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Just My Luck by Adele Parks
Kept Me Up At Night Just My Luck by Adele Parks is a fabulous contemporary psychological thriller that will mess with your mind and emotions. An ordinary house in suburbia. An ordinary family with an ordinary life – until a day that changes everything. Just My Luck examines the fall-out that happens when everything changes. […]
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59 Memory Lane by Celia Anderson
Make Every Day Count 59 Memory Lane by Celia Anderson is a delightful contemporary novel about community. It is a wonderful warm read. There is an eclectic mix of characters ranging from age six to one hundred and ten. They all inhabit a small Cornish village and we witness the ups and downs of village […]
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Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden
An Absolute Classic Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden is a children’s historical classic and just perfect for ages eight and above. As a child I read Carrie’s War and watched the BBC series of it. I loved it then and I love it now. I had a desire to become reacquainted with the characters so […]
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A Boy And His Baskets by Eric S Rodko
Familiar Miracle Accessible For All A Boy And His Baskets by Eric S Rodko is a beautiful retelling of the miracle of the loaves and the fish. The author has used his imagination to expand this familiar Biblical story. It is just perfect for children aged five and above. Early readers will want to read […]
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Retro Reads: The Velveteen Rabbit and *Edward Tulane
The classic story of the Velveteen Rabbit and more recent story of Edward Tulane demonstrate the nature of true love. The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real by Margery Williams. Originally published 1922 (republished in several editions) *The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline. Candlewick, 2006, 228 pages. Reading Level: middle grades, ages 8-10 Recommended for: all ages NOTE: Both books are available for a limited time in a kindle edition for .99 each. See Amazon link below. “I have loved you with an everlasting love.” Jeremiah 31:3 One thing toy stories (including Toy Story) teach us about love is that it’s often…
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Young Vines by James Russell Lingerfelt
The Wounded Healer Young Vines by James Russell Lingerfelt is the most serenely beautiful contemporary novel about life, love, loss and good friends. Home is not necessarily a physical place. It is also an emotional connection and when that is severed, it hurts so badly. The novel explores this theme of loss where memories keep […]
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Hope Is A Dangerous Place by Jim Baton
The Same Yesterday, Today And Forever Hope Is A Dangerous Place by Jim Baton is a thrilling Christian suspense. It is the first book in the Hope Trilogy series which promises to be exciting. The heart of God is the focus of the novel. The reader sees how God grieves when His church loses their […]
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The Summer Villa by Melissa Hill
Lives Entwined The Summer Villa by Melissa Hill is a most delightful contemporary novel that will have your pulse racing as you read towards the conclusion, anticipating what is to come. The novel has two time periods – ‘then’ (five years earlier) and ‘now.’ The action alternates between the two. Three strangers meet at crossroads […]
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The Bridge To Belle Island by Julie Klassen
Quintessentially English The Bridge To Belle Island by Julie Klassen is a fabulous Christian historical crime novel that I just could not put down. The action is set in the early nineteenth century in London and on the fictional Belle Island near Maidenhead. The air in the capitol is polluted in both physical and spiritual […]
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When Is It Okay to Mess with the Classics?
An upcoming retelling of Jane Eyre seems, at the very least, ill-advised. But why? Just because of our prejudices? Four or five years ago, I read about a little Twitter dust-up over S. E. Hinton’s YA classic, The Outsiders. The story is about gang warfare in an Oklahoma town, with blue-collar “Greasers” pitted against white-collar “Socials,” or Socs. Protagonist Ponyboy Curtis is the youngest member of the Greasers, Johnny Cade is Ponyboy’s best friend, and Dallas “Dally” Winston is a gang brother who brushed up his tough-guy cred on the streets of NYC. As in West Side Story, violence escalates eye for eye until two kids are dead. Though published…
