Blue Nights published 2011. South and West 2017. Both books published by Alfred A. Knopf. Genre: Nonfiction. Pages: Blue Nights, 208. South and West, 160. Source: Both books are library copies. Rating: Blue Nights excellent. South and West very good.

In A Small Book for the Hurting Heart: Meditations on Loss, Grief, and Healing, Paul Tautges offers fifty short devotions filled with messages of help, encouragement, and healing. By biblically and transparently addressing the heart and faith struggles in the midst of this grief, Tautges delves deeply, but gently, into the issues of the heart—presenting […]

Publisher and Publication Date: Portobello Books Ltd. 2014. Genre: Historical fiction. Pages: 279. Format: Paperback. Source: I received this book in a drawing from the Words and Peace blog. Audience: Readers of historical fiction with a setting in France. Rating: 1 star or poor.

To read the entire reading challenge guidelines: Becky’s Book Reviews. Victorian Reading Challenge Host: Becky’s Book Reviews (sign up here)Duration: January 2021 – December 2021 Goal: Read between 4 to 6 Books (4 minimum)

Banned Books Week is an annual event bringing readers a chance to celebrate a love of reading in freedom. It also focuses on the hope to end censoring books in schools and libraries. To read more information about Banned Books Week: ALA office for intellectual freedom. To read a list of books often challenged: Frequently […]

Publisher and Publication Date: Scribner. 1993. Genre: Fiction. Pages: 354. Source: Library Kindle edition. Rating: Very Good. Audience: Readers of family saga.

Publisher and Publication Date: Crossway. August 31, 2017. Genre: Christian nonfiction, sexuality, abuse. Pages: 128. Source: Complimentary ebook copy from Crossway. I was not required to leave a positive review. Rating: Very good. Amazon David Powlison (MDiv, Westminster Theological Seminary) is a teacher, a counselor, and the executive director of the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation. […]

I’m proud of the participants in the Chunkster Reading Challenge 2021! I’ve had several send links for the books they’ve read in this challenge. I thought it would be fun to write a post about world famous chunkster size books! It is reported the largest handmade book in the world is in Hungary. It takes […]

“Nothing is so like a soul as a bee. It goes from flower to flower as a soul from star to star, and it gathers honey as a soul gathers light.” Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Quote from Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett. Little, Brown and Company 1955 edition.

Publisher and Publishing Date: New Growth Press. June 19, 2017. First published 2008. Genre: Christian nonfiction, sexual addiction, pornography. Pages: 133. Source: Complimentary hardcover copy from New Growth Press. I was not required to leave a positive review. Rating: Good. Link for more information at New Growth Press. Link to read a sample chapter: Secrets. […]

What was your week like? Eventful. Monday the 27th was my husband’s 59th birthday. He worked that day. I cooked him a T-bone steak dinner. I baked a cake. The oldest granddaughter, Celeste (18), and her parents went to freshman orientation at the college she will attend this fall. It was a three-day event, Monday […]

Publisher and Publication Date: Little A. December 1, 2018. Genre: Fiction. Coming of age story. Pages: 333. Source: Kindle Unlimited program through Amazon. Free e-book/ Kindle copy. Rating: Very good. Audience: Readers of coming of age stories where the narrator/character is a boy to young man.

“Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast,And in a little while our lips are dumb.Let us alone. What is it that will last?All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past.”

Publisher and Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014. Genre: Fiction. Pages: 261. Source: Self-purchase. Audience: Readers who have loved the previous books written by Robinson-the Gilead books. Any reader who loves the beauty of a well told story. Rating: Excellent.