Rainy Days With Amanda

 Hello All! I feel like I'm starting to read a little slower, but I've just been pretty busy with life, work, and my second book about to come out ( eeeep !) 😊 I've been working on this for a while, and I can't wait to share it with you all! Actually, I probably can wait because I am my own worst critic. Anyways, I'm still reading, just a little slower. And the next book I will be reviewing is a classic and is pretty heavy. But I will finish it hopefully by the of this month/early next month. Anyways, back to the book I'll be talking about today. I found this book at Half Price Books , while I was walking through the aisles, letting the books tell me what I wanted to read next. I came across the title, and I really like the movie, Lost in Translation , so I picked it up, read the back, was intrigued, and took it home with me. Here's my full my review of Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok . About the Author Jean Kwok is the award-winning,  New York Times  a...

THE KEY TO EVERYTHING by Valerie Fraser Luesse Contemporary Christian Romance Publisher: Revell Date of Publication: June 2, 2020 Number of Pages: 352 Scroll down for the giveaway! Based on a true story, Valerie Fraser Luesse’s new novel takes readers on an incredible journey of self-discovery. The poignant prose, enchanting characters, and captivating settings in The Key to Everything make this a moving story that readers won’t soon forget. Peyton Cabot’s fifteenth year will be a painful and transformative one. His father, the reluctant head of a moneyed Savannah family, has come home from WWII a troubled vet, drowning his demons in bourbon, and distancing himself from his son. When a tragic accident separates Peyton from his parents, and the girl of his dreams seems out of reach, he struggles to cope with a young life upended. Pushed to his limit, Peyton makes a daring decision: he will retrace a slice of the jou...

You guys, it has been 8 weeks since I started quarantine(ing) and I am measuring my quarantine by when I started working from home, so that has been a full 8 weeks. It's crazy. Week 8. It has me writing letters to friends and doing renditions of Broadway musicals. For those of you who don't know, I took theatre from middle school to high school and even took a class in college. That was actually going to be my major in college until I came to the realization that if I can't sing, I was not going to make it. So here I am, making my poor furbabies and husband endure my performances. Quarantine also has me feeling accomplished. I have done quite a lot, and purchased quite a lot, for stuff I've been needing to do and get for the house but just didn't have time or was using the money for something else. But now, I don't have any excuses. My husband and I also have this great cleaning schedule going on and I'm definitely going to miss that once we go back to w...

Let me start by saying, it's not raining today, but I feel it in my bones that it will soon.. hopefully because it's crazy hot here in Texas! So, this is my first time reading this book. I know a lot of people have read it by now, but it's my first time. In school, we read Animal Farm , an equally eye opening book. I was so happy to finally read this book and I immersed myself in it. So now, let me tell you a little about it (SPOILER ALERT!) A Little Bit of Background George Orwell is a very renowned writer for a number of his books, including 1984 . Now 1984 was actually written in 1949. Orwell wrote this book because of what was going on with the world at that time (WWII, communism, etc). He wrote this book as a warning to all that man can easily become manipulated if the right people know how to do it. It's a scary thought, and after reading it, it's something that could and has happened before.  The main story follows a man named Winston who knows...

Hello everyone! I have been so busy recently. I am a senior in college and I've been working on senior projects and what not. I feel like it's been a while since I wrote, but I know it's only been a little less than a month. I have been reading a book, but I have been reading it slowly, because it's for class. Once I finish that, I will write a proper review. Since I don't think I'm going to be able to finish and put up a good review on the book until the end of the month/next month, I thought of maybe introducing a new every now and then series called Rainy Thoughts, so here it is! Homesick So if you don't know me, I moved to a different city about a year and a half ago, partly for school, mainly for my now fiance (we get married next year!). Leaving home didn't seem like it was going to be a hard decision, but when it got closer, it became so hard. Now, I just started spring break, and besides going to work and school, I don't really have fr...