March Favorites  The Year of My Humiliation by C.J. Sursum This reminded me of The End of the Affair . It explored issues of faith and mora...

We moved (only one house down!) at the start of this school year and I never sat down to write up our plans for this blog. Now we're mor...

February Favorites Exiles Come Home by Winefride Nolan This is a vintage British children's novel about the discrimination against Cath...

I fell a bit behind with reading updates, so I combined two months for this one.  December Favorites Joyride by Susan Orlean This memoir of...

November Favorites A Ferry Merry Christmas by Debbie Macomber This was just very classic Debbie Macomber, which I love. Hearts in Circulati...

Any time I meet a Flannery O'Connor fan, I find myself feeling that I have found a kindred spirit. I encountered three such women in Fin...

October Favorites A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway I love Hemingway's writing. This was really sad, and I didn't love it as m...