The Sun and the Sand and a Book in my Hand
It was a great couple of weeks for reading! Took our youngest daughter to college so it was a bit chaotic, but things are calming down a bit now and I’m trying to get back in the swing of reading/reviewing/blogging. This post contains affiliate links,…
You all…this book… It spoke to me in ways that I didn’t know I needed to be spoken to. It reached down into my soul and encouraged me immensely. Jessica Honegger is the founder of Noonday Collection, a company which partners with vulnerable communities around…
I recently received a complimentary package of inspirational non-fiction books from Howard Books and am excited to share about these books! I was not required to post about them, all opinions are my own. These books are filled with uplifting, motivational, and inspiring stories and…
I had hoped to write up individual blog posts about all of these things, but time has just crept away and I decided to just combine the past month’s worth of books and random adventures into one. This post will include short reviews of Flat…
As 2017 draws to a close, I looked back at the books I read this year (nearly 200 of them!) in order to choose my favorites. I sorted out the books I had given 5 stars to on GoodReads, and there weren’t very many. I’m…
Every year, the Fort Vancouver Regional Library Foundation has an Authors and Illustrators Dinner and Auction fundraiser in order to raise money to support the library system. This is the second time I have been fortunate enough to attend the dinner, sitting at the table…
This summer I wasn’t able to take a big vacation to a far-off foreign country, so I decided to immerse myself in a couple of new travel memoirs that helped me to live vicariously through the writers. I went from Vietnam to multiple countries all…
Have you ever wondered what it looks like to practically put your faith into action? What does it entail and how can you learn how to actively live out your faith in the world? In Tricia Goyer’s book Walk it Out: The Radical Result of…
How Humbling Yourself In Your Time of Need Changes Everything by Tricia Goyer The other day I was cooking dinner when my six-year-old son rushed into the kitchen. Beads of sweat slid down his red face. “I’m so hot. You never get me anything…
There are quite a few books I’m looking forward to reading this fall! This is part four featuring Non-fiction releases. The final post will feature Young Adult. You can also check out the Christian Fiction and Mainstream Fiction , Mystery/Suspense/Thriller pages. Some of these I have already read for…