Discipline, the Glad Surrender by Elisabeth Elliot My rating: 5 of 5 stars Own. Eliot here packs a punch. None of this seems very revolutionary, yet all of it is meaningful. She uses the scripture as a measuring rod and puts our thoughts, deeds, words, actions, even our feelings up against it. She shows our…
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson My rating: 5 of 5 stars I loved this. It read quickly and beautifully. Woodson is exploring ideas of identity within her particular family, culture, locale, and nation. Her exploration of her family genealogy, her family connections near and dear were reminiscent to Madeleine L’Engle’s Summer of the Great…
Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition by Karen Glass My rating: 5 of 5 stars I had read nearly all of this in book form and enjoyed it … but got distracted and began other things … and suddenly it was buried under a stack of books begun and unfinished. I suspect many…
Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren My rating: 3 of 5 stars Own. There were valuable ideas to be mined in this book. Things like dealing with our digital world rightly, ordering our physical devotional life, thinking about routine and habit. I really enjoyed the first 5 chapters….
Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry My rating: 5 of 5 stars Audiobook A few years ago, Christianaudio.com gave away Hannah Coulter for free; they still do a free giveaway each month. Last spring I decided to listen while I walked the dog. I was really enjoying it, but there was so much that I felt…
Animal Farm by George Orwell My rating: 4 of 5 stars Library audio. I have a deep-abiding hatred for dystopian literature. It began with Brave New World in high school and has not left me. In fact, we were supposed to read this 2 years ago in our AmblesideOnline curriculum, but I wanted the kids…
When The Legends Die by Hal Borland My rating: 4 of 5 stars Own. I first read this book as a Freshman in High School, some 32 years or so ago. I always remembered that I liked it, and as I am following the Literary Life Podcast’s reading challenge of #20for2020 this year, and they…
For 2020 I wanted a verb that included the idea of “enthusiasm.” I toyed with using “enthuse,” but decided that it had too much … cynicism intrinsic in the very word itself. I want to be positive with enthusiasm; interested; participatory in a good way, interested with . As I thought more and more about…
Bright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation by Madeleine L’Engle My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Oh, that Madeleine.” As a master storyteller herself, L’Engle helps the reader to view the gospels through a different lens – true story. How do we read stories that are common to us? L’Engle helps us turn the gemstone…
Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart My rating: 4 of 5 stars There are poorly marked spoilers in this review: I enjoyed reading this on Kindle. Probably really a 3.5. I liked it but there are better Mary Stewart books out there. Great literature? No, but Stewart is talented enough to give us beautiful…