  

So I thought why not share that with my YouTube fans.  This was a screen recording I did the next day so it cut it off. But you can watch the entire video on instagram here 

I also found out that she has followed my site since like 2014 so that was like a shock man!! I didn't even know!  I hope I never get to the point where getting a reply or being able to chat with authors becomes the norm.  I love being the totally crazy fangirl and I hope that never changes.  

Thank you again Scarlet St. Clair for making my day so amazing!! Because that day was super hard. 

#BookReview: Tomboy (Jane Benjamin #2) by @blantonstroud @shewritespress

Synopsis: It’s 1939. On the brink of World War II, Jane Benjamin wants to have it all. By day she hustles as a scruffy, tomboy cub reporter. By night she secretly struggles to raise her toddler sister, Elsie, and protect her from their mother. But Jane’s got a plan: she’ll become the San Francisco Prospect’s first gossip columnist and make enough money to care for Elsie.

Jane finagles her way to the women’s championship at Wimbledon, starring her hometown’s tennis phenom and cover girl Tommie O’Rourke. She plans to write her first column there. But then she witnesses Edith “Coach” Carlson, Tommie’s closest companion, drop dead in the stands of apparent heart attack, and her plan is thrown off track.

While sailing home on the RMS Queen Mary, Jane veers between competing instincts: Should she write a social bombshell column, personally damaging her new friend Tommie’s persona and career? Or should she work to uncover the truth of Coach’s death, which she now knows was a murder, and its connection to a larger conspiracy involving US participation in the coming war?

Putting away her menswear and donning first-class ballgowns, Jane discovers what upper-class status hides, protects, and destroys. Ultimately—like nations around the globe in 1939—she must choose what she’ll give up in order to do what’s right.