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September 30, 2018

Monthly Wrap up: September

September has flew on by like a Kite. Schools have started. Now we are looking towards Halloween coming and all that comes with it. Like costumes and fall weather. The Fall leaves are changing to there beautful colors. They are falling. It called football season around my home, when the Steelers start playing ball. Pull out your sweaters and sweatshirts and enjoy the weather turn cold.

Football back in season for me. My Pittsburgh Steelers are 1-1-1 for the month of September with tonight being a game night. The Score will not be added as it a late night and the score will decided October 1st. Lets Go Steelers.

Books Read in August:

Grimms' Fairy Tales by Grimms Brother
Good Night Baby Animals by Karen B. Winnick
Murder by Perfection by Lauren Carr
Storm Taken by William Michael Davidson

So for the month of August, I have read a total of 644 Pages, 10 Hours and 32 Mins (audiobook). You can see what my total for the month by book below.

Total Pages by book for August:

Grimms' Fairy Tales - 10 Hours, 32 Mins (audio-book)
Good Night Baby Animals - 64 Pages
Murder by Perfection - 319 Pages
Storm Taken - 261 Pages

So Far for the 2018, the Total Pages Read is 10,130 Pages. That is a total of 9 months of this year. Take look at the total per month below.

Total Pages Per Month:

January - 1,135 Pages
February - 1,359 Pages
March - 1,834 Pages
April - 1,558 Pages
May - 304 Pages
June - 1,346 Pages
July - 799 Pages
August - 845 Pages
September - 644 Pages, (10 Hours and 32 Mins)

So Far as of 2018 the Total Books Read are 44 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
August - 4 Books
September - 4 Books

What was written and posted in August. 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.

Want to see all the wraps so far. Take a look Below at the list.

2018 Monthly Wrap Up:

January
February
March
April
May (this is a book off and I miscalculated when i did the wrap up. Sorry, Should have 3 book but only has two)
June
July
August

Real Life Things going on
Seen my Cousin Crystina and her little baby girl
Celebrated my Uncles birthday on Labor day and seen my Cousin Crystina and her baby for the first time

Watched Netflix
Ed Sheran Concert last night

What did you Read this month? Have Jam pack Month of Fun?

September 21, 2018

1:00 AM By Lindz No comments

Book Tour: Death Logs Out by EJ Simon + Giveaway

Book Title: Death Logs Out
Author: EJ Simon
Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Death, Adventure,
Series: Michael Nicholas #3
Publisher: Endeavour Media
Publish Date: 201-07-13 (303 Pages, Paperback)
Disclaimer: I received a free Advance Reader Copy from the author/Publisher for an honest review. I also got it though IReadBookTours.
Description: Is Alex Nicholas really dead?

Two years since the brutal shooting of Alex Nicholas, a gambling underworld boss in Queens, NYC. But his brother, Michael, a respected CEO, struggles with a secret: his murdered brother has been communicating with him via his laptop using AI. This AI-Alex can foresee dangers in Michael’s path, and appears to be trying to help him – even controlling machinery and electronics via WiFi. Meanwhile, trouble is stirring in the historic capital cities of Rome, Berlin and Paris. Inside the Vatican, Monsignor Kurt Schlegelberger has designs to build his power and prepare for the sudden ascension of the Free Forces Party, a throw-back to the Nazis.

Schlegelberger will stop at nothing, but first he must deal with a new threat: someone appears to know the true story behind a series of murders in the US, committed by clergy to cover their tracks of child abuse within the Church. Alex’s re-appearance puts Schlegelberger’s plans in jeopardy. Dead or alive, the way to finish off Alex for good can only be to get to his close family, namely his brother Michael…

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Do we ever really know what really happens after death? Did Alex really die or is he still alive somewhere? The author put us in to story as Michael is wondering about this as he find out that his brother Alex as somehow getting in touch with several of his ex-wives.

Sofia is reached out by her uncle but doe not really know for sure. Then she is kidnapped? Will she survive or is this a mad woman going to get her revenge on Michael? Michael goes to his buddy a retired policeman. Whatever happens when they recruit a friend to save Sofia? There seem to be more going on that someone once Sindy Steel gone?

