Books

  This book has been on my to-be-read list for many years, and I’m glad I finally got around to it. It is an allegory that explores pursuing one’s own unique destiny, or as this book refers to it, your own “personal legend.” There is a lot here about examining and being led by the … Read more

I really enjoyed this thoroughly researched historical fiction which depicted the circumstances surrounding the first Native American’s matriculation through Harvard College in the 1660’s. Told in period language and utilizing the native tongue in many places, as well as Latin, it was particularly good to listen to on CD. I would recommend this engrossing read, … Read more

I really enjoyed this book and stayed up late last night finishing it. It is about two widowers who fall in love in their sixties with someone each of their respective families consider most inappropriate. Major Pettigrew, a proper Englishmen, and Mrs Ali, a Pakistani shopkeeper, are a wonderful pair that you root for all … Read more

I loved this book about a young Canadian woman unexpectedly finding God at Oxford. I could relate to this story as Engineering school at University of Michigan did it for me! It was wonderful to follow her trajectory, so like my own, from unbelieving, to skeptical, to questioning, and eventually to becoming a committed Christian. … Read more

I really enjoyed this book and give it five stars. It is a quick read about the daughter of a Baptist preacher in Georgia, who can’t wait to get out of there and get on with her life. Meanwhile, she has to learn to not be so self absorbed, and that destiny is more an … Read more

This book is an incredible book. I loved it even though it dealt with disease and death interlaced with a lot of love-making. This is a gorgeous story of commitment, poignantly told. It is about the beauty, grandeur and fragility of the natural world. This author has a true gift with words, using lush descriptive … Read more

I loved this short book and give it five stars. Thank goodness we are not our mothers, and thank goodness for them. Women’s potential has been marginalized for thousands of years, but our mothers were the first generation where there were more opportunities for them and they could entertain the idea of having a career, … Read more