The reckoning beverly lewis book5/27/2023 ![]() I enjoyed learning more about the Amish lifestyle, even though it was fictional and I don't know how accurate it was. I don't know if that makes sense but if you read it you'll know what I mean. I wish she had gotten to the ending faster and discussed that relationship that developed at the end longer instead of taking half of the book to get there. I enjoyed the first one the best and this last one was good but it dragged on. " Wealth is worth nothing without love and fellowship. This series follows a romance and the problems of families as they try to walk in their believes. " This is a well written book about the Amish. ![]() I thought It could have been a great novel but was a really drawn-out trilogy with a lot of superfluous stuff. I really enjoyed the other Lewis trilogy I read so maybe she got better with some experience. " This ended better than I thought it might, but only after some eye-rolling on my part. ![]() I liked the ending enough not to be sad when the characters had to go. ![]() " Yes, I read the newer cover for this too. ![]() " As with the rest of the books of this series.I learned a lot about the culture of the Amish which was great! But after all the time commited to reading these books and all the build up.I felt like the end just totally fizzled. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:. ![]()
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Love Wins by Rob Bell5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Others only whisper the questions to themselves, fearing or being taught that they might lose their faith and their church if they ask them out loud. Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God’s love and God’s judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this “good news”? Troubling questions–so troubling that many have lost their faith because of them. You can read this before Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived written by Rob Bell which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived by Rob Bell ![]() Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her life is threatened again, and in order to survive, she must unravel the secrets behind the past she’s been running from. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can’t control. Snyder and the first book in the Study series. To make matters worse, the chief of security deliberately feeds her Butterfly’s Dust, and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison.Īs Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Poison Study is a 2005 fantasy novel written by Maria V. But just as she’s resigned herself to her fate, she’s offered an extraordinary reprieve.Īs the food taster, Yelena will eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace - and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. Snyder includes books Poison Study, Magic Study, Fire Study, and several more. The laws in Ixia are strict, and murderers must be executed, no matter the reason. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Meteorology from Penn State and a Master of Arts degree in fiction writing from Seton Hill University. Locked deep in the palace dungeon for killing her abuser, Yelena knows she’ll never be free again. Snyder is the New York Times bestselling author of the Study series, the Glass series, the Healer series, Inside Out, and Outside In. Synopsis: Choose: a quick death… or slow poison… ![]() Women and madness by phyllis chesler5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Her story is compared with those of Plath, Fitzgerald, and West in the first chapter.Ĭhesler goes on to look at attitudes of therapists of both sexes toward women. She argued persuasively for basic rights for mental patients. She later became an activist, urging state and federal legislators to change laws that permitted men to commit their wives to institutions virtually at will. She spent three agonizing years in the Illinois state mental hospital, and subsequently wrote about her experiences. in the 1860's, Packard was committed on the say-so of her minister husband, purely because of her progressive views on religion. Packard, since she was one of my great-great-great grandmothers. I was particularly interested in the perspectives on E.W. As an introduction to the topic, Chesler cites writings of and by four women who were institutionalized as psychiatric patients: Sylvia Plath, Zelda Fitzgerald, Ellen West and Elizabeth Ware Packard. Issues in the myth of Demeter and Persephone are explored. The author explores perception of women and gender roles, making a case that "madness" can be a normal response to intolerable pressures and exploitations experienced by women. ![]() Great library rachel caine5/27/2023 ![]() So why haven't I read it yet? I think I'm possibly a little nervous that it won't live up to my expectations but thats just silly really. I honestly have no excuse for not getting to the Great Library series sooner though, not only am I a huge Rachel Caine fan but this series is set in a library which is surely heaven for any bookworm? From what I've heard it's full of action and adventure and I even preordered the first book when it was published way back in 2015. Anyway, I want to continue highlighting a few that are on my radar but I haven't quite managed to get to yet. I know I'm not the only blogger who struggles to read all the books on their to read mountains, there are just so many amazing books out there and not enough hours in a day to actually read them all. ![]() The witch elm synopsis5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world’s Grand High Witch (Hathaway) has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe-undercover-to carry out her nefarious plans. The boy and his grandmother come across some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, so Grandma wisely whisks our young hero away to an opulent seaside resort. Robert Zemeckis’s “visually innovative” The Witches tells the darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy (J ahzir Kadeem Bruno) who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma ( Octavia Spencer) in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. ![]() Now that production has wrapped on The Witches, Warner Bros.’ reimagining of Roald Dahl‘s beloved story for a modern audience, Bloody Disgusting has the official synopsis for the film that puts Anne Hathaway ( Colossal, The Dark Knight Rises) in the shoes of the Grand High Witch. ![]() Eelyn sky in the deep5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Driven by a love for her clan and her growing love for Fiske, Eelyn must confront her own definition of loyalty and family while daring to put her faith in the people she’s spent her life hating. