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August 26, 2022

Monthly Wrap up: July 2022

July flew on by as well. August here and when this posts it almost the end of summer with only two weeks or a week left of August. Sorry the month flew on by and I did not have much time to get all these wrap up post done that the end of the month. But now I am all caught up with wrap up post for May though July once this one is posted. I will need to work on August wrap up. May do that in the next few days. Happy Last Dog Days of Summer.

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Books Read in July:

My Way West: Real Kids Traveling the Oregon and California Trails by Elizabeth Goss
Mickey on the Move: Farming by Michelle Wagner (Book Tour - Live Now)
A Celebration of Mothers in Rhyme by Roger Carlson

My books really fell in 2 different genres for this month. They are in 2 different media categories I believe as well. They will be shown below.

Books by Genre:

Children - 2 Book
Nonfiction - 1 Book

Books by Media Categories:

Paperback - 1 Books
Hardcover - 2 Book

I have read a total of 120 Pages, 00.00 Hours of Listening for the month of July. I am finally back to reading around what I think I can for a month. The total for 2022 is 1020 Pages and 39.06 Hours of Listening.

Books by Pages Total:

My Way West: Real Kids Traveling the Oregon and California Trails - 48 Pages
Mickey on the Move: Farming - 38 Pages
A Celebration of Mothers in Rhyme - 34 Pages

Total Pages by Month:

January - 124 Pages
February - 548 Pages
March - 768 Pages / 5.25 hours
April - 78 Pages / 15.74 hours
May - 0 Pages / 17.25 hours
June- 54 Pages
July - 120 Pages

Total books by Month:

January - 4 Books
February - 5 Books
March - 3 Books
April - 4 Books
May - 1 Book
June - 2 Books
July - 3 Books

Favorite Book of the Month:

My Review for Mickey on the Move: Farming

Mickey is on the move again!
He and his mom take pride in farming and gardening together, doing everything from raising chickens to growing delicious fruits and vegetables in their backyard orchard.
Mickey, who was born with deafness in both ears, has overcome obstacles to fully enjoy the great outdoors.
His Aqua Cochlear implants allow him to hear and appreciate the beautiful sounds in nature without the worry of weather dampening his day!

Want To Buy: Amazon

Book Haul of the Month:

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Book Challenges:
- Goodreads Reading Challenge 22/32 Books
- Fiction Addiction's Monthly Wrap up
- Backlog of Reviews (0 Reviews) 2011 though 2018
Bloggers Commenting Back
Follow me and I follow back

Giveaways:

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Here is everything that been posted for the year. Some things have been will be posted later then when I read the book or reviewed it. Most cases this is when a book is on tour with me. The Book review may be posted later or a month or so done the line. I will gladly mark these when I read the book so you know.

My Wrap Ups for the Year:

What are your Reading this July?

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August 19, 2021

8:06 PM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Monthly Wrap up: July 2021 (Fourth of July Edition)

July was a decent month until the end. I got busy at the beginning of the month with a wedding and then a baby shower at the end of July. I have read a total of 5 books. I was dealing with the heat so now we are in August. I hope August is a bit better. My recommendation page is still a work in progress but there are more books on the page, if you want purchase some of these lovely books. It looks better and cleaned up and organized. Check it out if you want to shop one of the books that been reviewed on my blog. I still need to still add some of the older book tour books and other older reviews to the list but I am working on it. How was your 4 of July?

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Books Read in July:

The Scarlet Pen by Jennifer Uhlarik
Rambee Boo's Halloween by Reena Korde Pagnoni
The Red Fence by Ed Damiano
Smile and Say Hi by Mary Jo Hazard
Lost Locket by Wendy Ann Mattox

My books really fell in 3 different genres for this month. They are in 3 different media categories I believe as well. They will be shown below.

Books by Genre:

Children - 3 Books
Historical - 1 Book
Middle Grade - 1 Book

Books by Media Categories:

Hard Cover - 2 Books
Paperback - 1 Books
E-Book - 2 Book

I have read a total of 466 Pages, for the month of July. I am finally back to reading around what I think I can for a month. The total for 2021 is 3,737 Pages and 0.00 Hours of Listening.

