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Ordering Your Private World

How to Build a Solid Life & Faith Foundation Author: Gordon MacDonald This year I’ve done something exciting! I’ve been accepted into the C.S. Lewis Institute’s Fellowship program. The point of the program is to encourage Christians to live every day for God as a testament to His might and will. This involves rigorous study, closely knit group work, an urban plunge project, and lots and lots of reading. The introductory reading of the program starts attendees off with numerous articles and Ordering Your Private World by Gordon MacDonald. At first, MacDonald’s story comes off as merely common sense: if you [...]

Frances Carden2023-07-23T12:06:36-07:00July 23rd, 2023|Tags: book review, Christian, nonfiction, read, reading, self help|

Annihilation

An Adventure in a Cursed Land Author: Jeff Vandermeer Area X is a mystery, a deadly portion of land, contaminated, cut off, and expanding. For decades doomed expeditions have been sent into the heart of this land to study it, to understand what happened, to try and stop the land from further encroaching. Those who do return are different: mad, sickened, dying. Yet expeditions continue, and this is one such incursion into a beautiful, cursed land. There are three women on this expedition, lead by a psychologist, who at turns manages the expedition and hypnotically controls the volunteers. The other members [...]

Frances Carden2023-07-22T15:00:17-07:00July 22nd, 2023|Tags: fantasy, horror, read, reading, science fiction|

What Lies in the Woods

Skeletons of the Past Author: Kate Alice Marshall While playing in the woods with her best friends, eleven-year-old Naomi was brutally attacked by a serial killer and left to die. All these years later, she has taken it for granted that the right man was sent to prison. That her friend’s memories of the event were her own. That the man who was just executed for her attempted murder and for killing an unknown number of other women was her assailant. But what if he wasn’t? What if the man who attacked her went free? What if her testimony sent the [...]

Frances Carden2023-07-16T08:27:52-07:00July 16th, 2023|Tags: book review, botm, mystery, read, reading, thriller|