Tome Thursday: Home to Blessing series

Hello everyone!

So this blog post will be about three books instead of just one, as it's a short book series in a much grander scheme of things, but I figured I might as well talk about the lot of them since, if you read them one by one and not as a whole, they would make zero sense at all, specifically this series because it was literally cut in such places that makes it almost impossible to comprehend if you don't immediately pick up the next one and carry on from where you left off.

I'm talking about the 'Home to Blessing' series by author Lauraine Snelling. I had a blog post way back where I talked about the first book in this world she has woven into her stories, about a family of Norwegian immigrants who cross the Atlantic to move to America and then proceed to farm the land in one of the Dakota regions. I think these three books are the ... fifth series in the whole? The Red River valley is basically home to many families by this time, an established and prosperous community, and I did enjoy the return to it. Not to mention, there are some other books to follow as well, which is fine by me!

Tome Thursday: An Untamed Heart

Hello everyone!

So I just got back in from doing some early Christmas shopping. Brrrr, but it's cold outside now! I wish we'd get some snow as well, for the proper holiday feeling and all, but temperatures are definitely all Christmas-y now!

I was reminded of a very intriguing book I read a while back as I was perusing through the choices in our bookstore for my family, and decided to write about it tonight. The book is titled 'An Untamed Heart', and it was written by Lauraine Snelling. Now, I initially didn't even want to read any of Mrs. Snelling's books because I had gone through Janette Oke and most of hers, and thought I'd had enough of that kind of literature for a while, but in every one of Oke's books there would be some sort of introduction to a Lauraine Snelling book, so I eventually caved. For those of you who have never heard of the author before, she has written numerous children's books, but her most famous ones are the adult fiction she created about a town in North Dakota, Blessing; it is around Blessing that several of her series circle (Red River, Return to Red River, Daughters of Blessing, Home to Blessing, Song of Blessing), and 'An Untamed Heart' was the much-anticipated prequel to them all.