Wanda and I are back in Webster County in the Ozarks region of Missouri, also known as my stompin' grounds. We are also back with Faith's daughter, Melinda who was just a child in Going Home, is all grown up and starting to explore life as an adult. Oh, and Aaron, the subtle star of On Her Own, is ...
Historical
BOOK REVIEW: Year of Jubilee by Peggy Trotter
Imagine being 18 years old and starving, isolated, abandoned, and frightened of literally everything. Imagine being in that situation through only the actions of others. Being orphaned as a child, put out to work by the orphanage to learn life skills before you age out of their system and have not ...
BOOK REVIEW: Shelter of the Most High by Connilyn Cossette
I finished this book in the wee hours of the morn, while in the middle of my roller coaster month of schedule weirdness, at the Old Folks Home. Of course I didn't have my computer with me so my initial thoughts are like dust in the breeze, gone to some other home and far away from my fingertips on ...
BOOK REVIEW: The Christmas Prayer by Wanda E. Brunstetter
When I picked up this book the first thing I noticed was how small it was. Had I done even a smidgen of research I would have realized two things. First, this is actually a novella that is being re-released as a stand-alone book. Secondly, I would have realized that I’d read this story before, in a ...
BOOK REVIEW: Hidden Among the Stars by Melanie Dobson
Truth. I love dual time line stories, when they are done right. Truth. World War 2 era fiction is a favorite historical time period of mine (after Civil War - hello Gone with the Wind!). Truth. Nothing can be wrong when a character in a book happens to own a book store, I mean all the books IN ...