Weekly Friday Finds | 09-27-2024 | This week is FUN!
#SimpleLivingCountryGirl #DollyParton #LeanneMorgan #AugustNiehaus #rjgould#Books #Recipes #Reviews #IndieAuthors #Trivia
Welcome to the Friday Finds for 09-27-2024.
How was your week? Is there any news you would like to share?
While writing this, the big news is Hurricane Helene. Unfortunately, many lives have been lost, and considerable damage has been caused. My heart just aches for everyone affected by the storm.
I’m gearing up on the blog for the last quarter of the year. I seriously over-committed myself. Between spotlights for the BBNYA semi-finalists, reading my assigned full books for the finals, Indie Author commitments, and blog tours, It’s gonna be a wild ride.
So, I better sign off here and get busy!
Gina
PS!!! New Author of the Month and trivia contest winners will be chosen this week. Get your entries in NOW or maybe this weekend?
Weekly Friday Finds | 09-27-2024 | Blog News
These are the blog posts I shared this week.
Welcome to my WWW Wednesday, 09-25-2024. Learn what the 3 W’s are and check out my answers. Feel free to leave your answers in the WWW Wednesday comments or share a link to your own blog.
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Oh No He Didn’t! Brilliant Women and the Men Who Took Credit for Their Work by Wendy J. Murphy, JD.
This isn’t just a history lesson—it’s a wake-up call. “Oh No He Didn’t” is a must-read for anyone who cares about giving credit where credit is due and ensuring women’s voices and achievements are no longer overlooked or downright stolen. This book is as informative as it is empowering.
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Murphy, Wendy (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 266 Pages - 09/24/2024 (Publication Date) - Cynren Press (Publisher)
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Bright Midnights (The Limerent Series #2) by LS Delorme | #NewAdult #Paranormal #Romance #Thriller
Bright Midnights, from L.S. Delorme’s Limerent series, delivers a blend of urban fantasy, emotional depth, & young-adult romance.
- Delorme, LS (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 307 Pages - 09/29/2023 (Publication Date) - Limerent Publishing (Publisher)
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Spotlight on: Calm by S. J. Baker | #YA #YoungAdult #Dystopian #Thriller
@NeemTreePress @WriteReadsTours @The_WriteReads @SJBaker_Author
In this enthralling dystopian YA thriller, emotions become weapons, and the fight for humanity’s true essence takes center stage.
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Baker, Susan (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 04/22/2025 (Publication Date) - Neem Tree Press (Publisher)
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The Legendary Mo Seto by A.Y. Chan | A middle-grade martial arts action/adventure book
While I am well beyond the target age for this story, I found it entertaining and quite enjoyable. Mo is a very likable character and so easy to root for.
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Chan, A. Y. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 319 Pages - 06/04/2024 (Publication Date) - Aladdin (Publisher)
Weekly Friday Finds |09-27-2024 | Recipes
Dolly Parton and her sister Rachel Parton George grew up with their mama, grandmas, and aunts making this classic dessert from scratch.
There are so many versions of banana pudding—or puddin’, as we call it. This one allows you to make it from scratch like we do and always have, just like our mama and our grandmas and our aunts used to do. Just be sure to make enough! After putting in the effort, you don’t want to be the one to go, “Where’s the banana pudding? I missed it!”
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- Hardcover Book
- Parton, Dolly (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 272 Pages - 09/17/2024 (Publication Date) - Ten Speed Press (Publisher)
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Cowboy Spaghetti from Southern Living
This is really intended to be a fridge and pantry clean-out type of dish—throw in whatever produce you have (peppers, onions, celery) and canned goods (tomatoes, beans, and veggies). You can’t go wrong.
Did you know your Kindle Unlimited Subscription gives you FREE access to all kinds of magazines? If I knew that, I forgot. I just read the latest issue of Southern Living magazine…for free! (Well, as part of my KU membership. I think I make that fee back in a week!)
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- NOT A BOOK (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 01/14/2014 (Publication Date) - Dotdash Meredith (Publisher)
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Weekly Friday Finds | 09-27-2024 | Books
What are you reading this week? Here are a couple of suggestions for you.
The Spooky Wheels on the Bus: (A Holiday Wheels on the Bus Book) Picture Book by J. Elizabeth Mills
It’s Halloween night! Celebrate and sing along with this bestselling, spooky twist on the classic Wheels on the Bus song!
One spooky bus goes RATTLE and SHAKE,
RATTLE and SHAKE,
RATTLE and SHAKE.
One spooky bus goes RATTLE and SHAKE,
All through the town.
Count from One Spooky Bus up to Ten Goofy Ghosts as this Halloween ride races through town picking up a few unsuspecting passengers along the way! Eye-catching art and a bouncy, countdown rhyme is sure to make this a read-aloud favorite!
- J. Elizabeth Mills (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 24 Pages - 07/01/2010 (Publication Date) - Cartwheel Books (Publisher)
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The Wild Robot (Volume 1) by Peter Brown
This book’s film release is today, 09-27-2024. The trailers look so fun. I can’t wait to see this film.
This #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle-grade novel from a Caldecott Honor winner tells an extraordinary story full of action and thought-provoking questions as a robot learns to survive—and live—in the wilderness.
- Brown, Peter (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 320 Pages - 04/07/2020 (Publication Date) - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Publisher)
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I’m going to try this one in audiobook form. I heard it’s even better in her delightful southern voice.
The beloved comedy sensation packs a hilarious punch with real talk about what it’s like to be a woman today—from rebelling against the latest diet trends to dealing with perimenopausal mean girls and attending rock concerts in middle age.
For a long time, no one pulling the strings in the comedy world thought that a woman over fifty from rural Tennessee could make it in the industry. But Leanne Morgan has defied the odds, reaching millions with her musings on hormones, low-rise britches, Weight Watchers, and her opposites-attract relationship with her husband, Chuck.
In her charming southern accent, Morgan brings listeners inside her quest to find her voice after spending many years trying to figure out what that meant. Along the way, we learn how she grew up as a butcher’s daughter, landed a husband with health insurance, honed her stand-up technique selling jewelry at house parties, embraced the glories of aging, and surrendered to the comfort of wearing big flesh-toned panties.
Equal parts warm and hilarious, this book is a must-listen by one of comedy’s rising stars—reminding you that every time life leaves you asking “What in the world?!,” something good is bound to come out of it someday.
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Morgan, Leanne (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 237 Pages - 09/24/2024 (Publication Date) - Convergent Books (Publisher)
Weekly Friday Finds | 09-27-2024 | Independent Author News
R.J. Gould sent me this graphic and a link to a fabulous grouping of FREE short stories. He has one in the promotion, and I noticed another favorite author on the list, August Niehaus.
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Authors, if you are participating in any promotions, please send me your details or any other news I might share with my readers.
Weekly Friday Finds | 09-27-2024 | Blogs to Visit
Here’s an entertaining blog I think you will enjoy.
Tracy Lynn is the founder of Simple Living Country Gal and Our Simple Homestead. Through her blog, she has helped thousands learn to live more simply.
Weekly Friday Finds | 09-27-2024 | Trivia Time
This week’s trivia question is:
What is the name of the whale in Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick”?
Leave your answer in the comment section to be entered into this month’s trivia contest.
The answer to last week’s question:
What is the best-selling soup flavor in the UK? Tomato!! (one of my favorite comfort foods)
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OOHH…Spooky wheels on the bus I wonder if ghosts come up from them or maybe even haunted wheels??
I hope Wild Robot is soooo good!