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REVIEW of Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan
When Joy Davidman Gresham had a spiritual experience convincing her there was a God, she wrote to British author C.S. Lewis looking for answers. What followed was a correspondence that would become a meeting of minds and eventually a marriage of hearts. Six months after the first letter was sent, C.S. Lewis responded. At the…
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REVIEW of The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks #1), by Jeanne Birdsall
The Penderwicks consist of one father, four sisters, and a dog named Hound. Rosalind is the eldest, just starting to daydream about romance. Skye is the blue-eyed one, full of spunk and sass. Jane is the third sister, an aspiring author with many a rhetorical flourish. And four-year-old Batty is the youngest, with a pair…
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REVIEW of Between Earth and Sky, by Amanda Skenandore
Alma’s father is the proud principal of Stover, a school for Indian children to cure them from their savagery and integrate them into the white man’s society. From a young age, Alma grows up as the only white student at Stover, doing her best to palliate the stern indoctrination of the teachers and eventually earning…
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REVIEW of Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope
The back cover claimed that Barchester Towers is the most famous and well-loved of Anthony Trollope’s novels. For the first fifty pages I was a little unclear as to why this was so, but after surviving the tedium of the initial lengthy descriptive passages, I found myself lost in the book and not wanting to…
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