{"id":6125,"date":"2021-04-23T10:24:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T14:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/?p=6125"},"modified":"2021-04-23T10:28:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T14:28:25","slug":"avid-andover-reader-review-the-memory-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/2021\/04\/23\/avid-andover-reader-review-the-memory-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Avid Andover Reader Review &#8211; &#8220;The Memory House&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>The Memory House\u00a0<\/em>by Linda Goodnight<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Dawn Bechtel, avid Andover Ohio reader (listener):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">About the Author:\u00a0 Award-Winning and Best Selling Author Linda Goodnight is a former nurse and teacher and lives in Oklahoma with her husband, Gene.\u00a0 Linda loves writing fiction that carries a message of hope and light in a sometimes dark world.\u00a0 \u201cThe Memory House\u201d is the first in the Honey Ridge Novel series.\u00a0 (\u201cThe Rain Sparrow\u201d, 2016; \u201cThe Inn Keeper\u2019s Sister\u201d, 2017) I enjoyed this book in audiobook format performed by Emily Woo Zeller via CLEVNET \u2013 Overdrive offered to you free through the Andover Public Library Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/search.clevnet.org\/client\/en_US\/andv-main\/search\/detailnonmodal\/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:6918213\/one\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>The Memory House<\/em> by Linda Goodnight (2015)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The Peach Orchard Inn in Honey Ridge, Tennessee is both historical and mysterious. Two of my favorite attributes!\u00a0 After tragedy, present-day Inn Keeper, Julia Presley calmly goes about her days cooking and caring for her guests.\u00a0 Until one day a wonderful yet secretive stranger with a young son shows up and unsettles Julia\u2019s calm.\u00a0 The man, Eli Donovan offers his help with restoring the Inn in exchange for room and board.\u00a0 Both Julia and Eli have hearts in need of restoration and seem to have an instant attraction.\u00a0 During the restoration, they find a stack of love letters from Civil War-era Peach Orchard Inn consuming them in an undying secret romance during the Inn\u2019s violent history.\u00a0 As the story unfolds moving between the present-day and Civil War era, ending in a realization that both couples are very similar and the future may be bright with hope and healing (although not in the way you might guess).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6126 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-4-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-4-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-4-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-4-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-4-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-4-125x125.png 125w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-4-45x45.png 45w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-4-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-4-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Dawn-Bechtel-an-Avid-Andover-Reader-Member-of-the-Freinds-of-the-Andover-Public-Library-4.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Dawn Bechtel enjoys reading and listening to books available through the library\u2019s online catalog. She is an active member of the Friends of the Andover Public Library and also loves to work outside in her garden.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Memory House\u00a0by Linda Goodnight Dawn Bechtel, avid Andover Ohio reader (listener): About the Author:\u00a0 Award-Winning and Best Selling Author Linda Goodnight is a former nurse and teacher and lives in Oklahoma with her husband, Gene.\u00a0 Linda loves writing fiction that carries a message of hope and light in a sometimes dark world.\u00a0 \u201cThe Memory<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/2021\/04\/23\/avid-andover-reader-review-the-memory-house\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6128,"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions\/6128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}