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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...
March 9, 2015
Authors Who Inspired | Shelley Shepard Gray
Shelley Shepard Gray is a two-time New York Times bestseller, a two-time USA Today bestseller, a finalist for the American Christian Fiction Writers prestigious Carol Award, and a two-time Holt Medallion winner. She lives in Southern Ohio, where she writes full-time, bakes too much, and can often be found walking her dachshunds on her town’s bike trail.
Who was the first author who inspired you to write?
I started writing one day because I had forgotten to bring a book to work. I can’t really r...
March 7, 2015
On the Side of Scripture
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I had been a Christian for 25 years before I heard the terms Calvinist and Arminian. Of course I had heard of men and women of faith who fell into one of those theological camps (i.e. John Calvin, John Wesley). I just didn’t know the camps had names.
When I was introduced to those terms, it was by two Christians who defined themselves that way (one a Calvinist and one an Arminian) and who, lovingly, delighted indebating why they believed what they believed whi...
March 6, 2015
The Books Authors Read | Susan Page Davis
Susan Page Davis is the author of more than fifty published novels and novellas. Her historical novels have won numerous awards, including the Carol Award, the Will Rogers Medallion for Western Fiction, and the Inspirational Readers’ Choice Contest. She has also been a finalist in the More than Magic Contest and Willa Literary Awards. Susan lives in western Kentucky with her husband and two youngest children. She’s the mother of six and grandmother of nine. Visit her website at: susanpagedavi...
March 3, 2015
February Wrap Up
While much of the rest of the country was in the deep freeze, southwest Idaho (and much of the West) was enjoying spring like weather. So much that I was getting daily notices of high tree pollen count. After three weeks and several new record highs for February, we cooled off again, but to be honest, it didn’t mean much to me. I’ve been sticking to the indoors and the computer.
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Books Read:
I completed ten books in the month of February. I had some required reading t...
March 2, 2015
The Books Authors Read | Elizabeth Goddard
Elizabeth Goddard is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than twenty romance novels. A 7th generation Texan, Elizabeth graduated with a B.S. degree in computer science and worked in high-level software sales before retiring to home school her children and fulfill her dream of becoming an author.
What was your favorite book as a child?
I was such an avid reader and there were so many books, I wish I could remember the titles. I carry those stories inside me all the same. I remember one...
February 26, 2015
Book Review: The Committee for the Reburial of Liver-Eating Johnston
Tuesdaynight I readThe Committee for the Reburial of Liver-Eating Johnston: Memoirs of a Dyslexic Teacher by Tri Robinson, and I have to say this was a delightful, encouraging, fun, entertaining, and inspirational memoir. Well-worth reading. It’s not a long book. Most readers will finish in an evening or two. It’s available in print and ebooks.
Here’s the blurb:
In 1974, Tri Robinson and his 7th grade American Literature class went on an unthinkable quest to dig up and rebury a famous mountain...
