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Sue’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Sue’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Sue Fairhead’s Followers (40)
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Sue Fairhead
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The United Kingdom
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January 2008
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/sueincyprus
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Home Education - What? Why? How?: A Guide for Beginners
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Rocken Edge (by Wendy K Harris)
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In the last couple of months, I reread the first two ‘Undercliff’ novels by Wendy K Harris, and thoroughly enjoyed them. So I was looking forward to rereading the third, ‘Rocken Edge’, which I last read in 2008. I had entirely forgotten what it was about, but knew I would meet, again, some of the people I had got to know in the earlier books, ‘The sorrow of sisters’ and ‘Bl
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This is a book about the soul, or psyche, and the importance of looking after it. The writing is clear, and well-presented. The author gives anecdotes from his own life as a father and pastor, as illustrations. The first section attempts to explain w ...more "
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An amusing and sometimes perceptive book about Armageddon, Pratchett style. The child born to be the antichrist is mistakenly switched with another baby... and as he grows up there are several incidents almost reminiscent of 'Just William'. There are ...more |
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Last of the seven 'Narnia' chronicles. This is an exciting adventure with a fairly overt underlying message about the Christian doctrine of the End Times. The manipulative ape Shift persuades the gentle and timid donkey Puzzle to dress up and pretend ...more |
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A thoroughly enjoyable, sometimes moving book about three women who meet on a beach, and form a circle of friendship, sharing each other's problems and joys. It took a few chapters to get into it, and to remember who these individuals are, but Cathy ...more |
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| This book starts with an overview of the author's journey in faith, from flannelgraph pictures at Sunday School through teenage doubts, and the 'Jesus movement'. He describes different views of Jesus, beginning with the Conservative Evangelical one, ...more | |
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What a wonderful book! Third in the 'Undercliff' series, the main character is a teenager who's just had a baby, and who has suffered a lot of abuse and unpleasantness, but mostly manages to stay strong. There's also a single and self-sufficient woma ...more |
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| Sixth (chronologically) and last in the 'Casson family' series. What a wonderful book. It's all narrated by Rose, who is now eleven. Rose's mother has a bad cold that doesn't seem to be getting better, and her father is still living in London. Her br ...more | |
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| This is supposedly satirical, considered 'hilarious' by early reviewers. I found it rather tedious, very dated, and almost entirely unamusing. There are highly caricatured characters, including a ridiculous prime minister (apparently based on Tony Bl ...more | |
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| A lot of viewpoint characters makes this quite confusing at first, though less so the second time I read it, when I had re-read 'Coming home to Island House' just a few weeks earlier. This is a sequel, set a couple of decades later (in 1962) albeit w ...more | |
“We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.”
― Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life
― Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life
Radiant, Ravishing Starbridge
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A group to discuss Susan Howatch's Starbridge series, the St. Benet's series, or any of her other books! ...more
