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2020 Reads — Books 21 – 25

Photo by miguel ugalde from FreeImages Five more book reviews for your perusal! As usual, please let me know if you’ve read any of these, if so, what you thought, and if not, if you would like to read them in the future! Water Walker by Ted Dekker This is the second book in Ted Dekker’s Outlaw series, and it…

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2020 Reads — Books 16 – 20

Photo by Gisele Jaquenod from FreeImages My next five 2020 reads are, as usual, quite a mixed bag! Have you read any of these? Or are any of them on your to-read list? The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben My mom enjoys Harlan Coben books and lent me this one thinking I might enjoy it. And to a…

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2020 Reads — Books 11 – 15

Photo by Charles Thompson from FreeImages And here are five more short reviews of books I read last year! Do any of them sound like books you would like to read? Deadline by Randy Alcorn I read this trilogy last year because they are my husband’s favorite books and he’s wanted me to read them for a long time. They…

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2020 Reads — Books 6 – 10

Photo by Deborah Krusemark from FreeImages Here are the next five books that I read last year, along with my mini-reviews! I hope you enjoy reading them and that my thoughts are helpful to you! 29 Days of Fantasy, 2012 by Thomas A. Knight This was another one that had been on my Kindle app for years, though this time…

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2020 Reads — Books 1 – 5

Photo by Jenny Rollo from FreeImages Happy New Year, all! Yes, I neglected my blog sadly last year. I realize I haven’t posted since March. Between having a small baby and having a toddler and struggling with massive depression related to the lockdowns, etc., I didn’t have a lot of energy to write posts. But I have been writing some,…

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Writing

“Sometimes you just have to lower your expectations.”

I talked about expectations a few days ago, and just over the weekend I’ve come upon a situation where I got to put my preaching into practice. Let me back up for a second. In case you don’t recognize the quote in this post’s title, it’s from a pretty fantastic movie called Eight Below. In it, a man determined to…

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Life, Reading

Where Did All My Reading Time Go?

I remember when I was a kid, I marveled at how little my parents read. Oh they read, probably more than most people, but they didn’t meet my standard of gobbling books whole in the span of a day or two, so I was perplexed. After all, they were grown-ups. They could do anything they wanted! To me, that would…

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