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I went to a play yesterday morning for a school field trip. I was excited to see a play that I had read and forgotten from a long time ago. High school perhaps? Maybe I saw the movie in class. Sidney Poitier was in it. A Raisin in the Sun I remembered that it was …
My aunt Jeanne, with whom I share very similar taste in stories, sent me this recent memoir of a girl who grew up in a Hutterite colony called I Am Hutterite. I had never before heard of Hutterites, but the group is over 500 years old and live communally in parts of Canada and the …
My dad got a Kindle this fall and when I told him that there was a book I was wanting to read that was only available electronically, he immediately bought it for me on to read on his Kindle. When the Christmas crazy became overwhelming I would sneak away and devour a few pages of …
Apparently, I’m reading all books called Mockingbird this month. There was that delightful book that Mary Polly brought home called Mockingbird. Then my friend, Donna, gave me Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee. Are there anymore? Because they seem to be a safe bet for a good read. To Kill a Mockingbird is definitely next. …
We fell in love with The Wingfeather Series this spring. The books are by one of our favorite singer/songwriters, Andrew Peterson. He sings a song called Dreams on his album for children about a kid who is looking for pirates, dragons and all sorts of adventures. In my mind, these books are those adventures. My …
Half Broke Horses is sort of a prequel to one of my very favorite books, The Glass Castle. The stories from Jeannette Walls’ grandmother’s life are enjoyable and hair-raising at the same time. Lily Casey Smith was born in 1901. In the book, she tells her adventures in her own voice. She was a mustang …
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me… Whenever I read a book like Little Bee (Long Way Gone, God Grew Tired of Us and The Other Side of the Sky also come to mind), I …
I discovered Little Bee by Chris Cleave on someone else’s top books of 2009 list. I think the cover might have hooked me actually, as much as the recommendation. Which should show you that I’m kind of an easy sell for a book. School was called off because of sleet today and while Taido walked the …
When I read a book I love, I usually want the whole world to read it RIGHT NOW! I’m not really trying to be demanding. I just want you to be able to share this beautiful experience with me. But sometimes I love a book so much that I am reluctant to lend it out …
I picked up January’s Sparrow by Patricia Polacco from the library yesterday and I cannot think of a better way to start the season that we remember so many who have paved the way for change for the better with their blood. Patricia Polacco’s books never disappoint, but when I saw this cover I just …
Every year I choose my five best books, a few favorites out of all the books I read. It was hard to narrow it down. So…here goes! Ok, The Willoughbys is a children’s book, but I read A LOT of children’s books so I had choose at least one. I have made all the adults in …
I finished Donald Miller’s new book, A Million Miles in A Thousand Years shortly after receiving it in the mail this week and what hooked me into reading it so quickly was probably the introduction: If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you …
The Heaven Tree Trilogy is our summer selection for our boxed lunch book club. We are discussing one part of the trilogy during each of the summer months. Set in Medieval England on the border of Wales, the story is a complete departure from anything we’ve done so far in our book club. Kings and …
Boxed Lunch Book Club Today! My discussion questions are a little slim, but mainly we are just going to talk about sisters! Sisters are the best…and the worst. I love my sister, but we hated each other for several years there before we realized we couldn’t live without one another! I’m hoping that reading this …
Our Boxed Lunch Book Club meets tomorrow from 12-1. This month we are discussing Carol Shields novel, Small Ceremonies (1976), which is about a biographer named Judith who collects details about people and events. Interestingly, in the novel, Judith is writing a biography about Canadian pioneer Susanna Moodie and in the same year that this …
The last two days finally slowed down enough for me to recover a little from spring break. I’ve been catching up on my reading. In between laundry loads. I picked this book up at the library when I went in search of the documentary by the same name. Anna told me I needed to watch …
Here’s the book discussion guide I used for our boxed lunch book club back in February The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima. 1. Love at first sight. Here’s a quote from Chapter 2 (p.13) right after Shinji has seen Hatsue for the first time. Shinji always went to …
Book Discussion Guide For Wisdom In The Waiting by Phyllis Tickle Tomorrow is our Boxed Lunch Book Club at church, and I have been working on quotes and questions for our time together. I am looking forward to chatting over lunch about the spring stories in Phyllis Tickle’s Wisdom in the Waiting. Here’s the discussion guide. …
Last summer I wrote about reading this lovely book that is the introduction to a new series of books on ancient faith practices. Then I read the first book of the series, In Constant Prayer by Robert Benson. That was when I ordered The Divine Hours. Then I sort of forgot about the series. But …
I’m home from church with a sick little girl, so I’m rereading Mary Karr’s collection of poems, Sinners Welcome, in lieu of corporate worship this morning. Not the same, I know, but there is no avoiding sickness in this town right now. Class attendance is down everywhere due to multiple strains of the flu and other …