Biography
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Bill Peet: An Autobiography
Weighing in at 190 pages, Bill Peet: An Autobiography has taken us several hours as a read-aloud. I’ve been aware of the book since I searched online for items on my 7-year-old’s Christmas…
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Sacred Journey II
I’ve finished Buechner’s Sacred Journey. Very thought-provoking. I love his notion of “incarnational” divine speech. Words have their limitations. I agree that we are hasty to interpret God’s meaning — or “what he’s saying”…
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Sacred Journey I
I’ve just read the intro to this book by Frederich Buechner. He writes: Life itself can be thought of as an alphabet by which God graciously makes known his presence and purpose among us.…
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The Shaping of a Christian Family
Few books make me weep, but this one by Elisabeth Elliot brought me to tears more than once. This level of emotion was highly impractical, as I read most of it wedged tightly between other mothers…
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The Passionate Eye
The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega compiles poems, song lyrics, essays and stories written by this musician who’s been called “The minimalist poet of popular music.” There’s also a lengthy transcription…
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One Writer’s Beginnings
This book has been on my shelf for years, but though I’ve read pieces of it (my tagline comes from it), never before this week have I sat down and read it all…
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In the Presence of My Enemies
This book leaves me unsure. It’s an account of missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham, who went away for a romantic anniversary weekend, and were kidnapped by terrorists and held for over a year in the…
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Through Gates of Splendor
How do I begin to come to terms with this book? At some point I became familiar with the story of the five missionaries killed in Ecuador in the ’50’s. Last year I…
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Socialization or sufficiency?
This is Katie. She’s a border collie. She’s bred for intelligence and stamina, made to herd sheep all day long. Instead, she spends most of her days sleeping or chasing frisbees or going…
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To read or not to read
Helen Keller’s autobiography has given me much food for thought as a Christian homeschooling parent. Her teacher, Anne Sullivan, writes: “Great care has been taken not to lead her (Helen’s) thoughts prematurely to…
