Book Review: Growing Kids with Character by Hettie Brittz

This book was given to me by Litefuse for my honest review:
And let me stress the word HONEST from that statement. This book is a gem for someone who likes to garden and desires to have every aspect of child-rearing put in the form of gardening.
Check out the chapter titles:

 Though I agree with pretty much everything in this book it's not one that held my interest. Everything is put very, very basic with lots of bullet points:

Lots of them:

 And though the text is broken up it is almost in an attempt to make it more interesting. I personally didn't find it helped.

That said this may be a stellar book for some people and I may pass it around to some friends to see what they think. It has a simple style to it and basic information. She uses her own children and refers to them as specific garden imagery helping you to sort out your child's needs accordingly. This book claims to be able to:

• Cultivate your child's unique way of encountering, following, and worshipping God
• Disciple and discipline based on your child's very own blueprint
• recognize your child's strongest characteristics and apply that knowledge to everyday life.
• Speak your child's unique dialect to foster effective communication 
• Help your child recognize and celebrate God's individualized design for others.

This book is a sort of simple "manual" for child raising and comes in a good format for that.

Book Review: The Masterpiece by Francine Rivers

She did it again folks!  If you have never read Francine Rivers you haven't read the most talented author on the planet. Stop whatever you are doing and fix your life! I'd recommend any of her books to any mature reader!
This one is no exception. She might be getting better with age! Rivers rivets the reader with this story of a graffiti junky who gets his highs from running from the cops...even though Roman's gallery artwork now makes more money than he could ever spend. His life is somehow empty and his attitude shows it to everyone around him.
He finally finds a secretary that he doesn't find the need to fire and almost scares her away with his gruff behavior. Grace lives up to her name and stays, and he curbs his behavior but as she shares her Jesus he is repulsed. How can anyone believe in something so outlandish!?
Flashes back to their individual past keeps the reader up to date with their tender sides and why something causes more of a reaction.
Grace takes a chance and shares with Roman about her life-changing experience & not a moment too soon. A heart attack hits at the worse time and Roman is plunged into the eternal afterlife. Terrified he attempts to break free on his own strength. Finding that failing him he uses the one name he has never used except as a curse word.
Follow this epic adventure in this page-turner and find out at the end the master artist Rivers Mets as she researches this book!
This book was donated to me by Tyndale House for my review.

Book review. A Song Unheard by Roseanne M. White

This book was amazing. Willa is a strong character who doesn’t understand or believe her gift in music. She gets a job to discover the secret of Lucas, a famous violinist who promptly falls on love with her & seeks to put his wild days in his past. History is lived through these pages as you witness Lucas’s family & friends attempting to not hate the Germans who destroy their home, spy’s who attempt the ruin everything, and each other when they find out their true reasons for meeting.
It’s a book that reveals the DEEP characters of the characters...and is so intriguing you hate to turn the last page.
Book provided by Bethany house for my review.

Book Review: The action story book Bible

This short action storybook is full of color as it describes in brief descriptions the stories of the Bible. I had heard a lot of this Bible and the storybook doesn't seem to measure up to the praise I heard for the larger version, the Bible. It seems more like a preschool version. Still good but I think the Bible would be more worth the purchase.

Complete with colored pictures and exciting stories, this hard copy of the storybook is easy to take with you or leave by a bed. With animation that is detailed but not distracting you feel like you are watching the stories unfold!

This book was submitted to me by Litfuse for my review.

Book Review: Judah's wife by Angela Hunt

This book is excellent! Tastefully written story about a time period full of Old Testament gore and bloodshed.

Leah (fictional name given to Judah's wife) grows up with an abuaive father and marries the handsome Judah right before his family moves away from Jerusalem.

As idol worship follows them even as they travel seekIng freedom, they choose to take a stand and welcome any who join their forces. They train their army of farmers and family men and begin wining battle after battle. As they make a name for themselves Leah's bitterness at having a warrior for a husband grows and their relationship dwindles. Discovering how to reconcile violence with the peaceful life she feels she wants, and realizing that Adoni has a call for her life fill Leah's days as she waits for her husband to come back from the battle fields. I love that in the back of the book she has a Q&A section that explains what parts are fiction and what parts are true to history.

Hunt really packed a lot of history into this book! And as she did she summarized so much of the battles that you are able to wrap you head around the enormousness of what was happening! The book is fast paced but takes a detailed reading.


I received this book free courtesy of Bethany House Publisher’s Blogger Review Program in exchange for an honest review.

Book Review: Holding the Fort by Regina Jennings

Holding the Fort by Regina Jennings

 

Holding the Fort was the first book I've read by Jennings. She is funny, witty, and creative in her writing. She used some historical facts to create her story and weaves in a creative tale of a preserved dance hall singer who tries to make it on talent alone. When singing alone isn't enough to hold her position she heads to a prairie fort where her brother is troublesome serving his country. She quickly gets mistaken for a requested governess and sees it as an opportunity for employment. When that employment turns into a marriage proposal she sees her deception as a bondage and seeks to find the right way out but dreads revealing the truth.

With humorous conversations and laughable encounters Lousia Bell steals your heart as you follow her on the prairie through powerful mishaps and revealing truths.

This book was provided for my review.

Book Review: Imperfect Justice by Cara Putman

Imperfect Justice was my first book to read by Cara Putman and I hope it will not be my last! She has you hanging on every word.  She takes a scenario that we all have heard on the news and puts heart behind it as you watch the lawyer walk through trying to solve the mystery of what appears to be an open and shut case.
Putman draws you in with her gifted ability to write and you will fly through this book as you are captivated page by page.
This book was received so I could write this review. My opinions are my own.