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I was thoroughly captivated by this story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis: https://buff.ly/2CWjCRL @PattiCHenry #CSLewis #JoyDavidman #biofic #BecomingMrsLewis #TNZFiction #Booklove #mustread #bookblogger #linkinbio⠀ ⠀ REVIEW⠀ This was a thoroughly captivating read for so many reasons. First of all, who can resist a real-life love story? Especially when it involves someone as beloved as C.S. Lewis. Secondly, while our life circumstances vary widely, I whole-heartedly identified with Joy’s passionately intellectual personality, always seeking answers and thriving on stimulating discussion. It felt like an immense privilege to ‘sit’ with Joy and Jack and listen in as they discussed matters of life, faith, friendship, and love through the ten years they knew one another. Thirdly, Joy’s story was compelling in itself as she struggled with her writing career, an unhappy marriage, and poor health.⠀ ⠀ I didn’t really know anything of Joy’s story before picking up this book, so perhaps I don’t speak with much authority when I say this, but the story seemed very well researched, and I enjoyed the author’s notes detailing this at the end of the book. Callahan’s characterisation was masterful, vividly capturing every facet of Joy’s emotional journey: her internal conflict as her friendship with Jack flourished—via correspondence and eventually in person—while her marriage foundered; her later frustration and confusion as Jack “pressed his heart and mind as close to me as skin to bone” even as he remained unwaveringly committed to a chaste philia love between them; and her eventual realisation that she had spent her entire life seeking love in the outside world when the truth had been there all along: she was beloved of God.⠀ ⠀ It’s an affecting, thought-provoking story all the way to its poignant end, which left me grasping for tissues and desperate to read everything else ever written about these two. If you're at all a fan of C.S. Lewis, this is a must-read!Time for another #coverreveal! This time for Love and Other Mistakes by @jessicakatewriting, releasing #July2019. PLUS sign up for Jessica Kate’s newsletter and you can read Chapter 1! http://www.jessicakatewriting.com/ #tnzfiction #funsassyreal #romcom #jessicakate #loveandothermistakes #teamjem #booklove #bookblogger #aussieauthorsLooking for a fun, rom-com mystery? Royally in Trouble releases 23 October! "A small-town faire. A novice event planner. When her opening extravaganza takes a deadly turn, she'll risk everything to keep the curtain up." https://buff.ly/2OEMxjz @Jennybjonesauthor #romcom #cantwait #mustread #RoyallyinTrouble #booklove #bookbloggerThis story was everything I hoped for and more! https://buff.ly/2pXrdGT @LynnAustinBooks @PrismBookTours #ChristFic #ChristianFiction #BHPFiction #LegacyofMercy #HistoricalFiction #Booklove #MustRead #Bookblogger #Giveaway #linkinbioTime for another cover reveal, this time a new contemporary romance from @carlalaureanoauthor ! https://buff.ly/2pUU5zw #ChristFic #ChristianFiction #Romance #Starstruck #ComingSoon #Booklove #MustRead #Booklove #Bookworm #linkinbio⠀ ⠀ SYNOPSIS⠀ Novelist Christine Lind has achieved her lifelong dream—a string of best-selling books and a cable-TV adaptation about to go into production. But on her way to London FanFest for the cast reveal, disaster strikes: their leading man is injured in a motorcycle accident… and his replacement is the one person she hoped she’d never seen again.⠀ ⠀ Nick Cleary has clawed his way to recognition as a Hollywood actor, but it’s long past time he get the chance to show he’s more than a pretty face and a chiseled set of abs. His big break comes in the form of a juicy lead role in a new steampunk fantasy series. There’s just one catch—casting has to be approved by the author… a woman he once devastated through his own youthful stupidity.⠀ ⠀ Christine is the last person to be starstruck by the handsome heartthrob, but as the clock ticks down to the cast announcement and Nick races to show that he’s really changed, she begins to wonder if there’s more to her ex than his Hollywood persona. Except now the consequences of being wrong no longer apply only to her career… but also to her carefully guarded heart.It's time for a cover reveal! Check the comments to see the cover :-) @spinning_stories #ChristFic #ChristianFiction #WhoseWavesTheseAre #BHPFiction #CoverReveal #TeamUncoverTheCover #bookworm #booklover #bookblogger SYNOPSIS In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose . . . and rocks. Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something lifegiving. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny, coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused hands to work, but the building halts when tragedy strikes. Decades later, Annie Bliss is summoned back to Ansel-by-the-Sea when she learns her Great-Uncle Robert, the man who became her refuge during the hardest summer of her youth, is now the one in need of help. What she didn't anticipate was finding a wall of heavy boxes hiding in his home. Long ago memories of stone ruins on a nearby island trigger her curiosity, igniting a fire in her anthropologist soul to uncover answers. She joins forces with the handsome and mysterious harbor postman, and all her hopes of mending the decades-old chasm in her family seem to point back to the ruins. But with Robert failing fast, her search for answers battles against time, a foe as relentless as the ever-crashing waves upon the sea. Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42075068-whose-waves-these-are Amazon: https://amzn.to/2CkmsP8Categories
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