Happy Tuesday, reader friends. We seem to be having a spate of difficult Top Ten Tuesday topics lately, and this week’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl is no different: Books I Loved But Will Never Reread. The problem is, I love re-reading my favourite books. If I loved it, there’s no way I could definitively say, “but I won’t ever read it again.” However…
Well, you could be forgiven for thinking I have dropped off the face of the earth over Christmas. I may live in Australia, but December definitely snowballed on me this year. Please accept my belated wishes for a merry Christmas and a happy new year. 🎄🎉 Amidst all of the December busyness, I have been giving thought to my favourite reads over the year. Let me tell you, it is a daunting business, coming up with a blog post about your favourite reads for the year. For starters I read around 250 books this year 😳 Secondly, different books stick
Publisher’s Description Before he became a father of the Christian Church, Augustine of Hippo loved a woman whose name has been lost to history. This is her story. She met Augustine in Carthage when she was seventeen. She was the poor daughter of a mosaic-layer; he was a promising student and heir to a fortune. His brilliance and passion intoxicated her, but his social class would be forever beyond her reach. She became his concubine, and by the time he was forced to leave her, she was thirty years old and the mother of his son. And his Confessions show