Spinning the Moon

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Whispers of Goodbye tells of Catherine, summoned by her sister's letter to post-war Louisiana, who discovers upon arrival that her sister has disappeared. She learns of the misery and scandals her self-centered sister has caused, and despite her own grief over losing her son and husband the previous year, falls in love with her niece and brother-in-law. Shortly after her sister's body is found, Catherine marries John, yet harbors doubts about his potential guilt and fears learning the truth. With more than 1.8 million books in print in eight different languages, Karen White is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 23 novels, including the popular Charleston-set Tradd Street mystery series. This is an incredible bunch of people to work with. It is a full-on rehearsal schedule and there is no let-up but everyone puts their heart and soul into every minute and works so hard, I am so impressed.”

The Sun is a star, a giant ball of burning gas. The heat and light that it gives off helps to keep everything on our planet alive. When we see the Sun moving across the sky during the day it’s because the Earth is spinning, not the Sun. An engaging and guileless little girl, Annie had inherited equal parts from each parent. She had bright green eyes and an odd crescent-shaped birthmark on the inside of her forearm from her mother, and fair hair and perfectly shaped ears from her father. But her little personality was all her own. She was everything I could have wanted in a child. You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are gray,” I sang as I twirled my delighted partner, my bare feet padding gently on the hardwood floors of the nursery. “You’ll never know, dear, how much I love you. Please don’t take my sunshine away.” Now, the Moon is the biggest influence on Earth’s tides because of its proximity ― but it isn’t the only influence. The Sun ― with about 27 million times the mass of the Moon ― is always the gorilla in the room when it comes to solar system equations. But it’s a distant gorilla, about 390 times farther away than the Moon, which gives it a little less than half of the Moon’s tide-generating force. Yet it still plays a role.

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If you wish to change your cookie preferences select a category on the left and either enable or disable it. Spinning the Moon is actually a combination and rerelease of Karen White’s first book, Shadow of the Moon, and Whispers of Goodbye, another one of her early books that had since been discontinued. I admittedly bought this book mostly for the cover and I’d describe them as historical dramas or soap operas! Both books have melodramatic Hallmark/Lifetime movie vibes. (Not in a bad way!) Spring is when the northern hemisphere begins to tilt towards the Sun. Longer days with stronger sunlight make the weather warmer and brighter. This helps plants to grow.

It might seem strange that the ocean would bulge on the side farthest from the Moon as well as the side closest to it. This happens because the Moon’s gravity affects the entire Earth, pulling at every point on our planet. The strongest pull occurs on the points closest to the Moon, and the weakest on the points farthest away, but every bit of water is affected. In effect, the moon may rotate very slowly, but its rotation is key to important events, such as the tides, on Earth. Annie grunted in her sleep, and I shifted around in Michael’s arms. “Can you hold that thought until later?” Spinning the Moon is set in and around Dorchester in the time of social turbulence following the Wars of the Roses. It blends history with fiction and tells a tale of poignancy and drama with power and humour." The 4 stars is an average of the two books, book 1 was quite good with just a few soft spots. But book 2 couldn't hold me till it's conclusion though it showed a lot of promise. I may have out grown gothic novels though...Shadow of the Moon was the first book & the more enjoyable of the two. The Outlander inspo was definitely obvious, but I didn’t mind. The time traveling aspect was actually handled very well and I really enjoyed the Civil War setting. Some of the drama felt a bit forced and silly because it all could’ve been avoided with one honest conversation, but then the more adventurous parts of the book wouldn’t of happened and that’d be no good either. I mostly just wish the romance had a bit more trust and chemistry, but I was still invested enough to enjoy it. Entertaining Strangers went on to be performed at the National Theatre with Dame Judi Dench and Tim Pigott-Smith playing key roles. The only thing I noted that was a bit strange was her reference to riding a horse and what was used. This needed to be tweaked a bit because it wasn't correct. Other than that, I loved the characters and the exciting scenes as the mystery starts to unfold surrounding the family and what is causing their dilemma. I enjoy reading about time travel into the past. The mention of Sherman and how he dealt with his troops was very interesting.