Mini Book Review #5: Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells THIS IS THE SHORT-AND-SWEET FIFTH EPISODE OF THE RESTFUL HOME’S NEW SERIES OF MINI BOOK REVIEWS. The first half of this book I found very well-written and well-compiled. Michelle Duster is Ida B. Wells’ great-granddaughter, and she has written a beautiful tribute to…
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Mini Book Review #4: Wilson’s A Different Shade of Green: A Biblical Approach to Environmentalism and the Dominion Mandate. I hope you’ve enjoyed the mini book review series so far! Each week you’ll see a short-but-sweet summary of a book to help you make your own reading choices! What does Christian environmentalism look like? A Different Shade of Green is…
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Mini Book Review #3: Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich. The third book in this short-but-sweet summary series is a novel by a great Russian author, Leo Tolstoy. “Ivan Ilyich’s life had been most simple and most ordinary, and therefore most terrible,” Tolstoy writes as he introduces his protagonist. Ivan Ilyich spends his life in correctness and propriety according to…
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You just realized that the food you had in the crockpot isn’t quite enough for the crowd that is on its way to your house? No worries! If you can’t ask a guest to pick up an additional salad or bag of chips (something we frequently do), here are some simple ways you can stretch food to feed a crowd….
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Mini Book Review #2: The Enchanted Hour This is the short-and-sweet second episode of The Restful Home’s new series of mini book reviews. The Enchanted Hour is a paean to the importance and beauty of reading aloud. Gurdon interviews doctors who compare the effects of video and reading on the brains of toddlers. (Her account of how the research is…
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