Cookbook Recommendation: Breakfast
This would be a lovely gift for a wedding shower, for Father’s Day for those breakfast-making-dads, or check it out from the library for yourself!
Books
Book Review: Portrait of a Lady
Supposedly Henry James’ best novel, Portrait of a Lady is a project to read in its detailed 623 pages. It starts off rather slowly …
Book Review: The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
Read this book if you are up for a story both worthwhile and different.
Update on My Reading Challenge
Fifteen weeks in, I’m just about on target on my Reading Challenge for 2015. How are you doing? I’m trying for one in each category before I do much doubling up. So far I’ve read a book for 20 out of the 52 categories.
Great Bible Books for Children
I was requested recently to give some recommendations for good Bible read alouds for children. I promised to pull together this blog as a response, for it is useful for parents, homeschoolers, and Sunday School teachers alike.
Book Review: The Remains of the Day
I did not like the movie based on this book when I saw it; I remember it as unsatisfying and rather frustrating, so I would not have chosen to read this.
Book Review: Orphan Train
This is a quick and easy read. It is an interesting story of upheaval and resilience, even though the writing style is overly simplistic.
Book Review: The Bookseller of Kabul
I wouldn’t say this book is enjoyable, but it certainly is enlightening. It gives you a glimpse of everyday life before, during, and after the Taliban rule in Afghanistan.
Book Review: Painted Horses
This novel was a refreshing change of time and place for me. It was set mostly in the mid 1950’s in Montana. The wild west was tipping toward a new era, where history and tradition would clash with progress.
Two Great Cookbooks: Plenty & Plenty More
These two cookbooks are wonderful and I give them five stars. I am sad they are due back at the library and I have to return them!
Book Review: The Paris Architect
Books about war are not my favorite genre, so it took a book club to get me to read this one about World War II. We had a great discussion about it this evening.
Book Review: Delicious!
I really enjoyed this light book about a young woman with an amazingly discerning palate. She can taste anything and tell you what is in it and what it needs.
Resources for Teaching Poetry
A homeschooling mother with a daughter in early high school asked for some recommendations from me for how to teach poetry. I figured others might be interested too, so I am including you all in my response.
Book Review: Realistic Abstracts
This book is better than most of its kind. I give it 4 stars. You can see below both paintings and instruction in it that I thought worth considering.
Book Review: And The Dark and Sacred Night
Well, unless you were a reader of Three Junes, and you want closure on that story, I don’t recommend taking the time to read this one.
Book Review: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
I really liked this light book about a bookstore owner who is brought back to life after mourning the loss of his first wife. Not only does he find love again, but in unexpected places!
