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Reading to Know 2012 Book Club

Read Aloud Thursday–Little Pilgrim’s Progress by Helen L. Taylor

June 14, 2012 by Amy 6 Comments

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…]

Posted in: Bloggy Randomness, Books, Christian Fiction, Juvenile Fiction Tagged: Christian Fiction, In Step with the Spirit, Juvenile Fiction, Read Aloud Thursday, Reading to Know 2012 Book Club, Reading to Know Bookclub

Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

June 11, 2012 by Amy 5 Comments

I was inspired to pick up Gene Stratton-Porter’s Freckles because A Girl of the Limberlost is this month’s Reading to Know Bookclub selection, but since I read it (and loved it!) several years ago, I thought I’d pick up the book that precedes it chronologically and find out about this Freckles to whom Elnora Comstock owes … [Read more…]

Posted in: Adult Fiction, Books, Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction Tagged: Adult Fiction, Classics Club, Juvenile Fiction, Reading to Know 2012 Book Club, Reading to Know Bookclub, The Classics Club, Young Adult Fiction

I meet Bertie Wooster & his man, Jeeves

April 18, 2012 by Amy 3 Comments

I read “Jeeves Takes Charge,” the short story in which Bertie Wooster hires Jeeves to be his valet, last week while walking on a treadmill in a hotel south of Montgomery, Alabama.  (You can read more about my very first encounter with Wodehouse here.)  It’s a good thing the exercise room was empty, too–I’m sure … [Read more…]

Posted in: Adult Fiction, Books Tagged: Adult Fiction, Reading to Know 2012 Book Club, Reading to Know Bookclub, Reflections in Progress

Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend by Ravi Zacharias

January 27, 2012 by Amy 7 Comments

I’m going to do something here that I almost never do:  write up my (final?) thoughts about a book I haven’t finished.  I picked up Beyond Opinion:  Living the Faith We Defend, a collection of Christian apologetics articles edited by Ravi Zacharias, who also wrote a few of the articles himself, back before Christmas for … [Read more…]

Posted in: Adult Nonfiction, Books Tagged: Adult Nonfiction, In Step with the Spirit, Reading to Know 2012 Book Club

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