Lately there’s been a lot of that going on. While I try to be attentive to my children at most meals, especially, I will confess to reading the local newspaper over breakfast. However, I’m once again realizing that almost everything can (and likely will) become a “learning moment” (whether I want it to or not [...]
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I have a distinct memory of the first time I read Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca–I was lying on a float in the middle of my aunt’s pool, the thick paperback novel shading my face from the sun and the realization that I was in the VERY hot and humid South, not a beautiful-but-foreboding English estate. (Of [...]
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I picked up A Mother’s Heart: A Look at Values, Vision, and Character for the Christian Mother for my daily quiet time reading after finishing this book . I’ve fallen into the habit of beginning my quiet time with some sort of devotional reading to quiet my heart and spirit before I go any further with Bible study, [...]
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It was only when I got about two-third of the way through this section of the book that I began to question my decision to read the unabridged version. In fact, if our usual library run had not been preempted for a trip to our favorite Italian eatery for lunch after Bible study last Wednesday, I [...]
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Sigh. I’m still plugging away at Les Miserables, with only about 900 more pages to go. : ) Back when I started reading it near the beginning of February, I had so hoped to finish it by today. However, by the time I had gotten well into the first section, I realized that this book [...]
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Way back when I decided to read Les Miserables, I also decided to take a cue from Carrie at Reading to Know and respond to this book while in the process of reading it. I am reading the unabridged version, after all, and at around 1400 pages, it is by far the longest book I’ve [...]
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