Books by Pages Total:

The Scarlet Pen - 256 Pages
Rambee Boo's Halloween - 26 Pages
The Red Fence - 38 Pages
Smile and Say Hi - 38 Pages
Lost Locket - 108 Pages

Total Pages by Month:

January - 371 Pages
February - 90 Pages
March - 1,344 Pages
April - 534 Pages
May - 522 Pages
June - 412 Pages
July - 466 Pages

Total books by Month:

January - 12 Books
February - 3 Books
March - 6 Books
April - 4 Books
May - 11 Books
June - 6 Books
July - 5 Books

Favorite Book of the Month:

My Review for Rambee Boo's Halloween!

It's almost Halloween and RAMBEE BOO doesn't have a costume! Rock has an idea, but he needs Rambee Boo and Sock to help. Will the crew be able to make Rambee Boo a costume in time for Halloween?

Want to buy: Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Christian Books | Waman Books

Book Haul of the Month:

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You can check out my July Book Haul on Instagram

Book Challenges:
- Goodreads Reading Challenge 48/30 Books (Completed - May)
- Fiction Addiction's Monthly Wrap up
- Backlog of Reviews (0 Reviews) 2011 though 2018
Bloggers Commenting Back
Follow me and I follow back

Giveaways:

check the side bar

Support Deals / Kickstarters:
check the side bar

Here is everything that been posted for the year. Some things have been will be posted later then when I read the book or reviewed it. Most cases this is when a book is on tour with me. The book review may be posted later or a month or so done the line. I will gladly mark these when I read the book so you know.

My Wrap Ups for the Year:

What are your Reading this Month?

Check out my Recommendation Page
Linked up in: Monthly Book Blogger Linky up

Please read my NRC Policies Page

August 5, 2021

1:30 AM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Book Haul #13: (July 2021) - Fourth of July Edition

July has flown on by. It becoming end of summer and parents are getting ready to send their children back to school. Hope you are all safe and well and enjoying the summer with your family. Here are some amazing books that all arrived this month. I want to say Thank you to all of the authors and publishers and new one for all these lovely books that arrived this past month. They are on my TBR List to read. Some are New releases for next month. If they have not already been read and reviewed during this month.

Here are the books I received from several different publishers.Thank you to some authors as well. Thank you to those Book Tours as well. Most are review books. I want to say Thank you all. I bought three of these books

Rambee Boo Halloween by Reena Korde Pagnoni (Review)
A Fortune Most Deadly by May B. Bridges
The Triumphant Tails of Rescue Dogs: Punk's Plight by Hope A. Walter, EdD
Travels with Parky Pigeon: On the Waterfront by Timothy E. Becker
The Walnut Creek Wish by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Pretty Purple Piggy Bank by Ron Ryan
Peggy Parsley and the Buzzy Bumbles of Honeycomb Cottage by W J Bixby
Henry the Sleuth by Patricia Cruzan
My Way West: Real Young People and the Journey Overland by Elizabeth Goss

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All are on my radar to read. I hope to read these books soon. This is my book haul for this month.What are you reading this or recieved this past month?

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August 26, 2020

6:44 PM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Monthly Wrap up: July 2020

July flew on by and I really did not get much reading done. July was just to hot for me to read all that much. It my lowest reading for a month. With reading only two books.

I been watching tv a bit more. I been watching video games Let's Play on YouTube. I enjoy some of the games people are playing. I want to say Thank you them and those on the front lines of this pandemic.

I am been watching my TV shows on demand as well. Some of them are Deadliest Catch, Little People Big World, Bringing up Bates, Portals to Hell, Teen Mom OG, Call of The Midwife, Sister Wives, Ghost Adventures. I know am playing Animal Crossing New Horizons.

I have giveaways going on my blog. Check my sidebar on my blog under "Giveaways".

Books Read in June:

Ghost Moon by Kathleen Knight
Think Big by Kat Kronenberg

My books really fell in 2 different genres for this month. They are in 2 different media categories I believe as well. They will be shown below.

