Category Archives: Adult Nonfiction

Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend by Ravi Zacharias

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Amy

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 … Continue reading →

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Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy by Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Amy

I picked this book up, my first pick of the new year, in a fit of desperation.  Life had gotten to me.  I had too much on my plate and I wasn’t handling it well.  Really, I needed a touch … Continue reading →

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Best Adult Fiction and Nonfiction of 2011

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Amy

I didn’t read as much adult fare as children’s in 2011; of the sixty or so books I read (that number includes the ones I read to my girls), only a dozen were of the adult variety.  Here’s the break-down: Adult … Continue reading →

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A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Amy

I picked up A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter by William Deresiewicz off the new books shelf at the library on a whim.  I had just finished Alice Ozma’s … Continue reading →

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Cedars of Lebanon

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Amy

The past two weeks I’ve shared excerpts from D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s sermons collected in the volume entitled Spiritual Depression for The Week in Words.  I’ve finished the third sermon, but I’m going to wait and share some thoughts from it later … Continue reading →

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“The True Foundation”

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Amy

From Spiritual Depression by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Ultimately, the only things which is going to drive a man to Christ and make him rely upon Christ alone, is a true conviction of sin.  We go astray because we are not truly … Continue reading →

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The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Amy

I was already predisposed to really, really like The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma.  First, there’s the cover.  Can you see the titles of any of the books on which the little girl is … Continue reading →

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Talking to myself

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Amy

It has been a long time since I’ve participated in The Week in Words at Stray Thoughts.  I love sharing quotations (anyone who reads my book reviews will attest to this!), but I tend to buzz through books without taking … Continue reading →

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The Narnian by Alan Jacobs

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Amy

I finally finished The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Alan Jacobs earlier this week.  Although it was a slow go for me (more on this later), on the whole I enjoyed this thematic look into Lewis’s … Continue reading →

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The Story of Charlotte’s Web by Michael Sims

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Amy

I have a latent desire, more like an impossible dream, to one day write a children’s book.  Rather than do anything real about it (like actually write stories instead of blog posts!), I feed the desire by reading children’s literature … Continue reading →

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