And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman (book review)
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here comes an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man’s struggle to hold on to his most precious memories, and his family’s efforts to care for [...]
Writers are Readers: Shaen Layle
If you could ask a USA Today best-selling author any question, what would it be? I know what I'd ask, and today best-selling author Shaen Layle is kind enough to answer them. Thank you! What was your favorite picture book as a child? What did you love about it? I [...]
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (book review)
A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch [...]
Brave Surrender by Kim Walker-Smith (book review)
Kim Walker-Smith's passionate performance of "How He Loves" helped transform Jesus Culture into a global worship movement. But she wasn't always so confident of God's unrelenting, powerful love. Coming from a painful childhood, Kim struggled to believe that God could heal her heart or bring any sense from her past. [...]
13 Ways to Kill Your Community by Doug Griffiths (book review)
13 Ways to Kill Your Community is lively, full of personality, conversational, breezy, succinct, and fun. One can imagine readers seeking out information on boosting their local community sighing dutifully as they seek out material and then being relieved and delighted when what they find turns out to be as [...]