Every year, I make a list of my favorite books for the year. “Best books of 2024” simply means my picks for the year. This past year, I was homeschooling a couple of kids while caring for a newborn, so my original booklist had to be truncated. I also kept the content pretty easy: most of the books were published…
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A short-and-sweet mini review of Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent‘s Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age, by Julie Bogart. How can we raise critical thinkers in an age saturated with over-information and misinformation? How can we ourselves become critical thinkers? Furthermore, how can we notice when we or others are not reliable narrators? Julie Bogart answers these…
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A short and sweet review of On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living, by Alan Noble. Honest hope for those living with depression. Every religion, self-help technique and business promises a way for you to get a pleasant life if you merit such. But tragedy is inevitable, author Alan Noble points out. “Life is far more…
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A short-and-sweet review of The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation, by Peter Wohlleben. This book surprised me with its ability to fascinate and hold me as a reader. Who knew a German forester could be such a gifted transmitter of his careful observations of nature?…
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He sketches the odyssey of two men and a boy in this story about grace and bitterness.
: a favorite place to walk when we can!
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![The first photos are of my parents’ sprawling rural Arkansas garden. The last is of my tiny little beds in the big city. Plants bring life to even the smallest corner!
I’ve been reading some beautiful fiction this year, and I just posted a review of a book by one of my favorite authors, Leif Enger. (https://therestfulhome.com/brave-young-handsome-review/ in your browser, or click on the link in my Instagram profile) If you don’t have time to read the book, though, here’s just a quote or two for your enjoyment:
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“Death arrived easy as the train; [he] just climbed aboard, like the capable traveler he was.”
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On riding a horse: “You are a feeble and tenuous being; the only thing a horse wants from you is your absence.” 🐎 😄
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