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Merissa (13878 KP) created a post

Mar 3, 2026  
📚 “Ten Books That Mean Something To Me.” - @Debbiereadsbook

This Showcase feature highlights a collection of stories that have left a lasting impression. What began as a list of ten meaningful books takes a lovely turn, as her sister’s birthday inspires Debbie to share five treasured titles of her own, bringing two perspectives together in one celebration of reading. 📚🎉💕

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Twofer Murder
Twofer Murder
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Twofer Murder is a book done well. If you think one murder mystery was not enough for you. You will get two in this book. Lauren has now outdone herself with this one as you will see if you decide to get it and read.


The boys go on a fishing trip together. When they arrive they meet some new people in Scary, WV. They take two dogs with them. Tristan, Mac, Joshua, Murphy, JJ, David and two dogs are all together for a weekend.


Jessica, Archie, Sarah, Dallas, goes to the writer conference for that same weekend with a spider named Monique in Pennsylvania. Cameron joins the girls on their weekend when the Black Diamond shows up and Dallas calls David.


There appears some murder galore in this book. There are three victims. Will the boys solve the murders? There are twists and turns throughout the book. Will the girls solve their murders? Also, the book goes from one murder to the other. There are a total of thirteen parts all together.


Who could be the killers in the two murders, that take place in two different states? Tristan got his only little mystery as well. I love this book. There are some many mysteries going on that I believe you can get caught up in the book. Will Tristan find his missing cheese balls? Who has taken, Tristian's cheese balls? Will Tristan find the culprit of his missing cheese balls?


Sarah as her own little adventures. To find out what all these adventures are you will need to find out by reading the book.
  
Catching Him
Catching Him
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
So this is my first book by the author although I did buy another of her books a few weeks ago but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

I did like this. I think I have a thing for Alpha males, and Tyler was definitely that. He was protective and knew what he wanted, and that was Leah. I also seem to have a thing for backwards baseball caps. I just grew to really like Tyler. He seems like the perfect guy and Leah probably couldn't ask for more.

The romance was cute, the whole they were a couple before they actually got together with all the meals and the touching. It was sweet to read how quickly it progressed and how believable it was.

As for the incidents that kept happening after they got together. Well, I figured out who it was after Bruce had his "taken to the compound" part and then I was just more sure after everything else. That characters just seemed like the type.

As I've mentioned previously, I like a bit of angst in my stories and this didn't really have any. I may have been rooting for the couple because of how cute together they were but I didn't get upset on their behalf when things were being set on fire/trashed. I like to get emotionally attached to characters and I will cry when they do, get angry for them/with them. I didn't get that with this.

I will be reading the other book I bought and I'll figure out from there whether this is an author I can really enjoy reading.
  
The Underhanded (William Dresden #1)
The Underhanded (William Dresden #1)
Adam Sikes | 2024 | Thriller
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
takes time to come together
Independent reviewer for Arachaeolibrarian, I was gifted my copy of this book.

William is a professor of history, and he gets dragged into the world of espionage, full of secrets about him and his family, and an attempt to destabilize Europe. Followed by an attempt on his life, and William is running for that life, while trying to get the truth.

For the most part, I enjoyed this book, but a couple things, for me, knocked that 4th star off.

The book is full of long dialogues, explaining things in minute detail. I got bogged down reading those pages, and in some places, I skipped ahead.

And it takes a long LONG time for the plot to come together. I very much wanted to dump it in places, I was so freaking confused. It made for a hard-work read, and I'm not sure this book was for me.

It's well written, though, and I didn't see any editing or spelling errors to spoil my reading. It really was the long winded plotting out loud, and the long plot line.

Some twists, and they were not seen coming, so well played there! And once things start coming together, it moves fast, so you gotta hang on there!

Many bonus points for not, not once, calling William, Bill. Big thumbs up from me for that!

First I've read of this author, and I think I'd like to try a shorter book, if there are any. I just struggled a bit with this one.

3 good stars

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Tonya (52 KP) rated 25 by Adele in Music

Dec 29, 2017  
25 by Adele
25 by Adele
2015 | Pop
Lyrics (2 more)
Vocal quality
Beautiful music
Her best yet
While I've like many Adele songs in the past, I've never really liked enough of them on one albumn to buy it until now. This one doesn't have a bad one on it. Her music is beautiful and haunting and fun all at the same time. Best part for me though is that this is music that both the kids and I like so we can all enjoy listening together. Not all artists can cross generations like she can.