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Saturday walk with the pups!   My Week:   It was a pretty normal week last week, which was a good thing! The majority of my weekend was spent doing yard work--we had barkdust delivered on Friday and spent the weekend spreading it and getting the yard work done. We finished everything we've wanted to get done since we moved in, so that was great!   Reading: My week was so busy I didn't get much reading done! Almost done with Lilac Lane-will probably finish it today! Not sure what's up next but I'll decide that later tonight! Such a mood reader!     Watching: The World Series! I'm not a baseball fan but my goodness this series has been fun to watch!!   Workouts: Had a good run at the gym on Monday, an awesome Strong by Zumba   class on Wednesday, and a great PiYo class on Thursday! Plus our Saturday walk and all the yard work made for a great week on the exercise front! Has anyone else tried Strong by Zumba? What do you think? I love it!  

Title: Without Merit Author: Colleen Hoover 384 pages, published October 3, 2017 Source: Purchased for myself From Goodreads: The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Then, there’s Merit. Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn’t earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. While browsing the local antiques shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan. His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm and spark renewed life into her—until she discovers that he’s completely unavailable. Merit retreats deeper into herself, watching her family from the sidelines when she learns a secret that no trophy in the world can fix. Fed up with the lies, Merit decides to shatter the happy family illusion that she’s never b

About Hanna Who Fell from the Sky Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Park Row Books (September 26, 2017) From highly acclaimed, award-winning author Christopher Meades comes a magical, provocative tale of forbidden love and one girl’s struggle for liberation  Hanna has never been outside her secluded community of Clearhaven. She has never questioned why her father has four wives or why she has fourteen brothers and sisters. And in only one week, on her eighteenth birthday, Hanna will follow tradition and become the fifth wife of a man more than twice her age. But just days before the wedding, Hanna meets Daniel, an enigmatic stranger who challenges her to question her fate and to follow her own will. Then her mother tells her a secret—one that could grant Hanna the freedom she’s known only in her dreams. As her world unravels around her, Hanna must decide whether she was really meant for something greater than the claustrophobic world of Clearhaven. But can she abandon her beloved

Sunday walk with the boys!    My week: It was a busy but pretty normal week for me. We had our third program in four weeks at work so things were a bit crazy there and it made the week feel even longer, so I was pretty happy to make it to the weekend! Reading: I finished Without Merit, and I hate to say it...I didn't love it. I still love CoHo and will continue to read her books but this one just didn't do it for me. Full review on the blog later this week. This weekend was also Dewey's readathon ! I finished Before I Go to Sleep so the weekend reading was huge success. Today I'm starting Lilac Lane for my TLC Book Tour review coming up on November 6th. Isn't that cover gorgeous? Watching: The Good Doctor. Anyone else been watching it? Despite the gory parts (where I look at my book instead, haha) I really love the show. Drinking: We opened this gorgeous bottle of Pinot Noir from Left Coast Cellars this weekend!  We are wine club members and this

Dewey's 24 hour readathon is tomorrow! I've participated in a few of these and I'm excited to participate again! This week, including Saturday, is supposed to bring a "river" of rain to the Pacific Northwest, so it's the perfect excuse to stay inside and read!   I've been pulled in so many different directions lately I haven't had as much time to read. Usually I read during my lunch break at work but now that we have Elway I have to go home at lunch to let him out (he's still a puppy so he can't hold his bladder long!). So that takes up my reading time, unfortunately! So I'm looking forward to this rainy Saturday to relax and catch up on some reading.   The Books   Here's the plan, for now...:) I'm such a mood reader. I change my mind a lot!     Before I Go to Sleep : Breanne's book club (one of my besties who lives in Seattle) is reading this one this month. I haven't read it and it sounded interestin

Title: Now That You Mention It Author: Kristan Higgins Expected Publication Date: January 1, 2018 Note: I received this book from the publisher via Edelweiss  t o facilitate my review. I received no other compensation, and all opinions are my own. From Goodreads: One step forward. Two steps back. The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when she thought she was dying? Two major steps back. Injured in more ways than one, Nora feels her carefully built life cracking at the edges. There's only one place to land: home. But the tiny Maine community she left fifteen years ago doesn't necessarily want her. At every turn, someone holds the prodigal daughter of Scupper Island responsible for small-town drama and big-time disappointments. With a tough islander mother who's always been distant and a wild-child sister in jail, una

  W… W… W… Wednesday , hosted by Taking on a World of Worlds   is a weekly meme showcasing what you just finished reading, what you are currently reading, and what you plan to start reading next. I'm not sure what I'm reading next...so I'm going to add what I recently added to my TBR instead! What I Recently Finished Reading     I LOVED this book!! My favorite of 2017 so far!! Pre-order it NOW! Review on my blog soon!   What I am Currently Reading     Always excited for a new CoHo book!!! I've heard great things so I'm excited to read it! Listening to this one on audiobook from the library! Hillary narrates it!   What I Just Added to My TBR     My friend Breanne is reading this one now and enjoying it so far! I want to read it too!   What are you reading this week? Happy Reading!

  Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish . This Week's Topic:   Ten Books With Fall/Autumn Covers/Themes (If the cover screams fall to you, or the books give off a feeling of being Fallish)   I am a cover snob so I'm super excited for this one! Clearly, I equate fall to the color orange.         Happy Reading!      

About Lilac Lane Hardcover:  352 pages Publisher:  MIRA (October 17, 2017) No one writes about friends, family and home better than Sherryl Woods. Told with warmth and humor,  Lilac Lane  is a brand-new story in her beloved Chesapeake Shores series, one readers all over the world have waited two years to read! At the heart of  Lilac Lane  is Keira Malone, who raised her three children alone after her first marriage broke apart, and who, after years of guarding her heart, finally finds love again. But that love is short-lived when her fiancé suffers a fatal heart attack. Grieving and unsure of what’s next, Keira agrees to move from Dublin to Chesapeake Shores, Maryland, to spend time with her daughter, Moira, and her new granddaughter, Kate, as well as to help her son-in-law, Luke, with his Irish pub, O’Briens. Not wanting to live underfoot, she rents a charming cottage on Lilac Lane, replete with views of the ocean and her neighbor’s thriving garden—not to mention views of the n