The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
I guess that I could have just put up the whole Narnia series, but I probably read this one the most, so I’ll go with just this one.
I remember reading this as a kid and just soaking in it. I read it first probably in 3rd [...]
The Book: Operating Instructions: A Journal of my Son’s First Year, by Anne Lamott
The Story: If you’ve ever read Anne Lamott before you know that she has quite the history (drug addict, alcoholic, yadda yadda) and quite the circle of friends. She converted to Christianity later in her life and is still figuring out all [...]
My husband is a big time bathroom reader. I think it’s hilarious and very “old man” of him.
The problem is this: we have a small bathroom and we haven’t found a storage solution for bathroom books and magazines. As it is, they are piled on the back of the toilet and they drive me nuts. [...]
The Book: Impatient with Desire, by Gabrielle Burton
The Story: Like most people, I had heard of the Donnor Party. I knew that they were in wagons on the way out west, got trapped and ended up eating each other. That is exactly where my knowlege ended.
This book is the story of how this party of [...]
The Book: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
The Story: Oscar is this way-overweight, way-nerdy kid living in New Jersey in a pretty ghetto area. He’s totally obsessed with the Lord of the Rings series, comic books, role playing games and that sort of thing. His main goal in life is to [...]
The Book: Downtown Owl, by Chuck Klosterman
The Story: Owl is a small town in North Dakota. It is pretty cut off from the world and they like it that way. It is, in a lot of ways, this very typical American small town. The football legends from 10 years ago are still the town heros, [...]
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
I struggled with whether or not this should be included as a “flashback,” mostly because I make it a habit to read this one just about every time I fall into a book rut. I do count this, though, as one of the books that really made me fall in [...]
The Book: Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky
The Story: This is the first two parts of a planned 5 part novel. Before she could finish her work, Irene Nemirovsky was taken to a concentration camp where she was killed. She was writing a novel about WWII while it was happening, making this one of (if not [...]
The Book: Stalking the Divine, by Kristen Ohlson
The Story: One Christmas, Kristen Ohlson wondered into a Catholic church in Cleveland. She had wondered away from any type of religion for years and just wanted to go to church on Christmas. It turns out that this Catholic church has a cloister of nuns called the Poor [...]