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Review: Athanasius by Simonetta Carr

Athanasius devoted his life to explaining and defending who Jesus is: true God and true man.  In her book Athanasius, Simonetta Carr shows, however, that this hero of the faith was no otherworldly saint sitting safely in an ivory tower.  In fact he lived a life more exciting than most of us could imagine. Born around […]

Review: Shadowed by Grace by Cara Putman

Rachel Justice, an American photographer, is thrilled to get a newspaper assignment to Italy during World War II. She needs the money her photos will earn to fund medical treatment for her dying mother.  However, she’s not counting only on her own photography; she’s also hoping to find her Italian artist father, a man she’s never known and […]

Top Ten Books of 2013

I read a lot of books, and since my teens I’ve been writing about them.  My old notes are tucked away in ancient stacks of papers, but in the last few years my notes have been appearing on this blog as book reviews.  Thank you for reading them! I try hard to read only worthwhile […]

Review: Key to Geometry

Do you know what Miss 13 and I do every day?  We sit down on the couch with Key to Geometry, a unique, hands-on geometry course, and spend some happy time together. Presented in eight booklets (the first six just over 50 pages each and the last two around 150 pages each), Key to Geometry […]

Review: The Passionate Mom by Susan Merrill

Some books need to be read slowly so their ideas can be pondered and applied.  The Passionate Mom: Dare to Parent in Today’s World by Susan Merrill, a unique parenting book that focuses on becoming a godly mom, is like that. Where can a woman find wise counsel about how to become a godly mom?  […]