The blog of Canadian author Cynthia Reyes
Thank you:
To sweet Lukas and his parents for this photo.
Isn’t that a great reaction to Myrtle?
To blogger Solo Mom Takes Flight (Sarah Pittard) for this lovely photo of her daughter, the kind review, and her mention of my wonderful older daughter here.
And to Chip Barkel, writer and realtor, for including Myrtle in his blog post about the colour of the year. Though it’s my first time seeing purple coconut macaroons, what a delightful idea!
Thank you all.
#loveyourshell
What a precious gift from a reader to an author! Taking the time to buy, read and review their book.
My great thanks to:
Hilary Custance Green (UK), acclaimed author of Surviving the Death Railway and The Green Writing Room blog. An Honest House was her companion during her own book tour:
AN HONEST HOUSE AND AN ALBRIZIA
I loved Cynthia Reyes’s first Memoir A Good Home, so I picked up the continuing story An Honest House in happy anticipation. This is a book with a perfect title and has been my companion during a more than hectic summer…. 
I laughed over the Valentine, I wept over Keats, I laughed over ‘a job that pays’. There are few easy-walking meadows in this story, because it is about the mountains and valleys. Among the things that struck me was Cynthia’s insistence on facing up to something we all know – it is never a good time for a difficult or dangerous conversation – and dealing with it so courageously….
Read More at: https://greenwritingroom.com/2016/08/05/an-honest-house-and-an-albrizia/
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Tina of Chase N Chance Ranch (USA), who took An Honest House along on her summer vacation:
BOOK SUGGESTION
On our vacation I brought along the new book (An Honest House: A Memoir, Continued) of one of my favorite authors and bloggers, Cynthia Reyes.
Living on a small hobby farm, working part time, having two children who play multiple travel level sports, and trying to fit in a little me time is always a challenge. I figured I would be able to get in at least a chapter or two while away for those 6 days. After the third day, my family threatened to hide my book as I finished it and was starting it over again. I did not want to put it down!!
Read More at: https://chasenchanceranch.wordpress.com/2016/07/26/book-suggestion/
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Chip Barkel, realtor and writer (Canada), who made both A Good Home and An Honest House his summer picks:
SUMMER READING: CYNTHIA REYES’S A GOOD HOME & AN HONEST HOUSE
“Ambercroft Farm, the sign out front said. Hamlin was on a first name basis with the grand old farmhouse right from the start, calling it Ambercroft. For years, I didn’t call it anything at all. The tall, two-story Victorian house seemed sealed off from the rest of the neighbourhood. Within a solid wooden fence and gates, massive maples waved big leafy arms. Pines and dense blue-green spruces soared. A cedar hedge ran the length of the property on one side. This was a private place, sure of its personality and power.”
I often think as I walk through neighbourhoods that behind every shuttered window is a story. Often those stories are ones only the walls and maybe a few select people ever witness. For some a house is a sanctuary, but when life presents a crisis….
Read More at: http://www.chipbarkel.com/blog/summer-reading-cynthia-reyess-good-home-honest-house/
Chip, Tina and Hilary: I thank you all.
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