{"id":104608,"date":"2025-02-23T05:21:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T05:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/balancing-the-books-to-21st-february-jills-book-cafe\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T05:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T05:21:41","slug":"balancing-the-books-to-21st-february-jills-book-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=104608","title":{"rendered":"Balancing the Books to 21st February \u2013 Jill’s Book Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"


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On the acquisitions front, a pretty good week I think. Though after last week, anything would have been an improvement. Some great freebies, a Kindle daily deal and a pre-order. I decided to include it now (though it\u2019s not due until June) because come June I\u2019ll forget and as it was only 79p it\u2019s not going to really make a dint in the book budget when the money actually goes out. Plus. who knows what I might be buying in June, posting it now might get me out of a tight spot if I\u2019ve been overbuying! But a good week on the reading front meant the gap between the two wasn\u2019t huge. <\/p>\n

Read more: Balancing the Books to 21st February<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

After a surfeit of billionaires and hockey boys I needed a palate cleanser \u2013 no pun intended when you see what I chose to read. I decided I ought to go back and read some of the books that have been on my Kindle for a long time, the first one I bought in 2015! Balanced against that something that was bought recently. <\/p>\n

I decided on The Heavenly Ice Cream Shop<\/strong> because the weather was so cold and miserable it seemed a good idea to read a book with a summer setting. Anna and Imogen find themselves unexpectedly inheriting their grandmothers ice cream shop, so this follows them on their journey. As well as the shop, they both have relationship issues to juggle and contend with. The book ends with a HFN. It was a good read and led me to reading the follow on (also sitting on my Kindle). That one meant a move to Italy, specifically Sorrento, always a good setting. This caught up with Anna and Imogen further down the line. Anna has moved to Italy with her partner and Imogen has been pursuing a photography career, but is still reluctant to settle with hers. Happily all is finally resolved in this one. <\/p>\n

As I was immersed in ice cream I thought I\u2019d read Summer at the Ice Cream Cafe<\/strong> by Jo Thomas. This one sees Beca returning to her Pembrokeshire coastal hometown after 20 years away in London. She\u2019d left home as a teenager, feeling a misfit and embarrasment, talked about and judged by the small minded townsfolk. Returning was a gamble and meant facing those same people, including her childhood friend Griff, who she\u2019d always been in love with. Her return though, was designed to be a change of pace, not just for her but the children she intended to foster. Step forward Blake and Joe unexpectedly dropped on her in a crisis. Not the the younger children she\u2019d intended to care for but a surly teenager and a ball of energy determined to be useful and wanted. Well worth the read to see how the story played out for everybody, largely aided by copious amounts of icecream\/gelato. What you might find odd amidst this ice cream fest is that I rarely eat ice cream so it doesn\u2019t normally feature on my radar. It gives me a brain freeze and headache, though I will admit it\u2019s something I\u2019m prepared to risk when there\u2019s a decent rum and raisin on the table.<\/p>\n

My next read was a recent purchase The Matchmaker of Perigord.<\/strong> I loved this for more than just the premise of barber Guillaume having to retire due to the majority of the men in his small village now being bald. Deciding to become a matchmaker might seem a strange choice as so many of the villagers don\u2019t speak to each other because of old slights and continuing vendettas. It had lots of heart and humour, but also at the centre the lost love of Guillaume himself and what happens when she returns to the village after many years. It\u2019s a great read but the added unknown attraction for me was the location. I was well aware it was Perigord, but it turns out the locus was largely Perigord Vert which was an area I holidayed in for a number of years. So I knew all the towns and villages mentioned in the book and it brought back lots of happy memories as I knew exactly the bridges, the small shops, the town halls and the old mills and chateaux that featured.<\/p>\n

My final read, featured something I was also very much at home with \u2013 a pub quiz. Four strangers sign up to form a quiz team. They all have their own reasons for wanting to escape their lives and hopefully making new friends. But as they progress in the quiz league, their personal lives continue to deteriorate until it looks as though their Quiz Final hopes might not materialise. While the pub quiz nights were fun, the bits inbetween followed the individual characters as they dealt with their real life issues, debt, heartbreak, redundancy, a fractured marriage, mental health breakdown. The characters weren\u2019t always likeable at times, but they got under your skin and had you rooting for them anyway. So I\u2019d recommend joining the Red Hot Quizzy Peppers for more than just quiz night.<\/p>\n

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Books Purchased<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Books Read<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Books Purchased<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Ex-Cavenger Hunt by Kendall Hale (free)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is it worth looking to the past to find your future?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to this article, I might\u2019ve already met my soulmate . . .<\/p>\n

