The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare My rating: 4 of 5 stars I enjoyed the audiobook. Even “cold” with no background information or knowledge of the story, I was able to follow the main plot and characters pretty well. I wanted to read this with The Literary Life Podcast and knew that we could read…
Beauty in the Word by Stratford Caldecott I cannot give this book any stars. Not because I’m upset to have read it in any way. Not because I don’t think it’s a valuable read for one in my “profession.” But mostly because it was mostly beyond me. Oh, there were parts that I enthusiastically agreed…
You Who? Why You Matter and How to Deal With It by Rachel Jankovic My rating: 4 of 5 stars I liked this well enough. We’re supposed to die to self and live to Christ and Jankovic discusses how the world tries to invert that and lead us away from following the Lord. It didn’t…
Dare I have the temerity to offer a review of a book which struggles with criticism? Some thoughts and implications: An Experiment in Criticism by C.S. Lewis My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read this to read along with the Literary Life Podcast. They finished ages ago, but I finished today. I really think…
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni My rating: 5 of 5 stars I really enjoyed this novel that the children are reading for school. I purchased the audiobook version with an Audible credit because it is an expensive audiobook, but it was worth joining audible for this book! The reader was fantastic: his Spanish name pronunciation,…
As Reality Dawns by Carolyn Weber My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a talk that was printed up as a booklet. I thought it was by Carolyn Weber of Surprised by Oxford and Holy is the Day authorship, but it is a different Carolyn Weber. It was worth my reading this morning to…
The Gospel Comes with a House Key by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve now finished another book that I should have finished long ago and was languishing in my “currently reading” pile. I wanted to finish it; I enjoy Rosaria’s writing style and content. She gives powerful arguments, testimony, and…
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…