Thoughts on Books
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Book Review – A Church Called Tov
McKnight and Barringer have written a book that helps church leaders and church attendees alike, to realise what makes a good church. Not good in terms of "that was a good sermon" or "we have a good preacher" but good in terms of God looking down and calling our culture "good" (tov)
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The Current Responsibility of the Avid Reader
If you are interested in what it means to be an avid reader, take a look at the post What Avid Readers Do Differently by one of my reading icons, Anne Bogel (aka Modern Mrs Darcy). The reason I am directing this post at avid readers is that we set the trends in the book industry. We are the ones who go to bookstores. We are the ones who buy books (maybe too many). We are the ones who impact the book industry through our reading choices. I am not the first person, nor the last, to broach the topic of the reader’s responsibility in the current climate. However, I…
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Review: Little House in the Big Woods
“They were cosy and comfortable in their little house made of logs, with the snow drifted around it and the wind crying because it could not get in by the fire.”
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Great (Fiction) Books to Read in Winter
Here are some of the best books to pick up during my favourite season
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Review: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
"She lives in a world I do not understand, populated by phrases and philosophies that apply only to people like her. People, maybe, who do not yet know tragedy."
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Review: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodie Ashton & Jodi Matthews
"Pay attention. We’ve tweaked minor details. We’ve completely rearranged major details. Some names have been changed to protect the innocent (or not-so-innocent, or simply because we thought a name was terrible and we liked another name better)."
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Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
“Do your kind even know what love is? Can you feel anything at all, or is it just... programmed?”
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Reading Plan for Modern Mrs Darcy's Reading Challenge
One of the blogs that I follow the most closely is Anne Bogel’s Modern Mrs Darcy. I love how she approaches reading and I find the way she writes and speaks to be extremely calming. Her motto is to help people get more out of their reading lives. Her podcast “What Should I Read Next” is dedicated to helping readers find new books they love. As an avid reader I appreciate her approach and so this year I have decided to participate in her reading challenge. Find it here. For the rest of this post I am going to share the books I am thinking of reading for each category.…
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When the Bookworm Can’t Read
I love to read. You don’t have to spend very much time with me at all to realize this. I talk about books, I have a tattoo of a girl reading on my arm, I write about books, I listen to audiobooks, the list continues. In the past three years my number of books read has gone as follows: 2015: 73 books2016: 80 books2017: 48 books2018: 60+ (I didn’t track all of them) And what about this year? Well, as I sit and write this I have read 25 books. And it is very close to the end of the year. 25 books is a respectable number, nothing wrong with that…
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Finding Just the Right Book
I am one of those people that is willing to read just about anything. I will try any genre at least once and I am usually not annoyed by clichés. I can enjoy books with bad writing if there is good plot or characters, books with underdeveloped if there is good writing or plot. Basically I am very easy going when it comes to reading. However, there are times in my life where I will come up with exactly the type of book I want to read and nothing else will do. This happened recently. I wanted a book that was fairly easy to read, with some feel good moments,…
