Adventures With Books

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Thrillers by Anni Taylor

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On August 9, 2021

In Books, Reviews

A while ago I found a book called Stranger in the woods: A Tense Psychological Thriller on Amazon Kindle using the Kindle Unlimited subscription and thought I would give it a try based off the description. I read this book because I wanted a change in what I had been reading after finishing the Harbinger Series by Jeff Wheeler, which I discuss the first one here and the others are on here as well, but I would rather not bog you down with a bunch of links.

Stranger in the Woods is about the photographer Isla Wilson who takes a month long job in Scottland to photograph the family and property architect Alban McGregor and wife Jessica. Deep in the woods on their property is a chilling playhouse, which Isla learns that two years prior the McGregor’s daughter, Elodie, died after being kidnapped and taken there. Alban does not want to get rid of the playhouse and even has a picture of it on his wall. Being in contact with the family daily Isla gets the sensation that both Alban and Jessica have some awful secrets. The closer Isla comes to finding out answers about Elodie, the greater danger she encounters. When a dense cover of snow blankets the town Isla finds her chances of escaping the dangers limited.

This book was amazing and it kept me on the edge of my seat through the whole book. Throughout the book some of the information starts to lead you in the direction of certain people being responsible for the happenings of the young girl. You get to read the story from the point of view of the main character Isla Wilson as well as get glimpses as to the point of view of the young girl Elodie McGregor two years before Isla came to photograph the family. I felt as though every time you have a suspicion against someone, they end up doing something that makes you second guess your assumption.

This book I feel was amazingly written and I would definitely recommend it to many people. A really good thriller that keeps you guessing at what is going to happen next. I for one did not expect it to have the outcome it has towards the end. Anni Taylor did an excellent job of suspense and conclusion.

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Iron Garland by Jeff Wheeler Harbinger Book 3

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On April 23, 2021

In Books, Reviews

Recently I got an offer from Goodreads.com for two months free of Amazon Kindle Unlimited, which allows you to read and or listen to certain books for no additional price. Normally it is $9.99 a month for access to over one million books, of which you can have ten different books at one time. I figured that since I have the opportunity to use it for free, I might as well read the rest of the Harbinger series.

While with the first two books I used the same service to listen to the books instead of reading it myself, which took about a month each time, I decided to read the third one. Now with the first one it took a while for the book to catch my attention fully. Since that point, the other two I have read did not have that issue. I think this may be the way that the characters were introduced and the amount of time that it took to get to the more interesting happenings in the book.

As I stated this third book, I had no problem with the amount of time it took to get into the book. It was so interesting that I read the whole book in four days.

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Is Writer’s Block Real?

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On May 26, 2020

In Books, Thoughts/Realizations, Writing

For the last fifteen years or so I have had a hard time with my writing. While I have been able to do a little bit of writing I feel like for the most part I have had writer’s block. I say this because when I sit down to do some writing nothing comes, or if it does I feel like it is just me forcing myself to write.

The last eight years have been rough to find the time to try and write since I have been raising my children and focusing on their needs more than being able to do the things that I may want to do all the time. The first of those eight years I just had my first son, and I was still working. Two years after he was born we moved our family to another state and while I was no longer working I did become pregnant with our second and third children and I was mainly just drained all the time. Since then I have been focusing on raising my children, a few times off and on, on my own while my husband was working in another part of the state.

While I am trying to find the part of me that use to write, I am still having a hard time coming up with things to write about. I hope that this blog would help me to be able to bring back the creative writing I have missed all these years, but so far I have not been successful.

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Virtual Book Club Introduction

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On December 14, 2019

In Book Group, Books, Want to Read

So one of the things I have always enjoyed in life has been reading books. Now that I have four young children at home I find it hard to read sometimes. A few years ago most of my family and I stayed with my parents while we were in between houses and I joined my Mother’s book club and enjoyed reading and discussing books with other people.

While we have since moved again and I am still a part of their Facebook group and have access to the list of books they are reading throughout the year I have not been able to get myself into reading as much as I would like over the last couple of years.

