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beauty for ashes thursday february 4 2016 5 after the crash after the crash was on the new fiction table at my library so i read it with no preview it kept my attention the whole way through the mystery of the girl was is really well done with several twists that surprised me there was one aspect of the story that i strongly disliked but i can t talk about it without giving away too much it wasn t enough that i wouldn t recommend the book and i gave it 4 stars on goodreads amazon description here at thursday february 04 2016 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books 3 revival my third book was revival by stephen king it came with the same level of sex and swearing as any other king novel but didn t feel gratuitous full disclosure i did skip over the sex scene it was just scary enough to make me tingle but not scary enough to keep me up at night the story takes place over many decades and watching the main character go through major stages of life was really interesting i gave it 4 stars on goodreads amazon description here at thursday february 04 2016 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books tuesday february 2 2016 2 stone and spark my second book for 2016 was stone and spark book 1 in the raleigh harmon mystery series this was a kindle freebie and that promotion will certainly pay off for the publisher i would definitely read more titles from sibella giorello i loved the writing style and the dry humor of the protagonist her inner monologue is well developed and her snark is on point i gave it 5 stars on goodreads amazon s story description here at tuesday february 02 2016 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books monday february 1 2016 4 the storied life of a j fikry my friend nancy recommended my 4th book to me and i m so glad she did the storied life of a j fikry was a fantastic book and my library carried the ebook so it was also free if you truly love books then a book about a bookseller who talks about books all the time is simply delicious it has many beautiful and bittersweet moments and the relationships are very raw and real i gave it 5 stars on goodreads amazon description here at monday february 01 2016 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books sunday january 31 2016 1 the secrets of lake road my first book this year was the secrets of lake road by karen katchur i don t remember where i heard of this book probably on goodreads the plot premise was great which was what drew me in it was clearly written by a beginning writer but it was an engaging story i gave it 2 stars on goodreads because i felt like it needed polishing and at least a few more chapters the pg13 sex scene felt like it was added in to cover all the bases although i did get that she was trying to show the dysfunctional nature of the relationship i would like to have seen a bit more development of the johnny character or his elimination entirely the in between didn t work for me at sunday january 31 2016 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books tuesday january 5 2016 in which i describe my high levels of book nerdery i read 66 books in 2015 the shortest was more like a booklet a 27 page read by ted dekker about his faith journey the longest was one of the harry potter books at 870 pages so i figure just count each one and somewhere it balances out 60 when people are big and god is small overcoming peer pressure codependency and the fear of man by edward t welch if you think you don t need to read this book because you don t struggle with this area i assure you that you do need to read it and you probably do have a struggle in this area on some level i think all people fear others i certainly do and knew it but didn t know how deep that ran this was an insightful book but also offers some good practical advice on how to stop being a weenie about all the things 61 plain truth by jodi picoult great story and characters an enjoyable read i didn t love that the point of view kept changing from 1st to 3rd and the story at times was predictable but her insight into the mindsets and thinking of the amish was really interesting 62 fantastic beasts and where to find them by newt scamander jk rowling charming and informative a fun read for any devoted harry potter fan i loved the entries on the yeti and loch ness monster especially 63 the silkworm by robert galbraith jk rowling this is the 2nd book in her cormoran strike series and really good definitely more sweary than i would prefer but a great murder mystery 64 page after page discover the confidence and passion you need to start writing and keep writing by heather sellers i loved this book incredibly insightful and both helpful and encouraging 65 waking up how i found my faith by losing it by ted dekker dekker is an odd duck and his books always reflect that i generally have loved his books this was a booklet and it was okay i understood what he was trying to do to share his own struggles with his faith and how god led him back i honestly just found it mostly boring and a bit presumptuous dekker believes that all christians are struggling with living out what they claim to believe and i disagree i think he s missing that sanctification is a lifelong process that as we yield ourselves to the holy spirit he is faithful to change us and grow us in ways we couldn t have dreamed possible it seems that no one ever explained this to dekker when he was a new young believer which is a shame 66 the screwtape letters by c s lewis this is a classic for good reason if you re not familiar with it i highly encourage you to check it out now on to 2016 at tuesday january 05 2016 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels books faith friday december 11 2015 that family i wrote this at the beginning of october but for some reason never