Right? I mean, come on! So hard. So hard. Both! LOL

Eeep! That's two votes plus mine. Aperfect trifecta. SCORE!

@@ChautonaHavig I want you to read it so you can tell me if it's any good. I trust your mystery recommendations, especially as I become more prudish as I age.

I totally get that. I think that's why I haven't read Dell's book for so long. I wasn't there. Now it makes me happy but before I probably would have sobbed through it.

Right. And let yourself snack your way until you find yourself eating the whole book. "Nice chapter. But... maybe I want this other one... nah... not my flavor. Oh, what about this...?"

@@ChautonaHavig exactly!!!!! Takes me a while to land on something that way but I don't want reading to become a chore

So many things.to keep me occupied.

@@ChautonaHavig so many books to discover!

Aw, thanks. It helps to take a shower every month or so... JUST KIDDING!

@@ChautonaHavig 🤪🤪🤪🤪 I find that once a month routine works wonders!!!!!!

Oh,I forgot my Bischof!!! I could totally do Sadie!

I considered Alaska Cyber crimes for today since it's so hot. LOL I know. I'm weird. You know, I feel like I read Freddy as a kid. Maybe I should get them and read/reread to see!

I think you'd get a good feel for them if you checked out R. M. Ruiz at becauseficitonpodcast.com We have talked a lot about her books and you get a feel. It's positive cousin interactions (not perfect but for the most part they enjoy each other) as they go on these missions given them by God. Normally, I'd be bothered by God "giving a mission" outside the Word but since we're dealing with other fictional things (monsters etc) it just seems to me like showing kids how God, in His Word, has given us a mission, the "blessed object" is Armor of God, and the monsters are Satan and his minions--a way to see spiritual warfare in a way that clicks with kids. :)

That sounds like fun! YIPPIE!

So hard to decide. EEEP!!!

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. God is good. Good to see you!

Just found one on eBay for 20 bucks shipped. BEAUTIFUL condition. I have the next one just not that. So yay!

Right. But which one... which one...

I don't know what it is about it, but every time I think, "I should try that,"... I don't. Someday maybe. Maybe.

@@ChautonaHavig I’m just the opposite if they talk it up I want to try it. In When the Day Comes, the first one, Libby time travels between 1744 Williamsburg and 1914 New York. At 21 she must choose her preferred time period. Her mother was a time traveler but not Libby’s sisters. Only with a sunburst over your heart. 🤔Changing gears, I am into Seek and Hide. I bought it when you first talked about it but I couldn’t figure out what was going on with the car crashing the garage. 🤔I tore my shelves apart trying to find it this afternoon now I’m into it. 👍🏻 Great video! 👏🏻

YES! So tempted. That might be the one.

One way or t'other.

It was such a GOOD feeling to realize that... whoa... it's like GONE

EEEP! You've been a steady part of my recovery. Thank you for being you!

Motorcycle accident??

@@ChautonaHavig I was thinking your husband had a motorcycle accident. I’m sorry if I was praying the wrong type of accident.

@@ReadJournalLove OH! Kevin. Sorry, my tired brain didn't translate. It was a bicycle accident, but same smell. When a truck hits you on either, it's never good. LOL

Here's another request, @ChristaDelSorbo (we have two volumes, but it's a LOT of words for the next two).

Wee Bonnie Books is on the radar for end of this year beginning of next. :D

Aw, thanks. You bless me. :)

Burnout can also affect reading, so it's no wonder you're having a rough reading patch! Praying for you, my friend!

Aw, thanks. My email might work if you want to try the address once more. I've been holding onto Love Overboard for you. :)

Aw, thanks! I could use it!! :D

Too much fun! Thanks!

It's amazing what you can handle if it's either/or. That both... not so much. LOL

I feel like that is what happened last month. June was so great and add on the smoke and misery of July... I just needed a break.

@@ChautonaHavig we will both get back on this!

I'd say so!

@@ChautonaHavig yay! I was having a difficult time finding one for that prompt.

It really is delightful.

You know... I should have known more about it to do a better bad description. Read it when I was 15 because I had nothing else to do and remember zippo, nada, nothing. I don't think I cared enough to remember at the time. I should reread it.

@@ChautonaHavig I feel that historical novels like this are better appreciated when you understand the historical events that inspired the book. Tolstoy's novel is more of a chore not because of it's length, but the detail to history, along with the complexities of a country at war and the characters and their separate stories doesn't exactly help matters. While I was reading War & Peace, I was doing a unit about the Napoleonic Wars and understanding more about Napoleon. It's definitely a book that you really have got to have a basic understanding of the history in order to appreciate. I read this book in French so it was separated into three separate tomes. Maybe this is the reason I loved it so much because the French publisher made it more manageable whereas the English is nearly 1,300 pages!

@@Eevie361 I don't remember being nearly as intimidated by the size as a kid as I do today. Probably because that's all I had to do all day. And I do remember asking my dad a LOT about the Napoleonic Wars now that you mention it. I think I learned more about those than I got from the book just because I asked. And interestingly enough, I remember that Dad compared and contrasted the Napoleonic Wars of the time with the War of 1812 in America. I just don't remember what those comparisons and contrasts were. LOL

Oh, that's tough. I'm going to say Miss Buncle's Book. It's hilarious.

@@ChautonaHavig I'll add it to my ever-growing tbr.

We do. BOTH sides. I had to learn to respect and appreciate how others DO share their emotions. That was hard, but there is value in that. I don't see any in being RULED by emotions, but expressing them freely and being ruled by them are not the same thing. That was a lesson for me.

Isn't Love, Mary Elisabeth the sweetest?

@@ChautonaHavig yes! I loved it! It was so wholesome and showed healthy family dynamics while still having realistic problems and good times.

So glad you are all well. A couple of kids were driving and felt nothing, but everyone in the house felt the 5.2. :)