What does the Vatican want? There seems to be more of terrifying going on? Who is the Free Force Party? Kurt seem to want more power then what he got. We got back to learn some history about the Nazi occupation. There are more action and twist as you turn the page.

The author takes you for a ride of a lifetime. Learn a bit about the Vatican church. You also get to tour a bit of Paris. What will happen to Michael as he goes to hunt down the bad guys that murdered his to brothers. Alex is mentioned and talked to though out the book. What is AI? Is it real?

What does John Goldstin want with Michael? I know that once you start reading this book you will not want to put it down. It action packed. I do wish to that parent are aware that his is book has a lot of deaths in it. I would suggest this to be for children of ages 16 + with Mature in it. Please know this is only what i suggest and the parents have the right to allow there children to read it if choose to or not.

I thought this book acted like a lot of my real world that going on around me. Though not at lot but you might remember 9/11 and think of how real that might be if or what really happen to Malaysia plane that when down over the ocean. I know that fact or there but they may not be real in the story but sure feel that way when reading the book. Thank to the author I have enjoyed these books. I can not wait for more. Check out my review for Death Never Sleeps and Death Logs In

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Meet the Author:

E. J. Simon is the author of three commercial fiction thrillers, Death Never Sleeps, Death Logs In and Death Logs Out. He has just completed his fourth manuscript, Death in the Cloud.

He is a member of the Authors Guild, the Mystery Writers of America and the North Carolina Writer’s Network. He holds an M.A. in Corporate & Political Communications from Fairfield University and a B.A. in Journalism from the University of South Carolina. He lives with his family in Cary, North Carolina in the United States. For more information, visit his website: www.ejsimon.com.

Connect with E.J.: Website ~ Facebook ~ Twitter ~ Instagram

September 14, 2018

2:19 AM By Lindz No comments

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August 31, 2018

8:01 PM By Lindz No comments

Monthly Wrap Up: August

August has flew on by. Summer is coming to end. School is starting back up for some. I look at August as a good decent reading month. Though for me I was dog siting for end of July early August. During the first weekend in August, I lost my baby boy Pumpkin.

August 5, early in the morning hours he passed away. I came home Saturday and he my baby boy Pumpkin was in a lot of pain and I was in the middle of watching him pass and keeping eye on him and watch him suffer. I have a blog post for him which is called "In Memory Of - My Precious Loving Baby Boy Pumpkin". Take a look and read it.

Football back in season for me. My Pittsburgh Steelers are 3-1 for the preseason. The scores for the games maybe added to the monthly wrap up with the wins and lost or at least the win and loss for the month. Who knows. Lets Go Steelers.

Books Read in August:

Death Logs Out by EJ Simon (Review coming Next Month)
The Christmas Gate 2 by T.A. Cline
Ours for a Season by Kim Vogel Sawyer
Bonjour! Let's Learn French by Judy Martialay

So for the month of August, I have read a total of 845 Pages. You can see what my total for the month by book below.

Total Pages by book for August:

Death Logs Out - 303 Pages
The Christmas Gate 2 - 150 Pages
Ours for a Season - 352 Pages
Bonjour! Let's Learn French - 40 Pages

So Far for the 2018, the Total Pages Read is 9,486 Pages. That is a total of 8 months of this year. Take look at the total per month below.

Total Pages Per Month:

January - 1,135 Pages
February - 1,359 Pages
March - 1,834 Pages
April - 1,558 Pages
May - 304 Pages
June - 1,346 Pages
July - 799 Pages
August - 845 Pages

So Far as of 2018 the Total Books Read are 40 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
August - 4 Books

Want to see all the wraps so far. Take a look Below at the list.

2018 Monthly Wrap Up:

January
February
March
April
May (this is a book off and I miscalculated when i did the wrap up. Sorry, Should have 3 book but only has two)
June
July

Rest In Peace:

Pumpkin (My baby boy) - Cat

Senator John McCain

Aretha Franklin (Queen Of Soul)

What did you Read this month? Lose someone or furbaby this month? Read any Educational books for those at are going back to School?

