Addicted to reading novels, Alice Grace Ripley lost her boyfriend because her nose was always in a book. The very next day, due to Depression era cutbacks, she lost her dream job at the library. Rather than stay home and face small-town gossip, Alice decided to hand-deliver a shipment of donated books to a tiny town in eastern Kentucky […]
52 Books in 52 Weeks
Review: The House of Hope
The Hills, just an ordinary couple living in China, felt called to open their home to sick and abandoned babies. They started with a cot in the dining room. Soon another baby came, and another. All with medical issues. The Hills found experts willing to treat them, and besides using their own savings for these […]
Review: The Christmas Shoppe by Melody Carlson
After enjoying Christmas at Harrington’s last year, I gladly accepted the chance to review The Christmas Shoppe. I was disappointed, however. Parrish Springs, a small town facing hard economic times, was gearing up for the Christmas shopping season when Matilda Honeycutt, a newcomer, bought a building on Main Street. Curiosity ran rampant as she cleaned […]
Review: Fyodor Dostoevsky by Peter Leithart
Since we love Leithart’s literature study guides, I expected his latest book, Fyodor Dostoevsky to be something I could use in my homeschool. But it isn’t. Instead, it’s the poetic biography of a man who faced the darkest sides of humanity in himself and others, who struggled with his faith and his life, and who […]