Y’all remember my glowing review of Sibello Giorello’s novel The Rivers Run Dry? How I loved it so much? Well, after reading The Clouds Roll Away, all I can say is “Ditto.” Great story. Fantastic writing. Suspenseful mystery. In short, everything that makes a novel good and then some. My only hesitation in making this…
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The Mapping of Love and Death
I love a good British mystery novel. And a good British mystery novel set in the fascinating time period following the Great War, World War I, well, all’s the better. A good British mystery novel with rich historical detail, not to mention a good British mystery novel with a smart sleuth who also happens to…
The Season of Second Chances
When one thinks of a coming-of-age story, one rarely thinks in terms of a 48 year old Ivy League professor yet that is exactly the premise and the protagonist found in Diane Meier’s novel The Season of Second Chances. Joy Harkness leads a quiet, solitary life teaching in New York yet when given the opportunity…
Ends of the Earth
A while ago, one of my friends and fellow bloggers posed the question at her site, “What makes a novel irritating to you?” Evidently I’m fairly opinionated because I quickly fired off an answer of about three or four things that irritate me greatly. One thing that I neglected to add to the list that…
Forget Me Not
Regular readers of our site will know this about me: I love a good edge-of-your-seat, keep-you-up-at-night, can’t-put-down thriller. I like suspense; I like mystery. When I read the premise of Vicki Hinze’s novel Forget Me Not I knew it sounded right up my alley… Crossroads Crisis Center owner Benjamin Brandt was a content man—in his…
The Lost Art of True Beauty
Clearly Leslie Ludy doesn’t care about being culturally relevant. Her book, The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl’s Guide to Feminine Grace is a clarion call for young women to return to virtue, manners, and modesty. Not exactly the kind of headlines you see in most publications geared toward teenaged girls and young…
Holy Subversion
In his book Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals, Trevin Wax addresses some of the common cultural rivals that threaten a believer’s wholehearted allegiance to Christ: self, success, money and leisure, just to name a few. Drawing a parallel with the early church’s struggle to subvert the Caesars of their time,…
Her Mother’s Hope
I love Francine Rivers and I’ve loved every one of her books that I’ve read. I first read A Voice in the Wind, immediately followed by An Echo in the Darkness (if you’ve read those two, you can understand why I said “immediately”; if you haven’t, go read them and find out for yourself). The…
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