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Christa’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Christa’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Christa Parrish
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January 2010
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Home Another Way
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2008
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9 editions
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The Air We Breathe
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2012
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5 editions
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Stones for Bread
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2013
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6 editions
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Watch Over Me
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2009
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11 editions
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Still Life
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2015
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4 editions
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Christa’s Recent Updates
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| (2.5 rounded down) This book isn't terrible, but my rating is so low due to the lack of creativity and world building (taking Norse mythology and changing a letter in certain words is not world building; it's lazy). A dull, uninspired Beowulf retelli ...more | |
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| Unique narration, very enjoyable read. The end felt a bit rushed and somewhat too neat. | |
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| (3.5 rounded down) I stared hopeful and enjoyed much of the beginning 100 or so pages, despite the often overwrought prose (with some lovely lines here and there). But then the novel became tedious and slow and rather oblique - and I no longer cared ...more | |
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| (3.5 rounded down) Predictable, with most characters terribly underdeveloped. The Shakespeare aspect was interesting but overdone in places. The frame was unnecessary and the end was disappointing. No mystery. No thrill. Uneven pacing. | |
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| Unusual, insightful, and filled with expansive themes on race, gender, power, and social mobility. | |
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| (3.5 rounded down) I can't say this was an enjoyable read, or that I enjoyed reading it, but I think it was quite effective in what it was trying to do and the narrative picture it attempted to present. ...more | |
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| (3.5 rounded down) while the story was initially intriguing, there were too many unnecessary gimmicks, not enough character development, and very obvious plotting. The entire novel felt thin. In the end, I just didn't care about anyone or anything. ...more | |
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| Not for everyone, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The ending? Well, it was a bit disappointing (hence the 4 starts instead of 5) but the rest of the novel almost makes up for it. Atmospheric, surreal, and just unique in its telling. | |
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| (3.75 rounded up) Well written and thought provoking. | |
“Do everything as if unto the Lord. Offer up everything as if for the Lord, including jars of olives to the food pantry or leftover loaves of bread. Years later, that's finally how I make sense of it, where it settles out for me. If Jesus knocks on my door today, will I rummage through my home and give him the food I don't like, the outgrown jackets with stains and a broken zipper, the dirty Crock-Pot in the basement, the one with the chipped lid and mice nesting inside I've yet to find time to toss into the Salvation Army's dumpster?”
― Stones for Bread
― Stones for Bread
“But then Oma tells me of bread, of the six hundred kinds made throughout her homeland, white and gray and black in color. Loaves heavy with pumpkin seeds. Pumpernickel. Rye. All with long, dense names like 'Sonnenblumenkernbrot' and 'Roggenmischbrot'. Each word is music to her. She has never eaten a tinned bread bagged in plastic with a little twist tie, a pride she wears all over. 'It matters,' she tells me. 'Wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing.'
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.”
― Stones for Bread
Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.”
― Stones for Bread
“Bread plays favorites.
From the earliest times, it acts as a social marker, sifting the poor from the wealthy, the cereal from the chaff.
The exceptional from the mediocre.
Wheat becomes more acceptable than rye; farmers talk of losing their 'rye teeth' as their economic status improves. Barley is for the most destitute, the coarse grain grinding down molars until the nerves are exposed. Breads with the added richness of eggs and milk and butter become the luxuries of princes. Only paupers eat dark bread adulterated with peas and left to sour, or purchase horse-bread instead of man-bread, often baked with the floor sweepings, because it costs a third less than the cheapest whole-meal loaves. When brown bread makes it to the tables of the prosperous, it is as trenchers- plates- stacked high with fish and meat and vegetables and soaked with gravy. The trenchers are then thrown outside, where the dogs and beggars fight over them. Crusts are chipped off the rolls of the rich, both to make it easier to chew and to aid in digestion. Peasants must work all the more to eat, even in the act of eating itself, jaws exhausted from biting through thick crusts and heavy crumb. There is no lightness for them. No whiteness at all.
And it is the whiteness every man wants. Pure, white flour. Only white bread blooms when baked, opening to the heat like a rose. Only a king should be allowed such beauty, because he has been blessed by his God. So wouldn't he be surprised- no, filled with horror- to find white bread the food of all men today, and even more so the food of the common people. It is the least expensive on the shelf at the supermarket, ninety-nine cents a loaf for the storebrand. It is smeared with sweetened fruit and devoured by schoolchildren, used for tea sandwiches by the affluent, donated to soup kitchens for the needy, and shunned by the artisan. Yes, the irony of all ironies, the hearty, dark bread once considered fit only for thieves and livestock is now some of the most prized of all.”
― Stones for Bread
From the earliest times, it acts as a social marker, sifting the poor from the wealthy, the cereal from the chaff.
The exceptional from the mediocre.
Wheat becomes more acceptable than rye; farmers talk of losing their 'rye teeth' as their economic status improves. Barley is for the most destitute, the coarse grain grinding down molars until the nerves are exposed. Breads with the added richness of eggs and milk and butter become the luxuries of princes. Only paupers eat dark bread adulterated with peas and left to sour, or purchase horse-bread instead of man-bread, often baked with the floor sweepings, because it costs a third less than the cheapest whole-meal loaves. When brown bread makes it to the tables of the prosperous, it is as trenchers- plates- stacked high with fish and meat and vegetables and soaked with gravy. The trenchers are then thrown outside, where the dogs and beggars fight over them. Crusts are chipped off the rolls of the rich, both to make it easier to chew and to aid in digestion. Peasants must work all the more to eat, even in the act of eating itself, jaws exhausted from biting through thick crusts and heavy crumb. There is no lightness for them. No whiteness at all.
And it is the whiteness every man wants. Pure, white flour. Only white bread blooms when baked, opening to the heat like a rose. Only a king should be allowed such beauty, because he has been blessed by his God. So wouldn't he be surprised- no, filled with horror- to find white bread the food of all men today, and even more so the food of the common people. It is the least expensive on the shelf at the supermarket, ninety-nine cents a loaf for the storebrand. It is smeared with sweetened fruit and devoured by schoolchildren, used for tea sandwiches by the affluent, donated to soup kitchens for the needy, and shunned by the artisan. Yes, the irony of all ironies, the hearty, dark bread once considered fit only for thieves and livestock is now some of the most prized of all.”
― Stones for Bread
Polls
This is the poll for September's Book of the Month - the book with the most votes will be the Group Read, and the book with the second most votes will be the Group Buddy Read.
Engaged in Trouble by Jenny B. Jones
The Lost Heiress by Roseanna M. White
Blue Moon Bay by Lisa Wingate
Stones for Bread by Christa Parrish
Ready or Not by Chautona Havig
The Midwife by Jolina Petersheim
Sweet Tea and Southern Grace by Glenda C. Manus
23 total votes
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Christian Fiction...: August Additional Group Read poll now open | 6 | 63 | Aug 15, 2014 08:36AM | |
| Bookworm Bitches : Summer 2015 Challenge | 34 | 195 | Oct 01, 2015 08:07AM | |
| WACKY READING CHA...: January 2016 Wacky Tunes | 29 | 62 | Feb 03, 2016 06:28AM | |
| WACKY READING CHA...: January 2016 Mini Challenge | 83 | 111 | Mar 04, 2016 07:15AM | |
| Christian Fiction...: Vote for May's Books of the Month - Books Chosen | 34 | 100 | Apr 17, 2016 06:45AM | |
| WACKY READING CHA...: Pick Three for Me Q1 | 248 | 91 | Aug 20, 2016 04:08PM |
