Katy’s Weblog
My opinion on books I am curently reading
I am not giving a full review here, but just noting a couple of books I read recently.
Easy to Kill, another classic by Agatha Christie, was a reread for me. It’s not usually much fun to reread a mystery because you would already know whodunnit. But I forgot who the murderer was until half way through, so it still fun to read.
Read more of “Agatha Christie reread, Henri Nouwen first read”
I read another biography of a Christian hero (children’s narrative version).
William Booth is the founder of the Salvation Army. With what do you associate the Salvation Army? Soliciting money at Christmas with the ringing bell? The Salvation Army truck picking up your discards? The Salvation Army band at parades? (there is an interesting history about the band recounted in the book.)
I love to read whodunnit type of mysteries in the classic tradition of Agatha Christie. Unfortunately, Withering Heights by Dorothy Cannell is not one of them.
I read the first in this Ellie Haskell series, Thin Woman, a while ago. I didn’t love it, but I thought I’d try another book by this author.Â…
I know, the details do not all fit, but i still liked it. I like the Artemis Fowl series because it’s fun reading, a little humor, a little action, and lots of imagination.
Everyone wants to be Artemis Fowl – a boy genius with a criminal mind, but deep inside, he has a soft heart…
I’ve not read a biography of Hudson Taylor until now. I borrowed this book from Bonnie.
Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret by Howard and Geraldine Taylor is apparently a fairly brief version of Hudson Taylor’s life, less than 200 pages. With the full life he lived, I can imagine how big a book his life story can fill.
My sister lent me the book Falling Leaves, The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter, by Adeline Yen Mah.Â
Adeline tells of her life growing up in a prominent Chinese family with wealth, but not love acceptance. (I hesitate to say she lacked love because love could’ve been expressed in ways that she didn’t see. However, acceptance was definitely lacking from her family.)
After I finished reading The Life You’ve Always Wanted by by John Ortberg last year, I wanted to read If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat, as recommended by Nat. But I don’t spend money to buy books (I read what I can borrow from people or from the library.)
Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender’s Game, wrote a series of fiction on the women of Genesis – Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel.
When you read the life of Rebekah in the Bible, many questions come to mind:
What made Rebekah agree to leave her family to go so far to marry a man she’s never met?
This book in the Ender’s Game series was a little hard to get through. The start was a little slow. I gave up, skipped a few chapters, read the end, and then went back to read it through.
Orson Scott Card in this book Speaker for the Dead tells how humans and an alien species…
This is Orson Scott Card’s newest book in the Ender’s Game series. We are fortunate enough to have found a copy in our local Walnut library.
You have to read Ender’s Game to make sense of the later ones in the series. Once again, Ender Wiggin does not disappoint. He is super smart, out-maneuvers everyone, full of compassion, and gives the book a good ending.