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Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder
I read Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend for the first time in the fall of 2007. My daughters and I had been exploring the earlier Little House books for…
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The Children of Hurin
A deadly peril has come upon us, which only great hardihood shall turn aside. But in this matter numbers will avail little; we must use cunning, and hope for good fortune… For I…
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Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead performs a necessary surgery for me. It peels back layers of resignation and hopelessness and returns me to the true gospel, the true good news: Jesus came to give us…
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Audiobooks reconsidered
Antiques, huh? This is actually the record player that replaced the one I listened to as a child — the one my little sister used. In this picture, it’s playing The Three Little…
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Trailing Clouds of Glory
This week, browsing through the children’s section at the library, I saw Madeleine L’Engle’s name on this book I’d never heard of. Having just finished A Circle of Quiet, I was ready to…
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The Man Who Listens to Horses
My husband gave me The Man Who Listens to Horses: The Story of a Real-Life Horse Whisperer when we were dating. (We’ve been married ten years.) I read most of it, and this…
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A Circle of Quiet
A Circle of Quiet is one of Madeleine L’Engle’s Crosswicks Journals. It’s the third one I’ve read; the others are Two-Part Invention and The Irrational Season. I found this one to be an…
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Resolving power
A phrase caught my attention while reading Soaring with the Wind to my daughters. “Resolving power is the ability to focus on things far away. A bald eagle has eight times more resolving…
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The Harsh Truth About Public Schools
The Harsh Truth About Public Schools is written by a lawyer. In it, Bruce N. Shortt pulls out all the stops to make his case against public schools. It begins with the cover:…
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About Ezekiel
I’ve progressed into Ezekiel in my Bible-reading. These prophetic books frustrate any attempt by my analytical or “literary” mind to file them neatly away, but there are passages of great beauty and power.…