Weekly Friday Finds | 05-17-2024 | Books ~Author News ~ Recipes ~ Crafts ~ New Trivia Question
Hello and welcome to the 05-17-2024 edition of the weekly Friday Finds.
I hope you have had a wonderful week and are ready for a relaxing weekend. Let’s see if I found anything to help you enjoy the next week more. I think today’s post offers a lot of inspiration.
I’m still busy cleaning for the summer gatherings. My theme is to work smarter, not harder. I found this nifty little cordless spin scrubber that is definitely making my chores easier. I’ve used it to scrub & polish floors, corners, tubs, cabinets, etc. I have 45 cabinet doors in my kitchen! I had to count twice. Why am I always out of room to store stuff? Anyway, I cleaned and polished them all with Pledge Wood Revitalizing Oil in just one morning!
I’m frantically reviewing the list of books for the 2024 Book Blogger’s Novel of the Year award. I think we ended up with about 250 books from Indie Authors. I need to read blurbs, check content considerations, and turn in my form with what I “want to read, am willing to read, have already reviewed, and do not want to read” by this weekend! The excitement is really building amongst the panelists. We can’t wait to get our first excerpts! I hope you’ll follow the journey on here with me. You can also search #BBNYA2024 on your favorite social media site.
Okay, it’s time to get cracking. There is so much to do and so little time, but I love my life!!
Until next week,
Peace & Love to you!
Gina
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Weekly Friday Finds | 05-17-2024 | Blog News
This are the blog posts I shared the past week. Did you miss any?
Abandon Station by VG Harrison – Science Fiction with Strong Female Lead ~ Review
Our Lives in Between by Billie Kowalewski (The Enlightened Series #1) ~Author Guest Post ~ Review ~ Fantasy
When the Ocean Flies by Heather G. Marshall | Book Review~ The Author’s List of Walking Paths that Inspired the Story ~ Women’s Lit ~ Family Drama
Pursuit of Innocence by Bethany Rosa – Spotlight ~ 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Spicy Romance
These four posts are for book tours, check out the giveaways & raffles offered by the authors.
Weekly Friday Finds | 05-17-2024 | Recipes
I found some family-friendly recipes that are easy to make and perfect for little ones to help with. Let’s inspire some Junior Chefs!
Now, you can get the taste of a classic Philly cheese steak in the convenience of your own home. This foolproof biscuit bomb recipe is ideal for making with your kids. Their small hands can help separate the dough into pockets and fill with the cheesy beef mixture. Be sure to check out the tips from the Pillsbury Kitchen.
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Easy Italian Crescent Roll Bake
These simple roll-up sandwiches are an incredibly easy way to get your kids involved in the baking process. Unroll your Pillsbury™ crescent dough sheet, spread the cream cheese mixture, and ask them to pile on the meat and cheese toppings. Bonus points if they help arrange the cut sandwiches in the 13×9!
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Tune in next week for delicious recipes.
Weekly Friday Finds | 05-17-2024 | Books
Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in a powerful and healing historical novel from the #1 bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley.
Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s. Outstanding students, they believe in being good humans before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord’s Resistance Army.
In a legion of young recruits, no one gets closer than Anthony to powerful messianic warlord Joseph Kony and his darkest secrets. To stay sane as he spirals through chaos, Anthony clings to his childhood lessons about being a good human. Florence’s upbringing grounds her, too, helping her keep her dreams alive even as she’s pulled deeper into the insanity of Kony’s war.
At the lowest points of their lives, certain they’ll never go home, Anthony and Florence meet by chance, fall in love, and begin to dream of surviving their captivity. They devote their lives to helping their fellow child soldiers escape bondage and return to their families and redemption by following the stars.
By turns tender, shocking, moving, desperate, and ultimately triumphant, Florence and Anthony’s story is an epic drama of humanity, a life-affirming tale, and an experience readers will never forget.
Featuring an afterword by Anthony and Florence Opoka.
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An instant #1 New York Times and indie bestseller!
For more than a decade, readers have been enchanted by the modern classic The One and Only Ivan, a Newbery Award winner and a #1 New York Times bestseller, and by its bestselling sequels, The One and Only Bob and The One and Only Ruby. Powerhouse author Katherine Applegate invites readers back into Ivan’s world for one last adventure—his most exciting yet.
Ivan has been happily living in a wildlife sanctuary, with his friend Ruby next door in the elephant enclosure, frequent visits from his canine friend Bob, and his mate Kinyani by his side. And in the happiest turn of all, Ivan and Kinyani have welcomed a set of twins to their family!
Ivan loves being a papa, even though it can be hard sometimes. But as he navigates the joys and challenges of parenthood, he can’t help but recall his life before the glass walls of the mall circus, his own childhood in the jungle—and his own twin.
In the tradition of timeless classics like Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little, the one and only Katherine Applegate has crafted a poignant, delightful, heartbreaking, unforgettable final foray into the world of Ivan, the world’s favorite silverback.
Weekly Friday Finds | 05-17-2024 | Author News
This is my latest scoop from Indie Authors.
From Gary Kirchner: I have recently published a trilogy titled In the Shadow of the Goalposts.
The story is the study of a football coach who has tragically lost two sons, is beset with marriage difficulties, and who naively tries to make sense of his world through the medium of his sport.
Arne Viimets, who was fired ten years previously, takes over as head coach of a struggling Canadian university team. He is convinced that he can bring it to the pinnacle of college sports – the national championship – and, at the same time, instill character and toughness into players weakened by the insipid and unguided principles of modern society. He is in for a few surprises.
In bringing the reader into the locker room, into the coaches’ room, onto the practice field, along the sidelines, and onto the game field, In the Shadow of the Goalposts gives a realistic behind-the-curtain view of college football.
The three books are available online through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo. I will post reviews for all three sometime soon. I just bought all three in an Amazon Bundle!
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Kirchner, Gary J. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 283 Pages - 08/30/2023 (Publication Date) - FriesenPress (Publisher)
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Kirchner, Gary J. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 207 Pages - 10/25/2023 (Publication Date) - FriesenPress (Publisher)
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Kirchner, Gary J. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 431 Pages - 01/19/2024 (Publication Date) - FriesenPress (Publisher)
Weekly Friday Finds | 05-17-2024 | Creative News
Last week’s Friday Finds featured pin loom weaving. This week, I found some beautiful Rag Wreath kits for you.
DIY Daisy Rag Wreath Craft Kit
Aurora Borealis Rag Wreath Kit – DIY
Today’s corresponding email newsletter features mini rag wreaths!
Weekly Friday Finds | 05-17-2024 | Trivia Time
This week’s trivia question is:
What is the most popular vegetable planted in home gardens?
Leave your answer in the comments. If you are also a newsletter subscriber, you’ll get double entries. The next drawing will be held later this month.
The answer to last week’s question:
Mother’s Day marks the most ______ on any given day of the year.
Phone calls (phone traffic spikes as much as 37%!)
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Woohoo! Got your double entry in the jar, Crystal! Thanks for stopping by today.
Thanks Gina found some really nifty things and even learned some things too.
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Wow, you sure picked a hard trivia question for this week! There are so many different answers out there. I found that potatoes are the number 1 vegetable crop in the world and it seems like beans are the most popular for gardens. I would have thought it was tomatoes and one article I found agree with me, while others don’t. So that’s a tough question!