Nonfiction
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Defending Laura
The renaming of the “Laura Ingalls Wilder Award” as the “Children’s Literature Legacy Award” seems shockingly misguided. It coincides with my reading of Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser, a biography of Wilder that…
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Reading Update
The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines is an autobiographical narrative of the couple’s story: a little bit about their childhood, meeting and marriage, and early business life. They’re certainly a high…
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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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A People’s History of the U.S.
A few years ago at the local 4-H fair, I overheard a conversation between a young girl and two older women. The conversation was about an entry in the costume class: a pony…
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George MacDonald: Truth in Jesus
I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself. Hence his Christ-like union of tenderness and severity. Nowhere else outside the…
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Authorpreneur
Authorpreneur by Jesse Tevelow is a book I read out of my continual inferiority complex about NOT being an entrepreneur like my husband. Entrepreneurs can take their natural gifts and hobbies and sell…
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Love Thy Body
There aren’t many books that I feel like buying and giving to everyone I know, but this one fits into that category. Written by Nancy Pearcey, author of Total Truth, Love Thy Body…
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Do the Work
I have the What’s On Your Nightstand roundup to thank for discovering Steven Pressfield’s Do the Work. The book is a short (it took me two sittings to read), snappy (you can see…
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What’s On My Nightstand: March 2018
I’m participating in the What’s On Your Nightstand? roundup at 5 Minutes for Books this month. Here are links to my reviews of completed reads, as well as some glimpses of books in…
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Escape from Reason
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. (Francis Schaeffer) Perhaps ten years ago, a…
