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The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. *** Hard Copy

I borrowed this from the library based on soooo many rave reviews I saw and read online and on social media. It was fine. I didn’t love it.

From its Amazon page: A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry

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	One Fine Day (Hearts Bend Collection, #1) by Rachel Hauck (Goodreads Author), Carrie Padgett (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 1,747 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Starry Nights by Angela Ruth Strong (Goodreads Author), Carrie Padgett (Goodreads Author), Tabitha Bouldin (Goodreads Author) 4.46 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Could Be Better?: A Christian Romance (The Heart of Nashville Book 5) 4.53 avg rating — 51 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Carrie’s Quotes

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
― John Steinbeck

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“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: christianity, fundamentalism, god, humor, idolatry, misattributed-to-anne-lamott, spirituality, truth

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“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”
― Anne Lamott

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“I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: drinking, sacrilege

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“The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.”
― Ted Dekker, The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth

tags: bumper-sticker, christianity, pessimism, positive-thinking

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