by Jamie Holloway | Jul 20, 2024 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
When I first read Mary Oliver’s poem “Wild Geese” I fell in love with her work. I was 25 at the time and living a painful life. Her poems, balm to my soul during painful moments in my life. For my birthday, my sister/friend Summer gifted me “Devotions”. Her latest...
by Jamie Holloway | Mar 29, 2024 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
Jill Eileen Smith’s latest novel is on Noah’s Ark but done through Noah’s Wife, daughter in laws, and son’s perspective. I enjoyed this novel, like I have of the others Smith has written on Bible stories done through the woman’s perspective. I can tell...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 24, 2024 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I usually love historical novels and I was excited when I first received “The Seamstress of Acadie” by Laura Frantz. I just could not get into this book. I hate speaking unkindly about a book. I am not sure if it was the story or the writing. It just didn’t...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 9, 2024 | The Magnificent Journey
Happy New Year! A new year has begun and it is time for me to pick a new focus word for this year. I chose the word Wellness! Last year at this time I was still in the hospital fighting an infection in my right leg that started from a wound I got. They still didn’t...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 30, 2023 | The Magnificent Journey
Whoa! I never thought 2023 would never end. This year has been the most challenging, most life changing chapter of my life. During Christmas and New Year’s I was in the hospital fighting an infection in my right leg. Got out, then ended up going back in, in March...
by Jamie Holloway | Dec 3, 2023 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I enjoyed reading Shadows at Dusk by Elizabeth Goddard. For one, it is a mystery set in Alaska and Montana. Second, it had a close sibling relationship, where a brother looked for his lost sister. I will let you discover what happened to her. You will not be...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 9, 2023 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
I enjoy reading books with strong women characters. Again the Wind by Amanda Cabot is one of these books. Louisa, is a doctor during a time period when women were not respected or valued or even had jobs outside of the home. The storyline is really good and it...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 7, 2023 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
“On Moonberry Lake” by Holly Varni is about a woman named Cora who does not have a good relationship with her mother. Her mom dies and leaves her, she believes her grandparents lodge at Moonberry Lake with condition that she has to live there for a year. Turns...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 21, 2023 | Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey
“Lost and Found” is about a man name Micah who is head over heels in love with a girl who runs away from their Amish community. And another girl who is in love with Micah. The two girls are sisters. This story is a love triangle that is painful and has a good...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 18, 2023 | Auto-immune, Inspiring Nutrition, The Magnificent Journey
I have been lazy this year with my blog in just doing book reviews and not writing much on my journey with healing from Sepsis and relearning my life and routines and making new life habits for myself. I will start with the one good thing that I am happy about. I have...
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