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MommaBeja

MommaBeja

Joined August 2016

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Sweet story

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If you Love fashion you will Love this book. Lavinia explores fashion. We get to see fashion from fabric creation through seamstress execution. #keeper

tammysue Looking forward to it‘s release!! 😁 6y
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This is the third installment of the Wilde family stories: Lavinia and Parth‘s story. Lavinia needs to marry so she proposes to Parth. He declines but offers to find he a rich husband. Their story is intertwined with North and Diana‘s wedding preparation. I enjoyed their roundabout journey to their HEA. It also sets up Betsy‘s story. These Wilde‘s are the new Bridgertons. Can‘t wait for the next story in this Wilde series. #keeper #romantsy

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Too Wilde to Wed | Eloisa James
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The things I love most about Eloisa's books are the depth of the characterizations and the ingenuity of the storytelling. There is never a clear path to the all important HEA- Happily ever after. The situation seems unsolvable. The lovers seem bound for heartache. But it works out in a clever way as the pieces fit together unexpectedly. Great story I cannot wait for the next one in the series. Wilde for You #romantsy #keeper

EloisaJames Thank you!! 😘😘 7y
MommaBeja @EloisaJames no thank you! I am always concerned when writing these not to give away the story. 7y
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Too Wilde to Wed | Eloisa James

Possibly the best @EloisaJames book to date. Have you preordered yours?

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Only Human | Sylvain Neuvel

The sequel to Sleeping Giants is finally here!!!

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Waking Lions | Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
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A tale of guilt with a unique voice. The story slowly reveals itself and is disturbing at each revelation. I couldn‘t put it down.

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Garett and Random‘s tale was filled with angst and intrigue. Garett was no shy miss. It happily includes West who is a fan favorite. His story is next. Cannot wait since it would seem to include Lord St Vincent and Evie.

CoverToCoverGirl Love everything this lady has ever written! ❤️❤️❤️ 7y
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Beauty meets the Beast and enters a marriage of convenience. He is a Duke who is scarred in an accident on the battlefield She is a vicar's daughter who walked to London after her father threw her out Their story is hot Love Ashe's sense of humor.

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Eloisa has once again written my new favorite book. The characters are multidimensional. The story is witty and thoughtful, I am hooked by the background dramas and cliffhanger of other potential couples and their futures. The next story is out for preordering so I have if the Wildes are Eloisa's Bridgertons they will be embraced by many #keeper #romantsy #litsy Thanks Eloisa!

EloisaJames Thanks so much!!! Blowing you many kisses. E 7y
MommaBeja @EloisaJames you are welcome. Love your books. The least I️ can do is write a review. You are also a truly lovely person. 7y
EloisaJames @MommaBeja aww thanks and back at you!! 7y
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The Dark Highlander | Karen Marie Moning
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Daegus is walking a razor's edge He is a man who loved too strongly and acted unwisely. Can he find the solution to his dilemma with his soul mate by his side? #romantsy #keeper #classic #kiltversustrews

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#Litsymeetup #romantsy @EloisaJames only a month left before a Wilde Launch!!

LorieL Love Eloisa! 7y
EloisaJames Please come, everybody!! (And get Wilde in Love a little early!) 7y
LauraBrook I'm so excited to get this! (And relieved that I preordered!) 7y
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#litsymeetup with @EloisaJames to listen to Lorraine Heath read from her new book @ Lady Jane Salon. Fun night. Great introduction to Notorious Heiress.

EloisaJames Crap! We forgot to take a group with Lorraine! 7y
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EloisaJames @ScientistSam @MommaBeja @Jokila that was lovely last night!! 😘😘😘 7y
MommaBeja Language @EloisaJames I know. I think we were rushing 7y
EloisaJames @ScientistSam @Jokila @MommaBeja Laura!! I have to write and go to a swanky L'Oreal luncheon, and the only thing I want to do is keep reading Sleeping Giant!!! I am obsessed. Hey, is there a reply-all function that I'm missing? 7y
Jokila @EloisaJames I'm surprised you downloaded it after you were so horrified by the cover! 😂 (the hardcover art is actually really pretty!) 7y
MommaBeja @Jokila neuvell? 7y
Jokila @mommabeja that's the one! 7y
EloisaJames @Jokila I'm still scared but I can't put it down 7y
MommaBeja @EloisaJames @Jokila just bought it cannot wait for lunch break 7y
ScientistSam @MommaBeja @Jokila @EloisaJames can't wait to hear what you all think! 7y
EloisaJames @ScientistSam @MommaBeja @Jokila I was supposed to get out at 34th (family dance class!) and I looked up and it was 28th. This book is like crack 7y
ScientistSam @EloisaJames @MommaBeja @Jokila Commuting perils of a good book! (Also, Eloisa, dance class is fantastic! Family dance class even more so)@Jokila thanks for the recommendation! It definitely draws you in😀 7y
Jokila @ScientistSam @MommaBeja I'm glad you're all enjoying it! I finished book two after our meetup! I wish book three was out already!! 😩 7y
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ScientistSam 👏👏👏 8y
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Bad Idea | Damon Suede

It's a love story at the intersection of Face Off & Comic Con. With the wit and heat only Damon could conjure. Love reading romance written by a man.

