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2024 books

Read:

Don't Believe It

Heir to Edenbrooke

Short Straw Bride

This is My America - this was very good

From Grace to Charity

We Were the Lucky Ones

Anxiously Engaged - amazing...President Ballard, what a guy. "I realize that many of you are very conscious of the needs of others.  I also know that you and I can do much more. Let us make the choice never to let a day pass without striving to touch the life of someone through our service! Then we can cherish and appreciate more the Savior's beautiful admonition: 'Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.'"

The Best We Could Do

Red Notice

Homegoing - I liked how this connected generations throughout the entire book

Since You've Been Gone

Letters to the Lost

Reaching for the Savior

Summerhaven

Sweet on You - this was the third of this series, the first two I listened to. I really enjoyed them and they were clean; I told my mom to read them and she really liked them as well

Eve and Adam - this was too intellectual for me, to be honest, or maybe I'm just not smart enough!

The Do-Over - cute YA novel but wish it had less language

Far Above Rubies

Cross Her Heart

More Than We Can Tell

All The Forgivenesses

The Amish Groom

Keeper of Lost Cities

James - excellent, 5 stars for sure

The Amish Blacksmith

One Foggy Christmas - I flew through this over Thanksgiving break, really cute and clean!

The Holiday Stand-In 

Changed Through His Grace

The Christmas Tree Keeper

Later on We'll Conspire - my second favorite Christmas book that I read in December

The Heavens are Open

Listened to:

The Second Life of Mirielle West

The Surgeon's Daughter

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - interesting and actually very sad

The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

A Heart Worth Stealing

The Woman with the Blue Star

The Island of Missing Trees - I did enjoy the storyline of this book but I loved the descriptions of Cyprus and the food...makes me want to visit!

Sooley

A Woman's Place

You Belong with Me

A Hopeful Christmas

Until I Met You

Once Upon a Wardrobe - excellent

True to You

We'll Always Have Summer 

Falling For You

Forget Me Not

Killing November

Hunting November

Lily of the Valley

Echoes Between Us

Fleur de Lis

Twenty Years Later - good murder mystery and I don't remember too much as far as language goes - plot twist at the end

Let Them Be Kids

Gone Girl - complete waste of time - way too much language and I ended up not even liking it

The Women - Kristin Hannah is a master, everything I have read from her has been amazing and this was no exception

Healing Hearts

Winter Solstice - I love me some Rosamunde Pilcher, took me longer to get into this book but ended up enjoying it. I always love how she develops the characters in her books and makes me wish they were real people that I could be friends with

The Hot Zone - ebola is scary

Defy the Night - I am listening to the second book in this series and I really like them...thinking Ivy might enjoy them in a few years

A Child Called It

Book Lovers - enjoyed the story, had to skip through a steamy scene, but the banter between the two main characters is great

Secrets and Suitors

All the Seas of the World - an accomplishment that I even got through this one, it was super duper long

The Lost Boy

Georgana's Secret

The House on the Cerulean Sea

The Boys: a Memoir of Hollywood and Family - I liked this peek into a famous family and how they were able to be "normal" for the most part

Totals:

31 books read

38 books listened to

69 total books for the year!

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