Books by Genre:

Children - 1 Book
Paranormal - 1 Book

Books by Media Categories:

Paperback - 1 Books
Hardcover - 1 Books

I have read a total of 261 Pages, for the month of June. I am finally back to reading around what I think I can for a month. The total for 2020 is 5,977 Pages and 00 Hours of Listening.

Books by Pages Total:

Ghost Moon - 213 Pages
Think Big - 48 Pages

Total Pages by Month:

January - 1,004 Pages
February - 964 Pages
March - 1,687 Pages
April - 440 Pages
May - 840 Pages
June - 781 Pages
July - 261 Pages

Total books by Month:

January - 6 Books
February - 5 Books
March - 7 Books
April - 4 Books
May - 3 Books
June - 5 Books
July - 2 Books

Favorite Book of the Month:

My Review for Think Big

Set in the wilds of the African savanna, Think Big follows moody Baboon as he discovers another powerful secret.

In the third installment in her Live Big Series, best-selling, award-winning author Kat Kronenberg takes readers back to the wilds of the African savanna where the animals not only still struggle to find food, but now they face life-threatening situations. They must fight to survive and are terrified.

But when our beloved moody Baboon challenges Kudu on what to do, everything begins to change. One by one, Kudu, Giraffe, and Bee are faced with the dilemma of who they want to be. After watching Bee choose to do good, Baboon figures out a new secret: We can light the stars in our hearts, empowering our lives, once we smile big deep within, truly believing in who we are, our ideas, and the importance of caring for others.

The danger continues to mount and Baboon finally gets so scared that he cries out for help. Luckily, some fun animals and Baobab Tree come to the rescue! Will they try the new—SHHH—secret so their collective ideas not only help all the animals survive, but thrive together so that their dreams can come true?

Once again, Kronenberg creates a mythical evolution story of some of nature’s most fascinating characters to teach young readers foundational skills for life—in this case, helping them build a loving community that knows the joy of gratitude, giving, and going for the extraordinary. Through playful dialogue and beautiful illustrations, readers learn to take a deep breath, connect their heads to their hearts, and celebrate their best lives as they problem solve. As with Dream Big and Love Big, Kronenberg includes hands-on activities at the end of the book and on her website. Her dream is that the whole experience will inspire young readers everywhere to learn to think big together.

Want to buy: Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Christian Books |

Book Haul of the Month:

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Book Challenges:
- Goodreads Reading Challenge 32/30 Books (Completed June 28, 2020)
- Fiction Addiction's Monthly Wrap up
- Backlog of Reviews (0 Reviews) 2011 though 2018
Bloggers Commenting Back
Follow me and I follow back

Giveaways:

None

Upcoming Reads / Releases

My Wrap Ups for the Year:

What are your Reading this July? How have you coping with the Coronavirus?

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July 25, 2020

9:53 PM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Book Haul - #1 (July 2020)

My very first book haul post. Though I been getting books for a while. I did not know how to create a post. I was not sure how to set up. Who say it has to be a certain way. So I am going to try. After reading and looking up book haul post, I seen you can make them anyway you like to. So I am giving it a shot. Here are are books I picked up in July. Sorry I did not do this before now. Better late then never I say.

Here are the books I received from several different publishers. I want to say Thank you to Barbor Publishing and Book Crash. All are review books.

The Black Midnight by Kathleen Y'Barbo
The Lake and the Secret Sweetheart by Judith Grimme
The MockingBird's Song by Wanda E. Brunstetter

All are on my radar to read. I hope to read these books soon. This is my Book haul for this month.

July 31, 2019

6:03 AM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Monthly Wrap Up: July 2019

July became a scorch of a month. You think that heat would let up. We did get a heat wave. I think that is one of the reason for struggling to finish one book. Though you can see I finished two for the month. One in the last three days of the month.

I know I will be layed up for a few hours or so the first weekend of August. With football season starting up soon for the NFL. My weekends or evening when my Pittsburgh Steelers are playing, I will be watching them. Though by September that will be mostly Sundays when the regular season starts.

I have to get a box ready for a bridal shower in august. I hope to get that box down the first week of august after having teeth surgery weekend before. You can see my watching tv was mostly what I was doing for the month of July.

