Jencey's Corner

Thank you to St. Martins Press for a copy of A Quilt for Christmas by Sandra Dallas in exchange for an honest review.   I have actually wanted to read one of her novels for a long time.   I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.   You can also win a copy of A Christmas Quilt see details below. Synopsis: Eliza and Will have been married for many years with two children Davy and Luzena.   Will leaves to fight in the War Between the States.   Eliza must run the farm by herself with help from herself.   Will she be able to handle this task by herself?    She and Will exchange several letters where he requests items that would be useful for his duties as a soldier.   So Eliza decides to make a Christmas quilt to help keep her husband warm.   Will he receive the quilt?   What will become of the quilt? My Thoughts:   I have wanted to read a Sandra Dallas novel for a while.   This story is set at Christmas of 1864 and finishes in Christmas of 1865.   It is also set during

Thank you to Penguin for a copy of Sweet Talk by Julie Garwood in exchange for an honest review.    Julie is one of my favorite authors so I always look forward to her next novel.   The question is did I look forward to this one? Synopsis: Olivia has never been close to her immediate family.   In fact the only biological family she spends any time with is her aunt Emma.   Her experience with her family leaves a lot to be desired especially when she finds out what her father really does for a living as a lawyer.   Can she prove how bad her father really is? Olivia goes for a job interview with Mr. Jorguson and all does not go as planned. Enter Grayson Kincaid a relative of Sam Kincaid from one of Julie’s previous novels.   Grayson is a FBI agent who is tasked with finding out who shot Olivia.   But could there be much more? My Thoughts:   This novel was not my favorite like her other novels.   I thought at times it was a throwback to older romance novels in the 198

Toronto Collection 1 – Heather Wardell "Go Small or Go Home": When massage therapist and aspiring artist Tess begins treating stressed but attractive hockey star Forrest, her art career soars due to his gallery-owning mother, but her creativity plummets under the weight of rules and deadlines. Soon, she's lost the freedom and joy she'd always found in art. Is having her dream career worth losing doing her art her way, or can she somehow have both at once?   "Planning to Live": Determined to lose weight for her best friend's wedding, goal-obsessed Rhiannon flees her parents' Christmas Day feast to avoid overeating but her car skids off the deserted road into a tree. Trapped and bleeding, with her cell phone out of reach, she struggles to escape, and to accept that she's spent her whole life planning but hasn't ever really lived. Will she get the chance to change that?   "Stir Until Thoroughly Confused": Mary's given