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About Me

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On August 18, 2019

In Books, Family Adventures, Writing

My name is Dixie Satterfield. I am a wife of twelve years and a mother of almost seven years. I have four children, three boys, and a girl. My middle children are a boy and girl twin.

This is my most recent picture courtesy of my Sister in law Amber Baker

Life with twins has been an adventure and I know that it will be a very long adventure. So far all of our children love to learn new things and are always ready to learn. Since my oldest has been going to school his brother and sister have wanted to as well. We do learning things at home all the time, but they see big brother go off to school and want to be like him.

I am an avid reader, although with four young children I do not always have the time to read the things that I want to read. I do always try to read books with my children in hopes that they will always enjoy reading as they grow. I know that every book is some kind of adventure to be read, some are just the adventure of someone’s real life. My all-time favorite book is Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. I would have to say my favorite author as a child was Dr. Suess. I remember reading all of his books that we had in our house and to this day I enjoy reading his books to my children

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Journey to Finding Oneself Part One

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On February 16, 2019

In Books, Family Adventures

Recently I have been doing a lot of self-reflection and trying to understand myself better. It has come to my knowledge that I have been living life in a somewhat unhealthy way, and it has been this way for a very long time. Even though I am realizing that there are things that are going to have to change in the way that I deal with some things that come up in life I know that this is also going to take me some time to learn new ways of dealing with everything and a lot more learning.

When I was growing up I was always reading books, and while I am an avid reader I am coming to understand that this was a way to escape some things in life. I know there are a lot of people who get drawn into the book they are reading and I do the same thing, but I am realizing that I also used the books as a way to hide from some of the things that I was dealing with.

While this is something I felt I needed to do in order to get through life, I have been doing it so long that I do not know how to change it. I am trying to learn new ways of dealing with hardships in life and how to be a different person.

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Some of My Favorite Books

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On December 11, 2018

In Books

I have been reading for a long time. Not sure exactly how long, but as long as I can remember I have enjoyed reading books. I remember going to the local city library or to the library a city over. We always had library books in our house as well as our own books that were always in the house.

Some of the books that I remember reading are Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Anne of Green Gables and many others. Every time we went to the library I would get new books and now I am helping my children learn to love books as well.

My first year in High School I took a science fiction class and one of the books we read was Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Ever since that first time I read it it has been one of my favorite books. To be honest it is the only book I remember reading in school that year. I cannot recall any of the other books that we read.

I have read that book a few times since then, and have tried to read every book from the series plus the Shadow series. All of them are good books and I enjoy all of them. Ender’s Game is one that I recommend to anyone I meet who is looking for a good book to read.

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Up and Down By Oliver Jeffers

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On December 10, 2018

In Books, Children Book Review, Reviews

Every week  I try to get new books when I take my three younger children to the library for story time. This is a set time that we go each week as long as we are feeling well and in town. I feel it is good for them to be able to learn to sit and listen to books read by other people and it exposes them to other children as well.

This last week we picked up some books as usual and in them I had found a book with a boy and a penguin on the cover that kind of reminded me of a video that the children had watched a few times about a boy who returns a penguin down to Antarctica, so I picked it up. It happens that this book was written by the author of the other story and it is called Lost and Found. As I do not recall reading the actual book I hope that the video is word for word from the book and I would recommend it. I will have to look this week for the book and take a look at it myself.

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The 5 Love Languages of Children By Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell, MD

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On December 4, 2018

In Books, Reviews

In my lifetime I have read a lot, mostly of fiction variety, except for school books and a few books about writing stories. The reason I have read mostly fiction is because a lot of the non-fiction just does not keep my interest as much as a fictional work does. Now you may be expecting me to say that The 5 Love Languages of Children is an exception to this, but that was not the case at all.

While I did enjoy reading this book and feel that it has a lot of good information, but between it being a non-fiction work and being a mother of four children under the age of six it took me about four months to get through the whole thing. For myself that is a very long time, but I wanted to read this book to make sure I am showing my children love in all the ways that they need as well as make sure they can do the same throughout their lives.

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