2014 ARC Reading Challenge COMPLETE

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I'm signing up for this one since I am always being offered books from authors and publishers. However, I am not taking no where near as many in 2014 due to my massive TBR shelf.

Level Bronze: .a. All of us who have or will have less than 12 ARCS must read all of the ARCS we have. Note, that if you have 11 ARC's and then receive a 12th one you will be bumped up to category b.

b. All of us who have or will have 12 or more than 12 ARCS must read and review at least 12.

I'll most likely end in the b category but who knows.

1. Once Upon A Winter's Heart - Melody Carlson
2. Mayhem - Sarah Pinborough
3. Flowers In The Attic - V.C. Andrews
4. The Unwelcomed Child - V.C Andrews
5. A Blaze of Sun - Bella Forrest
6. Please Be With Me - Galadrielle Allman
7. Falling - E. Van Lowe
8. The Kissing Bridge - Tricia Goyer
9. The Collector of Dying Breaths - M.J.Rose
10. A Gate of Night - Bella Forrest
11. The Queen's Handmaid - Tracy L. Higley
12. Fortune Cookie - Josi S. Kilpack

COMPLETED APRIL 16!

13. India Black and the Gentleman Thief - Carol K. Carr
14. That Night - Chevy Stevens
15. Avenge Me - Maisey Yates
16. Scandalize Me - Caitlin Crews
17. Expose Me - Kate Hewitt
18. Night Terror - Jeff Gunhus
19. Whatever Doesn't Kill You - Elizabeth Wennick
20. The Last Temptation - Neil Gaiman
21. While Treetops Glisten - Tricia Goyer, Cara Putnam & Sarah Sundin
22. Gideon Lee - Lisa Orchard
23. Hunting In Bruges - E.J Stevens
24. Passing Through Perfect - Bette Lee Crosby
25. Far and Near On Days Like These - Neil Peart

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#Recipe Minestrone Soup

**Recipe and photo owned by Freda's Voice.

Minestrone soup is one of my favorite soups that my mother-in-law makes, and since moving out of her home and into our own again, I need to figure out what went inside hers so I can make it myself. I'm happy to say I did get it, and the hubster says it is just like hers! That's a compliment!! So here is my rendition of my mother-in-law's soup.

INGREDIENTS
1 cup Ditali pasta shells 1/2 large onion, diced 2 tbsp olive oil 1 large garlic clove, minced 2 on-the-vine tomatoes, diced 1 zucchini, diced 3 organic carrots from bunch, diced 2 celery stalks, diced 1/4 head of cabbage, sliced and diced 1 can Cannellini beans, rinsed (white kidney beans) 2 cartons of vegetable stock 1 sprig of thyme 3/4 tbsp salt 1 tsp pepper 2 bay leaves
METHOD
Heat the oil in a pot on medium-low heat. Add the onion and garlic, saute until golden. Add tomatoes, stir. Cook 2 minutes. Add zucchini, stir. Cook 1 minute. Add carrots, stir. Cook 1 minute. Add celery, stir. Cook 2 mi…

The Friday 56 (With Instagram 56 & Book Beginnings)

Welcome to Week 341!
Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
(If you have to improvise, that's ok.)
*Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it)
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post below in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url.
*It's that simple.

Or join The Friday 56 on Instagram!

Rules: * Grab a book and find a creative way to showcase your 56. It can be a photo of the book and the 56 in comments, or whatever you come up with. Make sure to use the hashtag #Friday56 *Add your Instagram url to the Linky.
I only have until September 19th to get this book done. It's good though and I should be done in no time.

I'm also posting early for two reasons, 1; work, and 2; a review posting tomorrow. Watch for that!
56% on reader

Blitz: The Progeny by Tosca Lee (#Win)

Series: Descendants of the House of Bathory (Book #1)
Category: YA Fiction, 352 pages
Publisher: Howard Books
Release date: May 2016

From New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee comes a story of love, ancient secrets, and survival. Book 1 in the House of Bathory duology.

When you wake up, you remember nothing. Not your name, or where you were born, or the faces of the people you knew. Just a single warning written to yourself before you forgot it all:
"Emily, it’s me. You.
Don’t ask about the last two years… Don’t try to remember and don’t go digging. Your life depends on it. Other lives depend on it.
By the way, Emily isn’t your real name. You died in an accident. You paid extra for that."
You start over in a remote place with a new name, a fresh life. Until the day a stranger tells you you’re being hunted for the sins of a royal ancestor who died centuries before you were born.
You don’t believe him, until they come for you. Now you’re on the run.
Every answer you need lies i…

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