Margaret
Words from my 12.5-year-old daughter (AppleBlossom) who is an avid Connealy fan. You know how much I love Mary's books, now in the last year, my daughter has read or audiobook listened to more than I have!
A Man with a Past is my favorite Mary Connealy book so far. The book is about Falcon Hunt who is from the Tennessee wilderness. It is the second book in Mary Connealy's Brothers in Arms series. The book tells about Falcon Hunt's side of the story from the point where he got pushed over the waterfall and so on. It also tells his side of it when he caught the men trying to ambush him by ambushing them.
After Falcon gets pushed over the waterfall, everyone else thinks he is dead. He's not dead but he forgets his past. Although, he still knows how to hunt, light a fire, and to find or make good shelter. Falcon describes her as the prettiest woman in the area (not out loud), after he had just met her and caught her sleeping soundly in the woods a few nights before. A Man with a Past also tells about Falcon's and Cheyenne's growing affection for each other.
After starting to fully enjoy staying up on Hope Mountain with Jo and realizing that I was going to prolong my fourth trimester as we all were confined to stay at home in the midst of the Pandemic of 2020, it was a strange struggle to adventure on a train with Ilsa and her newly shotgun wedding husband Mitch as they ventured far far from anywhere she had ever been. She was nervous, I was nervous. She was excited and in love, I was loving having my husband work from home and not have to journey out for homeschool requirements and activities. It was again and interesting parallel much like my experience with [b:Aiming for Love 43838133 Aiming for Love (Brides of Hope Mountain, #1) Mary Connealy https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1552003773l/43838133.SY75.jpg 68221018]. In Woman of Sunlight, I was fascinated by Ilsa, and her character is possibly my favorite of the three sisters. This is a great read and the rest of the trilogy is worth the time as a whole. Highly recommended as always. Thanks to Netgalley and Bethany House Publishers for the blessing of letting me read this story.
Many years ago, before my son was born, we borrowed this picture book from the local library. Now, that my son is seven, it was his turn to hear the story, however, the library purged their copy and I haven't been able to acquire one for our needs. However, the audiobook was miraculously available through our digital library and we were able to borrow it and listen to the fourteen minutes of story and extras including poetry and factual matter about David Drake, the early nineteenth-century slave, the Potter from Edgefield, South Carolina, a land of my ancestry. Many years ago, before children, book reviewing, or marriage even occurred to me I spent my summers and other trips in genealogy research. While on a trip learning about my ancestors of Mount Willing and beyond, I remember an afternoon in the Edgefield Square when my father and I visited a room with pottery everywhere and learned of the local history of David Drake. Why is this book not everywhere? Why is it not constantly covered when slavery history is brought up? What snippets we have from Dave, the Potter are amusing, tongue in cheek, and smart. With the limits imposed by the time and the cultural era, how wonderful to see remnants of history where he obviously fought the odds in his own way. This book is interesting and beautiful to my memory. To the audio, it is educational and interesting. The overall story is a great window and gateway to so many conversations to be had. It is great for my younger children, but it is great for any adults as well.
I do not own a copy, but I would love to one day. This book is also recommended for further reading with Sonlight Curriculum K 2020 Exploring American History in Heroes and Happenings, Vol. 1.
This is our third adventure with Lulu and Mellie and we have already borrowed the fourth adventure for these little girls to read soon. I am reading the series aloud and everyone from the toddler to the twelve-year-old is enjoying them, I am enjoying them. We read this one as a Kindle Unlimited borrow, but before we finished the book it was, the entire series was, removed from the program. I'm really interested in the idea of buying the entire boxed set if I could find it. Lulu and the Cat in the Bag is perhaps the best one in the series yet. So much humor and adorableness in these pages. The illustrations are fun too and remind me of Anna Hibiscus.
A little while ago, The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart was recommended to me. I went to the library to borrow it, but it was lost in the catalog. They decided to buy a new copy and bought the entire series, but it didn't come in until after the libraries shut down indefinitely. Since then, I have bought a copy, but have not yet read it. Thus, when I saw The Raven Heir come across my possibilities, I couldn't help but jump at the opportunity to read and review it. I love every single minute of it. Many pages made me joyfully reminiscent of [b:Jinx 15818254 Jinx (Jinx #1) Sage Blackwood https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1349997100l/15818254.SY75.jpg 19258981]. A set of triplets make of the spine of this story and as a reader one is able to adventure on a fast-paced with plenty of thoughtful fodder journey. I really recommend this read for those that love nature and “peace on earth”. There are so many elements that I want to talk about, but I don't want to give it away because it such a good experience. I'll definitely be looking to add a copy of this to my library so that my children can read it. I read this as an eARC, and later LibbyApp eBook for review purposes.
It feels like every #bookstagram I post is one of our school reads and not just a Mama read. Well, I have one for ya! I have a backlog of @maryconnealy books that I need to tell you about and Braced for Love is only one of them. Honestly, my 12 year old daughter is stealing and has read more of them than I have and is reading them one after the other! (I haven't told her about my digital arc copies or I might lose my tablet with @netgalley on it!!
