While this one had the signature charm of a Beth Moran novel (of the two I'd read before this one), and followed the same basic plot structure, it was decidedly my least favorite thus far. First of all, 29-year old Ollie was not 100% likable. Her origin that she must leave in order to find a new ...
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I love when I find Christian authors that manage not to be cheesy. So often the authors feel so strongly about their message that the story and characters suffer in service to it. Peretti's stories definitely do not have that problem, or at least not the two I've read recently. The story follows ...
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Wow. This was incredible, sweeping, and epic! Also, a genre unto itself. I'm not even sure how one would classify it. It's non-fiction, but set in a fictional frame story. A narrator is given a series of fictional visions that follow the pattern of biblical prophecy. He meets a traveler to whom he ...
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I listened to this alternately as I listened to "Man's Search for Meaning," and I think the two made an interesting and insightful contrast. While I don't generally find pure adventure stories all that interesting (there are only so many things that can go wrong, and after awhile you kind of get the ...
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Wow. I'd previously only read the "Blinkist" version of this book, but it loses so much when stripped of context (which I think is true for nearly every book worth reading, really--that's why I got rid of that app.) Had this just been memoirs from Auschwitz, I don't think I'd have read it, as I ...
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I found a new favorite author! This is the second book I've read by Beth Moran (the first was Christmas Every Day) and they were both just delightful. I'm not generally a chick lit kind of a girl, but they were chick lit in all the best ways and without the drawbacks (which usually tends to be an ...
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