Life of a Reader
A Reader’s Review of Literature
Drummer Boy at Bull Run by Gilbert Morris Published in 1995 152 pages Content: * * * * * (5.0) Clean fiction is hard to come by these days. Have you wandered the JF (junior fiction) and YA (young adult) shelves at your local library lately?! If you noticed the publishing date of this book, you might […]
grace truth: even when the sky doesn’t open sweetly you can still find grace growing from somewhere. I avoided poetry for a very long time. I appreciated literature as a child, growing up in a home where books were read-aloud every night and spending every free moment drinking in every Nancy Drew mystery and Janette Oke book I […]
I’d like you to imagine that you’re holding God’s GPS in your hand. Regardless of when you pick this book up to read it, or where you live in the world, God’s everlasting principles herein will never fail to guide you as you seek to make him known in your relational encounters. What if the greatest danger to […]
Thoughts . . . even though I haven’t read the book. Or seen the movie. 🙂 Where the Crawdads Sing lay in wait only momentarily for Reese Witherspoon to pick it up and read the now-famous story within its covers. In fact, it was actually only one month after publishing that Witherspoon read and praised the novel. Fast-forward to the […]
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein According to the author, “This book started as a graduation speech, and graduation speeches are meant to be grandiose.” While I wouldn’t necessarily call it grandiose, it is philosophical and perhaps a little picturesque in it’s approach to life. There are a […]
Pony by R.J. Palacio Published in 2021 273 Pages Content: * * * (3.5) A few scattered cuss-words would normally cause me little concern; however, this is considered a junior fiction novel which should have zero cuss-words in my mind. There is also somewhat gratuitous descriptions of wounds sustained by ghosts, observed by our main character, Silas. These ghosts harm […]
. . . the wind gusted, ripping her hat from her head and sending it out over the bay. She spun to grab it, missed, and teetered precariously on the edge. The wind whipped again, lifting her skirts up around her knees, and she heard a voice on the wind – or was it her own voice speaking to her […]
There was another reason she took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends – daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her […]
Living for now became my new goal: living in the house we have, in the city where we are, and in the moment when we’re alive. – Dana K. White I didn’t think I had a problem with stuff. My house is not a […]
I can’t believe you had so much fun being young. I just want to be old and rich and smell like butterscotch. Maggie Mayfield The Meaning of Maggie by Megan Jean Sovern It took me awhile to realize why I had a sense of deja vu while reading this book. It’s a junior fiction novel, […]