Monthly Archives: September, 2008
Helpless by Barbara Gowdy
This was an interesting book to read, and as I sit here writing this book I’m still trying to decide what I make of it. Here is the synopsis from Amazon: Celia is the struggling single mother of an exceptionally, angelically beautiful child: nine-year-old Rachel. All too aware of the precarious balance of the life [...]
Share on FacebookThe Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
I picked this book to read as a quick, chick-lit book. However, it is too well written to be classed as that. There is a strong story, great characters and a bit of knitting that made this a lovely, exciting read. I thoroughly enjoyed this book: The Friday Night Knitting Club. Jacobs turned out to [...]
Share on FacebookTen by J. John
This book, Ten by J. John looks at the Ten Commandments in a modern way and makes them relevant to us today. It is 300 pages of God, love, common sense and the Bible. The book explains the Ten Commandments, why they were made and how we can keep them in this day and age. [...]
Share on FacebookMy Lady Judge by Cora Harrison
This is the first book by Cora Harrison that I have read, and I really enjoyed it. Here is the Amazon synopsis for My Lady Judge: In the sixteenth century, as it is now, the Burren, on the western seaboard of Ireland, was a land of grey stone forts, fields of rich green grass and [...]
Share on FacebookNice Girls Don't Change the World by Lynne Hybels
This is a small, easy to read book by Lynne Hybels, a lady who is involved in Christian ministry alongside her husband Bill. This is the first Lynne Hybels book I have read, and I found it helpful and interesting. Margaret Mead said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change [...]
Share on FacebookGetting Rid of Matthew by Jane Fallon
I was drawn to this book by the cover: I think it those red shoes in contrast with the blue tie, it definitely draws the eye, and I am glad it did. What to do if Matthew, your secret lover of the past four years, finally decides to leave his wife Sophie and their two [...]
Share on FacebookRe-Thinking History by Keith Jenkins
This is a higher education book looking at what history is. Synopsis: History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question ‘What is history?’ is a task few feel equipped to answer nowadays. And yet, at the same time, history has never been more popular – whether in the press, [...]
Share on FacebookThe Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
This is a bookring that I joined and I am so glad I did Synopsis: Set between the 1930s,and the present, Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel is the story of Esme, a woman edited out of her family’s history, and of the secrets that come to light when, sixty years later, she is released from care, [...]
Share on FacebookThe Curious Incident…by Mark Haddon
Amazon synopsis: The title The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (or the curious incident of the dog in the night-time as it appears within the book) is an appropriate one for Mark Haddon’s ingenious novel both because of its reference to that most obsessive and fact-obsessed of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, and because [...]
Share on FacebookThe Passion of Jesus Christ by John Piper
From the back cover: The most important questions anyone can ask are: Why was Jesus Christ crucified? Why did he suffer so much? What has this to do with me? Finally, who sent him to his death? The answer to the last question is God did. Jesus was God’s Son. The suffering was unsurpassed, but [...]
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