With more than 300 book reviews available on my blog, I was wondering what reviews were looked at the most. Here are the top 10 book reviews read on this blog in reverse order!
In an effort to let others know they are not alone in feeling rejected, Lysa TerKeurst opens her past and heart and lays them down for the world to see in Uninvited. Her journey can help others see how to overcome feelings of rejection, loneliness, insecurity and being unloved. We can all relate to having these feelings at one point or another. How can we reach out to God to help us feel like we belong? How can our bad experiences be turned to good?
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In The Women in the Castle, three women in Germany have their lives forever changed during World War 2. Marianne loses her husband during his fight with the resistance. Benita is very young, and also loses her husband, but without knowing what he was doing. Ania was part of the Nazis until there was a moral choice before her and she made the wrong choice. The women come together after the war as Marianne seeks out the women whose husbands fought against their country’s leader to take care of them since she was appointed the “commander of the women and the children” by the men.
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Kit believes her sister is dead in When We Believed in Mermaids. Josie had died in a train wreck in France. Then both she and her mother see Kit on the news about a nightclub fire in New Zealand. They decide Kit should leave California and see if she can find if this person is Josie. Kit goes, knowing she will probably leave empty-handed, but can maybe finally enjoy a vacation. It’s been a lonely life, ever since the earthquake destroyed her family by killing her father and sending her mother and sister spiraling out of control in their own worlds. If only their semi-adopted brother, Dylan, had still been around to help take care of Kit, she maybe wouldn’t have felt all alone, but he had left their lives before the earthquake.
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A notice has been pinned to the church doors in Chilbury informing the women of the town that the village choir will be no more since all the men have gone off to war. While upset about the decision, most are willing to go along with the decision until Miss Prim, a music teacher displaced from London, decides they should have an all-female choir. Mrs. Tilling, a rule-follower, joins as her first step in leaving her small, comfort zone during the war in The Chilbury Women’s Choir.
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The final book in the Michael Vey series, The Final Spark, starts with the assumption that Michael has died in the Battle of Hades. There is no trace of him where the lightning hit his body except for burn marks on the ground and sand turned into glass. His friends, the other “Glows” with powers, mourn while they recover only to discover that their enemy’s leader has survived and is still tracking them down. If Hatch captures them, will all their fighting, trials and losses be worth anything?
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Some books stick with you because the stories are wonderfully written. Others are unforgettable because the story needs to be told. Homegoing is a book that fits both of these categories. The story starts a long time ago in Africa when two half-sisters are separated by tribal warfare in Africa and one is sold into slavery while the other stays on the continent. It then follows their offspring on both shores, showing how slavery affected those enslaved and those who were left behind.
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Miracles do still happen. Rita Klaus experienced one by just asking and she tells about it in Rita’s Story. She grew up always knowing that she wanted to be a Catholic nun. She attended Catholic school, sung at mass and had a deep prayer life. She was accepted into a convent at the age of 15 and started down the road she thought God wanted her to be on. Life ended up taking many different turns before she found out what He really had in store for her.
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It was a time of invention, innovation, design and patents. America in 1888 was beginning to install and use electricity. Gas lamps were on their way out and light bulbs were on their way in. The competition was fierce, though, even though the motivations were different. Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse both wanted the electrical market and lawyer Paul Cravath was stuck in the middle of it all. This time period is explored in The Last Days of Night.
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What if the whole world told you something was safe and then that thing ended up being deadly and killed you? That is exactly what happened to the radium girls – women in the 1930s and 40s who painted radium on watch and clock face dials. They took a paintbrush, dipped it in water, made a point with their lips and then dipped it in radium paint – and repeated over and over, ingesting radium. They were told it was safe and even healthy for them, but years later, they all started developing deadly symptoms. Their story is told in Radium Girls.
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In Beartown, 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, just maybe, things will turn around. Beartown puts an immense amount of pressure on the teenage boys that their hopes depend on – too much for some. One player commits an act of violence and the town draws a line with everyone choosing a side.
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