Two twelve hour travel days helped me read most of the books on my list this month! Intellectually, I knew how long it would take to get from North Carolina to Alaska, but actually living it is a whole other…
{EE} Reads: The One-in-a-Million Boy
The premise of this book is one of the most odd I’ve ever read — a boy, a 104 year woman, an always down on his luck musician, and a grieving mother are advertised as the main characters. The only…
What I’m Reading: March 2016
March is flying by as it the busyness of the daily schedule has seemed to increase tenfold. My reading tapered off a bit lately, but I’m hoping to carve out some time soon for the library holds that just became…
{EE} Reads: The Language of Flowers
{Image Via} This book came to me by chance — I now remember it being recommended before, but a week ago, I was simply looking for an available Kindle book to borrow from my online library for our birthday weekend…
{EE} Reads: The Case for Grace
{Image Via} I have heard about Lee Strobel for many years because of his most famous book, The Case for Christ, even though it remains on my to be read list. A staunch atheist, Strobel conducted extensive research about Christianity before…
{EE} Reads: Just Mercy
{Image Via} Since I heard people claim this was the best book they read out of a whole year of reading, I knew I had to check it out. I honestly did not know much about the book nor the…
What I’m Reading: February 2016
{No books were harmed in obtaining this photo 🙂 } The Lord gave us books for these winter months, right?!?! I’ve been consuming copious amounts of hot tea while I enjoy a few more weeks of quite a bit of reading…
EE Reads: Bread and Wine
{Image Via} For years, I have heard about Shauna Niequist, an author, speaker, and Jesus follower, and her books have been recommended multiple times. I finally put her 2013 release, Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life around the…
{EE} Reads: All the Light We Cannot See
{Image Via} Oh this book. After finishing All the Light We Cannot See the other day, there are just so many thoughts tumbling in my head, I’m not even sure where to begin! I guess first, and much more important than…
{EE} Reads: Nobody’s Cuter than You
{Image Via} As I mentioned in my What I’m Reading: January post, I finished this friendship memoir this month. The author, Melanie Shankle, is the writer behind the Big Mama blog as well as the author of two other memoirs…
{EE} Reads: Five Days at Memorial
Image Via Last August marked ten years since Hurricane Katrina decimated the city of New Orleans. While in NOLA in 2014, my husband and I toured a display at a local museum about the tragedy. Before that tour, I was extremely ignorant…
{EE} Reads: Garlic and Sapphires
{Image Via} First, I must implore you to not be remotely hungry when reading this delightful memoir, Garlic and Sapphires, written by former New York Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl. Lately, I have been eagerly consuming memoirs (see The Glass Castle &…
