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…
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…