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What Really Matters
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157 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1983
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Eugenia Price
85 books229 followersEugenia Price was born in Charleston, WV, June 22, 1916, to Walter (a dentist) and Anna Price. At the age of ten, she decided she wanted to be a writer and entered a poem in her school's literary magazine. She was raised as a member of the Methodist Church, but had left the church behind by the time she graduated from high school, at the age of 15, in 1932. She decided to leave writing behind to follow in her father's footsteps and pursue a career in dentistry. She attended Ohio University for three years, declaring herself an atheist during this time. In 1935, she became a student at Northwestern Dental School, the only woman admitted that year. She studied dentistry for two years, but writing continued to draw her. In 1939, she was hired to work on the NBC radio serial In Care of Aggie Horn. She continued as one of the writers for the show until 1942. She left NBC, going to work for the Proctor and Gamble show Joyce Jordan, M.D. from 1944-1946. In 1945 she founded her own television and radio production company, Eugenia Price Productions, developing other serials for Proctor and Gamble.
In 1949 Eugenia Price underwent a profound life change, giving up her college atheism to embrace Christianity. She considered a career change, but accepted a position with WGN Radio as writer, producer, and director for Unshackled, another radio serial. The popularity of the show led her to a lecturing career throughout the United States and Canada for several years.
Price began yet another career in the early 1950s when she was approached by one of the owners of Zondervan publishing. The 1953 publication of Discoveries Made from Living My New Life, a chronicle of her newfound faith and the experiences that led her to it, launched Eugenia Price into a new career as an inspirational writer. Other inspirational books followed, addresses issues of importance to women and children and other self-help concerns and urging readers away from advances in psychology and analysis and toward a life based on Biblical tenants. Many of her inspirational books are still in print, a testimony to the comfort and empathy many readers found in her works.
Eugenia Price gained a much wider audience though when she began publishing historical romances set in the American South. These novels were praised as "compelling sagas that blend personal stories of love and tragedy. . . with the dramatic events of a region's history." Her first historical romance, The Beloved Invader, was inspired her visit to Saint Simons Island, Georgia and based on one of the island's nineteenth-century inhabitants. The Beloved Invader was published in 1965 and followed by two other romances, New Moon Rising (1969) and Lighthouse (1971), to form the St. Simons Trilogy.
Her historical romances made Price a frequent member of the best-seller lists and brought her millions of readers. Although she continued to write and to publish inspirational works, it was her romances that brought her the greatest attention.
Eugenia Price died May 28, 1996, in Brunswick, Georgia of congestive heart failure and is buried in the Christ Church cemetery, Frederica, GA. Many of her books remain in print and have translated into 17 languages, charming readers of all ages and nationalities. Her manuscripts are housed at Boston University.
In 1949 Eugenia Price underwent a profound life change, giving up her college atheism to embrace Christianity. She considered a career change, but accepted a position with WGN Radio as writer, producer, and director for Unshackled, another radio serial. The popularity of the show led her to a lecturing career throughout the United States and Canada for several years.
Price began yet another career in the early 1950s when she was approached by one of the owners of Zondervan publishing. The 1953 publication of Discoveries Made from Living My New Life, a chronicle of her newfound faith and the experiences that led her to it, launched Eugenia Price into a new career as an inspirational writer. Other inspirational books followed, addresses issues of importance to women and children and other self-help concerns and urging readers away from advances in psychology and analysis and toward a life based on Biblical tenants. Many of her inspirational books are still in print, a testimony to the comfort and empathy many readers found in her works.
Eugenia Price gained a much wider audience though when she began publishing historical romances set in the American South. These novels were praised as "compelling sagas that blend personal stories of love and tragedy. . . with the dramatic events of a region's history." Her first historical romance, The Beloved Invader, was inspired her visit to Saint Simons Island, Georgia and based on one of the island's nineteenth-century inhabitants. The Beloved Invader was published in 1965 and followed by two other romances, New Moon Rising (1969) and Lighthouse (1971), to form the St. Simons Trilogy.
Her historical romances made Price a frequent member of the best-seller lists and brought her millions of readers. Although she continued to write and to publish inspirational works, it was her romances that brought her the greatest attention.
Eugenia Price died May 28, 1996, in Brunswick, Georgia of congestive heart failure and is buried in the Christ Church cemetery, Frederica, GA. Many of her books remain in print and have translated into 17 languages, charming readers of all ages and nationalities. Her manuscripts are housed at Boston University.
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November 30, 2024
I received this book from an old pastoral collection. I buy books from a kind gentlemen in Missouri who buys/acquires pastoral book collections and then sells them at a very reasonable price to guys like me. The title of the book intrigued me so I bought it. Probably spent about a buck for it, maybe a little more. It sat on my book shelf for an extended period of time working its way forward, which can take a number of years.
I finally decided it was time when What Really Matters had made it within three books of the front of the line and I did not want to read a giant book of poetry or other thick hard to read slogfests. I figured with its barely hundred pages that perhaps it would be light enough that I wouldn't mind it. The firat half dozen or so chapters are exactly what you expect from this genre. Sentimental feel good Christian prose of little value. The last 3-4 chapters stepped up the game though.
Here we go learned some insights into the author and what makes her tick. We learned about relationships she has with friends and others in the churchianity field of writers and laborers from the 1970-1980's. The author was in her 60's hen this book was published so she is certainly dead.
What would I suggest for a reader? If this is your first or one of your earliest read books on being a Christian, then read the whole thing. Price does a good job of providing insights and lessons for a Christian life well lived and executed. However, if you have read a lot of these kinds of books and ar well steeped in the genre, skip ahead to Chapter 7 and read from there. Chapter 7, "Is It What We Are Like?" and the rest of the book really hit home on those things that matter and provides valuable insight and treasure for the Christian reader of any age.
I finally decided it was time when What Really Matters had made it within three books of the front of the line and I did not want to read a giant book of poetry or other thick hard to read slogfests. I figured with its barely hundred pages that perhaps it would be light enough that I wouldn't mind it. The firat half dozen or so chapters are exactly what you expect from this genre. Sentimental feel good Christian prose of little value. The last 3-4 chapters stepped up the game though.
Here we go learned some insights into the author and what makes her tick. We learned about relationships she has with friends and others in the churchianity field of writers and laborers from the 1970-1980's. The author was in her 60's hen this book was published so she is certainly dead.
What would I suggest for a reader? If this is your first or one of your earliest read books on being a Christian, then read the whole thing. Price does a good job of providing insights and lessons for a Christian life well lived and executed. However, if you have read a lot of these kinds of books and ar well steeped in the genre, skip ahead to Chapter 7 and read from there. Chapter 7, "Is It What We Are Like?" and the rest of the book really hit home on those things that matter and provides valuable insight and treasure for the Christian reader of any age.
April 26, 2024
Maybe 3.5. I did enjoy this book, and it is a quick read. There were just a few things that I just didn't fully agree with, but the truths of this writing far outweighs them. It has been many years since I have picked up a Eugenia Price book, but I do enjoy her writing style. This one is very conversational, and I do like that.
July 23, 2018
I learned a lot from this book, it was good for me.
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