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52 Books in 52 Weeks

Review: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

On my own, I would never, ever have picked up Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.  However, it was this month’s selection in Jessica’s online book club, Booking It, so after some internal struggles I did order it from the library. You see, it’s not my style.  A frumpy, has-been governess, looking desperately for a […]

Review: The Discovery by Dan Walsh

Michael Warner, an aspiring writer, inherited his grandfather’s Charlestown estate…and that included the study where his famous grandfather had written his blockbuster novels.  Not only that, but Michael, his sister Marilyn, and the rest of his family also inherited millions.  Marilyn, for one, was not satisfied.  She was upset that the will had contained no clues to […]

Review: As One Devil to Another by Richard Platt

As a homeschooling mom of teens, I am always eager to show my children what is right.  I have not focussed so much on showing them what is wrong, and I expected As One Devil to Another by Richard Platt to help me do so.  Continuing the tradition of The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, […]

Review: The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

Is it right and good to focus on one’s own happiness?  Or is it supremely selfish?  That’s what Gretchen Rubin wondered off and on during the year she spent on The Happiness Project.   And that is what I, a Christian, wondered when I picked up the book. For two reasons she decided that yes, such […]

Review: Tyndale by David Teems

You may know the story of Tyndale, a man consumed by the goal to translate the Bible so every English plough boy could read it, a man hunted as a heretic and eventually martyred for his work.  Tyndale by David Teems does not focus on this story, but rather tells the tale of his work, […]