Reflections on Lent

A photo I took on a walking trail at work last year. First of all, I hope you all had a very blessed and peaceful Easter. Until this year, I have never actually given something up for Lent. For the uninformed (which was myself until this year), Lent is the period of time that lasts 46 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. My family, while people of strong faith, never really went into...

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Book Review: The Bronte Plot by Katherine Reay

The Bronte Plot by Katherine ReayThomas Nelson Publishers2015My Rating✯✯✯✯❤ Goodreads Synopsis ❤Lucy Alling makes a living selling rare books, often taking suspicious measures to reach her goals. When her unorthodox methods are discovered, Lucy's secret ruins her relationship with her boss and her boyfriend James—leaving Lucy in a heap of hurt, and trouble. Something has to change; she has to...

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Why is an ISFJ mad at me?

What ISFJ buttons have you been pushing, either deliberately or accidentally? What inviolable tradition or belief did you trample into the dirt? How did you disrespect something they hold very near and dear? Did you challenge their authority in front of others? Did you ignore, overlook, or mock an idea they had? Did you criticize in a way that could be construed as cruel or harsh? Were you mean-spirited...

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Book Review: Dressed for Death by Julianna Deering

  Dressed for Death by Julianna DeeringDrew Farthering Mysteries #4Bethany House PublishersMarch 1st, 2016My Rating✯✯✯✯✯❤ Goodreads Synopsis ❤Drew and Madeline Farthering celebrate their six-month anniversary by attending a fancy Regency era costume party. Drew is glad to see Talbot Cummins, an Oxford classmate, and his fiancée, Alice Henley, though many present seem worried about the couple....

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Spoken For by Robin Jones Gunn (mini review)

 In the world we live in, sometimes it's very difficult to maintain a positive attitude about being single. But Robin Jones Gunn reminds her female readers that we are already spoken for . . . by a heavenly father who loves and by Jesus who calls us His bride. I found this book to be very inspiring and motivational, an excellent read for a time in my life where I sometimes resent being single.-...

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Book Review: Murder at the Mikado by Julianna Deering

Murder at the Mikado by Julianna DeeringDrew Farthering Mysteries #3Bethany House Publishers2014My Rating✯✯✯✯✯❤ Goodreads Synopsis ❤Just as Drew Farthering thinks his life has found smooth waters, Fleur Landis, an old flame, reappears in his life. She's married now, no longer an actress, and he expects she'll soon disappear--until she comes to him in dire need. The lead actor in her old troupe's production...

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KidLit: The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye

The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye1980My Rating✯✯✯✯My Synopsis & ThoughtsPrincess Amy, although her name really is Amethyst Alexandra Augusta Araminta Adelaide Aurelia Anne, is as ordinary a girl as you could wish for thanks to a fairy blessing(?) at her christening, and she is ten times more a princess than most of the sparkling, bejeweled, pristine princesses we read about in so many fairy...

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Book Review: Undaunted Hope by Jody Hedlund

Undaunted Hope by Jody HedlundBeacons of Hope #3Bethany House Publishers2016My Rating✯✯✯❤ Goodreads Synopsis ❤Tessa Taylor arrives in 1870s Upper Peninsula, Michigan, planning to serve as a new teacher to the town. Much to her dismay, however, she immediately learns that there was a mistake, that the town had requested a male teacher. Percival Updegraff, superintendent and chief mine clerk, says she...

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Yikes! a.k.a. that moment of panic!

You know that moment of panic when you've misplaced a beloved something or other and literally have NO IDEA where you put it!? That was me last night, hunting high and low for my copy of Frank Langella's The Mark of Zorro which is only bootlegged because it hasn't been released officially on DVD. The DVD people are waaaaaaay behind the times where Langella is concerned. But, I found it after...

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Is Sherlock an introvert?

How do you tell an introvert from an extrovert? It has nothing to do with how socially comfortable you are, it really doesn't. How do you recharge? If you recharge by being around people, then you're an extrovert. If you recharge by spending time alone . . .introvert. It's really that simple. In that same vein, how does Sherlock recharge? Where does he get his juice, his pep, his vim and vigor?...

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Purity at the Heart of Things (When Calls the Heart)

 Written for the Period Drama Challenge hosted by Laurie over at Old-Fashioned Charm. What happened to purity? What happened to shows like Touched by an Angel, Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, and a myriad of other family-friendly shows that used to fill night-time viewing hours? Even Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman had a fairly wholesome atmosphere, despite the steam rising between Dr....

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Audio Book Review: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as performed by Elijah Wood

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twainperformed by Elijah WoodUnabridged Audible2010My Rating✯✯✯✯✯ Purchase from Audible I grew up reading this book and whether you like it or not, whether it makes you uncomfortable or not, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remains a time-honored classic. So for the sake of space, this is a review of the audio book only, whether the story was captured...

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Period Drama Challenge February Tag Questions!

It's February already and I've actually reviewed 4 movies for this challenge. I didn't know I had it in me. The February link-up list and tag questions is now posted here on Miss Laurie's blog, Old Fashioned Charm. Head on over there and see what everyone else has watched and reviewed through the month of February. And now on to the tag questions that Miss Laurie gave her participants!  February...

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