COMPLETED This is my own sign up post. To sign up yourself (please do!), go to the main challenge page here , or click the button abov...

2X17: READ 34 BOOKS IN 2017 COMPLETED I'm combining the Mt. TBR Challenge with a TBR challenge I came up with to read two boo...

COMPLETED I signed up to read six books out of the possible 12 categories, with a stretch goal of reading nine, which I reached. As I ...

THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book ...

Gary Hayden's thousand-mile walk from John o’Groats, at the northern tip of Scotland, to Land’s End, at the southernmost tip of Engl...

Goldie Stampfer remembered the process of change at Neveh Shalom as a gradual one; first girls had Friday night bat mitzvahs, later, they...

COMPLETED I finished nine books for this challenge. This is my wrap up post. My nine books are listed below and the nine items I foun...

THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN! Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book ...

I love traditions here at Rose City Reader and my favorite is this advent calendar of vintage Christmas cards. I'm going back to a th...

Elizabeth Heaney left her private therapy practice to work with returning war vets and their families. Her new book, The Honor Was Mine: ...

I'm up later that morning at the crack of ten. . . . I look out at the gray skies and mist as I sip my first cup of joe. Secondhand...

COMPLETED I finished the Pastry Chef level this year, which means reading four to eight food books in 2016. BOOKS FINISHED Dea...

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When Julia Laughlin was 21, she was sexually assaulted by a man she had known and trusted, a man later tried for her assault and as a se...

The forgiveness had opened the door to healing. It was not only forgiveness of him; I had to forgive myself too. The River and the Sea...