Well, I owe many of you an apology. I didn’t make it to any of your posts in the last week and this week has rolled around again. I know that was one of the best things Cindy did when she began and hosted WwW; comments and consideration of your ideas all around. I will…
My husband got home from his annual hunting trip and fixed the internet connection. Hooray! Please link away! ‘);
One of the problems with being off school is being off schedule. Sorry this is so late, I hope you all post even through the weekend! I’ve been thinking about Thanksgiving this week and I always consider Psalm 136:1-3 during this season: Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good, for his steadfast love…
A number of years ago, I devoured and adored Marilyn Chandler McEntyre’s beautiful Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies. When I saw she had published a short book, What’s in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause, it wasn’t hard to add it to my cart. I haven’t read a lot of…
I’ve long enjoyed Mary Stewart’s gothic romances. I purchased and read a lot of them around the time I was in high school, and have occasionally revisited them. Several of the Hive’s 52 Books in 52 Weeks group recently picked up The Ivy Tree and some struggled with it. Because it is one of the…
I don’t have a quote for you today, do you have one for me? I do have a question for you, though. Which of Little Women’s March sisters did you wish to be when you first read it and why? My husband thinks most women would choose to be Meg while I aver that most…
I read a free-for Kindle book, Susanna and the Spy by Anna Elliot, and decided to try the sequel, London Calling. In the story, Susanna calls upon her Aunt Ruth to help her move the plot along reside in London and find her friend, James. Aunt Ruth, who conveniently knows everyone necessary and can afford…
I finished the currently published St. Cyr books and began a new to me Georgette Heyer book – The Reluctant Widow – that is rather more delving into human nature than I generally associate with her books. A few quotes: “There are some men, ma’am, who have such twisted natures that they cannot see virtue…
More from CS Harris’s Sebastian St. Cyr novels. She has an impressive ability to select words from the period to introduce the novel. While the series has those not-so-subtle anti-religion themes which are annoying (and only vaguely plot-necessary), the character development and mysteries are both quite good. As the series has developed, I like how…
I’m back to reading Sebastian St. Cyr novels. I took a month off because I was really disconcerted by the anti-religion slant of the books, but as I thought about it, I realized that Harris isn’t so much anti-religion as anti-hypocrisy. She never once censures characters whose actions match their profession, rather lashes out at…