While I know I'm jumping a bit to dive into a new series, my daughter kept giving me spoilers that I had to dive in. I spent some days reading and some days listening while cross stitching of course to Braced for Love by Mary Connealy and enjoyed every minute. (Side note: good narrator)
I have ideas of what else might happen with Wyatt and Falcon, but I enjoyed learning Kevin's story. Plenty of action, plenty of romance, a Mary Connealy worth of humor and comedy, characters that I adore and abhor. All around decent reading, always leaving me wanting more.
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This is, as far as I know, the first Dave and Neta Jackson book we have read together. I have read Neta's contemporary fiction, assuming it is the same author and enjoyed them. All of my children enjoyed this from the elementary students I was aiming to, and the older, even middle school siblings that always came to listen in. There is so much action, vivid descriptions of the historical era and trouble, and fodder for conversation in these pages. As we were turning to the last pages, a local friend had a set of Trailblazer Books for us to read, so now we have a half dozen more adventures to go on together.
We own a paperback and a Kindle eBook copy. This was recommended in Sonlight Curriculum K 2020 Exploring American History.
Overall we loved this story, another checkmark in the list of willingness to read Landmark History books. We were reading this one as it was a recommendation with Sonlight D/BookShark 3 Introduction to American History part 1. It is also a recommendation from TGTB History 4 and we have a second copy published by TGTB as well as this one republished from the original Landmark by Avyx. It was a long time coming, but it was never boring each time we picked up the story. So much happened. It definitely had a flare that reminded us of [b:Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 128048 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Jean Lee Latham https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1480110382l/128048.SY75.jpg 871691] by the same author. An incredible figure of history undergoing unimaginable hardships of defeat to just get up and succeed again and again. I wish I had such fortitude, but perhaps my children will because they now have such examples as Eli Whitney and Captain Bowditch. These are the heroes that make me inspired and thrilled to hold claim to being an American. I wonder if my ancestors crossed paths with these incredible shadows of the past.
This is a Netgalley review.
When I saw there was a new book from Diane Zahler available I had to jump atthr opportunity to read it, or in this specific case, listen to the audio book. I thoroughly enjoyed this narrator, Sarah Zimmerman, and the occasional background circus music that really added to the atmosphere. This was five hours that I split into about three readings and enjoyed thoroughly as the action was fast paced and the characters were just complex enough. My girls overheard bits of the story as I was listening and have asked to be able to get it for us to listen to again and again. As I know how they feel about “Sleeping Beauty's Daughters,” I am not surprised. This was quite the cast of characters and I think many good discussions and parallels to life can be found in this middle grade fantasy.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the access of an audio book recordingmfor review.
Memoria Press Curriculum in the lower grades (K-2 currently) has several titles from various levels of the Let's Read and Find Out Science series in the supplemental social studies and science book lists and lesson plans. It was through Memoria Press recommendation that I discovered the series and now we are hooked. Thus when HarperCollins started publishing new titles to add to this series I found myself very excited.
With bolded vocabulary, fun illustrations, factual pop outs fill these pages. While not every kid can jump on a plane to go adventure a rainforest, but this is like a field trip in a book.
Do you know what rainforests are used for? Do you know how they prosper? Here is a great place to find out!
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I added this to my reading list when I saw it as a new release because in general I have found everything from Patricia MacLachlan is worthwhile. I received a digital access ARC for the purposes of review and started previewing it on my own, then 2020 hit my to do list, soon after I purchased a paperback copy on the recommendation of Sonlight Curriculum Kindergarten (2020). This little book is worth every penny as our young protagonist Sophie spends a summer questioning her worth and purpose in her mother's eyes and in life in general. There are links to music and terms of poetry that provide excellent conversation and foundational fodder to jump from. I ended up reading the entire little novel aloud to my crew and everyone enjoyed it from the toddler to the middle schooler and the elementary kiddos in between. Heartstrings were pulled and my mama's throat even choked up a bit as emotions and a desire for understanding bubbled to the surface. Just Dance is absolutely worth the read.
I had no idea what I was getting into when I picked up this book to read, solely because it was an award winner. It took me a while to read this little book because some days I just couldn't. While, after finishing it, I think it was incredibly done and tells such an important story... I do not know when I should be recommended to my daughter. I borrowed it for my eBook reader, but I'd buy it if the right price came along because it is a worthy read. A hard read, but necessary. Overall, there is nothing too revealing in the telling, but more of an if you know, then you understand its essence. But again, I don't know when this will be an appropriate read. I think this is absolutely a book that could be recommended during a time of healing and therapy, however, I think it should also be recommended before anything has the opportunity to happen. But then what innocence is lost by reading it before “you know” of such things. Either way, while I struggle with my own questions of timing, this book is needed and I hope those that need it, find it at exactly the right moment.
