This year, while I still read often and in a wide variety of genres, I haven’t posted many reviews. It was a challenging year in many respects, but also a beautiful year. My husband and I got to celebrate a major anniversary by going to England and Scotland! Before we visited Oxford (where we spent a couple of days getting…
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A mini review of The Fellowship: the Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams; by Philip and Carol Zaleski. The Fellowship is a fairly thorough biography of four exceptional members of a group who called themselves the “Inklings.” The Inklings was an exclusively male gathering of 20th century “Christian thinkers and writers” in…
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Mini Review of A Place to Belong, Amber O’Neal Johnston. In a world tainted by racism, can we raise our kids to bridge the divides between people? Can we teach them to rejoice in the differences God gave us in everything from skin color to the volume with which we speak? Author Amber Johnston offers a hopeful answer, as she…
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Mini Review of Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices, by Mosab Hassan Yousef. If you read to understand your world better, as I try to do, Son of Hamas is a must-read. It doesn’t attempt to explain all of the factors causing war in Gaza, but it does shine a light on…
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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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