A Reader’s Review Every year I make a reading list and set goals. But how many plans were seen to the end last year. I think most people found the quarantine of 2020 to be a great thing for their reading list. On social media I kept seeing stacks of books labeled as #booksIreadthismonth. …
Every year I like to do a review of the books I read. I have not been great about keeping a journal as I read but I do love to look back and see what has stayed with me from a particular book. I did not read a lot this year because my life has …
I am a reader. I do it on purpose and with pleasure. I am a really slow reader so I never seem to finish enough books, but I know that even if I were a speed reader I would still not be able to finish my to be read list. I have tried speed reading …
Learn to Read Your Bible and Enjoy It I have not always loved reading the Bible, but that was not entirely my fault. Growing up in the church, I learned a lot of things about my Bible, rules about how long I should read it, how often I should read it and that questioning it was WRONG, wrong …
Last year I read a book with my church that challenged me to think differently about my space and my time in relation to my neighbors. I talked about it in my year-end book review. The title of the book is The Gospel Comes With A House Key by Rosaria Butterfield. It is a book of …
In 2017 our book club was falling apart and we had to change the way we did things to make it easier to read and discuss. We started that year by picking all our books and scheduling our monthly meetings all at once at one glorious dinner and we have not looked back. It is …
As I finished each book on our book club list in 2018, I was inspired to write a prayer of gratitude and response to each one. I shared it with my book club as a benediction to our year of reading and now I share it with you. Each verse corresponds to a book …
As I started to think about my 2018 reader’s review, I saw a post on Facebook that a book blogger and podcaster read something like 200 books last year and I thought, “I’ll never catch up to that.” 200 books is like three or four years of reading for me. I asked my Facebook friends …
To say that I was having a hard year in 2016 is an understatement. My stress level was so high that my husband sent me to the doctor to make sure that I was not about to have a heart attack. I had to sit down and reevaluate my days and the flow of my …
I just wrote a long post about Paris and Ernest Hemingway in the 1920’s. It starts with a little bit of a love letter to a city I have dreamt of but never visited. I thought I would share with you gush over some of my favorite Paris things, because I can’t get the City …