It’s time for one of my favorite posts of every year: a big-picture recap of my year in books, with a bunch of nerdy statistics drawn from my MANY reading journals and ...
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Quick Lit + December 2025
It was an eclectic reading month, with quite a bit of Middle Grade, a few holiday books, a touch of fiction, and some really good nonfiction. Let’s get to the reviews! FICTION ...
Quick Lit + November 2025
We have a decent mix of books to review today: some historical fiction, a couple of family dramas, and a mystery, plus a comical essay collection and a thought-provoking book on prayer. ...
Featured Book Review: Walking with God
“It is our deepest need, as human beings, to learn to live intimately with God,” John Eldredge observes in Walking with God. “It is what we were made for.” There is a ...
Bookish Considerations: What do you do when your reading feels broken?
I have heard many avid readers talk about the ways that books have saved them in their hardest moments. When life gets difficult, or sad, or simply busy, they are able to ...
Quick Lit + October 2025
This Quick Lit looks a little different than most. I have three books from a single series (I rarely continue with a series, let alone back-to-back!), and five of the ten books ...
Quick Lit + September 2025
It’s book review day here on the blog, and I’m excited to share this month’s roundup that features mystery, suspense, found family, romance, memoir, literary analysis, and more. Let’s get to the ...
Bookish Considerations: What is your stance on DNFing books?
To live in the 21st century is to swim in a sea of TLAs (three[or two]-letter-acronyms). One might think that the bookish world—with our love of long-form thought and sophisticated vocabulary—might be ...
The Redeemed Reader: Cultivating a Child’s Discernment and Imagination Through Truth and Story (Bonus Book Review)
In a world that inundates us with advice, every parent needs a curated list of trusted advisors and resources. In our home, one of those trusted sources is The Redeemed Reader, a ...
Quick Lit + August 2025
Today is the second Thursday of August, which is official book review day here on the blog (in case you missed it, there’s more on the new posting schedule at the end ...