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Bad Idea | Damon Suede

The secret seed of all superheroes:falling apart...Locked in a kryptonite dungeon, bound with their own magic lassos, mutated and mutilated.

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Anthony has been taking care of his siblings since he was 18 & his father died of a 🐝 sting. He knows he is going to die young. He decides to marry so he chooses a wife arbitrarily. Her fiercely productive sister, Kate, will not countenance Anthony as a brother-in-law. One fateful thunderstorm & bee 🐝 later...Magic. #keeper #romantsy #Bridgerton

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Potent Pleasures | Eloisa James
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I enjoyed this book immensely. I like when characters have a chance encounter, shake up each others lives and slowly find their way through life's obstacle course to each other. Love the scene in the end where older and wiser characters revisit the beginning for the happy ending. #romantsy #litsy

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Potent Pleasures | Eloisa James
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Anyone going to #NYC #bookcon on Saturday or Sunday? Trying to decide if I want to go. #litsy #romantsy #nerdfest

CoverToCoverGirl So wish I lived close enough to but it's an 18+ hour drive 😔 Go and have a wonderful time.. so jealous that you have the opportunity to😎 8y
ScientistSam Yep! I think a few other people are going too. 8y
ScientistSam Did you decide to go? 8y
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MommaBeja Yes. Who can resist? @ScientistSam 8y
ScientistSam Wonderful! Maybe we can meet up! 8y
MommaBeja @ScientistSam sounds like a plan Sam 8y
RaimeyGallant How was it? #NYClove 7y
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How to Tame Your Duke | Juliana Gray
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The first installment of the princesses novels. If you Love a story with a cross dressing woman you will Love thus story. Emily lives as a tutor in remote corner of the world tutoring her charge so that he can get away from his boring life and go to school. His father is a recluse due to disfigurement and betrayal. The story takes interesting twists and turns. #keeper #romantsy

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Oh how true.

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Happy birthday and thank you Theodore! Oh, the places you lead us to. Oh, the people we met. Oh, the lessons we learned

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Devil in Winter | Lisa Kleypas
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Damn it. I don't know how to be a husband, or a father. But since your standards in both areas seem to be relatively low, I may have half a chance at pleasing you.

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Devil in Spring | Lisa Kleypas

His eyes narrowed as he saw his father's bland expression. "Why are you encouraging this? Shouldn't you be more discriminating when it comes to the potential mother of your grandchildren?"
"You're a man of eight -&-twenty who hasn't yet sired an heir. At this point, I'm not inclined to be overparticular about whom you marry all I ask is that you produce some grandchildren before your mother & I are too decrepit to pick them up." #keeper #romants

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Devil in Spring | Lisa Kleypas
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If you let me go fetch her, you can compromise her, & then I'll be off the hook". Seeing his blank look, she explained, "People certainly wouldn't expect you to marry both of us."
"I'm afraid I never ruin more than one young woman a night." His tone was a mockery of politeness. "A man has to draw the line somewhere." #romantsy #keeper

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Love Duff. Love baking. He makes it seem easy. 🎂🍪#cookbook Duff intros the recipe giving great information and encouraging creativity. Then the recipe. Then options. It reads like he talks. It is a pat on the shoulder and a you can do this.

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Hot Head | Damon Suede

"It's a kilt, dumbass...it's only a skirt if I wear underwear."

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Hot Head | Damon Suede
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You have an epiphany: You are in 💙 with your best friend. He is all you have. If you lose him you lose the family that embraced you, raised you & saved you. If you lose him you are rudderless & alone. He asks you for help & you do everything to help him afraid your 💙 will disgust him. Then you are afraid that the 🌎 will harm him. How do you deal with an attraction and 💙 that challenges everything you believe about yourself? Surprising #keeper

MommaBeja @DamonSuede great seeing you tonight. Cannot wait to read your new book. 7y
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The Rogue's Wager | Christi Caldwell
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Wager on this book. It's a #keeper #romantsy

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Lady Brigitte Cavendish is the antithesis of an English debutante: She isn't looking for a husband, doesn't care what she wears, fills her dance card with fake names & discusses math with any fool who tries to talk to her. Lord Fox is the quintessential English gentleman: he loves to sport, dresses with flair & will wager on anything. Lord Fox has lead the charmed life always coming in 1st except academically. A wager sparks this 💙📖.

