At Home for the Holidays By Meredith Efken (Steeple Hill Café 2006) If you’ve ever been in an email discussion loop, you’ll fit right in with cyber-girlfriends, Dulcie, Zelia, Jocelyn, Veronica, and Rosalyn. Fans of Efken’s first mom-lit novel, SAHM I Am, will find plenty to laugh about in her new yuletide tale, Home for [...]
Archive for November, 2007
At Home For The Holidays
Thursday, November 29th, 2007The Stained Glass Pickup: Glimpses of God’s Uncommon Wisdom
Thursday, November 29th, 2007The Stained-Glass Pickup: Glimpses of God’s Uncommon Wisdom By Cathy Messecar (Leafwood Publishers 2006) Newspaper columnist Cathy Messecar shares a collection of stories that will deepen the faith of every woman. The title comes from the first devotional in the book, about a rancher who prays aloud for his high school age daughter while he [...]
Mozarts Sister
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Mozart’s Sister By Nancy Moser (Bethany House 2006) For all the music or historical fiction lovers on your gift list, Nancy Moser’s exquisite novel will whisk them away to 18th-century Vienna. Did you even know Mozart had a sister? Six years his senior, Nannerl was every bit as talented as her precocious and highly acclaimed [...]
Beyond Green Gables
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Beyond Green Gables: Kevin Sullivan’s Designscapes By Kevin Sullivan (Davenport Press 2005) One of the most popular stories of all time, Anne of Green Gables, captured our hearts even more when we saw Anne’s beloved Prince Edward Island come to life on the silver screen. But did you ever stop to think about the artistic [...]
Queen of the Castle: 52 weeks of Encouragement for the Uninspired, Domestically Challenged or Just Plain Tired Homemaker
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Queen of the Castle: 52 weeks of Encouragement for the Uninspired, Domestically Challenged or Just Plain Tired Homemaker By Lynn Bowen Walker (Integrity 2006) Author Lynn Bowen Walker begins her book with this disclaimer: “OK – so let’s get this out of the way right up front: I am not homemaker of the year.” That [...]
The Three Wise Women: A Christmas Reflection
Thursday, November 29th, 2007The Three Wise Women: A Christmas Reflection By Christin Ditchfield (Crossway 2005) You’ve heard of the three wise men; they’re an integral part of every Nativity. But what about the three wise women who each played a significant role in the birth of Christ? Three women–one single, one married, and one widowed –have much to [...]
Claire Knows Best
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Claire Knows Best, by Tracey Bateman (Warner Faith 2006) Tracey Bateman’s mom-lit is a hoot, and I can’t say enough fabulous things about her Claire series: Leave it to Claire, Claire Knows Best, and I Love Claire (coming in Jan. 2007). Single mom Claire Everett’s plan for her life is tossed out the window when [...]
Sink Reflections
Thursday, November 29th, 2007(Bantam Books, 2002) By Marla Cilley, A.K. A. The FlyLady Are you a FlyLady fan? If so, then you’re one of over 300,000 women around the world who have discovered FlyLady’s system for coping with the chaos in your home. I joined her newsletter group about a year ago and always felt like I was [...]
My Interview with Amy Grant Bayliss
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Amy is a 30-something, Christian, homeschooling mom to three amazing little men who, after more than four years of being a single parent, was wed to her best friend Ryan Bayliss in September of 2007. She is a self-proclaimed canister collecting and appliance junkie, and she says a side effect of her ADD creativity gene is [...]
Coming Together in God’s Country
Thursday, November 29th, 2007It’s been a year, and there’s now a brand-new school. The little girls are gone, buried in the rich and fertile earth of Amish cemeteries. The shooter, too, is gone, his life ended by the same gun that took the little girls. He‘s buried next to the heart-shaped stone of his infant daughter. The tiny [...]