Sarah Anne's Top 10 Parenting Books
Yearly Archives: 2020
Strengthsfinder aims to let people focus on their strengths in the hopes that their successes will be easier to grab.
Strengthsfinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
We all have difficulties in our life and have experienced hard times. Yet, many times we feel alone in those times, wishing there were others who understood how we feel and how we’re questioning God. Finally, there is a book for these times. It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way is an honest look at how Lysa TerKeurst dealt with some of the hardest times a soul can face
It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way by Lysa TerKeurst
Where’d You Go, Bernadette is told through a series of letters, emails and interviews, which are then interjected with the story from Bee’s point of view. It is a really interesting way to read a book and it kept me wondering what was going to happen next.
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple
Circe is born to the sun god Helios and quickly becomes an outcast with her plain hair and voice that sounds like a mortal’s. She spends most of her growing up years escaping to an island with her brother. When he leaves her, a sailor starts visiting and she falls in love. In her desire to make him a mortal, she stumbles upon a power she has that she didn’t know – she is not just a goddess, but also a witch.
Circe by Madeline Miller
Sarah Anne's Bookshelf - January 2020
Sarah Anne’s Bookshelf – January 2020
2 Talking to Strangers doesn’t solve the problem of reading people, but it gives readers the ability to be aware of other people and more aware of oneself. We need to realize that we are all bad at knowing if someone is lying. We also need to realize that people don’t always act according to the broad assumptions we have as to how they act. We need to have caution and empathy when we talk to strangers.
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Anke is a midwife in Germany and ends up in a concentration camp after helping a Jewish woman give birth to a child in the forbidden area. In the camp, she tries to stay low, but one day a woman in the sewing room goes into labor and Anke helps her. From then on, she is helping deliver babies in the camp.
The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham
3 I enjoyed reading The Giver of Stars and finished it in just a few days. The characters come alive and the plot is very interesting. I honestly didn’t know much about the traveling library program in Kentucky and want to learn more about it now. Books have a way of changing lives and that is the theme of The Giver of Stars.
The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes
The Last Girls is a slow-moving, but interesting, drama. There is no climax to the plot, but more of a coming-of-menopause-age story of four women who knew each other in college.