Children's Books
Millie Maven Trilogy – Rachelle and Ted Dekker
I didn’t know what to expect from a Dekker family team-up. Now I don’t know if I want them to do anything else. That was one of the concluding lines of my review of the […]
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Children's Books
Millie Maven and the Golden Vial – Rachelle and Ted Dekker
The second Millie Maven book opens with Millie yet to discover her gift, but in possession of something much greater: a bronze medallion from the Great Teacher himself. It’s caused some consternation among some of […]
Children's Books
Mille Maven and the Bronze Medallion – Rachelle and Ted Dekker
The first book in the Millie Maven trilogy introduces us to Millie. Millie is, like so many young people in these kinds of stories, an orphan with a strict, loveless caretaker. Mother—actually her aunt—has very […]
Fiction
The Peasant’s Dream – Melanie Dickerson
“Love welled up inside her, and she stood to her feet. Her knees weren’t even wobbly. She picked up the bag she had packed, straightened, and held her head up, meeting his eye. She put […]
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Splendour in the Dark: C. S. Lewis’s Dymer in His Life and Work – Jerry Root
Even though I am a lifelong C.S. Lewis fan, I was not aware of his published narrative poem, Dymer, until I started reading his collected journals from the 1920s. He wrote regularly then about how […]
Fiction
Court of Swans – Melanie Dickerson
“Where there is wealth and power, there is also someone who is willing to do anything to take it.” In medieval England, there was very little middle class. You were either poor or rich and […]
Fiction
All That We Carried – Erin Bartels
It’s been ten years since Melanie and Olivia have had any meaningful sisterly interactions. It’s also been ten years since their parents were killed in crash that sent their car over a mountain. These two […]
Fiction
The Shepherd’s Wife – Angela Hunt
I’m pretty sure I begin every review of Biblical fiction with this phrase: Biblical fiction is hard to write. If you stray too far from what’s known of the biblical story, readers will shout at […]
Non-Fiction
I Understand – Vonnie Woodrick
It is likely that, in some way, your life has been touched by suicide. For some, it was a family member. For others, a friend or a family member’s friend. And we can all recite […]
Non-Fiction
Begin Again – Max Lucado
Back in March, the very same week that the world went into lockdown amid efforts to curtail COVID, I read through an advance copy of Max Lucado’s book You Are Never Alone. That book took […]