https://youtu.be/Mgp9l2Gl65o This past weekend was a special one for Becky as she was able to attend the book launch of one of her dearest friends and former colleagues, Professor Levert Hedgemon. His memoir about his years as a choir teacher and the lives he inspired is an absolute must-read. Please consider buying your own copy… Continue reading Book Promotion: A Ministry Not a Job
Category: Nonfiction
Kayla’s Book of the Month 2022 Round-up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhEDU7XcJ0Y I know I'm missing some reviews, but you can always check our BOTM folder to see what one of our favorite book boxes has to offer!
Kayla Reviews HAUNTED IN AMERICA
★★★★★ GENRE: True Crime Buy SUMMARY From best-selling author Leslie Rule comes a collection of stories about things that go bump in the night—true accounts collected from her years of research on ghostly encounters in the United States, including revised and updated content in Rule's singular voice. Whether you’re a believer, a skeptic, or somewhere… Continue reading Kayla Reviews HAUNTED IN AMERICA
Kayla Reviews TELL ME EVERYTHING
★★★★★ Genre: Literary True CrimePage Numbers: 288Buy: Amazon Summary: Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the private investigator who helped crack it open.Erika Krouse has one of those faces. “I don’t know why I’m telling you this,” people say, spilling confessions. In… Continue reading Kayla Reviews TELL ME EVERYTHING
Kayla Reviews: AMERICAN MONSTERS
★★★★ Genre: Audio CourseBuy: American Monsters Summary: Cackling witches in Puritan communities calling forth Satan. Sea serpents squirming along coasts to snack on bathers. Ape creatures slinking through forests and leaving behind mysterious footprints.In America, tall tales of monsters walking among us have existed for hundreds of years. Real or fictional, human or inhuman, monsters… Continue reading Kayla Reviews: AMERICAN MONSTERS
Kayla Reviews: WOLVES AND WEREWOLVES IN HISTORY AND POPULAR CULTURE
★★★★ Genre: Audio CourseBuy: Wolves and Werewolves in History and Popular Culture Summary: Shannon Scott of Great Courses Plus reviews the history of Wolves and Werewolves in Popular Culture. My Take: I read this for spooky season, and I have no regrets other than wishing I’d listened sooner. This entry into the Great courses catalogue… Continue reading Kayla Reviews: WOLVES AND WEREWOLVES IN HISTORY AND POPULAR CULTURE
Kayla Reviews MINDHUNTER
★★★★★ Genre: True CrimePages: 397Buy Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit Summary: He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta Child murderer. He has confronted, interviewed and researched dozens of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Richard Speck,… Continue reading Kayla Reviews MINDHUNTER
First Lines Friday #7
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first… Continue reading First Lines Friday #7
Book Review: We Thought we Knew You
★★★★ I FINALLY finished reading this ARC from #bookishfirst. It always takes me so long to finish a good true crime novel because there is so much information and so many facts to process. I have marked up this book more than any other this year, and that's saying something! SUMMARY: In July 2015 beloved… Continue reading Book Review: We Thought we Knew You
Give Joy and Inspire Kindness
Anna Nakole Today would have been my daughter’s 38th birthday. She passed away when she was six years old from leukemia. I think of her everyday and the joy she brought to everyone she met. I received so many wonderful and thoughtful gifts during her illness. This poem was sent to us while we lived… Continue reading Give Joy and Inspire Kindness
A Couple of B's 