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Go inside and savor
My youngest has hatched a plan to buy the “red library” (one of our three local branches) for us to live in one day. Here’s our future home: Since we always call it…
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The Practice of the Presence of God
Recently, a few friends and I realized that though we all possessed this book, none of us had read it. We’d felt that we should read it, and perhaps had tried, but none…
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The Knowledge of the Holy
“Who made God?” I overheard my youngest daughter’s question from the other room. “No one,” my husband replied. “It’s a hard thing to understand. We’re so used to everything being made that we…
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The Divine Conspiracy
How do I talk about this book? Or maybe it’s more accurate to ask, how do I talk about anything but this book? It has a way of getting into your thought life…
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The Portent
…[We] began to find that we doubted a great deal of what seemed to have happened to us. It was as if the gates of the unseen world were closing against us, because…
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The Book of Three
On the way home from church today, my youngest daughter informed me that her pencil was stuck, point-first, through the “leather” (plastic) of the car door. When I asked her how it happened,…
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
I was familiar with the title of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), but that’s about all. Though it took me two tries, I found it to be a…
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84, Charing Cross Road
I read 84, Charing Cross Road in one evening. And though its call number makes it plain that it’s a nonfictional work, somehow I forgot this as I was reading. An epistolary novel…
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Read Aloud Thursday: The Silver Pony
I asked my daughters for their votes on the question of what their favorite read-alouds lately have been. Instantly, my third-grader replied, “The Book of Three. Because it’s so adventurous. But I feel…
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The Kite Runner
Everyone else has read The Kite Runner already. I haven’t, perhaps because I suspected that it would break my heart. I was right. But it was worth it. It’s about boys growing to…