Category: Nonfiction

  • The Post Vacation Reading Slump

    Well, hey there! Does that photo above overwhelm you? It kinda does me right now. So many books… so little time! (that is actually the title to the book that started me on my yearly reading challenge lists, btw) I have too many choices on my plate and I have not been reading much because…

  • WE HAVE A NEW GRANDDAUGHTER… and other less important news

    At 3:14am today we added our first granddaughter to the family! I don’t have pictures to share yet (except my private one that I won’t share from when she first met her mama). Everyone is doing well and now they are recovering and getting to know each other. I am ready to jump on a…

  • My Favorite Reads from 2021

    I managed to hit my goal again this year. I set that goal at 52 books… one per week. I am still reading up until midnight on the 31st so I still have two books in progress and finished an audiobook yesterday so I am currently at 53 and shooting for 55…. my age! LOL…

  • Advent Seasonal Reading for 2021

    As we head into the last month of 2021 I decided to focus on some Christmas reading. Let me just say right up front… I know I won’t get to everything on this list. I am not using all the devotionals in this stack but thought I would share them in case you are looking…

  • Susie – a biography of Susannah Spurgeon

    In January of 2021 I signed on to read some books about Fierce Women in history who had struggled with chronic illness. I got through the first two just great and they were enjoyable. (The Mother of the Brontes and Emily Dickinson Letters) The third one did not spark my interest so I passed on…

  • Spouse in the House by Cynthia Ruchti and Becky Melby

    Where was this book years ago?! LOL Dan and I have cycled in and out of being home together 24/7 for big chunks at a time since about 1997. He has been a band director in a public school and, until this past summer, he has been home for 10 to 12 weeks every summer.…