Summer is now complete with the heat in most of our areas. So take a few minutes to share what you are reading during these hot summer days? Fiction? Non-Fiction?
I am just about finished reading the book Appalachian Song by Michelle Shocklee. I've read most of her books. Thoroughly experienced reading these as parables for our day.
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Listening to All The Dust That Falls 2 ( after having finished #1) as my summer scifi read. Not Christian but no cuss words, cute plot built on a modern day roomba being dropped in a D&D landscape of people leveling and such. Also, It does have magic.
Reading Encouraging Words for Women by Darlene Sala
Dune by Frank Herbert, because my husband and I recently watched the second movie, and I last read the book in the 1980's.
Meet Me At The Starlight by Rachel Hauck, to write a pre-release review
Life in the Wild by Dan DeWitt ("the wild" is how he refers to the world post-Eden).
Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix - I'm reading this one to my husband in the evenings. It's about three (fictional)women who were involved in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that took place in NYC in 1911. I'd never heard of it. This is a YA book and it is excellent. Also touches on suffrage and the difficulties encountered by immigrants trying to make it in America at the time.
I always read several things at a time, so of course, I have more than one title. For nonfiction, I am reading two books recommended by our pastor: Compelling Community by Mark Dever and Jamie Dunlop and How People Change by Timothy Lane and Paul Tripp. These are fascinating as they discuss how the church family fits together and grows together. For fiction, I am reading through several from Enclave Publishers to see if they fit the library. So far, they are all excellent. Outside of this, I just finished Jaimie Jo Wright's The Souls of Lost Lake, and it, too, was excellent.
I recently read The Foxhole Victory Tour by Amy Lyn Green. It's about two women who become friends after they join the USO and tour northern Africa during WWII. This is the fourth WWII novel by this author that I have read. All of them are from a different perspective than most. The first, What We Didn't Say was an epistolary novel about a translator/censor at a POW camp for Germans in norhtern MInnesota. Then The LInes Between us about a conscientous objector who joins a fire jumping group in the Northwest as an alternative. Then The Blackout Book Club about a young woman who takes over her brother's job at a library in England when he joins the Army. All were well written and an interesting look at history.
I just read the first in the Nick Barrett series by Sigmund Brouwer and it was quite good.
Currently I am reading A Lasting Impression by Tamara Alexander
And I am doing a book study on The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. This book has really been helpful to me, but if I put it in my library it will have to be with a warning. Julia Cameron is trying to reach a varied group of artists and writers and defines God in a way that is far broader than Christianity. However, in a book study with other Christian women, I am finding it incredibly helpful. I actually have almost started writing again. LOL By that, I mean I have one short handwritten scene on paper, lots of scenes in my head, and a rough outline on paper.