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https://www.facebook.com/events/756393974509063/?ti=icl. Come to Book Culture NYC to launch the book and support an Indy book shop

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robinb Saw it live...who knew there was so much involved in one of these cover shoots?! You picked a great guy....Gavin rocks! Thanks, #EloisaJames! (edited) 8y
MommaBeja Saw it after work. He was sweet #EloisaJames @EloisaJames #romantsy 8y
EloisaJames @robinb wasn't he a sweetie? Totally fun! 8y
MommaBeja Cannot wait to buy the book and have his image in my 📚 8y
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#SpindleCove multilingual woman and foreign speaking stranger at a ball. Fun read #romantsy

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Truest Heart | Samantha James
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Gillian is on the run hiding from the king's men. She saves Gareth's life after he is injured & nearly drowns in a shipwreck. As his memory begins to slowly return, Gareth brings her to his castle to protect her life only to unintentionally lead her straight into danger. A bold lie is all that stands between them and certain death. #keeper #romantsy #medieval

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❤️is sometimes all about timing. Brandon, Polly sails to Operto to assist her sister & brother in law at a satellite military hospital. Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Junot assists Brandon on the crossing. He is too old for her. She is the illegitimate daughter of a traitor. Their trek to happiness takes them through Portugal prisoners of their circumstances. #romantsy #keeper ugly 🦆2 🐍

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The Wish Club | Stella Cameron
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This book is about ❤️, friendship, social class, family expectation, peer pressure & misery. Ross and Kirsty are childhood friends/loves. They are both miserable without each other but their families pry them apart for the others own good. They are lost& lonely without eachother. Rudderless. Until Max forces Kirsty to be his assistant in a bid for happiness that causes both families great upheaval. Yay, Max!! #keeper #romantsy #❤️triumphsover💔

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A Year and a Day | Virginia Henley

I will and I shall!!💋

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A Year and a Day | Virginia Henley
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Medieval story which includes hand fasting, castles, Robert the Bruce and the sight. I am so in! Lynx is given Dumfries Castle to hold. He wants children and agreed to hand fast with the steward's daughter. She is fiercely Celtic and wants nothing to do with the Englishman. Betrayal and loyalty war on this amazing story. Enjoyed parallel ❤story of secondary characters. #keeper #romantsy #historical

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The Charm School | Susan Wiggs

She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true. She believed now. The wonder of setting sail created possibilities she had never considered before.

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The Charm School | Susan Wiggs
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The ugly duckling becomes a swan!! Isadora is odd man out in her family and doesn't fit into society. The 💙of her life is out of her reach. Ryan is a sea captain running away from his demons. ❤ blossoms as Isadora blooms. Her dream man is within her grasp. #keeper #romantsy My favorite Wiggs

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Eugenia Snowe owns a governess registry & Ward Reeve needs a governess. She has been mourning her husband & has withdrawn from society until Ward bursts into her life & reawakens her. On the pretense of helping a client Eugenia's partner helps Ward kidnap her boss. Miscommunication causes stumbling blocks to happily ever after. Cameos of favorite characters from other James' novels are the cherry on top of this delicious cake. #keeper #romantsy

EloisaJames Thank you!! 🎉🎉🎉💕 8y
MommaBeja @EloisaJames you're welcome & thanks 🤓 8y
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Fahrenheit 451 | Harold Bloom
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We need another icon for re-read📖 #reread #classic #keeper

MommaBeja I think a book being reread has a different status than new. Like an old friend. We should be able to convey #worthyofrerread 8y
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The Magnificent Rogue | Iris Johansen
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Sweeping saga of a Scottish Laird and hidden princess who must find a way to 💙 and live safely in turbulent times. About power, love, loyalty and strategy. One of my favorite Johansen stories. 👏#romantsy #historical #keeper

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Borrowed Dreams | May McGoldrick
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Both Lyon & Millicent barely survived their first marriages. Millicent devotes herself to righting the wrongs committed by her deceased husband. Lyon is paralyzed and welcomes death. They are thrust together in a marriage of convenience. The story unfolds as they heal each other and help others. #romantsy #romance #keeper

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Charming the Highlander | Janet Chapman
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Who doesn't 💙 a time traveling Highlander and a smart, sassy woman? Grace is bringing her nephew home to his father when she meets Greylen. He is instantly drawn to her. Of course they have to survive prejudice, hate, her career and the snowstorm of the century. #Romantsy #romance #keeper

CoverToCoverGirl Great author! Haven't read an by her that I didn't enjoy thoroughly! 8y
MommaBeja Agreed 8y
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I remember watching the movie several times as a kid. Mona Lisa Smile was based loosely on the book. I liked the book more than I thought I would. Good story about being a woman in her time

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I love Georgette Heyer. This is my favorite Heyer novel. Sophy is lovely and her adventures are marvelous. Must read before the movie comes out. #romantsy #romance #keeper

Christy2318 There's going to be a Grand Sophy movie? I am so there for that! 8y
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Better than the movie. Love the internal dialogue.

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The Piano Teacher: A Novel | Janice Y. K. Lee
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Will's story spans decades. He is an enigma. The story flashes forward and backward as it tries to explain how Will becomes a driver after loving and losing in war torn Japan. I liked the historical insights of British expatriates and their suffering in interment camps as well as natives forced to succumb or die. I enjoyed the comparison between his two women and their relationship. Not an easy read but worth the effort.

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he had the devil of a time with marriage-minded mothers. They seemed to hunt him with all the determined enthusiasm of a fox hunter who's glimpsed a bushy tail. His fortune clearly out-weighed his irregular birth. What he needed was a portable foxhole #romance #keeper #romantsy

MommaBeja Love the internal dialogue running throughout the story. It makes me chuckle. 8y
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