Category: book
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the best book I read in 2018
Out of the books I read in 2018, my book of the year comes from the reading I did for my particular vocation* as a writer. But since all of us write something occasionally (for our jobs or in our relationships), and since all of us could use help discerning good writing from poor writing,…
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the best books I read in 2018, part 1
Happy New Year! And what a better way to begin the new year than talking about books, my favorite inanimate things. A side note to young parents: The age of one’s children and the amount of reading one does must have a direct relationship. I had some very lean reading years. But my kids are…
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2017 book reviews, part III
KIDS // PARENTING // SABBATH IX. Kids’ Books The Peculiar Miss Pickett, Nancy R. Julian. 1972, 91 pages *** Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars, Ellen MacGregor. 1951, 94 pages *** Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis. ***** This summer my boys were 7, 5, and 2. As soon as school was out, we…
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2017 book reviews, part II
ART // JOURNALS // FICTION // OTHER V. On Art and being an Artist The War of Art, Steven Pressfield, 2002, 165 pages *** Beate Not the Poore Desk, Walter Wangerin, Jr. 2016, 141 pages *** The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron. 1992, 217 pages ***** Julia invites one into the community of artists…
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2017 book reviews, part I
SPIRITUAL FORMATION // NEW AUTHOR // EUGENE // ENNEAGRAM Happy year’s end! It is time for my annual book reviews posts. This year I read a lot, at least for my still-have-young-kids-who-interrupt-me-practically-every-forty-seven-seconds self. So, I’ll give you my full list and give each a 0-5* rating, but I’m only going to comment on the…
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Mother-Son Book Race 2017
One of my sons and I are having a 2017 book race: We’re competing to see who can read the most chapter books this year. We’re making a stack on the fireplace mantle in our living room of the books we read (using some stand-ins for the library books) and then at Christmastime we plan…
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2016 Book Reviews, part 3 of 3.
Hello and welcome to the third and final installment of my 2016 book reviews. These links will take you back to read part 1 and part 2. Don’t forget to comment or email me with your best books that you think I should add to my 2017 list. Once again, here’s my 5* scale: * Meh…
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2016 Book Reviews, part 2 of 3.
Here is your second installment of my 2016 book reviews. Is there something I could share or comment on that would make these book reviews more helpful for you? Feel free to comment with ideas. Well, here we go. The middle 7. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf. 1927. 310 pages. ** Fiction. A quirky novel…
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2016 Book Reviews, part 1 of 3.
Happy end of the year to you! It is time for my annual book reviews posts. This year they’ll come to you in three sets of seven, wrapping around the corner of 2016-2017. On the last post, I’ll let you know my “I insist!” Book List recommendation, the book(s) I read in 2016 that I think everyone ought…
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Repenting of Religion (by Gregory A. Boyd)
a premature book recommendation I usually don’t write [at least directly] about the books I’m reading until my end-of-year book reviews posts. But I’m reading a book right now that is, in the words of my dear friend Samantha, ‘tearing me up.’ Not tearing like so many salty water droplets from my eyes; tearing like…