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Friday, March 29, 2019

And the Shofar Blew

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And the Shofar Blew , Francine Rivers In this book Rivers tackles the risks and pitfalls of ministry. Paul Hudson is a keen young pastor, ...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Parenting First Aid

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Parenting First Aid , Marty Machowski One day every parent will need to read this type of book. It may be when your child leaves home in...
Friday, March 22, 2019

Mansfield Park

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Mansfield Park, Jane Austen While I did see the movie of this some years ago and really enjoyed it, I don’t think I have ever read the bo...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Tying Their Shoes

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Tying Their Shoes , Rob and Stephanie Green How do you prepare when a baby is on the way? Where do you turn to consider the issues and que...
Friday, March 15, 2019

Nancy Mitford

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I decided to try Nancy Mitford after having heard vague references to her for years, most recently in my reread of The Uncommon Reader . She...
Monday, March 11, 2019

The Library Book

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The Library Book , Susan Orlean “Worldwide, there are 320,000 public libraries serving hundreds of millions of people in every country on ...
Friday, March 8, 2019

Cosmic

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Cosmic , Frank Cottrell Boyce  Cosmic is about 11-year-old Liam Digby who is unusually tall for his age and often mistaken for an adult. ...
Monday, March 4, 2019

Leota's Garden

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Leota’s Garden, Francine Rivers Leota has lived for years in her home seeking sanctuary in her beloved garden. Now age works against her ...
Friday, March 1, 2019

Flowers for Algernon

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Flowers for Algernon , Daniel Keyes This brilliant book by Keyes was written in 1966 and charts eight months in the life of Charlie Gordon...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

Fighting With My Family

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I had the privilege of seeing an advance screening of Universal Pictures new release Fighting With My Family last night. It's based ...
Monday, February 25, 2019

Cold Comfort Farm

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Published in 1932 by Stella Gibbons this amusing book is set ‘sometime in the near future’ (after the Anglo-Nicaraguan wars of ‘46) and re...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Everything I've Never Said

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Everything I’ve never said , Samantha Wheeler This great tween book is about Ava, an 11 year old girl with Rett Syndrome, which means she ...
Monday, February 18, 2019

How to Stop Time

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How to Stop Time , Matt Haig I really liked this story of a man who seemingly does not age, or rather he ages very slowly so that one of h...
Friday, February 15, 2019

The Hunger Games

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The Hunger Games , Suzanne Collins This fast paced book charts the death by elimination reality show that is the Hunger Games in the count...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Bridge of Clay

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Bridge of Clay, Marcus Zusak What a wonderful, evocative tale of family this is. This is the story of the Dunbar boys, “once in the tid...
Friday, February 8, 2019

Fiction re-read

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I took the opportunity while on holidays to re-read a number of books I had enjoyed in the past. They included: The Guernsey Literary and...
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Year 7 Daughters and Dads

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We kick off the year with a post written by Husband about a graduation event he and some other dads ran for their Yr 7 daughters at the end ...
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Monday, February 4, 2019

Back online

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We have just returned from long service leave and a wonderful break as a family. For us, it brought home two truths. Firstly, we need rest. ...
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Summer Shutdown

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Musings will be on holidays for the summer. I'll be back with more thoughts and book reviews from February. Hope you have a Christ-fil...
Friday, November 23, 2018

Dry

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Dry , Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman What happens to a community when the water runs out? Do people work together, turn against eac...