4:13 PM By Lindz No comments

In Memory Of - My Precious Loving Baby Boy Pumpkin

Pumpkin

My Precious Loving Baby Boy Pumpkin

Patches and Pumpkin
May 2006

Me holding Patches
and Pumpkin

Pumpkin was my baby boy. Though he was a cat. I loved him and his brother Patches. I got them both together from a friend. I thank that friend for allowing me to take them both. We could not let one stay and the other not. So we keep them both.

Oh how I am glad we did. This brother and Pumpkin were a team and fun to watch. As kittens one was independent and the other was gentle and loved to be cuddled. Can you guess which was which. We named them Patches and the other Pumpkin. There names came from one being Orange and white and the other black and white with Patches. So, That is how they become to named. They came to me in May of 2006.

To Pumpkin, who this is to be about. I have memories of him. He was so sweet and loving. He sleep with me at night and he did up until month before he passed away. He was still wanted me to pet him and we wanted more when I went and found and pet him.

Pumpkin
Christmas 2014

One other thing about Pumpkin is that he meow at me when he was hungry or when he was ready to go up to bed. It was funny but loving. He come find me and want me to go to bed and meow until either I took him up to bed or told him head on up and I be up.

Another memory I have of him is wanting to be petted while I was reading a book. Even if I was in bed and reading he swat at me playfully to pet him. He did this to me every night at least except for when he was hurting and the last month of before he passed away.

Pumpkin playing with Icicle

I know my pumpkin also loved to play with birds. If a bird end up in the house or in the basement of the house, the bird was alive and he still be playing with it. He was really gentle but playful and funny to watch. He was even like this after losing a leg and before say a month before he passed.

Me Holding Pumpkin
December 2017

He was loving and so sweet and will be missed. Those are the memories I will hold and remember and still do. I miss my baby boy Pumpkin and will love him. I understand why he was to go and wanted him not to suffer so when he passed on August 5, 2018. It was relief for me. I will miss him and love and still and will always will.

He was 12 years and few months old. Rest in Peace my baby boy. He passed away around 3:30 am on August 5, 2018. His brother Patches is still around. Check out my In Memory of Pumpkin or This one

Pumpkin and Icicle

RIP Pumpkin

Born: May 2006

Died: August 5, 2018

August 30, 2018

9:35 AM By Lindz No comments

Review: Ours for a Season by Kim Vogel Sawyer

Book Title: Ours For a Season
Author: Kim Vogel Sawyer
Genres: Romance, Christian, Amish
Publisher: WaterBrook Multnomah
Publish Date: 2018-09-11 (352 Pages, Paperback)
Disclaimer: I received an ARC copy from the Ours For a Season Book Launch Team. This is my honesty review.
Description: An Old Order Mennonite couple's vows and beliefs are challenged in this stirring contemporary novel for fans of Cindy Woodsmall or Shelley Shepherd Gray.
Anthony and Marty Hirschler are part of an Old Order Mennonite community in Pine Hill, Indiana. The couple has grown apart since a doctor confirmed they would never have children. Marty longs to escape the tight-knit area where large families are valued, and the opportunity to do so arises when her childhood friend, Brooke Spalding, resurfaces with the wild idea of rebuilding a ghost town into a resort community. Brooke hires Anthony to help with the construction, drawing the Hirschlers away from Indiana and into her plan, and then finds herself diagnosed with cancer. Moral complications with Brooke's vision for a casino as part of the resort and the discovery of a runaway teenager hiding on the property open up a world neither the Hirschlers nor Brooke had considered before. Will they be able to overcome their challenges and differences to help the ones among them hurting the most?

We meet Marty and her husband Anthony. We learn that they can not have biological children of there own. They seem to be having a hard time getting along. Marty seem to not be able to move on from the news and feeling likes something is missing. God seem to have bigger and better plan for her and Anthony.

We go though several different kinds of issues and Sawyer bring them to the for front. Brooke got to deal with painful disease and it is brought up which is Cancer. Will she beat it? What is Gods plan for Brooke. What is Gods Plan for Eagle Creek? God decides to bring Marty and Anthony to Kansas?

We meet a young teenager named Elliot and a young girl. Will there be healing for these three friends? Will a drifting marriage bring back to life? Will Brooke find her heavenly father? What could Gods big plans be to bring Marty and Anthony and Brooke together?

