• 4 Historical Fiction Books We Recommend for this Summer📚

    Hey, everyone! Today we’re going to be recommending a few Historical Fiction books that we really enjoy and think that others will too. We found that we really enjoy Historical Fiction books, so we thought we would share some that we really like that we haven’t talked about on our blog yet! Mattie’s books: Gilead – Marilynne Robinson Reverend John Ames’ life is coming to an end. The old reverend writes one long letter to his seven-year-old son to be read when he grows up, to tell his son what he won’t be there to teach him. Set in the 1950s, John Ames takes us through his life and his…

  • Giveaway Winners! + Things We’ve Enjoyed Lately

    Hello everyone! It’s time to announce the winners of our giveaway!! Thank you so much to everyone who entered into the giveaway! We really appreciate it! We decided to pick two winners instead of just one because we had enough prizes to give away! We wrote down all the entree names and drew two out of a hat. The winners are . . . . Lillian Burrow Anna Grace Congratulations!! Just send us an email at talkingoverteablog@gmail.com with your address and we will send you your prizes! Now we’re going to share some of the things we’ve enjoyed over the past two months! {Books} Mattie: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy…

  • Book Haul #3

    Hello, everyone! We’re very sorry for taking a long, unintentional break, as well as posting on Tuesday instead of Monday. Mattie got a job recently and has been working around ten-hour days since. On her one day off, we were able to record a blog post, and now we are finally posting it for you! We hope you enjoy this video! Thanks for watching! – Amelia and Mattie Grace

  • 1 Week Reading Challenge!

    Hey, everyone! A few weeks ago, we decided to challenge ourselves to read as much as we could in one week, and we documented the experience as we went! Though our week was busier than we were expecting, we were still able to get a lot more reading done than we would normally, and we both had a lot of fun. If you’d like to know just how much we read, watch our video to find out! Thanks for watching! – Amelia and Mattie Grace

  • Jan/Feb – Things We Enjoyed

    Hi, everyone! For today’s post we wanted to share some of the things that we really liked and enjoyed during the months of January and February! We’re currently planning to make this a segment of sorts on our blog, but we’ll just have to see how it goes. 🙂 These things aren’t necessarily themed to the months or anything, but just the highlights of January and February that we thought would be worth sharing! {Books} Mattie: Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys Salt to the Sea is a story about four refugees trying to board the ship the Wilhelm Gustloff in order to escape the invading Russian Army in…