Book Review: Love Comes Calling

Love Comes Calling
Siri Mitchell
Copyright 2014

Head with me back in time to the 1920s where we will meet Ellis Eton whose greatest ambition is to be an actress. Soon Ellis finds herself filling in for her friend Janie who had to take some time off to go back home for her Mothers funeral. Ellis cannot deny her friend the help so she agrees but she must quicly learn what the job entails.

Soon Ellis is finding out that being a "Hello Girl" as they called telephone operators is not all its cut out to be.  In fact sometimes it's downright dangerous especially when you hear things your not supposed to hear.

Ellis seems to be an expert at getting into all sorts of trouble.  But when the man she loves is in danger she manages to come to the rescue.

Ellis may have trouble concentrating and she may find herself in danger from time to time but she slowly dtarts realizing she cant work to please everyone else.

Five out of five stars...

Book Review: Finding Love At Home

Finding Love At Home
Jerry Eichler
Copyright 2014

Jerry Eichler once again gives us a look into the lives of Amish.

In this book we get to see how Debbie who has always wanted to be part of the plain community deals with her neighbors the Beilers.  We learn how she saves Paul life when an accident leaves him nearly bleeding to death and how she reminds him that if a woman truly loves a man it will not matter ifvthey have a prostetic arm.  We see how she deals with it when the man she thought she loved decides to take a girl born into the Amish community over her.  

Finding Love At Home gives us glimpse both into the heartbreaks and the loves found in the Amish vommunity.  We come to see that though our lifestyles maybe different both Amish and Rnglish deal with both the heartbreaks and joys of life.

I give this book five out of five stars.

Head off with me to discover the adventures found in one Amish Community.

Pull up a comfy chair and a beverage of your choose...

Happy Reading. ..

Book Review: No Place to Hide

No Place to Hide
A Brain Surgeon’s Long Journey Home from the Iraq War
W. Lee Warren
Copyright 2014

No Place to Hide is the powerful true story of a Brain Surgeon’s journey in the Iraq war.  This book offers a candid account of the things he saw.

W.Lee Warren talks openly about some of the injuries he saw from IEDs as well as other war related injuries he talks about how he had to get used to working in a first class hospital in the states to working in war conditions in Iraq.  

In this book W. Lee shares a few emails home when he talks about the bad guys trying to get in despite 12 feet concrete walls and several check points one time they almost get in but are stopped so they blow themselves uo injuring others in the process but had they got in the damage would bhave been so much worse.

We learn how Doctor Warren not only cared for Soldiers who were injured but Iraqui citizens as well some were the children of those who were simply wanting to vote and some were the bombers themselves. 

Doctor Warren later goes to share of the nightmares that PTSD caused once he got home from the war, how even his children were acutely aware of how the war had chaged him, but we also see a lot of hope in this very real story of the lives saved because he served his country.

Five out of five stars...

Book Review: Pieces Of Someday

Pieces of Someday
One Woman's Search for Meaning in Lawyering, Family, Italy, Church, and a Tiny Jewish High School
Jan Vallone
Copyright 2013

In Pieces of Some Jan Vallone shares what it was like growing up with a perfectionist Father.  We learn of Jan's desire to please her Father by trying yo follow the path he choose for her, but also she shows us how unsatisfied that makes her feel.  It tells of how she spent years not feeling satisfied in her career as an attorney until she realizes what she really desires is to be an English Teacher.  She loved reading and did some writing growing up.  After her daughter struggles through school though she begins to realize her desire to be a teacher.

Becoming a teacher seemed to be a natural progression for her perhaps it was because her Mother wss a teacher but it was also something deeper than that.

We learn to of how she and her husband Mark adopt two kids after she is unable to get pregnant first Cristin then Sean.

Jan shares about how out of place she felt sometimes growing up in a mostly Jewish neighborhood and going to a school that was mostly Jewish despite being Italian Catholic but she would later come to teach in a Jewish High School.

I give this book five out of five stars for its candid honesty and its in depth look at one womans struggle to find who she is.

Book Review: Hiding Places

Hiding Places

A Memoir from the Pirate Princess of Tybee Island 

Deborah Elizabeth Merriman

Copyright 2011

Hiding Places is the powerful story of a girl who searches for Hiding Places to get away from the abusive stepmother who is raising her after her fathers Mother seems to agree with the step Mother that fhinks this little girl is the product of devil worship that she is crazy in some way when a counselor suggests that perhaps the Step Mother is unbalanced.   The Step mother storms out of the hospital. 

Deborah Elizabeth goes to live with her Grandparents,  and finds at least some love and acceptance from her Grandfather but her Grandmother  seems to think that she is trouble and she always has to worry about being punished.  Deborah finds escape in hrr Hiding Places and her pretend games.

Deborah moved back in with her Stepmother and Father just before she started fifth grade.  She was able to go to the same school because they only lived two miles from her grandparents. She would endure several years of Mama Jos extreme punishments her mood swings until she was seventeen and went to go live with her Dad and his third wife the firstntime she was not made to feel like a burden.

Some books just have a way of sticking with you long after the pages are closed and Hiding Places is one of those books.

Five out of five stars.

Book Review: Sisters of Lazarus

Sisters of Lazarus
Beauty Unveiled
Paula K. Parker
Copyright 2013

In Sisters Of Lazarus we are given a fictionalized account of Lazarus sisters Mary and Martha.  This book deals with the issues of self worth Mary and Martha dealt with.  

Sisters of Lazarus Beauty Unveiled show just how different these sisters were how at odds they were but more than that it is a reminder that the Lord does  not judge by physical appearance but by the persons spirit.

Five out of five stars.

Happy Reading. ..

Book Review: Thrive

Thrive
Digging Deep, Reaching Out
Mark Hall
Copyright 2014

Mark Hall reminds us that God does not only want us to survive but in order to do that we must dig deep and reach out.  We are also reminded that God has bigger dreams for us then we do.

In Thrive we are reminded that God has a plan for our lives but it is up to us to respond in obedience.   Hall reminds us to that Satan is constantly trying to change what we believe he is trying to place doubt in our hearts.  We are reminded to that we cannot Thrive unless our minds are renewed.

We are reminded too that when we Thrive in the Lord we will have to face oppressors.   We are reminded too that Satan is going to try and attack our communication with God because he knows the damage that will cause.

Thrive is a great book for new believers and believers who are working to Thrive with the help of the Lord.

Five out of five stars.