I have enjoyed seeing others’ reading plans and possibilities and listening to recent podcast episodes from The Literary Life and Close Reads where the hosts shared their favorite (and least favorite) books from the past year. So, I thought I would share my categories for the 2022 Scholé Sisters 5×5 challenge with the books I’m… Continue Reading
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Books Read in 2021
I surpassed my goal of 60 books by 7 and completed my doubled version of the Schole Sisters’ 5×5 reading challenge, so it was a good reading year. Here are my favorites from each of my categories for the reading challenge and a list of all the books I read with the ratings I gave… Continue Reading
Book Notes: Existential Richness
I am currently reading Josef Pieper’s In Tune with the World: A Theory of Festivity. This book echoes ideas from his Leisure, the Basis of Culture and the Love section of Faith, Hope, Love, while offering wonderful insights into the deeper meanings behind human festivals, particularly Christian ones. A festival is essentially a phenomenon of… Continue Reading
Book Notes: Loving Identification
I thought I needed some more Josef Pieper in my life, and I was right. 😉 I picked up his Faith, Hope, Love as a sort of birthday gift to myself, and it is satisfyingly mind-stretching. I don’t necessarily agree with everything he says, but I’m definitely pondering the concepts of belief and faith in… Continue Reading
Book Notes: The Freedom of Fellowship
For the last six weeks, I have been blessed to be able to participate in Cindy Rollins’ summer course, Morning Time for Moms. Two of the books that we read together were The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom and Live Not by Lies by Rod Dreher. Both are difficult and thought-provoking reads, but they… Continue Reading
Book Review: Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
I was looking for a biography/history supplement for Mr. D who will be covering the late 1800s next term, remembered I had Destiny of the Republic in my Audible library, and started listening. It was absolutely fascinating, if also rather horrifying, and ranks right up there with The Boys in the Boat as one of… Continue Reading
Book Notes: Robust Vulnerability
I don’t really have a method of picking a Word of the Year, something I have done for a few years now, except to think and pray and look for something that grabs my imagination. After loving Onward so much, I ordered Russell Moore’s latest book, The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear Without Losing… Continue Reading
Books Read in 2020
Well, 2020 hasn’t been great for blogging, but it’s been pretty good for reading. 🙂 Here are short reviews of some of my favorites: books from four of my five categories for the Schole Sisters 5 x 5 Challenge (there wasn’t a stand-out for the fifth category of Plays), as well as my favorite novels.… Continue Reading
Book Review: What Is a Girl Worth? by Rachael Denhollander
“We knew their silence wasn’t malicious. But no one had any idea what to do, and they weren’t asking. It was okay not to know what to do. It wasn’t okay not to ask what they could do.” The above is, for me, one of the biggest takeaways from this book. Sexual abuse is a… Continue Reading
Book Review: The Mingling of Souls by Matt Chandler
I started reading The Mingling of Souls mostly for the first chapters about dating and courtship, since I find myself in that stage of parenting (!). And indeed those chapters were helpful, and I recommend them for those who are dating/courting as well as their parents and other mentors. Save the chapter on the wedding… Continue Reading