Novels
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Doomsday Book
I hadn’t heard of Connie Willis’s Doomsday Book till Ruth mentioned it in her reading roundup a few weeks ago. She said it was good, but not one to read during a pandemic.…
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Book Report
I’m not sure why, but I’ve struggled to finish books for awhile now. It feels like a small victory to have finished several lately… though this first one is still in process. After…
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Virgil Wander
I finished Leif Enger’s newest novel Virgil Wander. It leaves me with mixed reactions. Have you read the book? If so, I would love to hear your thoughts. As usual, Enger has created…
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Quick takes: capsule reviews of recent reads
Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? For years, I’ve been a one-book-at-a-time reader. But lately, this has changed. I seem to have multiple reads going all the time, and…
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In This House of Brede
Someone mentioned this novel by Rumer Godden a few years ago, so when it came up as a Kindle “deal,” I purchased it and started to read. I didn’t have any real expectations,…
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Reading Musings
Out of Sorts is my first read by blogger Sarah Bessey. The book details her efforts to reconcile the different parts of her experiences with church. Though she does not go into detail…
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What Came from the Stars
This was an experiment for Gary D. Schmidt: a foray into sci fi. The story concerns Tommy Pepper, his father (an artist), and his sister Patty (a first grader who hasn’t spoken a…
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Recent Reads: A Schmidt-fest and a memoir
After enjoying the Wednesday Wars, I forged ahead to Okay for Now, Gary D. Schmidt’s companion book written from the perspective of the Wednesday Wars’ narrator’s classmate. Doug Swieteck is a different kind…
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Recent Reading
The Pursuit of God (A.W. Tozer). This was a clarifying read about the need to seek God personally rather than coast along being a good soldier in church. Tozer argues that evangelicalism promulgates…
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Peace Like a River
How could I have forgotten — or did I somehow miss it before? — the power and mysterious beauty of Leif Enger’s Peace Like a River? I pulled it off the shelf a…
