![]() She lost her mother to breast cancer at the age of four. Her desire to give back to God, in service to Him, out of love for Him, was born from her sufferings and challenges. She dreamed of one day becoming a Carmelite nun. ![]() How many of us, today, can say that we truly love God, for God’s sake, and not our own?Īs Thérése grew from child to adult, she remained small in stature, and humble in nature. I found this attribute of Thérése to be awe-inspiring. Raised in a devout Catholic home, in France, in the late 1800’s, Thérése seemed to intuitively understand, at a very young age, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux’s teaching that we are to love God for God’s sake, not our own. Thérése made the quality of her life, a gift to God in thanksgiving for His creation of her. Thérése will grip your heart from the very beginning, right up to her last breath, as she tells you the story of her life – her “little way.” She lived for only 24 years, but in that time, she accomplished so much. Yet, Saint Thérése of Lisieux was anything but non-descript! From the title alone, we garner a peek at this beloved saint’s humility, as if the story could be about any soul – very non-descript. ![]() So, I thought it appropriate to share a bit of what I learned about this beloved saint by reading her book, The Story of a Soul. Today we celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Thérése of Lisieux. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I loved this set up, and right away I fell a little in love with Oliver that he can’t stand to see how people are speaking ill of Jane, how they mock her and want to see her humiliated. Meanwhile Oliver Marshall, the bastard son of a duke raised by humble but loving parents, does everything he can to be proper and earn his place in society and politics. Yes, when she goes out into society the “feather heiress” (as she’s known) can not attract a suitor. Jane Fairfield is intentionally gaudy, her comments intended to go far over the top and be obvious and blunt to the point of embarrassment of all involved. “Simple,” she said, adjusting the diamonds at her neck. She gave him a brilliant smile, one that he’d missed. “And yet nobody is shrieking and averting their eyes.” He gave her a smile. Or perhaps it’s the green of a cloud of poisonous chlorine gas.” ![]() ![]() The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan (Brothers Sinister #2) ![]() ![]() Maybe, absurdly, is that they were expecting some kind of rescue and didn’t want to bungle it.” Enter brassy Clara (“she was a whirlwind, this woman,” observes Henry) her lover Max his sullen, beautiful sister, Alma and entirely too much gin and time to kill.Ĭheek paints a graphic and sensuous portrait of an fragile marriage embattled well before its time. ![]() Maybe it was the Rolls Royce in the driveway. But the night before they are to leave this coastal ghost town, they spot signs of life-signs of a party, no less-and decide to stop in: “They were nervous, for some reason he could tell that she was too. It’s late September when they arrive, and as the waiter tells them at the one diner they find open that first night, “If you came to get away from it all, you came to the right place.” The newlyweds eat in silence, and are home and in bed by eight o’clock.īy the end of their first awkward week of marriage, Effie wants to go home early, and Henry, defeated, assents. ![]() Henry “had never been north of Atlanta, and he had never seen the ocean.” Effie hadn’t understood what “off-season” meant when describing the bustling vacation spot of her childhood. Young Henry and Effie from tiny Signal Creek, Georgia, are on a two-week honeymoon in Cape May, New Jersey, where Effie’s uncle has a summer home. ![]() ![]() In Chip Cheek’s debut novel, Cape May, the year is 1957. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was half French and half Chinese and divided the Yen family into two different classes. Her father remarried a beautiful Eurasian woman one year later. ![]() Her mother died two weeks after her birth and Adeline was considered to be a source of bad luck by her family. A compelling, painful, and ultimately triumphant story of a girl's journey into adulthood, Adeline's story is a testament to the most basic of human needs: acceptance, love, and understanding.Īdeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin, China. Falling Leaves recounts the story of the author’s life in China and the tragedies that had overshadowed her life. South Coast Repertory will present a staged reading of Chinese American author Adeline Yen Mah’s best-selling book entitled Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter on the Julianne Argyros Stage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I guess it's important to remember that this isn't just a socialist fable: it's also a book about a dog. The buildings and property were later preserved as Jack London State Historic Park, in Glen Ellen, California. London's ashes were buried on his property, not far from the Wolf House. London died November 22, 1916, in a sleeping porch in a cottage on his ranch. