Style Imitating Art: Mask

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Style Imitating Art: The Farmer’s Daughter

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Style Imitating Art: Cleopatra

Hi, and welcome to another edition of Style Imitating Art. If you like what you’re seeing here, make sure you go and visit my co-hosts: Jen at Librarian for Life and Style and Salazar at 14 Shades of Grey. INSPIRATION ART WORK Poster for Cleopatra (1917), public domain Jen selected this piece because “…after this…

Book Review: Everybody Needs a Bridge by Colleen D. Scott

Disclaimer: This novel was sent to me free of charge from JKS Communications in exchange for a review. As always, the opinions given are my own. To read my rating system for books, click here. Author: Colleen D. Scott Genre: Young Adult Fiction Publisher: NKD Ventures Publication Date: 20 February 2018 Format: Paperback Pages: 273 ABOUT THE BOOK {from…

Book Review: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis

Author: Ayana Mathis Genre: African American Fiction Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Publication Date: 8 October 2013 Format: Kindle Edition Pages: 304 ABOUT THE BOOK {from the back of the book} In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd, swept up by the tides of the Great Migration, flees Georgia and heads north. Full of hope, she settles in Philadelphia to build…

Coffee Talk: Clearing the Clutter, Movie Watching, and Exciting News

I’d like to welcome you to Coffee Talk. If you’re new here, this is where I share some of the great and not~so~great stuff that I find on the web. Topics range from news stories that leave me scratchin’ my head to DIYs that I think are absolutely clever. And, who knows, there may even…

The Cost of Love and Sanity: a novel by Jaye Cherie {Book Tour}

BOOK DESCRIPTION {FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK} For Alex Carter, everything is going according to plan ~ she’s built up a successful career and has a steady boyfriend ~ until life decides to throw a wrench in the mix. Suddenly, her company threatens to downsize and her boyfriend ends their relationship. It is then…

Coffee Talk {In the Cafe}

1. Last week,  a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York ordered that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration make the morning after pill available without a prescription to women of all ages. This includes girls under the age of 17. I’m not going to get into the discussion over whether abortion should be legal or…

Book Review: What Every Woman Should Know by Jori Sams {In the LIbrary}

BOOK DESCRIPTION {FROM THE BOOK} What was God thinking when He made man and woman? Are they really created equal? Is the church today in divine and biblical order regarding equality? Author Jori Sams has accomplished a remarkable feat in this eBook. With such eloquence precision, she takes us on a necessary journey back to…