Although she wants to be a midwife, headstrong Ingeborg Strand, twenty years old in 1878, has always been happiest at the high mountain seter each summer, away from her mother’s criticism. There she and her younger siblings and relations grow livestock and make cheese for their families the whole glorious summer long. Ingeborg teaches the […]
Reviews: Fiction
Review: The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill
Every once in a while, a wonderful children’s book presents an educational philosophy and becomes a treat for both children and their parents. Louisa May Alcott wrote several books like this (Jack and Jill, Jo’s Boys, Little Men), Dorothy Canfield Fisher gave us Understood Betsy, and now Kirkpatrick Hill presents her ideas in the delightful […]
Review: Splitting Harriet by Tamara Leigh
This summer I picked up an unlikely read, Splitting Harriet by Tamara Leigh. And I’m very glad I did. Harri Bisset, first a preacher’s kid, then a rebel, put her bad lifestyle behind her eight years ago after a showdown in a biker’s bar. She turned to God, and now fights her nicotine cravings with […]
Review: Bride for Keeps by Melissa Jagears
Each time a new woman steps off the train, all the Kansas town’s bachelors first ask, “Are you here for Everett Cline?” After all, Everett has already had three brides brought in, although none of them ended up marrying him. By now he has accepted the fact that he will never get married. So when […]
Review: The Sparrow Found a House by Jason McIntire
It’s not often that practical Christian lifestyle ideas are successfully presented in a novel, but Jason McIntire makes it work in The Sparrow Found a House: a story of family transformation. From the back cover: What if your new stepdad was a Bible-toting Army Sergeant? Fifiteen-year-old Jessie Rivera is living every teenager’s nightmare. Her widowed […]