The WAITING by Suzanne Woods Fisher topped The CHOICE! In The Waiting, Jorie King, the main character who helps her grandparents on their Amish horse farm and agrees to teach school finally finds love. This is a great story that focuses on one particular Amish family, the Zooks. The oldest, Cal is left with his young daughter, Maggie and his three brothers--Ben, Matthew, and Ephraim when his beloved wife dies of Cancer. Cal stepped up to run the family farm when their parents died. Issues in this book include life struggles, family issues, faith, education, judging others, relationships and coming of age.
I absolutely loved this book and look forward to reading more by this wonderful author. The romance is clean, the Christian theme runs throughout without being preachy and it's thought provoking. I cheered out loud at a couple parts--once when Cal through Ben's medications into the garbage and when the test results came back for Jorie's 8th graders. Ephraim was my favorite character.
(Karen's review, 5 stars)
Have you read this one? What did you think of it? If you reviewed this too, feel free to share your link to your review in the comments. Happy Reading!
Friday, November 21, 2014
Thursday, November 20, 2014
"How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon is a novel straight out of today's news! A young black teen male is killed by a white man. Did he have a gun and was he ready to use it? Or did the white man act in haste and kill an unarmed boy? This book focuses on how the community reacts and is spot on. I loved this book because the characters were really interesting, realistic and it kept me turning pages to get to the good ending.
(Gerard's review, 5+ stars)
Have you read this one? What did you think of it? If you reviewed this too, feel free to share your link to your review in the comments. Happy Reading!
(Gerard's review, 5+ stars)
Have you read this one? What did you think of it? If you reviewed this too, feel free to share your link to your review in the comments. Happy Reading!
Labels:
contemporary fiction,
death,
teens,
urban fiction,
YA
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
"Mother Teresa: A Life Inspired by Wyatt North is Informative, Brief, Inspiring!
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(Karen's review, 4 stars)
Have you read this one? What did you think of it? If you reviewed this too, feel free to share your link to your review in the comments. Happy Reading!
Labels:
biography,
inspirational,
non-fiction,
quick read,
scripture
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Teaser Tuesdays: Five Today!
Gerard's:
"The EG machine picked up the same electrical flare in the cortex that occurs with an uninjured brain."
"So he is thinking?"
"Yes. But he's trapped within his skull."
From page 13 of SPARK by John Twelve Hawks. (Just finished this last week but it's so good, I wanted to do a teaser from it-- click link to see my review)
But I couldn't do it. I couldn't move forward, couldn't take the one step and then another that it would require of me..From page 23 of the fragile world by Paula Treick DeBoard.
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Karen's:
Here he was, an Amish kid plucked right off the farm, pitching for a professional baseball team. Who had ever heard of such a thing?and here's another from the same book because it was hard to choose just one:
From page 13 (Loc. 133-34 on Kindle)
She wasn't ready to be a parent, but she was thrust into that role when her father died. She decided this must be what it felt like to tuck an octopus into bed. An arm or two kept popping out. From page 60 (Loc. 756-57 on Kindle)
Both teasers from The Choice (Lancaster County Secrets Book #1) by Suzanne Woods Fisher.
Not only was it never too late to do something beautiful for God but it was also never too late to do something more beautiful for God. In this quote, we find Mother Teresa teaching us always to be on the lookout for new ways to serve God, whether by actions we had not previously considered or by serving poor and destitute individuals of whom we had not previously been aware.From Loc. 623-25 on Kindle of Mother Teresa: A Life Inspired by Wyatt North.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along, so I thought I would play for fun! Just pick two sentences from the book you are reading.
Happy Reading!
Monday, November 17, 2014
"The Fragile World" by Paula Treick DeBoard
The Fragile World by Paul Treick DeBoard is about how a family deals with the tragic accident and death of their son and brother. It is told by the dad, mom and sister. Not to give too much away, but they all have their own ways of dealing. I enjoyed this one. It kept me interested through the whole book and the ending was really good too!
(Gerard's review, 5 stars)
Have you read this one? What did you think of it? If you reviewed this too, feel free to share your link to your review in the comments. Happy Reading!
(Gerard's review, 5 stars)
Have you read this one? What did you think of it? If you reviewed this too, feel free to share your link to your review in the comments. Happy Reading!
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