Tag: Books
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My Reading Life: A Book Journal
Here’s a little book to keep track of all the books you read. I used it last year and recommend it highly. It was fun to fill out, gave me lots of ideas and recommendations, helped me understand what kind of books I like and made me remember them better. The journal has space to…
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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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Dear L. M. Montgomery
I just want to tell you that your books have been my friends. Anne of Green Gables was the first book written by you that I read. I loved Anne and all her poetic raptures and silly scrapes. And I couldn’t understand why she was so contrary to Gilbert. Which made me pick up the…
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Libraries I Have Loved
Libraries have played a huge role in my reading life. I grew up going to our local library and as I left home, I found the local library where I was living at the time. All of these hold a special place in my heart! DeSmet, SD The Hazel L Meyer Memorial Library is the…
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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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Lattes
Wintertime is the perfect time to sit down with a good book and a hot drink. My favorites are lattes or cafe miels because they are so easy to make. I don’t have an espresso maker so I always just use strong coffee. Earl Grey tea, Green chai tea, Herbal chai tea, or coffee all…
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Mouth to Mouth
Antoine Wilson, 2022 Psychological Thriller This entire story is told in the first class lounge of an airport. Jeff Cook meets up with an old school acquaitance. Jeff feels compelled to tell the story of his life starting with how he rescued a drowning man years earlier. Jeff becomes obsessed with who that man was.…
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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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Comfort and Joy
Kristin Hannah, 2005 Joy Candellaro has always loved Christmas. Until this one. She is recently divorced and her sister, with whom she was always close, has further broken her heart. Without these two relationships, life seems to have no point. Impulsively, Joy buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the Northwest. Things do…
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House of the Seven Gables (From Two Angles)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851 Hepzibah Pyncheon is so desperately poor she must open a little shop on the lower level of her ancestral home, known as the House of the Seven Gables. She refuses all help from her wealthy cousin, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon. About the same time, Hepzibah’s brother, Clifford comes home after serving a thirty-year…
So She Reads 