Yearly Archives: 2017

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on September 15, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin I saw this book for sale on my daily BookBub email and thought it looked really interesting. I enjoy when writers (and TV shows/movies) can take childhood fairy tales to the next level. Mrs. Tom Thumb is not a character I had ever […]

Online Book Club: October Announcement (The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom ...

This entry was posted in Online Book Club Reading and tagged Online Book Club on September 13, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

“… It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful.” -President Harry S. Truman The question of whether or not America should have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan in World War II has long and often been debated. It did […]

Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O’Reilly
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Non-Fiction on September 12, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

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“As long as I can remember, I’ve wanted out of Somerset. I’ve wanted London.” In My (Not So) Perfect Life, Katie Brenner has always dreamed of living life in the big city. Raised by her father, she is torn by his desire for her to stay close by to the […]

My (Not So) Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction on September 8, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

I read a lot from my bookshelf in August – although several of the books were shorter or easier reads. Skinnybones took just over an hour, but I read it since my daughter is reading it in school. Economics in One Lesson was not on my list, but it came […]

Sarah Anne’s Bookshelf: September 2017
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged bookshelf on September 6, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

“I suppose it is possible to live as full a life in seventy hours as in seventy years; granted that your life has been full up to the time that the seventy hours start and that you have reached a certain age.” Set just over the course of a few […]

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Classic Fiction on September 4, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

“Grace and active obedience are complementary. There is no faith without good works, and no good works apart from faith.” What does it actually mean to live a life being a follower of Jesus? That question is the very topic of The Cost of Discipleship by Detrich Bonhoeffer, who was […]

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Classic Non-Fiction Religious on September 1, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

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 Blume
This 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 Lisieux
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Biographical Inspirational Non-Fiction Religious on August 28, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

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“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 Chamberlain
This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction on August 25, 2017 by Sarah Anne Carter

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