And I missed my chance to find the love of my life.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the cherry on top of an already doomed situation. If I don\u2019t find my own date for my sister\u2019s wedding, I\u2019m stuck with the worst groomsman as a date.<\/p>\n

The answer is simple: go on a quest to reunite with my exes and figure out where everything went wrong\u2014or right.<\/p>\n

The execution\u2026not so much: Out of desperation, I accept help from the least likely source.<\/p>\n

The secret weapon: Ethan Montgomery, notorious womanizer, brother of the groom, and my consolation prize if I can\u2019t bring a real date to the wedding. Unsurprisingly, he\u2019s also invested in not being my date for our siblings\u2019 wedding and is willing to help me at all costs.<\/p>\n

The complication: As we navigate through a maze of my past relationships, unexpected feelings begin to surface, blurring the lines between our roles as partners-in-crime and something more.<\/p>\n

The decision: With time running out and the wedding fast approaching, I must choose between giving love a second chance with one of my exes or taking a leap of faith into the unknown with Ethan.<\/p>\n

The outcome: Will this journey lead me to my true soulmate, or will I discover that the love I\u2019ve been searching for has been beside me all along?<\/p>\n

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Without a Map by Nick Levy (free)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clara Herrera is a backpacking blogger traveling\u00a0WITHOUT A MAP<\/strong>. Ben Murphy is a luxury travel writer who never got directions in how to love. When she wins a competition to join him on a trip to India for Holi, the festival of love, they\u2019re both forced to confront their tortured pasts and opposing ideas about how to live in the present.\u00a0Can they navigate their way around the world\u2014and each other?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018The perfect opposites-attract st<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Winning Ticket by Allison A Andrews (free)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following a humiliating break-up, Brianna returns home to Brisbane with her little dog, feeling like a shadow of her former self. But living with her parents again isn\u2019t ideal, and her sister is determined to get her to socialise with their old friends on her first night back. Despite wanting to stay home and wallow, she instead comes face to face with her old high school crush, who is looking even better five years later.
Having spent several years working for his father in rural Queensland, Jake wins a luxury apartment back in Brisbane, the city he grew up in and where the friends he loves are all busy getting on with their lives. But when his best friend\u2019s little sister, Brianna\u2014the girl he had secretly loved from afar in high school\u2014returns and needs a place to stay, he doesn\u2019t think twice about offering her the apartment under one condition: let him stay whenever he\u2019s in town.
After picking up their friendship like no time has passed, being back in each other\u2019s lives has them questioning what they really want from life and love while dealing with overprotective friends and family, and begs the question \u2013 does friends-with-benefits ever truly work?
Set in Brisbane, Australia, The Winning Ticket is the first book in the Circle of Friends series, a series of interconnected stand alone novels following the lives and loves of a group of friends as they navigate through their mid-twenties and thirties, finding love and themselves along the way.<\/p>\n

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Made for You by Claire Cain (free)<\/strong><\/p>\n

My Gram is the only family I have left, so when she asked for my help, I came running. Besides, a fresh start in her small town after blowing up my entire life seemed like the logical solution instead of wallowing in jobless misery for the rest of measurable time.<\/p>\n

But then Gram\u2019s next-door neighbor turns out to be the most gorgeous man I\u2019ve ever seen, and my calculations show I just made a huge mistake. Being captivated by Bruce Camden is not part of my plan\u2014even if he is a retired special ops soldier with a penchant for shirtless wood-chopping.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, Bruce finds a way to draw a line we can\u2019t cross. Working for his private security company may be the answer to one of my problems, and it means we have a legitimate reason to keep our distance despite the blazing chemistry between us.<\/p>\n

But seeing how seriously he takes his role as his younger sister\u2019s guardian only heightens the pull he has on me, and before I know it, I\u2019m doomed. There\u2019s no mathematical proof to solve and find x for what comes next.<\/p>\n

The man is chopping down my walls left and right, but when disaster strikes in a big way, where will we be when the dust settles?<\/p>\n

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Playing to Win by Sasha Lace (99p)<\/strong><\/p>\n

She only wants a winter fling with no promises. But rules are there to be broken.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Madison<\/strong><\/p>\n

After being jilted in Kentucky, playing for Calverdale Ladies in England was a chance to escape and spend Christmas alone, avoiding my feelings.<\/p>\n

Which is how I\u2019ve ended up snowed in at a Welsh pub with a retired rugby player who\u2019s hot enough to thaw me out.<\/p>\n