6:20 AM By Lindz No comments

Review: Bonjour! Let's Learn French

Book Title: Bonjour! Let's Learn French,
Author: Judy Martialay
Genres: Learning, Educational, French, Cultural, Children, Nonfiction
Publisher: BookBaby
Publish Date: October 31, 2017 (40 Pages, Paperback)
Disclaimer: I received this book free from Books for Review for an honesty review and the author sent me a copy.
Description: Bonjour! Let’s Learn French gives children roughly 6-10 an early and fun introduction to French. Kids board Pete the Pilot’s magic airplane en route to France. On board, they learn their first French words and phrases. In France, they meet Louis, l’escargot and his friends, and follow their adventure while learning French and absorbing the culture. The French words and exp

Every want to learn a new language but it a bit hard to learn and remember. Well then this book is good for you and your family if they want to learn French. The book is called “Bonjour! Let Learn French” is a good beginner book for children and adults that have a hard time learning French.

You will lean some words in French like the days of week and Colors. It more of story with a learning guide to learn some words in French. You will learn “My Name is” in friend. You can act out skit in French with a friend or friends. You will also learn some words that goes along with beach and learning a boy and girl in French.

Think is really good to have on your child bookshelves or even in your child school so that they can learn new words and a new languages. It good for though that are going on trip and to have for your child or children learning the words while on a plane or in the car. Maybe your parent that want all kinds of educational books for your child or children. This book is good for that as well.

August 13, 2018

8:25 PM By Lindz No comments

Review: The Christmas Gate 2 By T.A. Cline

Book Title: The Christmas Gate 2
Author: T. A. Cline
Genres: Holiday, Christmas, Ghosts, Christian Fiction
Publisher: Create Space
Publish Date: November 2017 (150 Pages, Paperback)
Disclaimer: The author asked me if I would be interested in the second book. I was once I read the first one. I got a free copy of the book. This is my honesty review
Description: “I became paralyzed with fear. Tears started to run down my cheeks as I sat motionless on the bed facing the locked door.”

Patty had slowly opened up to Bob. She thinks she might be falling in love with him. Even so, he has gone back to New York, and she has not heard from him in two weeks. It is another loss for her. First, her mother died when she was young, and then her husband, Matt, was killed in Afghanistan. She has lost all that were close to her. All but her dad and he is her rock. He is the one that gives her strength.

In, The Christmas Gate 2, Patty’s life becomes like a roller coaster, with the ups and the downs. She loses, and then wins, only to lose again. Then Patty is rocked with an emotional bombshell. She tries to gather herself together, then only another heartbreak again.

She resigns herself to wait at the old farm house until Bob returns to her. She unleashes what Bob had uncovered during his earlier stay, and she too is taken on a journey that will bring to the surface the things she has buried deep inside her, things that she has forgotten, things she refuses to confront, and things that could eventually set her free. Patty and Bob’s story continues in, The Christmas Gate 2.

The Christmas Gate 2 opens up with Bob wanting to talk to his publisher. Once he does he makes deal that get him the lovely farmhouse where he could write his stories. Well things get a little more interesting once he moves in to his new farmhouse.

Once things get close to Christmas and plans are made for him and Patty. Patty get a knock at the door. Once does she find out her husband is alive and in the army hospital. What will happen with Patty and Bob?

Bob meets an woman and tell her his story. She get him advice and once she is gone for a bit he does do something inside the book she has. She doe not know until she opens it. He never mentions it either.

Bob make a decision to help Patty out by making it easy for her. Patty does not know this when he leaves after seeing her and getting the message from her friend Lucy. It seem that Patty has to do her own journey as to go on.

She finds a poem or letter addressed to her after Jim and everyone thinks Bob has pass away. Jim does his deal that the farmhouse is to go to Patty if something happened to Bob.

She reads something that Bob wrote at the end of the journal. “The Christmas Gate is not Fiction” and this get her attention and she goes to find the box and she does and she opens it. She think will get 7 visions and what will happen. The journey begins. You will not believe it but her candles and messages are different for her but her journey is bit different then Bobs. Will she find Bob? Will she be able to bring him home?

I really like the theme and plot of the candles. It really well written. The messages were different for each person on their own journey. You will not know until the end who the light form might be. It a fast read and enjoyable as well.