Mini Book Review #19: Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back, by Janice P. Nimura. A short-but-sweet review of this eye-opening biography of three young women from Japan. Just a few years after the American Civil War and not long after Commodore Perry forced a trade agreement with isolationist Japan, 5 daughters of samurai were…
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Mini Book Review #18: Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times, by Steve Solomon. Solomon often caustically contrasts his own advice with that of “Everybody Else,” capitalized. (His tone is not that of the warm, friendly grandfather gardener next door.) He used to own and grow for a seed company, so his advice is excellent for someone looking…
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Mini Book Review #17: Middlemarch, by George Eliot. A classic novel this time in our series of short-but-sweet book reviews! Note: George Eliot was a woman! She was one of the first well-known female writers of classic literature. Although confined to one small corner of England, this is yet a sprawling epic of a tale, delving into both heroic and…
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Mini Book Review #16: Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child’s Heart to the Beauty of Learning, by Sally Clarkson. Awaking Wonder is Sally Clarkson’s educational philosophy. It’s an interesting and thought-provoking read. Sally has a more textbook style of writing in some of these chapters than her normal conversational style. Her gentle spirit comes through, though, as she encourages mothers of…
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Mini Book Review #15: When Doctrine Divides the People of God: An Evangelical Approach to Theological Diversity, by Rhyne R. Putnam. This review is longer than most of these “mini” reviews. I felt it was a necessary read in these days of so much division and infighting within the church. “In essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, in all things charity.”…
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