But when the snow\u2019s gone, so am I. I won\u2019t let another man in, not even one as gorgeous as Geraint\u2026<\/p>\n

Geraint<\/strong><\/p>\n

Running the pub, I\u2019ve had flings with guests, but never one as sexy as Madison.<\/p>\n

Too bad she\u2019s so closed off. For both our sakes, we\u2019ve agreed to keep our relationship physical. No attachments. No regrets.<\/p>\n

Which is good, because I promised my dad I\u2019d hold on to the Dragon Inn, no matter what. So I\u2019m fine with no commitments, because I can\u2019t ask a woman with a brilliant career in London to give everything up to be with me, in the middle of nowhere. Can I?<\/p>\n

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Ride Me Cowboy by Clare Connelly (pre-order 79p)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beth<\/p>\n

I came to Coyote Creek Ranch for a fresh start, one I desperately need.
My husband is dead; he can\u2019t hurt me anymore. For the first time in years, I\u2019m not looking over my shoulder.
I\u2019m finally safe, and I\u2019m not going to let anyone jeopardise that.
Especially not rugged, sexy AF cowboy Cole Donovan.
He watches me like he knows there\u2019s something I\u2019m hiding, like he wants to kiss it all better, but letting this cowboy in could be a one way ticket to disaster.\u00a0Or it could be the most satisfying thing I\u2019ve ever done\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cole<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve spent my life fixing problems, and right now, the ranch\u2019s financial mess is the biggest one of all.
My focus should be on that, not the new bookkeeper.
I don\u2019t need any distractions\u2014but Beth Tasker is one I can\u2019t seem to shake. She\u2019s closed off, skittish as anything, and it bugs the hell out of me. The more I try to keep my distance, the harder it gets to resist the pull between us.
There\u2019s something about her that draws me in, something I can\u2019t fight.
Or maybe it\u2019s just that I don\u2019t really want to.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Banana Pants by Penny Reid (free)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Estranged childhood friends unexpectedly reunite under bizarre circumstances and bicker their way to love in this bonkers romantic comedy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ava Archer misses her best childhood friend most especially during the month of April. Ask any tax attorney, it\u2019s a lonely, grueling time of year. Luckily, Ava has just received a surprising and delectably absurd offer from her posh doppelg\u00e4nger at work. She must pretend to be the aforementioned posh co-worker for one night at an extremely fancy party; a party so fancy, there exists absolutely no chance anyone will recognize her or suspect her ruse. . .<\/p>\n

Desmond (Des) Sullivan is a thief. And not the heart-of-gold kind. He\u2019s the steal-from-the-rich-and-give-to-the-also-rich-so-he-can-get-paid kind. He does, however, have one firm rule: never steal what the target can\u2019t afford to lose. After a brutal falling out with his father, Desmond hasn\u2019t returned to Chicago in over ten years. But when a good friend is swindled and something priceless is stolen, Desmond must return home, both as himself and his thieving alter ego.<\/p>\n

Infiltrate a dangerous secret society of the world\u2019s most elite billionaires while leveraging his estranged father\u2019s resources and not blowing his cover? Sure. No problem. Or it wouldn\u2019t be a problem if Ava Archer hadn\u2019t just walked into the room, wearing a ridiculous wig, speaking with a preposterous accent, and pretending (badly) to be someone she\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

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That Reunited Feeling by Nicky Redford<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s seventeen years since I\u2019ve seen my high school sweetheart. But here he is. Right in front of me. Stark naked.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A lot has happened since my teenage first love abandoned me and crushed my heart.<\/p>\n

These days, Tom Dashwood is a billionaire global music mogul. And I\u2019m a single mom with nowhere to live.<\/p>\n

I only accepted this job as a live-in housekeeper for Tom\u2019s aunt after she assured me that, since he lives in London now, I\u2019d never see him.<\/p>\n

But that wasn\u2019t entirely accurate. And now here he is\u2026wearing nothing but a sexy grin.<\/p>\n

Quitting and leaving right now would be a good idea. Not agreeing to be his personal assistant during his extended visit would be even better. But I need the money.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ll do this job until Tom goes back to London. And since the chemistry between us is hotter than ever, I might even have a one-night stand (or two, or ten) with him.<\/p>\n

But I will\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>fall for him.<\/p>\n

He nearly destroyed me once. No way am I going to let him finish the job.<\/p>\n

Books Read<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Heavenly Ice Cream Shop by Abby Clements<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Imogen and Anna unexpectedly inherit their grandmother Vivien\u2019s ice cream parlour, it turns both their lives upside-down.<\/p>\n

