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

Top Ten Tuesday – My Spring (Autumn!) TBR Part 1

We still have one week before we get back to our regular Top Ten Tuesday post care of the girls at The Broke and The Bookish, but when I took a look at the topic for next week (Top Ten Books on my Spring TBR) I thought, You’ve got to be kidding me. Just 10? So, welcome to Top Ten Books on my Spring TBR Part 1! 😄 This week, I’m featuring books releasing in March and the first half of April (in order of release date). Tune in next week for books releasing in the second half of April and

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Word Nerd Wednesday – Misdoubt

Welcome to another edition of Word Nerd Wednesday 🙂  And a special welcome to my first ever guest for Word Nerd Wednesday: Angela K. Couch.  Angela’s first full-length novel, The Scarlet Coat, released last week (you can read my review here), and I thought, “Why not see if Angela has come across a word in her research that she would like to share with us.” As it happens, she did.  And she would!  And the word she’s going to share with us is misdoubt.  It may look like a fairly self-explanatory word, but stick around for a minute and you

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The Scarlet Coat (Angela K. Couch) – Review

  Publisher’s Description: Surrounded by the musket fire of the American Revolution, Rachel Garnet prays for her family to be safe. When the British invade the Mohawk Valley and her father and brother don’t return from the battle, she goes in pursuit of them. She finds her brother alive but her father has been killed at the hand of the enemy. Amidst the death, how can she ignore a cry for help? Rachel reluctantly takes in a badly wounded British officer. But how long can her sense of Christian duty repress her hatred for his scarlet coat? Passages of Scripture

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First Line Fridays – 6 Jan 2017 – The Scarlet Coat

I’m very excited to be joining some of my best book-blogging buddies for First Line Fridays this year.  If you’re not familiar with these posts, it’s pretty simple.  Open the book nearest to you (or go and pick up the book you’re currently reading – fiction or non-fiction) and share the first line in the comments.  Then you can visit some of my friends (see the links below) and share your first line with them, too.  Let’s share the book love! For this first post of the year, I’m posting the first line from a book that will be releasing

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