The Memory Jar (Seven Brides for Seven Bachelors)
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After reading The Big Sky series, I became a fan of Tricia Goyer’s writings. I have read numerous Amish fiction books and you would think that another book would be clichéd or stale, but The Memory Jar is a beautifully written romantic tale. The main characters, Sarah and Jathan, are never portrayed as perfect. They have flaws and issues making them seem more realistic. Like I said, I have read many Amish fiction novels, but this is the first that I have read that deals with young Amish men going on hunting trips. I found it interesting that someone would leave their home for long periods of time just to go hunting. From the shocking prologue, to the final pages, I could not put the book down until I had finished reading it. The Memory Jar is a well written Amish love story that I recommend to other readers.
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Take One (Above the Line Series)
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I enjoyed this book – read it on a plane and it kept me from watching the movie; an encouraging story of hope and change and not too emotionally threatening or distressing as some of these stories can be ; with enough action, character depth and engagement -
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I laughed, sighed, and groaned and rejoiced with this family. Most importantly, Ready Or Not provided good brain-food about human nature, and my own heart. I’ll not soon forget Aggie, for like all characters worth meeting, she’s shown me aspects of myself, yet simultaneously opened my eyes beyond myself. The wisdom, humor, and capable writing style in the Aggie series have me eagerly awaiting more by this author.
After the abrupt loss of her sister and brother-in-law, Aggie is stunned to find herself the sole guardian of their eight lively children. If learning basic parenting skills wasn’t complicated enough, she must also battle the children’s half-crazed grandmother, survive a massive remodeling project, and navigate the waters of new friendships-alone.
She has little experience with children and none with housekeeping, and it shows. What she has going for her is grit, a double dose of determination, and the confidence that this is exactly where the Lord wants her to be. With an unlimited P-mail account and enough hymns to keep her spirits bolstered, she tackles one catastrophe after another.
It seems like nothing Aggie does is right, but ready or not, here she comes!
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Michal Ann McArthur’s “Choking on a Camel” resonates not only with the reader who has struggled with her (or his) Christian faith, but also with the unbeliever who, along with the novel’s deeply religious main character, Alex, asks over and over again how a loving God could possibly allow the pain and suffering she sees all around her. For the reader who experienced the violent collision of faith and fact in the tumultuous 60′s and 70′s, the novel’s clear-eyed view of those years – the Civil Rights Movement, the Sexual Revolution, the Viet Nam War, the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, and Bobby Kennedy – reawakens the deep sense of angst that honest inquiry into the Christian faith demanded in those years. It shoves that inquiry unapologetically into the plastic smiles of unthinking Christians who trudged (and today trudge) dutifully along behind their self-appointed spiritual gurus, daring them to answer. Yet throughout the well-crafted story line, and despite Alex’s angst, the reader will glimpse again and again the unmistakable signs of hope for Christian faith that Alex desperately seeks. Her endless questioning, her relentless unspoken doubts, are repeatedly swept away by the realization that a loving God may yet exist.
McArthur’s brilliantly engaging debut novel is not for the spiritually squeamish or the religiously closed-minded. It is a study of the stark realities of the Christian faith that some will not – and others probably should not – step into. Yet for the reader whose faith in God is unshakable, for the reader whose faith journey is only just beginning, and for reader whose faith is looking honestly into the abyss of doubt, “Choking on a Camel” may be a deep breath of spiritual fresh air, one that leaves the reader satisfied “for now” but wanting more … and very soon.
Compulsive skeptic. Devout believer. At odds with the group-think at her fundamentalist university. Preached at and taken advantage of. Agonizing over the recent death of her brother. Hurting for the larger world she lives in. Wrestling with the God she wants to love but maybe hates and definitely doesn’t understand.
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