What I Read Last Week:

Title: The Christmas Sisters

Authors: Sarah Morgan

Immediate Thoughts: Captivating, warm, and uplifting!

Rating: 10/10

Publication Date: September 25, 2018

Title: Sea Prayer

Authors: Khaled Hosseini

Immediate Thoughts: Powerful, short, and beautifully depicted!

Rating: 9/10

Publication Date: September 18, 2018

Title: Playing Hurt

Author: Kelly Jamieson

Immediate Thoughts: Sexy, playful, and fun!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: July 17, 2018

Title: The Exes’ Revenge

Author: Jo Jakeman

Immediate Thoughts: Ominous, relentless, and intense!

Rating: 7.5/10

Publication Date: September 11, 2018

Title: The Missing Girl

Author: Jenny Quintana

Immediate Thoughts: Atmospheric, dramatic, and intriguing!

Rating: 8/10

Publication Date: October 2, 2018

What I’m Currently Reading:

In a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a world where women were silenced, she found her voice.

From New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called “my whole world.” When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis—known as Jack—she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn’t holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the beloved writer of Narnia, yet their minds bonded over their letters. Embarking on the adventure of her life, Joy traveled from America to England and back again, facing heartbreak and poverty, discovering friendship and faith, and against all odds, finding a love that even the threat of death couldn’t destroy.

In this masterful exploration of one of the greatest love stories of modern times, we meet a brilliant writer, a fiercely independent mother, and a passionate woman who changed the life of this respected author and inspired books that still enchant us and change us. Joy lived at a time when women weren’t meant to have a voice—and yet her love for Jack gave them both voices they didn’t know they had.

At once a fascinating historical novel and a glimpse into a writer’s life, Becoming Mrs. Lewis is above all a love story—a love of literature and ideas and a love between a husband and wife that, in the end, was not impossible at all.

What I’m Reading Next:

Jane Campbell avoids confrontation at any costs. Given the choice, she’ll always let her husband, Leon–a bestselling crime writer–take the lead, while she focuses on her two precious young children and her job as a creative writing teacher. After she receives another rejection for her novel, Leon urges Jane to put her hobby to rest. And why shouldn’t she, when through Jane’s rose-tinted glasses, they appear to have the perfect house and the perfect life?

But then Leon is brutally attacked in their driveway while their children wait quietly in the car, and suddenly, their perfect life becomes the stuff of nightmares. Who would commit such a hateful offense in broad daylight? With her husband in a coma, Jane must open her eyes to the problems in her life, as well as the secrets that have been kept from her. Although she might not like what she sees, if she’s committed to discovering who hurt her husband–and why–Jane must take matters into her own hands.

A surprising and gripping thriller of pride, ambition, and envy, Open Your Eyes is an unsettling whodunit about the illusions of a perfect marriage that confirms Paula Daly as a writer at the forefront of domestic suspense.