“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C.S. Lewis
This book by C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces, has been on my bookshelf for years. I guess I have passed over this work so many times since fairy tales and myths are not necessarily my first preference. But maybe I am old enough now to start reading fairy tales!
With lots of rain comes lots of snow for my mountains. No traipsing for me—beautiful backdrop of mountains and blue sky from my backyard.
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.”
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
Staying true to myself while pursuing truth, beauty, and goodness in a new season of journaling along the way.
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A young reader was so enthusiastic about this novel, Bluebird by Sharon Cameron, that she persuaded me right then and there to purchase the book. So from the “rubble of Berlin” to the “streets of New York”, a thriller awaits me.
based on a true story
Remembering the past…“It’s always better to know. You should always know the things that happened. If you don’t know, then you can’t understand what justice is” (p105).
What was then is beginning to feel like what is now… “The world has inverted. Turned inside out. Right is wrong and wrong is right. Nothing is real. Nothing is true…In the old world, food and clothes were easy. Endless. They just appeared. This is the new world” (pp119, 130).
“A PAGE-TURNER UNTIL THE END,” written by the Jewish Book Council concerning this novel, was not an understatement. As soon as I thought I knew where the storyline was headed, an unexpected turn of events occurred.
What I appreciated most was how realistic the atrocities of war were depicted and not romanticized. Too often, youth and young adult historical fiction seem to gloss over such horrors, failing to capture the reality of actual history, which is so essential to understand.
The novel’s historical significance was important to me as a reader further along in life. But if I were young, I would have appreciated most how the action never seemed to slow down. I don’t believe I’ve ever read a book that had me so captivated with the pace of the storyline until its final page. Well done!
I just completed this classic. In the past, strength of dialogue was not necessarily a priority. Jane Austen has changed my mind.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
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