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
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
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
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
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
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
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
newest book from the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You Set several years after a national crisis Kind of like the Covid-19 pandemic and fallout but not exactly the Covid-19 pandemic and fallout. Like our pandemic though, the result was increased racism against Asian-Americans Hopefully unlike any of our governments,… Continue reading (Point Form) Book Review: Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
In an effort to catch up on a few book reviews before 2022 ends, I'm going to try something a little different. Each day this week I will publish a book review but instead of going into great detail, I will write a point form book review and focus on a few highlights. Here we… Continue reading (Point Form) Book Review: And Yet by Kate Baer
I received an Advance Readers' Copy of this book. All opinions are my own. Erin has never been able to disentangle herself from her complicated relationship with Silas. Alternating between friends and lovers, even when she tries to draw a hard line boundary with him, nothing seems to stick. He is the leader of their… Continue reading Book Review: Ghost Eaters: Clay McLeod Chapman