published it a lot of this has quieted down since then but there are still headlines about them often enough that i decided it s still relevant to post now are we done with the duggars yet because this whole thing is exhausting i m tired of hearing about them i m tired of seeing the headlines please please let it just go away already i have seen many wild opinions about all of this from unquestioned support to complete hatred the one strong opinion i have about this is that while many people are too quick to judge many others are too quick to defend i m a christian so i get the desire that other christians have to defend the duggars we don t like when the media public internet trolls pick on any of our christian family but here s the thing it is not our job to defend the duggars just like everyone else who only has a dim picture of what really happened we have no business telling others that they should stop picking on them and give them back their tv show like it or not unfair or not hateful or not this family chose to become a reality tv family doing so comes with the whole enchilada of scrutiny about how you live your lives and raise your many kids and i heart michelle duggar don t get me wrong but her doe eyed innocence of what the outside world is really like is not my problem this is a harsh way to learn that the world outside of your bubble has always thought you were fruitcakes and now thinks you are terrible people i have no idea if jim bob and michelle handled the situation correctly i have no idea how i would have handled it were i in their situation people always think they would do the right thing but many have never had to make a hard choice themselves i m by no means giving them a pass they started filming their tv show within a few years of josh s confession and it doesn t seem like they gave any consideration that this could eventually come out why they chose to do this show is a mystery to me because if they wanted to use it as a platform for the gospel they might want to actually mention jesus on the show once in a while i m just saying as with any negative event in our own lives god is no doubt using this to draw the duggars closer to him as they go through a very public refining process my prayer is simply that god s will would be done in this family at friday december 11 2015 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday december 10 2015 iep once again e s iep meeting went very well i was super nervous as i always am going into these but i really started to lose my nerve when e s therapist texted and said she would have to join the meeting via phone as she was sick in bed with a fever and of course my husband went back to day shift this week so he couldn t attend either i put out my defcon 5 prayer alert on facebook and man my people rocked it i got so many replies with prayers and support and then private messages and texts and phone calls this is what christian community is about and i definitely felt every word of prayer that was spoken the requests we made for better assistive technology for e s dysgraphia got a very positive response it s still in the red tape paperwork process but they ve already gotten him a loaner chromebook that he s thrilled about we also were in disagreement with the school psychologist speech therapist who don t believe he needs speech pragmatics therapy i think i made a solid case for why he needs this and why the evaluation they did was faulty and the e s therapist backed me up on this in the meantime i dropped off e s application to attend our local tech school next year i m praying that he gets in everyone i ve talked to about this believes this would be the best environment for him when i took him to the open house he loved it and was fascinated by all of the computer class options they offer i love that tech school has come so far from when i was back in high school and the stigma of it is gone there s a limited number of seats that our own school district is willing to sponsor and i m concerned that his grades will hinder his chances it s definitely in god s hands at thursday december 10 2015 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels adhd asperger s syndrome dysgraphia iep wednesday december 9 2015 a blog about a blog have you heard of study with friends it s a great ministry with free resources such as printables for bible studies along with podcasts you can learn so much from i ve been downloading the various series to listen to on my walks and i can t get enough of them so imagine the giant stroke to my ego honor that it was when i was invited to join the team by writing for their blog cool right there s no punchline it really is cool hope you like it study with friends full armor they put up a fancy little blurb about me with a nice picture on their meet the friends page i wanted to use this picture but they picked the other one for some reason doctrinaldifferences at wednesday december 09 2015 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bible monday december 7 2015 i have e s iep meeting this afternoon and i m nervous about it so naturally i m thinking about books instead 57 harry potter the half blood prince 58 ad 33 by ted dekker i have a mixed review of this one i liked it but like the first book there are long stream of consciousness monologues where the protagonist explores her feelings and the plot stalls this happens often and seems to be the deus ex machina of dekker s books anymore there s no action that resolves problems so much as there is spiritual change not that this isn t how god often works in our lives but for fiction it s a bit dry 59 11 22 63 by stephen king king is a master and this doesn t disappoint very long book but an incredible story that brought me to tears the ending has stayed with me for days 60 just started the 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