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Because He Loves Me | By Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Because He Loves Me:How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life is not necessarily for beginners even though it does go back to the beginning and the Gospel. We are constantly reminded of what our ‘chief end’ is to be and not to be sidetracked by life and what the world is saying to us. This refers [...]

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Played with Fire, The Girl who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest | By Steig Larsson

I think what I have to do here is to write about the trilogy. You can read the first and not the rest but I believe that they work together the best. Overall there are several stories throughout all of the books but the main theme is about the girl with the dragon tattoo. She [...]

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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years | By Donald Miller

This is a little bit of a different book – but brilliant especially since this is kind of how I write! Wow, I didn’t think anyone else had chains of thought the same way I did. Hilarious and a tear jerker within a page – I am not nearly that talented unfortunately, but Don, you [...]

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The Year of Magical Thinking | By Joan Didion

She had been married just short of 40 years when he died. I know we all deal with grief but she writes quite succinctly about the way her mind worked or didn’t work in different situations; how she would avoid areas of town where they had lived or restaurants they would frequent.

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Cat of the Century | By Rita Mae Brown

Is it weird that I like books co-written by animals? There are a couple of series I read where a cat is prominent in the story. Whatever. They are entertaining and Ms. Brown’s stories are wonderful. Harry, our heroine, is the main character who cannot but help herself get involved in mystery. She is extremely [...]

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Sizzling Sixteen | By Janet Evanovich

This is the next installment in the Stephanie Plum saga. As is the case with some authors who are presumably expected to churn out book after book with less time in between, the story lines get pretty thin. This book is definitely an example of that. Now don’t get me wrong, I would love to [...]

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Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand | By Helen Simonson

I didn’t realize until after I’d read this I have so much in common with the author. I knew she either had to have lived in the UK or at least had a very reliable source. Her knowledge of village life in England as well as the attitude toward immigrants is spot on.
The first sentence [...]

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