MONDAY READING 23.2.15

Finishing up one final book for  It's Monday! What Are You Reading? *

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Definitely indoor reading weather this weekend.  I made the best of -47C degrees outdoors by wearing capris, drinking tea and enjoying bowls of  hot soup indoors.                              This week I completed ~

  Contemporary roadtrip on the E coast USA, journalist Belinda Jones puts her travel knowledge to good use in writing the descriptive locations experienced in  The Travelling Tea Shop.
A lot of relational issues surface as this tale unfolds.  Three female family members travelling together surprise the baking tour guide who must  rise to the occasion or watch her efforts disintegrate the first day.  Chick lit reading with a lot of taste tempting recipes en route.
Pancake Tuesday Intro + Teaser posted HERE
*  2nd completion?   Timed for Julie Klassen's Book Tour Spotlight here at FHC on Thursday February 26th The Secret of Pembrooke Park *

I love Julie's well researched historical plots and this one adds  gothic suspense to increase reading tension.  Superb. 1,492 ratings at 4+*s

Abigail Foster fears she will end up a spinster, especially as she has little dowry to improve her charms and the one man she thought might marry her--a longtime friend--has fallen for her younger, prettier sister. 
When financial problems force her family to sell their London home, a strange solicitor arrives with an astounding offer: the use of a distant manor house abandoned for eighteen years. The Fosters journey to imposing Pembrooke Park and are startled to find it entombed as it was abruptly left: tea cups encrusted with dry tea, moth-eaten clothes in wardrobes, a doll's house left mid-play . . . 

A gruff welcome awaits them, but though this family seem to know about the manor's past, the only information they offer Abigail and her father is a warning: Beware trespassers who may be drawn by rumours that Pembrooke contains a secret room filled with treasure. . .  Arrival of anonymous letters addressed to Abigail, with clues about the room and the past, bring discoveries even more startling. As secrets come to light, will she be the one to find the treasure or is danger one step ahead?

**Be sure to check out reviews and excerpts during the
Blog Tour this Week. *

* Lovely post delivery ~ Thank you to Laurel-Rain's Blue Mondays Giveaway !  

The Violets of March -  perfectly timed Spring reading! * Currently Reading along with daily Lent video posts

"Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.” 

~ Henri Nouwen

The Life of the Beloved series begins HERE


* Anticipated Reading ?

Finding Spiritual Whitespace: Awakening Your Soul to Rest * I've begun the above library reserve I picked up Friday while the weather was decent   I do look forward to picking up the following new releases as soon as available! { plots are intriguing and fantastic cover art !} *

* Price of Privilege - Jessica Dotta
 [an amazing audio sale price HERE] Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner [24% off] Remember the Lilies by Liz Tolsma A Memory of Violets by Hazel Gaynor [at 23% off] A Sparrow of Terezin by Kristy Cambron [releasing April 2015 pre-order at -10%] * **[click titles for discount pricing and Free delivery no minimum!]





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SHROVE TUESDAY TEASERS and INTROS 17.2.15

Shrove Tuesday
Pancakes anyone ?

* Mennonite Girls Can Cook ! Here's the recipe  - Here's the CookBook CELEBRATIONS - EnJOY !!
* Today's perfect one liner for  TUESDAY INTROS and TEASER TUESDAY chosen specifically for Pancake Tuesday [Shrove Tuesday] the day preceding the 1st day of Lent.
Featuring THE TRAVELLING TEA SHOP by Belinda Jones
" I look up at my clock.  1.30 p.m.  My stomach flips like a pancake."

Belinda Jones's 11th novel published in 2014 by Hodder . Following ten years as a magazine journalist and travel editor, Ms Jones began writing novels inspired by her adventures.  Having travelled to over 25 countries, her goal is to write her way around the world. THE TRAVELLING TEA SHOP tour takes readers through Quebec in Eastern Canada, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island.
Four women board a London bus fitted out as an English Tea Shop for their road trip. Their mission?  To bring English classics - Battenberg, Victoria sponge cake, and scones
to the land of cupcakes and sundaes.  And, of course, how to make a real cup of tea! Secrets and heartaches that need healing amidst four women whose emotions run high. Yet perchance romance...?

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Find more Teasers at MizB's Should Be Reading
and Diane's 1st Chapter 1st Paragraph Intros at Bibliophile by the Sea

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