{"id":216,"date":"2020-02-09T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/staging\/4750\/?p=216"},"modified":"2020-02-09T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T17:27:00","slug":"if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/","title":{"rendered":"If For Any Reason by Courtney Walsh"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/div>\n

From the Publisher: “Emily Ackerman has traveled the world, her constant compass and companion a book of letters her mother left for her when she died. With no father in the picture, her mom’s advice has been her only true north. But when professional failure leads Emily back to Nantucket to renovate and sell the family cottage she inherited, she wonders if her mom left advice to cover this . . . especially when her grandmother arrives to “supervise.” And especially when her heart becomes entangled with Hollis McGuire, the boy next door-turned-baseball star who’s back on the island after a career-ending injury.<\/p>\n

As sparks fly between her and Hollis, Emily is drawn to island life, even as she uncovers shocking secrets about the tragic accident that led to her mother’s death. With her world turned upside down, Emily must choose between allowing the voices from her past to guide her future or forging her own path forward”.<\/i><\/p>\n

The book is a sweet story of blending the past with the present. It is a story of personal growth, hope, understanding and forgiveness. While the storyline is somewhat predictable , it really doesn\u2019t take away from experiencing Emily\u2019s journey to self-fulfillment. I appreciated the Christian undertones to the book which added a special element. My favourite part of the book are the letters Emily receives from her late mother Isabelle, as well as Isabelle\u2019s own story of falling in love. <\/p>\n

I recommend this book to fans of Christian fiction, Women’s Fiction and PG Romance.<\/p>\n

Thank you to Edelweiss and Tyndall House Publishers for the ARC of this book in exchange for the honest review provided here.<\/p>\n

My rating:\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\/5<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Publisher: “Emily Ackerman has traveled the world, her constant compass and companion a book of letters her mother left for her when she died. With no father in the picture, her mom’s advice has been her only true north. But when professional failure leads Emily back to Nantucket to renovate and sell the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-fiction","category-romance","category-womens-fiction"],"yoast_head":"\nIf For Any Reason by Courtney Walsh - That Happy Reader<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"If For Any Reason by Courtney Walsh - That Happy Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From the Publisher: “Emily Ackerman has traveled the world, her constant compass and companion a book of letters her mother left for her when she died. With no father in the picture, her mom’s advice has been her only true north. But when professional failure leads Emily back to Nantucket to renovate and sell the […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"That Happy Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-09T17:27:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WMLOCynJ7RU\/Xjmdar_RrNI\/AAAAAAAAGkY\/4s9II7TTNHcCQVSxyhplvVPu_WFP_J0WgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/IMG_6186.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"thathappyreader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"thathappyreader\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"thathappyreader\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#\/schema\/person\/c9252c67cd13709db68992baec7dc6c8\"},\"headline\":\"If For Any Reason by Courtney Walsh\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-09T17:27:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/\"},\"wordCount\":287,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#\/schema\/person\/c9252c67cd13709db68992baec7dc6c8\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WMLOCynJ7RU\/Xjmdar_RrNI\/AAAAAAAAGkY\/4s9II7TTNHcCQVSxyhplvVPu_WFP_J0WgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/IMG_6186.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Christian Fiction\",\"Romance\",\"Women's fiction\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/\",\"name\":\"If For Any Reason by Courtney Walsh - That Happy Reader\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WMLOCynJ7RU\/Xjmdar_RrNI\/AAAAAAAAGkY\/4s9II7TTNHcCQVSxyhplvVPu_WFP_J0WgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/IMG_6186.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-09T17:27:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WMLOCynJ7RU\/Xjmdar_RrNI\/AAAAAAAAGkY\/4s9II7TTNHcCQVSxyhplvVPu_WFP_J0WgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/IMG_6186.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WMLOCynJ7RU\/Xjmdar_RrNI\/AAAAAAAAGkY\/4s9II7TTNHcCQVSxyhplvVPu_WFP_J0WgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/IMG_6186.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"If For Any Reason by Courtney Walsh\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/\",\"name\":\"That Happy Reader\",\"description\":\"I'm a woman who wants to share her joy of reading!\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#\/schema\/person\/c9252c67cd13709db68992baec7dc6c8\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#\/schema\/person\/c9252c67cd13709db68992baec7dc6c8\",\"name\":\"thathappyreader\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7340388653e82305a95ea112857b66d3954d53640cc4c25148cd8f906230fd1b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7340388653e82305a95ea112857b66d3954d53640cc4c25148cd8f906230fd1b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"thathappyreader\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"If For Any Reason by Courtney Walsh - That Happy Reader","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"If For Any Reason by Courtney Walsh - That Happy Reader","og_description":"From the Publisher: “Emily Ackerman has traveled the world, her constant compass and companion a book of letters her mother left for her when she died. With no father in the picture, her mom’s advice has been her only true north. But when professional failure leads Emily back to Nantucket to renovate and sell the […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/","og_site_name":"That Happy Reader","article_published_time":"2020-02-09T17:27:00+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WMLOCynJ7RU\/Xjmdar_RrNI\/AAAAAAAAGkY\/4s9II7TTNHcCQVSxyhplvVPu_WFP_J0WgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/IMG_6186.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"thathappyreader","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"thathappyreader","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/"},"author":{"name":"thathappyreader","@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#\/schema\/person\/c9252c67cd13709db68992baec7dc6c8"},"headline":"If For Any Reason by Courtney Walsh","datePublished":"2020-02-09T17:27:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/"},"wordCount":287,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#\/schema\/person\/c9252c67cd13709db68992baec7dc6c8"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WMLOCynJ7RU\/Xjmdar_RrNI\/AAAAAAAAGkY\/4s9II7TTNHcCQVSxyhplvVPu_WFP_J0WgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/IMG_6186.jpg","articleSection":["Christian Fiction","Romance","Women's fiction"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/","name":"If For Any Reason by Courtney Walsh - That Happy Reader","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WMLOCynJ7RU\/Xjmdar_RrNI\/AAAAAAAAGkY\/4s9II7TTNHcCQVSxyhplvVPu_WFP_J0WgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/IMG_6186.jpg","datePublished":"2020-02-09T17:27:00+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WMLOCynJ7RU\/Xjmdar_RrNI\/AAAAAAAAGkY\/4s9II7TTNHcCQVSxyhplvVPu_WFP_J0WgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/IMG_6186.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WMLOCynJ7RU\/Xjmdar_RrNI\/AAAAAAAAGkY\/4s9II7TTNHcCQVSxyhplvVPu_WFP_J0WgCLcBGAsYHQ\/s400\/IMG_6186.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/if-for-any-reason-by-courtney-walsh\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"If For Any Reason by Courtney Walsh"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/","name":"That Happy Reader","description":"I'm a woman who wants to share her joy of reading!","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#\/schema\/person\/c9252c67cd13709db68992baec7dc6c8"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#\/schema\/person\/c9252c67cd13709db68992baec7dc6c8","name":"thathappyreader","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7340388653e82305a95ea112857b66d3954d53640cc4c25148cd8f906230fd1b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7340388653e82305a95ea112857b66d3954d53640cc4c25148cd8f906230fd1b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"thathappyreader"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/"}}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thathappyreader.ca\/staging\/4750\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}