Blogger: Rachel Kent
I have a pile of books stacking up and I’d love to pass them along to you, dear blog readers!
Please comment below with the title and author of a book you read recently that you would recommend to others. By doing so, you will be entered into a random drawing for one of the following titles.
Framed for Murder by Mary Alford
Christmas Captive by Liz Johnson
The Regency Brides Collection with stories by Michelle Griep, Nancy Moser, Erica Vetsch, MaryLu Tyndall, Amanda Barratt, Angela Bell and Susanne Dietze.
Love, Lexi: Letters to God by Sherry Kyle
I will pick the four winners on Monday, so be sure to share your book recommendation with us by Sunday night. I’ll announce the winners here on the blog and will also email the winners.
I look forward to seeing the books you have been reading, too! I am always eager for a good book recommendation.
I just bought Lauraine Snelling’s “Someday Home” for my mother’s 89th birthday tomorrow. Good reading for a good woman. It wins my MOM stamp of approval.
I just finished reading The Innkeeper’s Daughter by Michelle Griep. Not only was the story great, but her writing is amazing and something to be studied. I kept wanting to stop to analyze how she did deep POV so well. Now that I have finished reading it for enjoyment, I am going back and tearing apart my favorite scenes to see how she did it. Love love love Michelle Griep. She is definitely someone who I would love to be compared to one day.
I got this one for Christmas from one of my children. It is called A Dab of Dickens and A Touch of Twain by Elliot Engel. It’s a cool collection of short bios of early English writers. Engel is an educator who’s been featured on PBS for his mini lecture on Charles Dickens. The book’s subjects include Dickens and sixteen other authors. I highly recommend it, especially to someone who is a champion for literacy.
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown. Fascinating history!
My favorite two reads so far this year are probably Oath of Honor by Lynette Eason and The Sea Before Us by Sarah Sundin.
The Private Patient, by PD James. (I’m rereading all of her extraordinary work.) I’d love to have Framed for Murder, then send it to my daughter, who is about to finish law school and whose eyes are suffering from looking at the screen too much. She’s into paper pages only these days—on those rare occasions that she reads for joy. (And I’m happy to pay for the shipping.)
The Escape Artist by Brad Meltzer
Flood by Brennan McPherson. It’s speculative Biblical fiction about Noah’s life up to the flood. Exceedingly difficult to put down, thoroughly faithful to what little is in Genesis, and profound in its illustration of how God’s judgement is sometimes an act of great mercy.
It’s not a sweet, sentimental read, but I don’t expect that of any realistic story of such evil times.
I loved The Lacemaker by Laura Frantz. 🙂
Thanks for this contest, Rachel.
A book I recently read and loved is: You Can’t Hurry Love, by Beth K. Vogt.
Oh-my-goodness it was good. I’m a forever fan of her writing now. My review is on Goodreads and on Amazon.
Blessings ~ Wendy Mac
How Sweet the Sound by Amy Sorrells. Loved it!
Ooooh, as far as CBA, I just read “The Masterpiece” by Francine Rivers and “The House on Foster Hill” by Jaime Jo Wright. I very much enjoyed both. “The Lady and the Lionheart” was wonderful. Plus I just listened to an ABA YA favorite on audio book in the car, “Inkheart” by Cornelia Funke. And I just finished reading out loud to my sons “Cinder” and have started “Scarlet” by Marissa Meyer, also ABA. Yes, boys can enjoy cyborg Cinderella, especially if there are lots of pages describing the mechanics of her metal foot and if she has a dart gun in her finger, well, they are sold.
I’m almost finished with A Refuge Assured by Jocelyn Green and loving it! I would definitely recommend it. 🙂
My favorite read recently is Catching the Wind by Melanie Dobson.
I have several amazing books I’ve read recently and would recommend, but I will just mention three. “Home” by Ginny Yttrup and “Against All Odds” by Irene Hannon, and “Just Give Me Jesus” by Anne Graham Lotz. Wonderful each in their own way.
I’m currently reading Judah’s Wife, by Angela Hunt. It’s Biblical Fiction and very engaging.
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
I just finished A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline (the author of Orphan Train). The writing is beautiful, and the story is sad without being depressing. I loved it!
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Recently finished Laura Frantz’s The Lacemaker ~ but I’m sure y’all at B & S are well aware of that gem. (Posted a visual book review on FB & blog. Fun)
Before that, Kristy Cambron’s The Illusionist’s Apprentice. Also reading (ta-da!) The Inside Scoop by Janet Grant & Wendy Lawton.
Hope something here is new to one of your blog readers. And thank you, Rachel, for sharing the book joy.
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
“Flexible” by Ruth Buchanan. It’s the second in a trilogy (last installment to be released later this month) and good, clean, light reading. Love her humor. The other recent read is “Henry’s Awful Mistake,” by Robert Quackenbush, which I picked up for the kids at a thrift store. It was very popular with everyone and was read multiple times the first day.
The Saturday Night Supper Club by Carla Laureano was fantastic!
I recently listened to Lauraine Snelling’s Daughters of Blessing series. I so enjoyed the Norwegian narrator and Lauraine’s attention to all things Norwegian.
Recently I read “Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women” by Sarah Helm. It reads like an impressionist painting–we feel the overall effect based on a composite of different women’s stories. I’ve recommended “Ravensbruck” often, but I also recommend following it with something light. I read “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand” when I finished “Ravensbruck.”
Beneath the Surface by Lynn H. Blackburn
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein. I screened it for my 9 yr old and it was actually a very fun book.
I’m also really enjoying 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson.
“David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens. Classics are great for adding new vocabulary.
I am almost done with A Refuge Assured by Jocelyn Green and it is so well written and researched. I have learned quite a bit!
Love your books,would love to win
I have finished reading The Woman in the Window by A J Finn. I also haves finished “I’ve Been Thinking by Maria Shriver. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin. I’ve began “The Woman Left Behind” by Linda Howard. I enjoyed all.
Thanks so much for all the great recommendations! 🙂
I have randomly selected the winners of the books. I’ll post the names here and will also reach out to each winner via email. If you are a winner, please email me your mailing address to Rachel@booksandsuch.com . I’ll send the books out ASAP!
The winners are:
Priscilla Sharrow: Christmas Captive
Sharon Goolsby: Framed for Murder
Susan Sage: Love, Lexi
Angela Carlisle: Regency Brides Collection
Congratulations!