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Book Review of ‘The Mother in Me’
15 September 2008 @ 08:43 | Book Review | 22 Comments
This review comes from Michelle L., our newest blog staffer and Segullah Board member. Welcome Michelle!
A few years ago when I was in the throes of raising five little boys, a well-meaning neighbor dropped a book about depression and various medications in my mailbox.
I didn’t know what to think.
Was I exhausted? Yes.
Overwhelmed? Absolutely.
Depressed? Maybe. But [...]
Book Review of Eugene Woodbury’s ‘Angel Falling Softly’
8 September 2008 @ 13:10 | Book Review | 8 Comments
Eugene Woodbury
Angel Falling Softly
Zarahemla Books, 2008
Softcover, 224 pages
ISBN:978-0-9787971-6-4
$15.95
It has vampires, love scenes, and is written by a Mormon author. But it’s definitely not part of the Twilight series. It is, however, a good read. I would even venture to say that it’s a great read.
True confessions
29 May 2008 @ 07:59 | Book Review | 64 Comments
Today’s post was inspired by one of Justine’s thought-provoking posts and the interesting comments that ensued. (Not to mention just a little egging on by Deborah and Sue.) I especially loved Justine’s fabulous rant about “Moby Dick.” It’s going to make my Comment Hall of Fame.
I have a confession to make. I graduated with [...]
Book Review from a book snob, “Hunting Gideon”
8 May 2008 @ 05:19 | Book Review, Small Epiphanies | 4 Comments
While Deborah was defending her non-book-snob status last week, I was also coming to terms with my own. And I guess here is where I must admit that I’m a bleeding-heart-book-snob. I think there are books filled with nuance and beauty and books that are thinly veiled propaganda abounding in oversimplification and poor writing [...]
On the Road to Heaven
22 April 2008 @ 23:40 | Book Review | 8 Comments
On the Road to Heaven is two autobiographical tales in one book: the story of Newell’s conversion, from hippie to Saint, or, as he puts it, from Zero to Zion; and the story of his mission to Colombia. He weaves his love for Annie, a teenage LDS girl who questions her faith and then returns [...]
Book Review, ‘Bound on Earth’
17 February 2008 @ 17:39 | Book Review | 7 Comments
Angela Hallstrom
Bound on Earth
Parables Publishing, February 2008
Softcover, 197 Pages
ISBN: 978-0961496098
$12.95
Angela Hallstrom’s debut novel Bound on Earth fleshes out the fiction and non-fiction of marriage and family. Through a series of vignettes written from the perspective of different members of the Palmer family (mother, daughter, father, grandparents and others), the book allows its reader to discover [...]
