A short and sweet mini review of Leif Enger’s novel, Peace Like a River. “People fear miracles because they fear being changed…” —Enger, Peace Like a River A striking book about a family who faces the unthinkable when teenagers rush into their home bent on evil and end up with evil visited upon them. Enger’s effortless prose (with a bit…
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The short-and-sweet summary of C.S. Lewis’s little known Pilgrim’s Regress. The Pilgrim’s Regress is the sometimes very strange, sometimes startlingly true allegory that parallels Lewis’s own journey toward faith. Honestly, some of the book left me cold. It definitely doesn’t have the broad appeal of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. [See my note below for Lewis’s explanation.] As in much of C.S. Lewis’s…
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A mini review of Julie Bogart’s The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life. Happy inspiration for keeping our kids’ excitement for learning alight. In The Brave Learner, Bogart helps us realize that we are the right parents for our kids. We are even the right teachers for our kids, in spite of our weaknesses in algebra…
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A short and sweet review of a modern novel, The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles. The Lincoln Highway is not just an entertaining but a brilliant story. The plot twists and turns as two brothers head out on a quest that is continually interrupted by the differing quests of two friends who just broke out of a work camp. Bright,…
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We recently moved, and it wasn’t a quick move from one house to another in the same town. It involved a 30 hr round trip to the location where my husband received training (hotel stay), followed by moving to a temporary apartment in a new city, to closing on our new house and moving into it. And our kids are…
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