Subtitle: Learn How a Small, Powerful Act Can Enrich Your Life Author: Carrie PiercePublished 20225 stars One of the joys of my Heartspoken journey has been meeting kindred spirits and inviting them to join my #HeartspokenMovement. Carrie PIerce, the author of this lovely, easy-to-read book, is just such a person. It is a wonderful complement to […]
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Book Review: The Reading List
Review of The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams5 stars Published in 2021, this book was a lovely, heartwarming story that all book lovers will enjoy and appreciate—an outstanding debut novel. The author’s parents are Indian and English, so she renders the Indian characters and the London setting beautifully. I read the print book, but […]
Book Review: How To Write Heartfelt Letters To Treasure
One of the joys of writing my book HEARTSPOKEN: How to Write Notes that Connect, Comfort, Encourage, and Inspire, has been finding and getting to know other writers who share my love for handwritten notes. They always have their own perspectives and stories to share, and the author of this book, Lynette M. Smith, was […]
Life Is Beautiful…and Hard
Thanks to a recommendation from my highschool friend Becky Russell, I recently finished reading Kate Bowler’s remarkable and moving book Everything Happens For A Reason: and other lies I’ve loved. (Amazon link) When Kate Bowler was diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer, she was 35, happily married, and had a newborn son named Zach. She was […]
Book Review: A Gentleman In Moscow
Book author: Amor TowlesPublished 2016 In 1922 at age 30, the protagonist, Russian Count Alexander Rostov, finds himself sentenced by a Bolshevik tribunal to house arrest for the crime of being an unrepentant aristocrat. His reputation and popularity allow him to escape execution, but he must move from an elegant suite in a grand hotel […]
Book Review: Grief Works by Julia Samuel (a helpful primer)
We cannot escape death and grief, so we must learn how to deal with them. Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Survivingby Julia Samuel Reviewed by Elizabeth H. Cottrell4 stars out of 5 [NOTE: this is a more detailed review than the one I posted on Amazon and Goodreads.] Grief Works was highly recommended by a […]
Book Reviews: Celtic Daily Prayer and Hebridean Altars
Devotionals have long been an important part of my daily spiritual practice. I find that a short, thought-provoking devotion can help me settle down and get more focused on God. I liken it to priming the pump for drawing on the living waters of Christ. Here are two wonderful ones. Celtic Daily Prayer: Prayers and […]
Book Review: Keep Your Love On! by Danny Silk
Keep your love on! Connection, Communication and Boundaries Written by Danny SilkReviewed by Elizabeth H. Cottrell I was expecting this to be a sweet, feel-good book about love and kindness. It was, instead, a bold, hard-hitting, brutally honest book about what constitutes a healthy relationship (marriage or otherwise) and how it will spiral downward in […]