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Susan Cushman
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Fans of Carol Van Den Hende’s Goodbye, Orchid trilogy—and new readers just now discovering her storytelling gifts—will love this mixed-genre collection of twenty-seven essays and stories that build on her themes of loss, love, and perseverance in a var ...more |
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Fans of Carol Van Den Hende’s Goodbye, Orchid trilogy—and new readers just now discovering her storytelling gifts—will love this mixed-genre collection of twenty-seven essays and stories that build on her themes of loss, love, and perseverance in a var ...more |
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Written in the Sky is a “powerful, often heart-wrenching collection of essays tackling the history of the American South,” as I read in the letter from her publisher, the University of Alabama Press. Here’s a bit more from the press: Born in Alabama, ...more |
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| I received an advanced reader copy (ARC) of Mother Charity from the author for review prior to publication. And I’m so thankful for the opportunity to read this novel. Dr. Boone’s characters, setting, and scenes are so colorful that I found myself wi ...more | |
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
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“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
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“I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.”
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“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
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