The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson is an engrossing middle grade historical/medical mystery novel. Historical and medical mystery novel, you ask? Yes. Set in mid-nineteenth century London, this story uses a Dickens-esque storyline and atmosphere to deliver a story about a very real-life happening–the Broad Street … [Read more…]
It has been years since I read a Frank Peretti novel. I loved This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness, and Prophet, but he lost me totally on The Visitation. (The first three novels even made my 39 books I have loved list.) The Visitation was too weird, scary even, for my taste. (That didn’t keep me from reading it … [Read more…]
Reading Star of Light by Patricia St. John aloud to my girls was a walk down memory lane for me. I read all of her books I could get my hands on as a child, and I remember a good bit about the titles that I read. I chose Star of Light of all the … [Read more…]
Hi everyone! Welcome to Hope Is the Word. I hope there are at least a few new Read Aloud Thursday (otherwise affectionately known as RAT) participants this week thanks to this week’s Top Ten {Tuesday}. To all participants, new and old, I am so glad you’re here this week. Really–you’re what make RAT so wonderful! … [Read more…]
Last year very early in the year, I made a prediction: that Unbroken would be my favorite book of the year, and I was right. It was. I’m about to make another prediction, and I am just as sure of this one as I was sure of last year’s: City of Tranquil Light by Bo … [Read more…]
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