Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter

by CarolNo Comments
Bread And Wine: Readings For Lent And Easter Description: A time for self-denial, soul-searching, and spiritual preparation, Lent is a fitting season for daily reading and reflection. Hence this book, which offers meditations from a wide spectrum of classic and contemporary Christian writers. Containing selections grouped around such themes as temptation, crucifixion, resurrection, and new life, Bread and Wine can be dipped into at leisure or used as a guide to daily devotions—and returned to any time of year for spiritual revitalization. For breadth of scope and depth of insight, nothing rivals this collection. Thoughts: Next year, I hope to read this book more regularly during Lent. It took me way too long this year, simply because I wasn't consistent. It features writings from a wide variety of  thinkers and authors, including Martin Luther, John Donne and 20th-century theologians like C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy Day. There is also a generous sampling from contemporary writers, including Philip Yancey, John Updike, and Madeleine L'Engle. Many of the...
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She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb

by Carol6 Comments
She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb Description: Mystery and folklore are skillfully blended in this contemporary Appalachian tale. Driving the plot are "Harm" (Hiram) Sorley, an aging prisoner suffering from recent memory loss, who receives a spiritual message to escape from prison and return home to North Carolina; history grad student Jeremy Cobb, who wants to hike the trail used by Katie Wyler in the late 1700s when she escaped from Indians who held her captive, and members of the sheriff's department. Strong females also figure prominently, not the least of whom is Katie Wyler, dead over 200 years, whose spectral image helps several characters. Assisting Sheriff Arrowwood is his newest deputy, Martha Ayers, who's determined to prove she can do the job. When all these folks converge beside a burning trailer home, more than one mystery is solved. McCrumb's rich use of dialect, accompanied by both physical description of and folklore about the mountains, combine to produce an evocative, haunting story....
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Giveaways in Blogland

by Carol3 Comments
I was finally catching up on my blog reading and ran across some giveaways I wanted to let you know about. If there're any others I should add, please let me know in the comments. My current giveaways are listed on my sidebar. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and Leslie S. Klinger, at Bookish Ruth (ends May 31, US and Canada) The Frenchman’s Creek and My Cousin Rachel, both by Daphne du Maurier, at Passages to the Past (ends May 27, US and Canada) Best Intentions by Emily Listfield, at Pipin’s Lair (ends May 30, US and Canada) April and Oliver by Tess Callahan, at A Novel Menagerie (ends May 28) The Frenchman’s Creek and My Cousin Rachel, both by Daphne du Maurier, at Peeking Between the Pages (ends May 30, US and Canada) The Wonder Singer by George Rabasa, at Cheryl’s Book Nook (ends May 29, US and Canada) One Deadly Sin by Annie Solomon, at Cheryl’s Book Nook...
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Winners!

by Carol4 Comments
You won The Man's Book by Thomas Fink. Belinda McNabb jacque amandasue Summer King of the knot people I will be e-mailing you later today. I'll just need your mailing address so I can pass it on to Hachette Book Group. I hope you enjoy the book and maybe even find something useful in it....
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