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Book Review: How To Write Heartfelt Letters To Treasure

By Elizabeth Cottrell

Book Review: How To Write Heartfelt Letters to Treasure

One of the joys of writing my book HEARTSPOKEN: How to Writer 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 […]

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Life Is Beautiful…and Hard

By Elizabeth Cottrell

Everything Happens For A Reason by Kate Bowler Book Review

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 […]

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Book Review: A Gentleman In Moscow

By Elizabeth Cottrell

Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Heartspoken Book Review

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 […]

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Book Review: Grief Works by Julia Samuel (a helpful primer)

By Elizabeth Cottrell

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We cannot escape death and grief, so we must learn how to deal with them. Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving by Julia Samuel Reviewed by Elizabeth H. Cottrell 4 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 […]

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Book Reviews: Celtic Daily Prayer and Hebridean Altars

By Elizabeth Cottrell

Book Reviews: Celtic 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 […]

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Book Review: Keep Your Love On! by Danny Silk

By Elizabeth Cottrell

Keep your love on! Connection, Communication and Boundaries Written by Danny Silk Reviewed 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 […]

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Habits, Good Or Bad: They Impact Our Happiness

By Elizabeth Cottrell

Words written on sticky notes: Build Good Habits, Break Bad Habits!

I’ve been thinking and reading a lot about habits and the role they play in our behavior, primarily because I’m determined to cultivate better health habits and squash as many unhealthy habits as possible during 2015. It’s become crystal clear to me that understanding and knowing myself—connecting with myself, if you will—is critical to having […]

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Book Review: Strange As This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake

By Elizabeth Cottrell

Strange As This Weather Has Been - book review

  Strange as This Weather Has Been: A Novel by Ann Pancake Reviewed by Elizabeth H. Cottrell 5 stars out of 5 Strange as This Weather Has Been: A Novel packs a wallop on several levels, and I commend it highly to any serious reader interested in a unique, powerful, and fresh voice in contemporary literature. […]

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Elizabeth Cottrell, aka RiverwoodWriter

Elizabeth H. Cottrell

I am a freelance writer, ghostwriter, and blogger called to encourage readers to strengthen the bonds of faith, family, and friends and to cultivate the joy and impact of personal, handwritten notes and letters. More Info.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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