I don't know what it is about the girls running around all willy nilly, sometimes in what I would think would be dangerous places for young folks to be running around, but I find myself literally reading every story through that lense. Like where are these parents?!? I saw a lot less of that in ...
BOOK REVIEW: A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
Here we go with another installment for The Book Girls' Guide In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) Reading Challenge: 2026 Edition. Yes it was a February pick. Yes it's March. Just know these will always be a month behind, probably. As I go through the list of books each month I make my own list, ...
BOOK REVIEW: Love in a Broken Vessel by Mesu Andrews
Let's be real for a minute. The story of Gomer and Hosea is not one you learn about in Sunday School, at least I didn't. You may hear about the prophet Hosea in youth group but you aren't going to study the story about a prostitute. That would be a fun one to explain to parents. But here's the ...
BOOK REVIEW: The English Masterpiece by Katherine Reay
The February (yes I read it in February don't judge the scheduling) book for the Christian Fiction Reading Challenge is something different from January. The English Masterpiece is art history, the merge of time after the World Wars, and the start of women finding their way into corporate ...
BOOK REVIEW: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I came to read this book completely on accident. I'm, for the first time after many years of I'm going to, actually doing the Pop Sugar 2026 Challenge. One of the prompts is a book about women astronauts (prompt 5) and I was super excited. If you know me in real life you know that I enjoy ...