Month: November 2019

Flower Friday: Mountain Mint, Swallowtail, and Zinnias #FlowerFriday #Swallowtail #Flowers #Zinnias #MountainMint

On By MischenkoIn Flower Friday, Plants and gardening35 Comments

I discovered Flower Friday while visiting Lorilin@Bugbugbooks and decided to begin sharing some flower pictures from our gardens along with some information about them. Please check out Lorilin’s blog if you haven’t already for book reviews and more!

Last time I shared Camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris)

Here are other 2019 shares:

Today’s share:

Mountain Mint and Zinnias

I don’t have anything spectacular to share today, but here are a few fall pictures of the mountain mint and the last zinnias.

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Orange King

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Book Review: Day Zero (Day Zero Duology #1) by Kelly DeVos #BookReview #DayZero #YoungAdult

On By MischenkoIn Dystopian, Fiction, Reads, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Young Adult10 Comments

Day Zero (Day Zero Duology #1)

by Kelly DeVos

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My review:

This book turned out to be great. It literally had me on the edge of my seat!

The main character is Jinx Marshall. She’s like any other typical teenager and enjoys her junk food and playing video games after school. What makes her different is that she’s the daughter of a genius: her father who is a survivalist and has spent years preparing her for doomsday.

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Book Review: Noel Street (The Noel Collection, #3) by Richard Paul Evans #Christmas #BookReview #NoelStreet

On By MischenkoIn Christmas, Fiction, Reads, Romance, Series24 Comments

Noel Street

by Richard Paul Evans

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My thoughts:

Elle is a single mom living in Mistletoe, Utah. The year is 1975 and her husband has passed away in the Vietnam War. She struggles financially while trying to raise her son, Dylan.

The people in Mistletoe are kind, but when Elle meets a local mechanic named William, he puzzles her. After a kind gesture, the two connect, and Elle discovers that William is a Vietnam POW who’s still living with demons.

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Book Review: A Wedding in December by Sarah Morgan #BookReview #Christmas #AWeddinginDecember #20booksforChristmas

On By MischenkoIn Christmas, Reading Challenges, Reads, Romance24 Comments

A Wedding in December

by Sarah Morgan

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My thoughts:

Aside from reading a few reviews, I went into this one blind and ended up falling in love with it–nearly reading it in one sitting. A Wedding  in December consumed the majority of my Sunday.

The book opens with Maggie, mother of two daughters (Katie and Rosie) who are now both in their twenties and living on their own. Maggie sort of has some empty nest syndrome because she’s spent most of her life making a home for her family, including her husband Nick, but so much has changed. It’s Christmas, Maggie’s favorite time of year, and she can’t wait to decorate their home in England (Honeysuckle Cottage) for their annual family celebration. She expects both girls to come home for Christmas. After a phone call brings the announcement of a Christmas wedding (in Aspen, Colorado), Maggie begins to think this might be the worst Christmas ever.

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