Connect Five Friday - Featuring a Heart

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The Friday Five Link Up is a List Link Up hosted by The Book Date. It can be five connections of any kind. Books can have been read last year or any year. Books can be used more than once. They may not have been read yet. . . It can be as simple or as complicated as you like. Maybe it's not a list of actual books, but things connected to books - e.g. favourite book shops, recipes etc. It might even be five movies related to books or five poems or five poets or five bookish moments, five thoughts about reading - be creative! The link-up will be open each Friday and will close on Thursday. Use the hashtag #connect5books

Today being Valentine's Day, the obvious connection to look for is something to do with love. I thought it would be easy to find five books I've read that have hearts featured on the cover. It turned out to be much harder than I'd expected. I did find these in the archives of my blog:

Alex and Eliza: A Love Story by Melissa De La Cruz - It took me awhile to get invested in this book, but once I did, I quite enjoyed this imagined love story between Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler. (Read my full review HERE.)

Ticker by Lisa Mantchev - absolutely loved this young adult steampunk novel. Truth is, I was hooked just looking at the cover! (Read my full review HERE)

Kind Is the New Classy: The Power of Living Graciously by Candace Cameron Bure - Practical and real-world ways of expressing godly kindness and grace in all areas of life from the popular actress, producer, and celebrity. Good recommended reading! (Read my full review HERE.)

A Christmas Valentine by Jamie Carie - A light reading romance novella. The hearts on the cover are pretty small, but since the word "Valentine" is also in the title, it made my cut! (Read my full review HERE.)

Read For the Heart: Whole Books for Wholehearted Families by Sarah Clarkson - This is one of the earliest reviews that appeared on this blog and I'm not completely sure this book is still available. Anyway, it's a guidebook for reading out loud and reading together in the family, along with a ton of suggested book. (Read my review HERE)

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Wordless Wednesday - Hershey Bears

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Saturday evening we went to Hershey, PA for the Bears hockey game with a group of friends from church, and of course our family (including the auxiliary kids!) - another Bears win, and a great family fun night too!

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Pictorial Tuesday

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What I'm Reading - February 10, 2020

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This weekly reading list meme is hosted at Book Date. Join in to see what others are reading and maybe get some ideas of what to read next! Although the Book Date link-up happens weekly, I don't manage to post that often. At this point, I am posting and linking about once a month!

I finished reading . . . 

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie - Finished this classic with my Lit class quite awhile ago, but hadn't yet posted the review when I did my last update. (Read my full review HERE.)

The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West - a sweet, homey collection of short stories following Quaker couple Jess and Eliza Birdwell through the years. (Read my full review HERE.)




The Blizzard Bride by Susanne Dietze - Abigail goes as a schoolteacher to a small Nebraska town, but her secret purpose is to help the government identify a student who is the son of a dangerous counterfeiter. Turns out her old flame Dash Lassiter is the government agent on the job. (Read my full review HERE.)

I'm currently reading . . .

Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals - Okay, but I admit I AM crying from time to time as I read this memoir from one of the Little Rock Nine. It's hard to wrap my brain around the fact that so many people were hateful and vicious enough to treat kids like this. Reading for the Lit class I teach, and it was supposed to be finished already, but I am still wrapping up!



Emma by Jane Austen - This classic was chosen for an online book club I'm in, and I know I won't be able to finish it before the discussion, but it's such a fun read anyway!




Until the Mountains Fall by Connilyn Cossette - As a young and childless widow, Rivkah is expected to marry her late husband's younger brother, but she doesn't want to. Would it change her mind if she knew how much Malakhi loves her?

The Curse of the Healing Kiss by Mark McClelland - This novella is in the style of a medieval French fairy tale. A beautiful and vivacious young woman is cursed by her jealous friend after a relationship gone wrong.




The Next Always by Nora Roberts - I chose to read this contemporary fiction because I discovered Roberts is a local author and this particular series is based in a town not far from me.

Next on the stack... 

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
From Sky to Sky by Amanda G. Stevens

      

On my blogs recently . . . 

Besides the reviews, here on Just A Second you'll find:

Scripture and a Snapshot posts
Wordless Wednesday - Canadian Coffee
Monthly Bookshelf Review - January 2020 with Connect Five Friday
Share Four Somethings - January 2020
Wordless Wednesday - Cat Life
Connect Five Friday - Prejudice

And on my homeschool blog, Homeschool Coffee Break:

Twenty-Six Lists #3 - Getting Out of Town #twentysixlists
Coffee Break Reading List (February 3, 2020)
Homeschool Highlights - Winter Break
January Photo Album
Twenty-Six Lists - Random Acts of Kindness #twentysixlists
Coffee Break Reading List (Martin Luther King Jr Day 2020)
Homeschool Highlights - New Schedule!
Auxiliary Kids

What I'm Highlighting . . . My friends that read Just A Second are invited to join me at Homeschool Coffee Break for the Twenty-Six Lists link-up. It's every other week and the list prompts are for everyone, not just homeschoolers.

What are you reading?

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Scripture and a Snapshot - Turn Your Ear To My Cry

LORD, you are the God who saves me;

day and night I cry out to you.

May my prayer come before you;

turn your ear to my cry.

~Psalm 88:1-2~

And he always answers when we call.

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Wordless Wednesday - Canadian Coffee

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Pictorial Tuesday

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Scripture and a Snapshot - Continue Your Love

Your love, LORD, reaches to the heavens,

your faithfulness to the skies.

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,

your justice is like the great deep.

You, LORD, preserve both people and animals.

How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!

People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

They feast on the abundance of your house;

you give them drink from your river of delights.

For with you is the fountain of life;

in your light we see light.

Continue your love to those who know you,

your righteousness to the upright in heart.

~Psalm 36:5-10~

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