Once Was Lost by Sara Zarr is Sara’s best book yet.
15-year-old Sam has always been defined as the pastor’s daughter. But not all is well behind closed doors. Citing the pressures of being a pastor’s wife, Sam’s mother is an alcoholic who after one too many DUI’s is now in treatment. But it’s not a [...]
Herta Muller, a German, has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature for “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed” Visit the Nobel Prize site for a full bio and bibliography.
I have not read anything by Muller and, even more embarrassing, am not familiar [...]
Chess Rumble by G. Neri and illustrated by Jesse Joshua Watson is one of those books that I hope people don’t judge based on the cover. I don’t think it’s the best representation of the book. It’s a book that I would have walked by without a second glance. But then of course, I’m a [...]
Last year I reviewed The Sudan Project: Rebuilding with the People of Darfur and interviewed the author Melissa Leembruggen. Melissa has a new book that also benefits Africa and that’s the picture book Benny the Baffled Behemoth, which I just reviewed. It’s my pleasure today to have Melissa guest post for us today. So please [...]
What in the world is a behemoth? From Job 40:15 in the Bible, “Look at the land beast, Behemoth. I created him as well as you . . . “ In addition to an animal being described in the Bible it also means something large in size or power. It’s these two ideas that form [...]
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