Can I Tell Your Story?
Happy New Year! I love getting back to work after Christmas and New Year’s celebrations because I love getting back to normal. As much as I love normal, however, I’m ready to change it up a bit this year by adding a new element to my blog: YOU! It’s true [...]
2019: Here’s What I Read
If you follow this blog even distantly, you can see that it’s mostly book reviews. That’s a change I made this year to focus on what we all have in common—a love of reading! To help me refocus my own reading efforts, I joined two reading challenges this year. The [...]
Alaskan Holiday by Debbie Macomber (book review)
Before beginning her dream job as sous chef in one of Seattle's hottest new restaurants, Josie Avery takes a summer position cooking at a lakeside lodge in the remote Alaskan town of Ponder. Josie falls for the rustic charms of the local community--including Jack Corcoran, the crotchety keeper of Ponder's [...]
The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille (book review)
Daniel Graham MacCormick—Mac for short—seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he’s living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat, The Maine. Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer with two tours in Afghanistan. He returned with the Silver Star, two [...]
Keys to the Deeper Life by A.W. Tozer (book review)
Although never considered to be a popular speaker nor prolific writer, A. W. Tozer's audiences did appreciate what he had to say, and he was probably the most widely read Christian writer of his time. Keys to the Deeper Life contains six of his best-known essays and editorials. In them [...]