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together, or risk being slaughtered one by one. She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother’s friend, who sees her as a threat. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan thought to be a legend, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved family. Faced with her brother's betrayal, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield-her brother, fighting with the enemy-the brother she watched die five years ago. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. ![]() Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. A 2018 Most Anticipated Young Adult book that is part Wonder Woman, part Vikings-and all heart. ![]() Ten by gretchen mcneil5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Notes when I read this book the first time (2012): In conclusion, it was an enjoyable enough read, but lacked the genius of And Then There Were None. ![]() ![]() to make it look like he didn't have a pulse). ![]() only slightly before the island? How did no one realize he wasn't Jessica's real boyfriend?) or how Tom managed to make it look like he died (e.g. SpoilerFor instance, I don't understand how Tom shot Gunner, what the timeline of Tom replacing Ben looked like (e.g. Third, I think the story would have worked better if they all the teenagers in the story were total strangers (like in And Then There Were None) because the characters don't act sad at all when their friends are dying all over the place.įourth, this wasn't as meticulous as And Then There Were None-there seemed to be some minor plot holes. really have to make out in the house where four different people were murdered? Second, this book suffered from the same problem that There's Someone Inside Your House did-namely, trying to establish a romantic relationship while people are getting murdered left and right. Unfortunately, this book did not live up to And Then There Were None.įirst, the beginning is pretty rough to get through, so I wasn't hooked until I was about halfway into the book. I have actually read Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, and that's why I was excited to read Ten. ![]() Scarlett st clair a game of gods5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() No reaction to her plant-ification whatsoever. I figured she'd tell Persephone at some later date when she was ready, but it's also nice that we finally know.Īnd the thing I was hoping for, but didn't get is Minthe. ![]() While I'm at added scenes, I love that we saw what Zofie did. I got the impression that the steam was more prominent here, and it didn't bother me, there was an added scene that was really cool. This book also jumps around a lot less than the first, so there is some continuity (but if you're new to the series I'd still say read Persephone's PoV before this since it could potentially get confusing). I almost didn't feel like she regressed in her confidence/powers, but it was still evident, just to a lesser degree. Likewise, in Persephone's PoV she was a lot more annoying than seeing her in Hades's PoV now. That was honestly a blast, and makes this book better than A Touch of Ruin too. This was fixed in the second novel, and we got to see a lot more of Hades on his own (or behind the scenes if you will). ![]() The thing that bugged me with the first Hades book, is that it felt like the exact same book as A Touch of Darkness just from a different PoV.which is exactly what it was. A Game of Retribution was much better than A Game of Fate, I'm saying it now. ![]() Blessing the boats by lucille clifton5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() By reading it in reverse sequence, it allows me to focus on individual lines and not worry about trying to understand the whole of poem. Not all poets work lend themselves to this, but it can be an interesting technique to enter a poem and the poets ideas in a different way. Sometimes I like to read a poem backwards. I can chose to see it as a loop that I can plug into almost anywhere. I marvel at her imagery and her welcoming, supportive spirit.īlessing The Boats, the title of her award winning anthology, is a remarkable poem in that it has no moorings of where you feel required as a reader to start or stop. ![]() ![]() There is a motherly savviness to some of Clifton’s poetry that reassures me, good naturedly cajoles, lulls me into surprises and insight, while letting me wander about breezily in her words. Clifton advanced ideas of equity through her art and educational leadership. Clifton was an educator, children’s book author, poet, engaging speaker and civil rights leader. Discovered by Langston Hughes through a mutual friend in New York, she succeeded on the strength of her talent and bright spirit. ![]() Her poetry is straightforward yet complex. Lucille Clifton had the gift of sparse words imparting vast meaning. Poetry and art are not about answers to me they are about questions. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. I don’t write out of what I know I write out of what I wonder. Join 459 other subscribers Search for: Archives ![]() |