Category: Non-fiction
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Keep Your Love On
Danny Silk, 2013 Connection, Communication and Boundaries Keep Your Love On explains how you can manage yourself and so build connection with other people. This book was recommended to me from a teacher at Raising Hope Ranch. This book is different from most relationship books I have read. It has a Christian perspective, but doesn’t…
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50 Books with Mature Protagonists
Children typically like to read books with protagonists a couple years older than they are. This hopefully teaches them something about what life will be like as they grow older. I have been a typical reader most of my life, until one day I noticed that the heroines had gotten stuck somewhere under forty, while…
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6 Books in a Garden and 1 Garden Tip
Gardening is a joy and a challenge for me and these are books that have kept me interested and hopeful as I challenge myself to grow food and flowers. The kiss of the sun for pardon, the song of the birds for mirth, — One is nearer God’s heart in a garden than anywhere else…
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Spare
Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, 2023 Autobiography It is with mixed feelings that I read this book. It was “forced” on me by my fellow book clubber, otherwise I may not have tackled it. It is a very long book with many details about royal life. It starts with the death of Princess Diana.…
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Coming Clean
Kimberly Rae Miller, 2013 Biography If you could see Ms Miller now in her beautifully tidy apartment with its sparkling countertops and clean floors, you would never guess that she grew up in a junk filled home. She new, growing up, that things were different in her home. She was embarrassed, always meeting friends at…
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Educated and Educating {Books by Daughter and Mother}
Educated: Tara Westover, 2018 (the daughter) Educating: LaRee Westover, 2020 (the mom) Autobiography One family. Two very different viewpoints. Educated Educated is a book about Tara’s troubled childhood on into how she deals with things as an adult. She describes her life near Clifton, Idaho as traumatic and unsettling. Her father distrusted the government and…
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The Life Giving Table
Sally Clarkson, 2017, 272 pages How important is it to gather around the table with your family? Sally Clarkson, the author of The Lifegiving Table, sees a table set with food as a place to nurture faith and connection along with satisfying physical hunger. In this book she explains why your table is your mission, along…
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Scoundrel:
Sarah Weinman, 2022 Crime 1960s small town America. Eddy Smith (in his low twenties) seems like ‘the boy next door’. Until he doesn’t. The author sets the stage by showing you Eddy is everyone’s friend. He plays basketball with his buddys. He gives young girls rides home from school. He is loved by his young…
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Tell Me Everything
Erica Krause, 2022 Non-fiction, Personal Memoir, Crime Erica Krause does not have a memorable face, yet everyone thinks they may know her from somewhere. Complete strangers walk up to her and ask where they know her from. Fellow shoppers share secrets they have told no one else. This happened in a bookstore and a job…
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Christmas Stories Worth Reading
Eva’s Choices My first choice is called Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck. I was introduced to this book when I joined Weston’s family. It is a simple story of a young boy wanting to come up with a gift for his father. He doesn’t have much money and time is running short to…
So She Reads 