If you are stopping by to find questions for your book club, please leave a note for me telling me where you are from! Welcome to the online book club for In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume. Over the course of a year, three planes crashed in the town of Elizabeth, […] Online Book Club: In the Unlikely Event by Judy BlumeThis entry was posted in Online Book Club Reading and tagged historical fiction Online Book Club on August 30, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
“My dear Mother, you can see that I am a very little soul and that I can offer God only very little things.” At the age of 15, young Therese enters into life as a nun with the Carmelite sisters in Liseiux. She was initially denied the request to enter […] Story of a Soul by St. Therese of LisieuxThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Biographical Inspirational Non-Fiction Religious on August 28, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
1 “I wished we lived right next to the ocean. When I said that, Mrs. Forrester said you could ruin a thing by wishing for something else.” Jane Forrester is newly married and starts work as a social worker in a rural county in North Carolina. Her husband does not approve […] Necessary Lies by Diane ChamberlainThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction on August 25, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
3 “Hockey is never satisfied being part of your life, it wants to be all of it.” A small town is kept from fading into oblivion by hockey. The jobs are leaving, the talent is leaving, but there’s a youth hockey team heading to the semifinals and if they win, maybe, […] Beartown by Fredrik BackmanThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction Online Book Club on August 21, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
1 “I think that maybe we only cry because we don’t understand what is going on. Maybe if we understood what is really going on we wouldn’t cry at all, ever.” Books of short stories are often fun to read. They require less commitment as you can read a story and […] Nothing is Strange by Mike RussellThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction on August 18, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck I love a good WWII historical fiction book. I’ve seen good reviews about The Women in the Castle, so I thought we could all read this together for the September Online Book Club book. Here is the Goodreads summary: Amid the ashes of […] Online Book Club: September Announcement (The Women in the Castle ...This entry was posted in Online Book Club Reading and tagged Online Book Club on August 16, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
1 “And bourbon’s like the truth, you know.” “How’s that?” “The first taste burns, but once you get used to it, it’s the only thing you want in your mouth.” The Bourbon Thief is a story in a story. A woman entrances a man and after inviting her home finds she […] The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany ReiszThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction on August 14, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
3 “Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one’s brain.” One might think that the man responsible for removing the slave trade and even slavery itself from England might be a household name. However, William Wilberforce is not a […] Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End ...This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on August 11, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
1 “All of the orphans in the orphanage that day learned that there was indeed truth that prayer is powerful.” Miracles are not often thought about in our modern-day society. They are legends from Biblical times when people were healed, made to see or brought back to life. John P. Herzog […] A Medley of Modern-Day Miracles by John P. HerzogThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Inspirational Non-Fiction Religious on August 7, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter
1 “We are meant for so much more than technology can ever give us – above all, for the wisdom and courage that it will never give us. We are meant to spur on another along on the way to a better life, the life that really is life.” Technology […] The Tech-Wise Family by Andy CrouchThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on August 4, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter