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All posts tagged "Book"
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51BooksBOOK REVIEW: The Blue Cloak
By Gini Rainey The Blue Cloak by Shannon McNear Set at the turn of the 18th century in Kentucky and Tennessee, The...
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75BooksBOOK REVIEW: Sentient Beings in The Kingdom of Bhutan
Sentient Beings in The Kingdom of Bhutan by Laurie S. Chambers By Gini Rainey Chambers, who has spent over fifty years traveling...
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1.5KDowntownA Fun Tour by Kimber Fountain “Galveston’s Red Light District”
Every Wednesday-Saturday (7pm) From the author of the book comes a wonderful tour and a riveting journey through the forgotten parts of...
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2.2KBooksHave FREE Fun with Rosenberg Library This Summer
Rosenberg Library is located Downtown at 2310 Sealy St., Downtown Galveston. For more info call (409)763-8854 or go to rosenberg-library.org. All events...
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105BooksBook Review: “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens
By Gini Rainey Imagine, if you will, a shack in the middle of the backwater marshes of the Atlantic Ocean in North...
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126BooksBook Review: “The Orphan’s Tale” by Pam Jenoff
by Gini Rainey Note to Self: when times are different and strangely sad, as the Shelter In Place time for COVID-19 have...
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158Blogs“When Spirits Run Wild” Reviewed by The Cookbook Junkie
By Gini Rainey We are now into the ninth day of our Stay-At-Home Order and it doesn’t get any easier, folks. One...
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168BooksDay Two of Our Stay At Home Order!
By Gini Rainey Desperate times call for desperate measures, and I’m so glad I have nearly five hundred cookbooks in my arsenal,...
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166BooksGive the Girl a Sammich!
By Gini Rainey Right now, considering all that is going on in our world, the KISS method would seem to be the...
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1.3KBooksBook Lovers Events: Signings, Author Meet Ups & More
From book signings to Meet & Greet’s, Galveston offers every Book Lover a lot of fun things to do. Check out...
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196BooksA Little Mystery for February
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen An instant #1 New York Times Best Seller in 2019, this second novel...
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257BooksBack, Again!
By Gini Rainey I must apologize to anyone out there who might still be interested in reading my blog! I know I’ve...
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323BooksReady, Set, Read!
By Gini Rainey I don’t know about the rest of the world, but 2019 proved to be very challenging for me...
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399BooksFall Into Reading
By Gini Rainey Paradox By Catherine Coulter This is one gripping, page-turning novel that brings a small town police chief and the...
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503BooksJust in Time for Hurricane Season
By Gini Rainey “Oleanders in June: A Novel” by Whitney Vandiver If you haven’t picked up and read a copy of this...
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432BooksReading the Kids Back to School
By Gini Rainey “Mischief and Mayhem: Part I of the Faerlands Chronicles” by S. D. Nicholson I think you know me by...
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443BooksA Good Pounding!
By Gini Rainey Good grief, that’s exactly what I deserve. I have been so over-whelmed with life in the past few months...
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448BooksNo Reason to Be Bored This Summer
By Gini Rainey “Four Three Two One” by Courtney Stevens Ms. Stevens has gone and done it again by creating a book...
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387BooksSea Side Reads
By Gini Rainey “BETWEEN WIND & WATER: 1898 GALVESTON” by Rosa Morgan Set in late 19th century Galveston, Ms. Morgan successfully brings...
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338BooksArtists in the Kitchen
By Gini Rainey I have many passions in my life, mostly leaning toward my right brain, but after working for over 25...
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454BlogsWhy Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
By Gini Rainey Today’s blog entry was written by my “Guest Writer” who, every so often, sends something along to me that...
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351BooksSmörgåsbord Is Ready!
By Gini Rainey I’m always on the lookout for good cookbooks that are either regional, ethnic or odd, and my sister scored...
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370BooksPapa Loved Peppers!
By Gini Rainey I must apologize to any of my blog followers I might still have. With all of the life’s busyness...