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel, The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam. London was part of the radical literary group, "The Crowd," in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, and socialism. He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen". His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories, "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. ![]() ![]() John Griffith Chaney (1876-1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe if I didn’t make eye contact, it would spare me from the conversation that had come after last week’s questions about my vacant rental properties. “Another nope.” My answer was the same at this Sunday’s family dinner as it had been last week. ![]() “Any news on the farmhouse?” Dad asked from his recliner. Karen Lawson, The Proof is in the Reading Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations in a book review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, Grey isn't interested in love, no matter how pretty, or delightfully outspoken, the lady. ![]() But when his mother is widowed yet again and he meets the charmingly unconventional woman managing his stepfather's funeral, he's shocked to discover how much they have in common. Grey's focus on expanding his dukedom allows him little time to find a wife. Ī series of stepfathers and a difficult childhood have left Fletcher "Grey" Pryde, 5th Duke of Greycourt, with a guarded heart, enviable wealth, and the undeserved reputation of a rogue. and in the process find that love just might conquer all. Description From New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries comes a sparkling new series about an oft-widowed mother's grown children, who blaze through society in their quest for the truth about their fathers. ![]() ![]() ![]() If it happens, this blog series may track back to cover it.įor now we cover King’s next book, which has its own brand of odd existentialism. But Darabont eventually let his rights lapse, and in April 2018 New Line Cinema announced that an adaptation would be helmed by James Vanderbilt. ![]() Darabont has directed several other King adaptations and he planned to make The Long Walk into a low-budget existential film that would get weird. George Romero was approached back in 1988 to film an adaptation, but it never came to fruition and eventually Frank Darabont secured the rights. It was actually the first novel King wrote, but it didn’t get published for many years. ![]() If you stop walking, you are gunned down until there is only one contestant left. A weird and existential work, it follows a group of young men who are selected by their military government to participate in a walking competition where they can never stop walking. The next book chronologically was written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman The Long Walk has never received any film adaptations. The Stephen King Book to Screen Blog Series returns, and at long last the Night Shift short story collection, which inspired a largely mediocre bunch of movies, is put to bed! We’re back to covering films based on full-length King novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Solutions and explanations are provided in the back of the book. ![]() ![]() Guided by hints in the verses, readers find solutions to each math riddle, by looking "askew" to find a pattern, subtracting in order to add, or adding numbers that have easy sums before clustering them to add in groups. Tang's witty little accompanying verses tickle the fancy even as they challenge the mind. Rather than laboriously counting 24 mushroom slices on a pizza, Tang suggests: "Let me give you some advice, / Just do half and count twice." And in adding the number of dots on a fan: "Instead of seeing groups of threes, / Count by fives and it's a breeze!"Įvery two-page spread features cheerful computer-generated art by Harry Briggs, depicting rows of camels, beaches full of seashells, and vines laden with grapes. How is it possible to count a complicated pattern of strawberry seeds or grapes on a vine or camel humps-in a blink of an eye? If children can open their minds to new ways of perceiving math, anything is possible! Greg Tang shows readers creative ways to use patterns and combinations of numbers to solve math puzzles quickly and effectively. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I am worried about negative connotations toward parents who read or, gosh forbid, go back to school to improve their family's lot in life. The story redeemed itself for awhile with the scene with the Devil and his grandmother (who probably need their own series) and then tanked again with the big, long battle scene featuring a bunch of return characters I forgot about from the other books. On top of that, we now need to know the other two books (which I read YEARS ago and barely remember) I found that odd in a companion book and is more in line with a sequel. Now, suddenly, we are ripped out of the story and into a pity party for people whose parents have divorced. Where it went wrong for me was the jaunt out into the real world. The parents are good and evil, the ravens are about and we have a puzzle for the main characters to figure out. I don't know why we always have to have a girl/boy combo as the MCs, but we do. While I really liked the other two books, I had some problems with this one. ![]() |