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Melanie’s 2025 Year in Books
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On the Nightstand: No Such Thing as Ordinary
My sister and I recently did spring cleaning, and we have boxes and boxes to go to the local donation center later this week. (And if you live in Arlington and are a jigsaw puzzle fan, stop by Central Library’s friends room. Just saying we donated a lot there, including a couple puzzles we never opened!)
As I was culling through books, I came across this one, which I bought a few years ago. Hmm, I
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I've been reading this book for close to a year now. Really enjoying most of it, and the parallels to life today. Just so dense that I can't read more than five or six pages at a time.
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| Where to begin this review? I guess with the disclaimer. Priscilla and I met at the American Christian Fiction Writers conference in 2024. We were both first timers. We became buddies, and have stayed in touch via email. I was a beta reader for a sto ...more | |
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It turns out there really is an unincorporated hamlet in northeast Tennessee called Bitter End, and what a perfect setting for this masterful work by one of my favorite Christian novelists, Amanda Cox. Cox has a gift for slowly unpeeling the layers of ...more |
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Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television:
"4.5 stars only because I think the many many plot and movie synopses were unnecessary; other than that, this was a fascinating study, amazingly researched, about Desi and Lucy's careers, relationship, and contributions to the television industry. I w"
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I bought this book because I knew nothing about Desi Arnaz beyond that he was Cuban and well, loved Lucy. I found the first five chapters fascinating, especially about his aristocratic youth in Cuba and his arrival in the United States basically penni ...more |
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Getting up in front of people doesn’t scare me. I don’t particularly like going to an event where I know no one, but I know the tricks to get through that. No, the “what if” demon strikes me at 3 a.m. As a result, I found Anxiety--A Catholic Guide to ...more |
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| I wondered how much I would get out of this book since I was forced into parting with possessions 20 years ago due to a divorce and relocation. Well, the answer was--A LOT! While the author provides good tips based on personal experience regarding ho ...more | |
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Katie Powner has a gift for creating characters who are struggling. She also has a gift for getting you to love them and root for them. Her stories are about families, both of origin and those that are formed on people’s journeys. This time, the main ...more |
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| The author covers a lot of ground--and a lot of saints--in this terrific work. She has a friendly yet authoritative writing voice. I liked the way the book was organized; or example, Martyrs, Church Doctors, Popes, and even "Hard-to-Understand Saints ...more | |
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It’s been a while since I read one of the author’s novels, and I wondered why I hadn’t after reading this one! Allende’s style isn’t traditional novel writing with a lot of dialogue and raising of stakes. It’s much more narrative. It might take a bit ...more |
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This novel had endorsements from a number of authors I love, so I really was looking forward to reading it. And now that I’m done… a conditional “read” recommendation from me. The protagonist, Grayson Hayes, is a writer of some fame. He suffers from th ...more |
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