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April 1, 2015
March Wrap Up
Spring came to the Boise area long before the calendar said so. And by the end of March, the trees around are house were sporting new leaves and we already had flowers in bloom in our garden. Gotta love it. And that’s no April Fool’s joke, either.
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Books Read:I completed seven books in the month of March. (That makes 26 books in the first three months of the year; way ahead of normal for me.)
Picking a favorite from March’s reading is tough, but I have to go with R...
March 31, 2015
Spotlight: A Hope Remembered by Stacie Henrie
A HOPE REMEMBERED (Of Love and War, Book 3)
by Stacy Henrie
As the war ends, love begins.
Nora Lewis just wants an escape after losing her fiance in the Great War. When she inherits property in England, she boldly packs up and leaves America for a fresh start. But, if not for her dashing new neighbor, Colin Ashby, she’d be lost. Even as their friendship deepens, Nora knows a British aristocrat would never be free to love an American orphan, no matter how much the war has changed the world …
...March 30, 2015
The Books Authors Read | Allie Pleiter
An avid knitter, BBC Television geek and French macaron enthusiast, Allie Pleiter writes both fiction and non-fiction. The enthusiastic but slightly untidy mother of two grown children, Allie spends her days writing books, buying yarn, and finding new ways to avoid housework. Allie hails from Connecticut, moved to the midwest to attend Northwestern University, and currently lives outside Chicago, Illinois. The “dare from a friend” to begin writing has produced two parenting books, eighteen no...
March 26, 2015
Persistent Prayer: Meditation and Creativity
As I’ve shared before, because my word for 2015 is “Persistent Prayer,” I have dedicated much of my devotional reading to books about prayer and prayer warriors. What a rich time I am having.
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Currently I am re-reading a book that I first read at least 30 years ago. In the early 1980s, I attended a weekend prayer seminar that included the teaching fromThe Hour That Changes the World by Dick Eastman. I am so glad to be revisiting it. (Note: I don’t know for how long,...
March 25, 2015
A New Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt is Coming
Mark your calendars for April 16-19. Get ready to collect clues and find out about your favorite authors’ new releases and maybe discover some new favorites while you’re at it. Enter for a chance to win a new novel from every participating author, a Kindle Fire HDX, one of two Kindle Paperwhites, and/or other prizes.
Make sure to return to my blog on April 16th for links to the start of the hunt. And prepare to have a lot of fun!
~robin
March 23, 2015
The Books Authors Read | Stephanie Grace Whitson
Stephanie Grace Whitson wrote her first historical fiction in the 1990s while home schooling her four children and learning the true stories of the pioneer women of the West. She celebrated her 20th year as a published novelist in 2014. In addition to writing, she enjoys giving programs on a variety of historical and inspirational topics for civic organizations and church groups, quilting, learning about the women of the past, and riding her motorcycle named Kitty. Learn more at www.stephanie...
March 21, 2015
Movie Review: Mr. Pip
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Not long ago, Netflix recommended a 2012 movie starring Hugh Laurie. The title isMr. Pip and the synopsis says: “An eccentric teacher in Papua New Guinea forms an unlikely bond with a 12-year-old girl over their love of Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations.”
Well, how could I not watch a movie where a characternamed Mr. Watts and a girl named Matilda bond overGreat Expectations? Mr. Watts is the only white man left on the island after the war begins,...
March 20, 2015
Spotlight: With This Kiss
Romance… Inspiration… a little suspense… a whole lotta love! This new collection by five of the “Seekers” (the gals from www.seekerville.blogspot.com) will make you smile, sigh and remind you why we love happily ever afters! What happens when a fun mix of best-selling, multi-published, award-winning authors decide they have time on their hands? They write sweet novellas for their beloved readers! Jump into this delightful group of second-chance stories, t...
March 16, 2015
Books Authors Read | Joseph Bentz
Joseph Bentz is published in both fiction and non-fiction, with four novels and four non-fiction books. His most recent book is Dreams of Caladria, a fantasy novel published in March by Enclave Publishing. His next non-fiction book, Nothing is Wasted, is scheduled for publication by Beacon Hill Press later this year. He is a professor of English at Azusa Pacific University in Southern California, where he teaches courses in writing and American literature. Among the awards his books have rece...
March 11, 2015
You and the Clerihew
I love words. I love playing with words. Some words are just fun to say. Some words have lovely meanings.
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I subscribe to several word-of-the-day lists and recently this one came into my inbox:
CLERIHEW (KLER-uh-hyoo)
noun: A humorous, pseudo-biographical verse of four lines of uneven length, with the rhyming scheme AABB, and the first line containing the name of the subject.
Sometimes I share words on Facebook, and clerihew was one I just couldn’t ignore. So here was th...
