Shelley Reads and Writes

Category: Women’s Fiction

  • Who Will Help a Child Who Really Needs It?

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    In The Teacher by Meg Gray, Emma Hewitt was starting over as a kindergarten teacher in Portland. She is completely happy to be with her group of kindergartners until she meets one father who hurriedly drops his son off mid-meltdown.

    After she learns more about the child, she just wants to help him, but his father is too busy to return her calls. Even after she gets his attention, the father doesn’t want to admit that his son needs her help.

    Once she learns about the trauma that the boy suffered, she is even more ready to support the two as much as she can. And then she sees the soft side of the father, and she wonders if she is really falling for the grumpy father of one of her students.

    As the family grows closer, you may wonder what is going to happen with the three of them. When I finished this book, I just had to grab the next one! Gray’s books are definitely worth picking up!

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  • Will A Play Boy Ever Settle Down?

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    In The Girl Next Door by Meg Gray, Jocelyn Banks hates change, but she was given a job in a big city that she couldn’t pass up. In a few months, she could return home to her beloved paper and take it over. She finds an apartment to sit while the occupant is out of the city. It seems perfect until she runs into her neighbor, a cocky blue-eyed charmer.

    Luke Lewis has a reputation as a flirt, though he is also good at his job as an attorney in the family business. When he finds himself dealing with a big project at work, he realizes that he can’t lose focus, even with his adorable neighbor.

    When Jocelyn publishes something about his latest project, it brings the two of them together. And they find themselves becoming friends as they work on discovering the truth.

    I have already started (and finished) the third book in this series. I highly recommend giving this series a read!

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  • When Tragedy Strikes, Can You Really Move On?

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    Marcus couldn’t wait to welcome his new baby with his new wife in The Way We Are by Meg Gray. As the couple (and their son Braydon) prepare for the new arrival, tragedy strikes, and Marcus is forced to plan a funeral instead.

    . As the couple (and their son Braydon) prepare for the new arrival, tragedy strikes, and Marcus is forced to plan a funeral instead.

    Meanwhile, Luke finally has his dream girl, and he is carrying around an engagement ring to prove it! However, when his brother’s life unravels, he struggles with his own feelings and doesn’t always act the right way.

    As Marcus struggles to find the light at the end of the tunnel, Luke’s plan backfires, and he is worried that he will spend the rest of his life alone.

    The two brothers have to lean on each other in order to get through this terrible ordeal.

    Though loss can be hard to read about, this series really shows us how family and friends will rise to the occasion to help others out when they need it!

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  • Will Death Change Friendship?

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    In The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship by Lisa Verge Higgins, a group of friends’ lives completely change when they lose one of their own. Even more, she sent everyone a letter to ensure that they learn something from her own experiences.

    For Kate, she is busy being a wife and mother. Her entire life revolves around her family and making sure that everyone else’s lives run smoothly. She tries skydiving because her friend asked her to. And it changes her perspective on her life.

    For Jo, her career is everything. She works hard to ensure that she is going to have a better future than her childhood. When she gets her friend’s daughter, she has to figure out if one orphan can help another!

    For Sarah, she is forced to confront the man that she has loved for the last few years. It has kept her from finding love with anyone else, even the man who has been beside her in the steamy jungles of Africa.

    The three women are changed, both by the loss of their friend and her final wish for all of them.

    I have been reading a lot of tough books lately, and I was looking for a lighter read. Though this book dealt with death, it was a good, easy read about a group of friends who will be there for each other, no matter what. It also talks about growth as the women learn from their deceased friend. It is a good read!

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  • Are Your Memories Still Clear Years Later?

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    In Sheila Norton’s What I Didn’t Tell You, readers will be taken back to the 60s, when Judith is growing up with her best friends, Trish, Eddie, and Gordon. They were inseparable for most of their lives, until one year changed everything.

    Now, an older adult, Judith hears about an aging British rock star who has been charged with abuse that occurred in the 1960s. However, the name doesn’t just ring a bell. It really takes her back to the time that she knew him, before her entire family immigrated to New Zealand, when Trish was obsessed with the singer.

    Judith believes that he has to be innocent, but she knows that the only way she can know for sure is by talking to her best friend at the time, Trish. So, she decides, on a whim, to travel back to England, find her friend, and get to the bottom of the mystery.

    What will she find when she gets there? Will Trish be happy to see her? Will she figure out what really happened in the sixties?

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