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A Study in Scarlet / The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

bookshelves: currently-reading, justread2026, literary, mystery

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Endless Grace: Prayers Inspired by the Psalms

by Ryan Whitaker Smith

bookshelves: devotional, nonfiction, prayer, psalms, liturgy, poetry, currently-reading, justread2026, justread2025readingchallenge

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read in September 2025

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Jeff said: " I just finished it for the second time, and if anything, love it even more than the first time. It will be read again and again, I am certain.

This book, just like its counterpart, Sheltering Mercy, is amazing! If ever there was a book that deserved a I just finished it for the second time, and if anything, love it even more than the first time. It will be read again and again, I am certain.

This book, just like its counterpart, Sheltering Mercy, is amazing! If ever there was a book that deserved a five-star "amazing" mark, this is definitely one. The reason it appears to have taken so long to read is that I read one poem/prayer a day, from beginning to end. There are some that brought me great joy. There are some that drove me to tears. There are some that gave me emotions and feelings that are indescribable. One of those is the one inspired by Psalm 139, called "Known By You." I actually skipped ahead and read that one first, because my pastor got the book at the same time, and advised me to go read that one right away.

This book of prayer-poems encompasses the second half of the Psalms, the first half being covered in Sheltering Mercy. And I love how the authors bring it all together when they get to Psalm 150, which is titled, "Sheltering Mercy, Endless Grace." The last lines of that prayer are "Be praised, Lord - for Your sheltering mercy. Your endless grace. Amen and amen."

Both of these books will stay on my shelf and I will probably be reading one of them every day for the rest of my days, since I have started reading one Psalm a day during my Jesus Times. I can say with no doubt whatsoever that I have never had a devotional book, before, that has hit me quite like these two. I would give everyone I know a copy if I could. I absolutely love these books and wish that I could figure out how to communicate their value to the authors.

The thing to know is that these are not revisions or paraphrases of the Psalms. They are original poetic prayers that were inspired by the Psalms. And they are, every single one of them, so very beautiful and moving.

I almost forgot to mention the one on Psalm 119. As I read through, this time, I didn't compare the sections, but I figure they line up with the different sections of the psalm, of which there are 22, each one based off of a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. I just now looked at the psalm in Endless Grace and, sure enough, there are 22 sections, but each one has a name such as "Path," "Abundance," "Guide," "Freedom," and so on. And it goes for 22 pages.

I recommend this book to anyone who loves the Psalms (my favorite book in the Bible), and who loves prayer. I love both. Get these books!! Both of them! And now, I'm going to start reading through the one that they just released on Proverbs, called Abiding Wisdom. ...more "

Jan 27, 2026 07:37PM · see review

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ESV Single Column Journaling Bible

by Crossway

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Book cover for The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6) by Alan Bradley

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“And have you, also, acquired a taste for pheasant sandwiches, young lady?”

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“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
― Elizabeth Goudge

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“She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

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“What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God

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“We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core - which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word "love".”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God

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