This summer felt like A LOT as we said goodbye to the community we have loved for nineteen years and prepared to move from the San Francisco Bay Area to Southern California. I read as much as I could, needing bite-sized breaks from our upended reality, and much of that was on audio book as … Continue reading Reading – Summer 2025
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Reading: May 2025
FICTION The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumMy rating: 4 of 5 starsThe movie has been such a touchstone throughout my childhood & life that I never got around to reading the book. In my 2025 Year of Play, the time finally came.How similar, & HOW different! The book reads more like a … Continue reading Reading: May 2025
Reading: April 2025
FICTION All the Colors of the Dark by Chris WhitakerMy rating: 5 of 5 starsWhat a gorgeous book! Yes, it has some ghoulish subject matter, & as the title suggests, that's what makes the colors shine all the brighter. Just wow… Patch & Saint's friendship & the ways in which it shapes their lives is … Continue reading Reading: April 2025
Reading: March 2025
FICTION All the Colors of the Dark by Chris WhitakerMy rating: 5 of 5 starsNote: I'm putting this review at the top, out of alphabetical order, because it's my favorite book of the month. What a gorgeous book! Yes, it has some ghoulish subject matter, & as the title suggests, that's what makes the colors … Continue reading Reading: March 2025
Reading: February 2025
Lots of books for young readers, because the turmoil of these times requires the simple telling of profound truths. One fabulous novel by a Pulitzer Prize winner. And two nonfiction-Christian books by women willing to ask hard questions and take a stand. What are you reading? FICTION The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterMy rating: 5 … Continue reading Reading: February 2025
Reading: Sept/Oct 2024
What are YOU reading? Here's my recent list: FICTION The Thursday Murder Club by Richard OsmanMy rating: 5 of 5 starsI love a book that centers characters society puts to the margins. I'll quote the friend who recommended this to me: "This book is candy!" I can't wait to read the rest of the series, … Continue reading Reading: Sept/Oct 2024
Reading: July/Aug 2024
It's been a great reading summer! Fourteen books—six novels, three memoirs, and five non-fiction—and all four or five stars. I listened to five of these as audiobooks and the other nine I read with my eyes, either on paper or on my Kindle (do you use Libby for Kindle reading? It has been an absolute … Continue reading Reading: July/Aug 2024
Reading: Mar-April 2024
The most amazing recent events in my bookish life are as follows: I attended the Festival of Faith & Writing at Calvin University, where I heard great lectures on books and writing and other fascinating things writers write about, connected with old friends and met so many wonderful new people, many of whom I already … Continue reading Reading: Mar-April 2024
The Lupine Lady
The lupines are beginning to bloom. I noticed one flower a week ago. Today that one flower had become a patch of purple. “Spring has sprung” is fun to say but “spring is springing” more accurately describes the situation, as more and more plants will push forth, spring up, and unfurl their beauty. As I … Continue reading The Lupine Lady
Reading: Jan-Feb 2024
FICTION Amazing Grace Adams by Fran LittlewoodMy rating: 5 of 5 starsEmotionally intelligent & entertaining novel about a woman having a significant mid-life crisis on her daughter's 16th birthday. It is ironic, & the book says so toward the end, that a woman who can speak five languages can't communicate with her loved ones, & … Continue reading Reading: Jan-Feb 2024