The power of fiction, the beauty of words, and the God who made us to wield them for His glory.

First Line Friday – The White Rose Resists (Amanda Barratt)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. My reading this week has consisted of INSPY reading (as one of the judges in the YA category this year), but I have sooooo many books waiting once I’m finished, including Amanda Barratt’s The White Rose Resists, which I’m anxious to read (with a box of tissues by my side). Anyone else have books taunting them from their TBR pile? Oh, who am I kidding? That’s probably all of you! 😊

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12 June 2020

My Dearest Dietrich (Amanda Barratt) – Review

A staggering love illuminating the dark corners of a Nazi prison

Renowned German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is famous for his resistance to the Nazi regime and for his allegiance to God over government. But what few realize is that the last years of his life also held a love story that rivals any romance novel.

Maria von Wedemeyer knows the realities of war. Her beloved father and brother have both been killed on the battlefield.

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17 June 2019

First Line Friday – My Dearest Dietrich (Amanda Barratt)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. I’ve always wanted to know more about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, so when I learned that Amanda Barratt was writing a novel based on his relationship with Maria von Wedemeyer I was very excited. Since My Dearest Dietrich released last Tuesday, I have been hearing sooooo many rave reviews that I’m even more excited to be finally diving in myself!

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14 June 2019

Becoming Mrs. Lewis (Patti Callahan) – Review

  Posted as part of a blog tour with TLC Book Tours ~ About the Book ~ From New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called “my whole world.” When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis—known as Jack—she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn’t holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the beloved writer of Narnia, yet their minds bonded over their letters. Embarking on the adventure of her

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23 October 2018

Newton and Polly (Jody Hedlund) – Review

~ About the Book ~ Amazing grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found… Now remembered as the author of the world’s most famous hymn, in the mid-eighteenth century as England and France stand on the brink of war, John Newton is a young sailor wandering aimlessly through life. His only duty is to report to his ship and avoid disgracing his father—until the night he hears Polly Catlett’s enchanting voice, caroling. He’s immediately smitten and determined to win her affection. An intense connection quickly forms between the two,

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25 February 2017