Go Gentle (Book Review with Quotes)
You might enjoy this novel too; it is clever on various levels. I give it 4 stars.
Books
A Sand County Almanac (Book Review)
This is a lovely little book of well observed nature writing. In a time where the environment is in peril from bad policy and practices, it was refreshing to read a beautifully written book about cherishing nature, which didn’t have such threatening overtones.
Yesteryear (Book Review)
Yesteryear packs a punch and is different than anything you’ve ever read. It merges many different themes – Christian evangelism, politics, feminism, online influencers, exposure of children on the internet, delusion, and idealism of the traditionalism of the past– in a compulsively readable story, that left me sad in end.
The Summer Seekers (Book Review)
I enjoyed this chick lit beach read about an 80 year old woman, Kathleen, who doesn’t want to give up on life. She decides to go on a road trip…
Hearts of Horses (Book Review)
The term “horse whisperer,” but it wasn’t always a thing. Up until this time men generally beat horses into submission, hobbling them and bucking them until they “broke” them. During the First World War, when women began to do this job, things changed, and a more empathetic approach proved much more successful.
The Perfect Loaf (Cookbook Review)
After reading the rather extensive explanations in this book, my husband made the best bread I’ve ever eaten.
Stone Yard Devotional (Book Review)
This book is desolate and rather devastating. This is not so much a recommendation as a review; it is me needing to talk about it, not you needing to read it.
Holy Envy (Book Review)
This is written by a former Religion 101 professor about how teaching college kids about the diversity of world religions really help her admire parts of each of them.
The Sisters (Book Review)
This is a novel about second-generation Tunisian immigrants living in Sweden, and their challenges of cultural duality, where they do not fit in, either in their country of ethnic origin nor in their resident birth country.
The Spellshop (Book Review)
The Spellshop is a great diversion, and it was perfect as a “palette cleanser” between other books that promise greater edification. You might find that you enjoy the reprieve too.
Theo of Golden (Book Review)
It is about kindness, about an artist and art appreciation, about deeply listening to others about what is on their heart, encouraging others to see their value, appreciating nature, music, walking, and community, all with Christian overtones.
Three Good Books about Making Art Materials
Making the art materials yourself is an art in itself. By being creative about the elements you use, you can achieve the unique results you are after.
Consider Yourself Kissed (Book Review)
This book depicts the average struggles families go through to give everyone what they need. This is particularly true for women and mothers…
The Eights (Book Review)
I enjoyed this book about the friendship that grows between four smart, strong women, who are assigned to lived together in their first year of Oxford in 1920.
Untethered (Book Review)
This a work of historical fiction about a woman who is the director of a “group home for negro boys” in Alabama during the Vietnam years.
Atomic Habits (Book Review with Notes)
If you actually put any of this into practice, this information can be incredible. I hope you leverage it to be who you want to be.
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion (Series Book Review)
Compare this series to a cross between Pride and Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables; it is at once lighthearted and substancial.