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370BooksReading is Fun-damental
By Gini Rainey If you are anything like me, your life is so full of busy-ness that you pretty much need to...
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439BooksFall Is In The Air
By Gini Rainey After what seems like a very long time, the weather in our neck of the woods has finally caught...
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489BooksFall Reading
By Gini Rainey The Waiting Room by Emily Bleeker Written by the author of When I’m Gone, this book has just as...
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561BooksCajun Classics
By Gini Rainey When life seems to get a bit overwhelming, it’s great to know that, number one – you are missed,...
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497BooksFall Reading At Its Best
By Gini Rainey The Day John Died by Christopher Anderson Who has not been fascinated by one of the most famous families...
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515BooksSome Things to Think About
By Gini Rainey “The Isle of Gold” by Seven Jane If you like to read adventure books that have everything from swashbuckling...
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975BooksIt Ain’t Over Till It’s Over!
By Gini Rainey Well, it sort of feels like summer is over, what with school starting tomorrow here in Tyler, but some of us...
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699BooksWasn’t That Just Yesterday?
By Gini Rainey It seems like just yesterday that my daughter Beth came home from middle school and announced that one of...
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1.2KBooksChill Out With A Cool Summer Read
By Gini Rainey Send Down the Rain – By Charles Martin In his thirteenth novel, this New York Times Award-winning author successfully...
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766BooksWho Says You Can’t Eat Ramen Raw?
By Gini Rainey I’ve found that inspiration sneaks into your life in lots of different ways. I must say, that (as I’m...
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875BooksThis Is To Die For!
By Gini Rainey When my mother passed away on July 4th, 1977, I hadn’t been exposed to very many funerals here in...
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1.1KBooksSpend the Summer Reading
By Gini Rainey “Bring Me Back” by B. A. Paris Just when you think an author can’t out do their last book,...
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1.1KBooksEat It – It’s Good For You!
By Gini Rainey Now that we are a week down the road from Mother’s Day, I would imagine things around your house...
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1.5KBooksMugging It Up!
By Gini Rainey We all have them – those friends that we love to entertain, but who don’t always like the same...
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6.9KBooksDuck! Here It Comes!
By Gini Rainey For those of you who have been paying attention to the general theme of my cookbook collection, you may...
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1.7KBooksHistorically Speaking
by Gini Rainey I was thinking this morning about all the incredible advances in technology that I have seen in my lifetime,...
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1.8KBooksWhat’s In a Book?
by Gini Rainey There’s a whole new world waiting for you between the covers of your next book. It’s no secret that...
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1.4KBooksI Love Google!
By Gini Rainey Sometimes (well, to be perfectly honest – a lot of times) I have dreams that seem really real, and...
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1.5KBooksThe Skinny on Cooking at Home: The Cookbook Junkie
By Guest Blogger Tena Jerger filling in for Gini Rainey, the original Cookbook Junkie I was not raised in a household that...
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1.1KBooksBook Reviews: A Time for Reminiscing
By Gini Rainey “Letters to My Grandchildren – Living an Intentional Legacy” By Sharon Stone While this is not a book that...
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1.4KBooksAunt Jemima – She’s Not Just For Pancakes Anymore
By Gini Rainey Growing up in a small, north-western town in Minnesota wasn’t as bad as you might imagine. Sure, Moorhead has...
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Ride ’em Cowboy
By Gini Rainey My dad was quite the jokester. It seems like he was either pulling off a prank or thinking up...
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1.4KBooksSuper Bowl of Raspberries
By Gini Rainey I don’t know about you and yours, but today me and mine are going to a Super Bowl party...
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1.4KBooksYou, Too, Can Be A Copy Cat!
By Gini Rainey Well, last week was quite interesting in Tyler, Texas! Beginning late Monday evening, our temperatures dropped below freezing while...
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3.1KBooksI’m Back!
By Gini Rainey After taking a bit of a sabbatical over the holidays, I am back to writing my weekly blog. Because...
