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  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,    When it comes to my blog, I am happy to share my thoughts about books. Writing book reviews is always a fun activity of mine. But every now and then I have to step back from my blog to make progress on my own novel .   Since 2019, I have been hard at work crafting my debut novel. It has been a wonderful and often scary experience, but I am excited for all of you to read it. I have begun the ending of the novel. It has been an enlightening experience to read other thrillers and see how some of their endings are either rushed or fall apart. I am doing my best to deliver to readers an exciting and satisfying finale.    In the meantime, please peruse my past blog posts and reviews and enjoy my recommendations. This blog has been with me since 2015 and is also a labor of love.   More to come!      Let me know in the comments below what you are reading.     If you wish to dona...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!    Writing my debut novel has been a scary and fun ride so far. I have enjoyed everyone's enthusiasm. And it makes me feel amazing to know that I have the incredible support group I have.    With that said, I have launched my new website on Wix. It has all aspects of what Xepherus Reads and Xepherus Studios does, as well as my debut novel's official page. Please check it out. My Debut Novel | TLBahr (wixsite.com)      Have fun reading this week. Let me know in the comments below what you are reading this week.       Also please follow me on my  social media platforms  and enjoy shopping with me at eBay and Mercari.   SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS AT LINKTREE     2021 Reading Challenge (blank version)   2021 Reading Challenge (my challenge)   Because there is always time to read... and write, T.L. Bahr       All written content and top logo (c) C...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!   Welcome to the next stop on the official Random Things Blog Tour for the Path Keeper by N.J. Simmonds . I am Xepherus3 and this is my corner of the B ook C ommunity , Xepherus Reads.     A thank you to the author, BHC Press, and tour organizer, Anne Cater for inviting me to this event . Discovering new authors is always a favorite thing for me to do. And with the Path Keeper not on ly did I discover a new author, but a spin on several genres that left me feeling extremely satisfie d at the book's close.   The Path Keeper is written by N.J. Simmonds and is published by BHC Press. In this first book of the Indigo Chronicles we are introduced to Arabe lla Fantz, an often lonely college student that keeps to herself in her apartment behind her parents' mansion in London. Ella is doing her best to deflect the crazy public relations fiascoes that her mother Felicity sets up. But s he cannot escape her step-...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!   Emma in the Night was a favorite novel of mine in 2017. I gave it five stars and was genuinely excited to read another of Wendy Walker's novels. Last week while visiting my favorite bookshop I was handed her latest novel by an eager bookseller that highly recommended it.    The Night Before is Wendy Walker's third suspense novel , and it is published by S t. Martin's Press . We are introduced to Laura Lochner , a tragic woman who has carried the terrifying vision of her high school boyfriend's murder. Many believed that she had killed Mitch Adler due to the fact that she was found standing over his body with a baseball bat. Eleven years later Laura has a successful job on Wall Street in New York City, and she is dating a wonderful man that truly loves her. But one day she receives a text from her current beau st a ting he never wants to see her again . Devastated she moves back to Connecticut, into her sis...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!   For the past few years I have been obsessed with thrillers. The twistier the better. As I began to expand my reading horizons I settled on the crime thriller. But as a student of Psychology, I will always have a special place in my heart for the psychological thriller. With the Silent Patient I was treated to one of the best thrillers that I have read this year.   The Silent Patient is Alex Michaelides' debut novel, and i t is published by Celadon Books. In this tense and shocking thriller we are introduced to the Grove, a large psychiatric hospital home to many patients, some of notoriety . Within its walls lives a silent patient, named Alicia Berenson. After being convicted of murdering her husband, Alicia was remanded to the hospital's care. There she has lived a reticent life for many years, baffling psychiatrists. She is said to be dangerous and prone to attacking p eople . These are the qualities that psych...