For the past few years I've set goals as to how many books I hope to read in a year. They've been good goals and they've helped me read more but I feel the need to shake things up in 2024. I've been feeling the pull to read some more of the real tomes that… Continue reading The Goliath Challenge (and Other 2024 Reading Goals)
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What I Read – October 2023
Read: The Cocktail Party - T.S. Eliot (Faber & Faber, 1954) Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein - Anne Eekhout (HarperVia, 2023) The Last - Hanna Jameson (Atria Books, 2019) Early Morning Riser - Katherine Heiny (Random House Audio, 2021) Away from the Dead - Dave Bergen (Goose Lane Editions, 2023) Land of Milk and… Continue reading What I Read – October 2023
(Audio) Book Review: A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
The good neighbourhood (I'm sorry, I will spell the title the way the book spells it but otherwise I'm going to spell it right!) of this novel is Oak Knolls, a quiet, middle class suburban area of North Carolina where the neighbours know each other and many have lived side by side for years. Valerie… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
Book Review: Orphaned Believers by Sara Billups
Orphaned Believers - Sara Billups (Baker Books, 2023) Sara Billups' Orphaned Believers has a very specific audience and may seem strange in parts to readers who don't share her upbringing. But to those who do...hoo boy, will you feel seen! Billups delves into the 1980s and 1990s so-called "culture wars" that existed between the Evangelical… Continue reading Book Review: Orphaned Believers by Sara Billups
What I Read – April 2023
Read: Two-Part Invention - Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988) Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky (Vintage Classics, 1994) (translated from Russian by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky) Instructions for the Drowning - Steven Heighton (Biblioasis, 2023) The Memory of Animals - Claire Fuller (Tin House, 2023) Shrines of Gaiety - Kate Atkinson (Little,… Continue reading What I Read – April 2023
Book Review: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
The four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia - flee the Dominican Republic for New York City after their father is involved in an attempted coup. In the Dominican, they were part of a broad, wealthy, and extended family, abounding in cousins and aunts and uncles, their lives looped and overlapping. In America… Continue reading Book Review: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
What I Read – March 2023
READ: We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky - Emma Hooper (Penguin, 2022) How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991) A Thousand Ships - Natalie Haynes (Harper Audio, 2021) The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff (Ballantine Books, 2023) La Guerre, Yes Sir! - Roch Carrier… Continue reading What I Read – March 2023
Book Review: The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
The Bandit Queens - Parini Shroff (Ballantine Books, 2023) Ever since her husband disappeared five years ago, Geeta has been an outcast in her village. Popular opinion says she killed Ramesh but the truth is, Geeta has no idea where he is and she’s happy to never see him again. Geeta sticks to herself, making… Continue reading Book Review: The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
February 2023: Some Recent Life
First, here are just a bunch of pictures from recent weeks: Recent Friday night dinner. Came home from work to find Justin ready for a bath. Rose’s request for face paint at school. (It’s a beaver. God bless kindergarten teachers!) Girls wanted a picture of the outfits they chose for school. Packed a picnic as… Continue reading February 2023: Some Recent Life
2022: What I Read
Here were my 2022 Reading Goals: Read 80 books Review 70 of those books. Read 10 translated works. Read 20 books that I already own. Read 20 books that have been on my TBR since before 2020. Read the entire Bible, following a daily devotional called One Year Praying Through the Bible for Your Kids… Continue reading 2022: What I Read
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