The Restful Home https://therestfulhome.com/ Hospitality, Homemaking, and Home education in a busy world Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:07:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://therestfulhome.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-The-Restful-4-32x32.png The Restful Home https://therestfulhome.com/ 32 32 My Favorite Books of 2025 https://therestfulhome.com/my-favorite-books-of-2025/ https://therestfulhome.com/my-favorite-books-of-2025/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:24:37 +0000 https://therestfulhome.com/?p=3315 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 ... Read More about My Favorite Books of 2025

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]]> https://therestfulhome.com/my-favorite-books-of-2025/feed/ 1 Review: The Fellowship https://therestfulhome.com/review-the-fellowship/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:08:14 +0000 https://therestfulhome.com/?p=3300 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 ... Read More about Review: The Fellowship

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]]> Review: A Place to Belong https://therestfulhome.com/review-a-place-to-belong/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 08:03:00 +0000 https://therestfulhome.com/?p=3280 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 ... Read More about Review: A Place to Belong

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]]> Review: Son of Hamas https://therestfulhome.com/review-son-of-hamas/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:59:42 +0000 https://therestfulhome.com/?p=3287 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 ... Read More about Review: Son of Hamas

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]]> Best Books of 2024 – My Booklist https://therestfulhome.com/best-books-of-2024-my-booklist/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:26:31 +0000 https://therestfulhome.com/?p=3239 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 ... Read More about Best Books of 2024 – My Booklist

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]]> Review: Raising Critical Thinkers https://therestfulhome.com/review-raising-critical-thinkers/ Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:18:36 +0000 https://therestfulhome.com/?p=3247 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 ... Read More about Review: Raising Critical Thinkers

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]]> On Getting Out of Bed: Mini Review https://therestfulhome.com/on-getting-out-of-bed-mini-review/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 21:15:48 +0000 https://therestfulhome.com/?p=3224 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 ... Read More about On Getting Out of Bed: Mini Review

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]]> The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Mini Review https://therestfulhome.com/the-secret-wisdom-of-nature-mini-review/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:37:47 +0000 https://therestfulhome.com/?p=3242 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 ... Read More about The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Mini Review

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]]> Enger: So Brave, Young, and Handsome https://therestfulhome.com/brave-young-handsome-review/ Sat, 15 Jun 2024 18:55:20 +0000 https://therestfulhome.com/?p=3230 He sketches the odyssey of two men and a boy in this story about grace and bitterness.

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]]> Review: If You Can Keep It https://therestfulhome.com/review-if-you-can-keep-it/ Tue, 07 May 2024 23:56:00 +0000 https://therestfulhome.com/?p=3211 A brief review of If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty, by Eric Metaxas. Benjamin Franklin supposedly said after helping with the Constitution that they had given the people not a monarchy but a republic—“if you can keep it!” Metaxas here examines the history of American democracy and draws the Americans ... Read More about Review: If You Can Keep It

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