Life of a Reader
Books Galore In this new year of 2021, I am attempting to read 1 book a week. To keep track of my progress, I created this blog post! Every time I finish a new book, I will add it here, with the date I finished, and the star rating of how good I thought the book was (1-5 stars possible). […]
Take Me Away! Welcome to August dear reading friends! What a quiet summer for me . . . at least on the blog. Life itself has not been quiet, and that’s why I’m taking a vacation! I’ve had two weekend getaways and spent seven days at Bible camp, but those did not provide the complete rest typical of an actual vacation […]
A Thinking Day Sometimes I just have days where I want to sit down and stare at nothing and think through everything. It often occurs on rainy days, or days when I’ve got the day off of work and have nothing to do with myself. And other times I’m just emotionally exhausted and end up thinking through everything in my […]
Had it not been for these years, I might never have known these dear people, from whom I was soon to be parted. The French have a saying, Partir c’est de mourir un peu, “To part is to die a little.” A Missionary at War Darlene Diebler and her husband Reverend Russell Diebler landed in New Guinea on August 18, […]
Secretariat by William Nash Published in 1975 396 pages Content: * * * * (4.5) There aren’t a whole lot of content issues here. However, this is the world of horse racing so there are curse words scattered throughout and gambling/betting on the races. There is also an explicit explanation of how a horse at stud interacts with a mare […]
Old . . . and Boring? I’ve grown up on classic literature, and in fact spent the last three years of high school reading only classic literature. But you know what? I still get caught in the lie that classic literature is naturally boring, long-winded, and is not worth the time and effort it takes to read through it. It’s not […]
Another Shelf Raid Hey there my dear reading friends! Wouldn’t you know it, I checked back and it’s time for another reading update. Here’s the crazy thing . . . you remember I list the books I’m going to be reading next at the end of these posts?? Well . . . I did not read those books this last […]
History, Mystery, and Adventure I reviewed the first book of the Enola Holmes series several weeks ago. I thoroughly enjoyed that book, but now that I’ve read all six in the series I’m a fan for life. I think it’s a little cliche, but I’m gonna say it anyway, “What a breath of fresh air!” Even the junior fiction novels […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) Starring: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem, Orlando Bloom, Brenton Thwaites Directors: Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg Rating: PG-13 for mild language, sequences of adventure and violence, some sensuality, and suggestive content Another Round, Gentlemen? I went to the library last night and decided it was high time to throw together […]
When In France What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of France? I have a variable response depending on what context I’m thinking about France in. If the context is history, I’m thinking about Normandy and the beaches on D-Day. If I’m thinking about movies, Ratatouille and my favorite line from Ocean’s 12 (“What can he do? He’s one man, […]