The Brighton shop is a seafront institution, but while it\u2019s big on charm, it\u2019s critically low on customers.<\/p>\n

And if the sisters don\u2019t turn things around quickly, their grandmother\u2019s legacy will disappear forever . . .<\/p>\n

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The Heavenly Italian Ice Cream Shop by Abby Clements<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anna and her\u00a0partner Matteo are ready to embark a delicious Italian adventure. After a year and a half running their ice cream shop on Brighton beach and raising their baby Isabella, Matteo is starting to miss Italy. A shared passion for ices means it\u2019s easy to settle on a new business idea \u2013 they\u2019ll open a shop in Sorrento\u2019s cobbled square, a short walk from the sparkling blue sea. For a while, life is sweet; but then Matteo\u2019s overbearing family get involved \u2026<\/p>\n

Anna\u2019s younger sister Imogen feels like things are finally coming together \u2013 she\u2019s living with boyfriend Finn in a beach house in Brighton, and her photography is taking off. Then her career stalls, and the lure of Capri \u2013 and a man from her past \u2013 prove difficult to resist.<\/p>\n

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Summer at the Ice Cream Cafe by Jo Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n

A dream home<\/strong>
Beca Valentino is ready to escape the city. When she sees the perfect house for sale in her hometown, it seems like fate. Is this her chance to build the foster family she dreams of, on the beautiful Pembrokeshire coast?<\/p>\n

A big mistake?<\/strong>
Returning home isn\u2019t as easy as she thought, however. Her family\u2019s beloved ice cream caf\u00e9 is gone \u2013 turned into a soulless wine bar by her hateful ex-boyfriend. Reconnecting with her oldest friend, fisherman Griff, isn\u2019t straightforward either. And when, instead of the children she expected to take in, two wary teenage boys appear on her doorstep, Beca fears she\u2019s made a terrible mistake.<\/p>\n

A recipe for change<\/strong>
But an old family recipe book is just the inspiration she needs. Soon, with a little help from friends old and new, Beca is selling mouth-watering homemade gelato from a pop-up caf\u00e9 on the beach.<\/p>\n

Then disaster strikes. Will the Valentino family legacy be lost forever? Or can Beca create a new recipe for happiness?<\/p>\n

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The Matchmaker of Perigord by Julia Stuart<\/strong><\/p>\n

A perpetual breeze blows through Amour-sur-Belle, a village so ugly that even the English refuse to live there.<\/p>\n

Guillaume Ladoucette the barber is forced to give up his business as the advancing age of his customers means many have gone bald. He decides to set himself up as a matchmaker instead, for, despite its name, love is the one thing that Amour-sur-Belle lacks. Some shun Denise Vigier because her grandmother was found guilty of horizontal collaboration during the war. The bar owner refuses to serve Madame Fournier, the mushroom poisoner. And Madame Ladoucette and Madame Moreau have been trading insults for so long they have become almost a form of greeting.<\/p>\n

\u2018Not everyone falls instantly head over heels,\u2019 the matchmaker counsels. \u2018Love is like a good cassoulet, it needs time and determination.\u2019 But how can a matchmaker make love simmer \u2013 when he has not yet solved the problem of his own troubled heart?<\/p>\n

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The Lonely Hearts Quiz League by Lauren Farnsworth<\/strong><\/p>\n

When\u00a0Bryony, Harry and Jaime\u00a0<\/strong>step into the Five Bells, each has their own motive for being drawn into the warm glow of the pub.<\/p>\n

Harry,<\/strong>\u00a0recently single, can\u2019t face his silent flat.<\/p>\n

Jaime<\/strong>, new to London with her boyfriend, longs to find a fun crowd.<\/p>\n

And\u00a0Bryony<\/strong>\u00a0is trying to locate the promising young woman she was, before a positive pregnancy test set her life on a different course.<\/p>\n

When they spot the advert to join a quiz team and enter a tournament, each signs up, unaware that the organiser,\u00a0Donna<\/strong>, has her own reason to avoid thinking about home.<\/p>\n

After a few evenings, the strangers begin to see they have more in common than they realised.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0when everyone\u2019s secrets are finally out on the table<\/strong>, will it sabotage the team\u2019s chances of making it through?<\/p>\n

The Verdict<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Books Purchased<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Balance brought forward<\/td>\n30.20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Weekly budget<\/td>\n10.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total Spent (another first)<\/td>\n01.78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Balance carried forward <\/td>\n38.42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n
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