Someday... I Will Finish

Someday... I Will Finish

 

Camilla has been taking a loooooong time to read due to its slowness, so I will hopefully finish that book and get a final post for it before the end of the semester.

 

Meanwhile, I've been reading more of The Baxter Family Series, by Karen Kingsbury. This is a really long series I started last year and am reading whenever I have spare time. The total series has 23 books in it, 5 mini-series, and 1 stand alone at the end. To help you out, I'll order them below:

 

Redemption Series

1. Redemption

2. Remember

3. Return

4. Rejoice

5. Reunion

Firstborn Series

6. Fame

7. Forgiven

8. Found

9. Family

10. Forever

Sunrise Series

11. Sunrise

12. Summer

13. Someday

14. Sunset

Above The Line Series

15. Take One

16. Take Two

17. Take Three

18. Take Four

Bailey Flanigan Series

19. Leaving

20. Learning

21. Longing

22. Loving

And it ends with...

23. Coming Home: A Story of Undying Hope

 

So now you can see what I've gotten myself into. If you've figured it out by the title yet, I just finished Someday (#13) and have quite a ways to go. The series revolves mostly around the Baxter Family and all the drama in their life. Some other families that live in their town are in it too but it's mostly them. You can kind of tell it's a book because no one has that many bad things happen to them in their lifetime, but it makes for a great story. :)

The book Someday revolves around 4 or so main stories going on at once, each of them intermingling with each other. The biggest story is about Dayne and Katy Matthews, (Dayne is one of the Baxter kids but was adopted and therefore has a different last name). They are both actors and during this book they are separated. Dayne is in Mexico shooting a film with his ex (who is still very interested  in him) and Katy is in London shooting a film. Their story is about them fighting for their new marriage while every tabloid is splitting them up.
Meanwhile, Dayne's brother and attorney Luke Baxter is struggling in his own marriage with his wife Reagan. Luke goes down some bad paths in this book, but I won't get into that and am hoping it gets revolved in the future.
Another main story revolves around Ashley Baxter Blake. She and her husband Landon lost their first daughter, Sarah, an hour after her birth in the last book. It was realllllly sad!!! Anyway, in this book they are recovering and Ashley is trying hard to find good things that came, or could come out of Sarah's life. She ends up opening a pregnancy crisis center called Sarah's Door with her sister Dr. Brooke Baxter (I don't think it ever mentions her married last name??).
The last major story is about their dad, John Baxter. Books and books before, in Reunion, their mother, Elizabeth Baxter, passed away and now John is proposing to Elizabeth's best friend, also a widow. His story is about him finally coming to terms with his wife's death enough to propose again. He is also planning on selling the Baxter house where he and Elizabeth lived while they raised 5 of their children.
Basically, a LOT of drama happens, and I'm sure more is to come.

 

 

 

 

 

 



Camilla- First Thoughts

Camilla-First Thoughts

The first book I've started to read this year is Camilla by Madeleine L'Engle, the same woman who wrote A Wrinkle In Time. My Aunt gave it to me for my birthday last year and I am just now getting around to reading it. Here is the synopsis from Goodreads:

 

Life had always been easy for fifteen-year-old Camilla Dickinson. But now her parents, whom she had always loved and trusted, are behaving like strangers to each other and vying for her allegiance. Camilla is torn between her love for them and her disapproval of their actions.Then she meets Frank, her best friend's brother, who helps her to feel that she is not alone. Can Camilla learn to accept her parents for what they are and step toward her own independence?

 

So far the book has been very slow and hard to sit down and read a bunch of at once. I've gotten through 2 chapters and am already on page 62. A lot of the book so far has just been setting up the setting and characters.

 

Camilla lives in New York sometime during the mid-1900's (I think, it hasn't exactly said). Her family is one of the more wealthy families, they live in a nice apartment and Camilla goes to a good private school. Her entire life has been easy, sheltered. As an only child, her parents gave her all of their attention. Now the book begins as their marriage begins to rock and Camilla is given less and less attention.

 

I am just beginning to read about Camilla's best friend, Luisa, and Luisa's brother, Frank. Luisa and Frank have lived a quite different life from Camilla. Their parents could care less about their well-being and fight very often. They live in a smaller, more dingy apartment. Because of this less sheltered life they've had and their friendship with Camilla, Camilla is beginning to see the world a different way.

 

That is all I have about the book so far, but I'll post more updates soon!