In these last few days before Advent begins (does anyone else feel discombobulated because there’s an extra week after Thanksgiving?), I’d like to take the time to introduce you to a great little book written for young families: Welcome Baby Jesus, by Sarah Reinhard of Snoring Scholar fame. Liguori promotes Sarah’s book and mine as…
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Novelizing Mary
Being a Christian and an aspiring fiction writer, I’m always interested in depictions of Biblical characters in fiction. Here are some thoughts on a couple novelizations of Mary I’ve read lately, over at Catholic Mothers Online.
Read MoreHow many of these books have you read?
My sister posted this on FB, and I thought it was too good to leave there. “Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. ” I have bold-faced all the ones I’ve read…fudging on Great Expectations, as I’m…
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I’ve been methodically reading through my book list this year, and I want to share some of the highlights today: The Hunger Games—Suzanne Collins A young adult novel set in a future North America that has been devastated and reorganized into a brutal society that takes reality TV to a whole new level: teens forced…
Read More7 Quick Takes, vol. 78
1. I have just finished reading “Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther” this week. It started out somewhat questionable, to be honest. The first few “entries” weren’t written very well. I thought I was headed down the poorly-written Christian literature route, but I gave it a few more pages since the opening entries were…
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Julianna loves books. She loves music. And especially, she adores reading books that can be sung. When Alex was little(r), I used to scour the section of the children’s stacks for books on trains and emergency vehicles. Nowadays, I scour the poetry section for songs I know. One of her favorites is called Child of…
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I have a new hero: John Lithgow. He is an inspiration to a creative jack-of-all-trades. Until recently, I knew John Lithgow for two things: Third Rock from the Sun and Harry and the Hendersons. But a while back, we discovered “The Remarkable Farkle McBride,” which is a truly great children’s book—a tour of the orchestra…
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Right now, Alex and I are reading Little House on the Prairie. I haven’t read it since I was a kid myself, and I’m surprised by the depth in it. They are children’s books—yet Laura Ingalls Wilder didn’t just write down her memories for children’s entertainment. Little House on the Prairie is a lesson in…
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Kathleen M. Basi 