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Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post

Mar 27, 2021  
Visit my blog to read a great excerpt from the literary fiction/short stories book A WALL OF BRIGHT DEAD FLOWERS by Babette Fraser Hale. Enter the giveaway to win a bookplate signed by Babette Fraser Hale as well as a $20 gift card to Brazos Bookstore - two winners!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2021/03/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-wall-of.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
Most are newcomers to the scenic, rolling countryside of central Texas whose charms they romanticize, even as the troubles they hoped to leave behind persist. Twelve stories highlight “the book’s recurring theme of desire—for freedom, for clarity, for autonomy, and for personal fulfillment … When women are alone, unencumbered and unbeholden to anyone, they engage in intense internal reflection and show reverence for nature—and during these scenes, Hale’s language is luminescent” (Kirkus Reviews).
      
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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated The Allure of Julian Lefray (The Allure, #1) in Books

Sep 6, 2019  
The Allure of Julian Lefray (The Allure, #1)
The Allure of Julian Lefray (The Allure, #1)
R.S. Grey | 2015
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I liked this. It was fun, it was sweet, it was hot in places. It was a quick easy read for me but I wasn't 100% into the story.

It was nice following Josephine's journey from relatively unknown fashion blogger moving from small town Texas to the Big Apple in the hopes of finding her dream job. Little did she expect to find love along the way.

Julian was pretty cool, too, though I didn't feel we got to know him as well as we did Jo.

Lorena was my type of girl (minus the drugs of course), she was fun, told it how it was and didn't particularly care who she upset in doing so and was very into her fashion designing by the end.

I'm not that into fashion but it was nice to see Josephine's journey unfold.
  
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Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated Close Your Eyes in Books

May 10, 2018  
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Close Your Eyes
Amanda Eyre Ward | 2011
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I think this book was incredible. It tells the story of two women who are deeply connected in an unimaginable way. Lauren is a real-estate agent in Texas. She and her brother Alex have been living with the thought that their father murdered their mother when they were just kids. Now Lauren is unable to commit to her long time. boyfriend and Alex is off to Baghdad with Doctors without Borders. Alex has been the only constant in Lauren's life, how is she going to survive without him?
Sylvia is in her forties and pregnant. She is leaving Colorado and her boyfriend Ray and heading back home to New York. There, she is hoping her best friend Victoria will blethered for her, just as Sylvia had been there countless times before.
When their paths cross, they will both find out life changing things.