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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Understood Betsy
We finished Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s Understood Betsy (1916), our most recent chapter-book read-aloud. It’s a rich book that gave mother and daughters alike much to think about. The title character begins the book as “Elizabeth Ann” and grows into “Betsy” as the novel progresses. It’s fitting that her moniker changes, given the significant changes she … Continue reading
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The Dean’s Watch
The Dean’s Watch is my second novel by Elizabeth Goudge. Its subject is the life of a community in a hilltop city (based on Ely) overlooking the fen country of England. The watch named in the title belongs to the dean of the town’s magnificent cathedral, and it is one of the first things we … Continue reading
The Scent of Water
The Scent of Water (1963) is, as the back cover promises, an enchanting book. How have I lived this long without ever even hearing of Elizabeth Goudge? Now that I have an acquaintance with her, I want to read more right away. But I’m getting ahead of myself… First, in a nutshell, the story: Mary … Continue reading
The Seven Sisters
Candida Wilton, recently divorced, is starting her life over again. Instead of staying in sheltered, comfortable Suffolk where her husband, dean of a girls’ school, continues to enjoy respect and good-standing despite his affair and remarriage, she moves to a colorful and slightly dangerous neighborhood in London. She enrolls in a Virgil class, joins a … Continue reading
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Hearing God
Dallas Willard’s Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship With God is less a how-to book than a renovation of our commonly accepted ideas about prayer. Quietly but assuredly, it confronts the skepticism that God would speak regularly and understandably to his children. It meditates on the qualities of God’s voice and emphasizes the disciplines that … Continue reading