I started setting up some blog post for books I read in 2011. I will spread them out though out the next couple of months with other books reviews coming in as well. I will be still reading books and posting reviews for the year. Just want to catch up on old books I read before starting my blog and getting some of the old reviews written and posted as well.

Books Read in July:

The Brides of the Big Valley by Wanda E. Brunstetter (Book Review coming out on August 1)
Real Murder by Lauren Carr (Book Tour coming in September)

My books really fall in different genres for this past month. They are in 2 different media categories I believe as well. They will be shown below.

Books by Genre:

Christian Fiction - 1 Books
Mystery - 1 Books

Books by Media Categories:

Paperback - 1 Books
Audiobook - 1 Books

I have read a total of 448 Pages, and 7 hrs, 53 mins for the month of July, This is less in terms of books read. I really think I should have gotten more read in the last month and this month. The book that did me in was The Brides of The big Valley. Though i do not know if that was it or the weather more so then reading. The total for 2019 is 5,626 Pages and 34 Hours of Listening.

Books by Pages Total:

The Brides of The Big Valley - 448 Pages
Real Murder - 7 Hours and 53 Mins

Total Pages by Month:

January - 1,530 Pages
February - 532 Pages
March - 1,390 Pages
April - 363 Pages, (about 16 Hours, Listening)
May - 368 Pages, (about 10 Hours, Listening)
June - 995 Pages
July - 448 Pages, (about 8 Hours, Listening)

Total books by Month:

January - 8 Books
February - 2 Books
March - 5 Books
April - 4 Books
May - 2 Books
June - 3 Books
July - 2 Books

Tv Watching:

- Shark Week (July 28 - Aug 4)

- Rags to Riches (Sims 4 - Youtube)

- Deadliest Catch

- Outdaughered

- Sweet Home Sextuplets

- Untold Stories of the ER (Season 13)

Book Challenges:

- Goodreads Reading Challenge 26/31 Books

- Booklikes Reading Challenge 26/31 Books

- Fiction Addiction's Monthly Wrap up

- Backlog of Reviews (3 Reviews) 2011 though 2017

My Wrap Ups for the Year:

July 31, 2018

3:41 PM By Lindz No comments Edit This

Monthly Wrap Up: July

July is now ending with rain and thunderstorms. July was a nice break with some rain, you got some sun as well. How you enjoy your Fourth of July holiday? I know it was hot that day. Hope you got a lot of reading done or a some fun in the pull and family time.

I hit a rough spot as for i was either enjoying the summer sun or a little buy not much, I was also a bit more tired at night. I have just could not get into reading. I went to concert and was outside for a bit. I even watched most of Shark week which is one reason that book is on the review list this month and during the week of Shark Week. I love Shark week and enjoy watching it. I also had the may Finleyville Fireman's Fair that same week. It almost time for those that children or child to get ready to back to school.

Books Read in July:

A Widows Hope by Vannetta Chapman
The Hope Jar by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Sharks: A 400 Million Year Journey by Ted Rechlin
The Small Chandelier by Mary Lynn Plaisance

So for the month of July, I have read a total of 799 Pages. You can see what my total for the month by book below.

Total Pages by book for July:

A Widows Hope - 219 Pages
The Hope Jar - 320 Pages
Sharks: A 400 Million Year Journey - 96 Pages
The Small Chandelier - 164 Pages

So Far for the 2018, the Total Pages Read is 8,641 Pages. That is a total of 6 months of this year or we call it half a year. Take look at the total per month below.

Total Pages Per Month:

January - 1,135 Total Pages
February - 1,359 Total Pages
March - 1,834 Pages
April - 1,558 Pages
May - 304 Pages
June - 1,346 Pages
July - 799 Pages

So Far as of 2018 the Total Books Read are 36 Books.

Total Books Per Month:

January - 4 Books
February - 7 Books
March - 5 Books
April - 7 Books
May - 3 Books
June - 6 Books
July - 4 Books

What was written and posted in June. Some of the books were read in 2018 and that is way you are see them posted in later months of 2018 as for I choose those dates for the tours. You will that I have Reviews that will be posted this year that go to book that were read before or during the previous month of 2018. Though I am trying to keep up with current reviews with book read this year there are some from back log. I just did not get to write the review. They will be marked.