Book Review: God Speaks Through Wombs

 

God Speaks Through Wombs

Poems on God's Unexpected Coming

by Drew Jackson

InterVarsity Press 

IVP

 Christian  |  Poetry 

Pub Date 14 Sep 2021

I am reviewing a copy of God Speaks Through Wombs, Poems on God’s Unexpected Coming through InterVarsity Press and Netgalley:

In God Speaks through wombs birthing prophetic utterances.   We are reminded that despite those who deal with an unbelieving religion that masquerades as faith. Divine favor is placed on what we have disgraced. 

God Speaks Through Angels, is Drew Jackson’s exploration the first eight chapters of Luke's Gospel in a new poetic register.    The poems in this collection is declarative poems, faithfully proclaiming the gospel story in all its liberative power.  Here the gospel is the "fresh words / that speak of / things impossible." From the Magnificat ("That girl can sing! . . . She has a voice / That can shatter shackles") to the baptism of Christ ("I stepped in / Committing insurrection"), this collection helps us hear the hum of deliverance against all hope that's been in the gospel all along.

I give In God Speaks Through Wombs five out of five stars!

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Book Review: My 52 Lists Project: Journaling Inspiration for Kids

 

My 52 Lists Project: Journaling Inspiration for Kids!

Journaling Inspiration for Kids!

by Moorea Seal

Sasquatch Books 

 Children's Nonfiction  |  Middle Grade  |  Self-Help 

Pub Date 07 Sep 2021 

I am reviewing a copy of My 52 Lists Project: Journaling Inspiration for Kids through Sasquatch Books and Netgalley:

In this book, it is reminded that kids are able to express themselves, includes are lists that help them do just that as it helps them explore interests and hobbies, and learn more about themselves.  This beautiful hard-Covered guided journal can be started anytime, and can either be a safe space for kids to fill out on their own, or can be done with a loved one to spark great conversations.

The simple prompts will help kids be able to express themselves while they brush up on writing skills, as well as helping them to build social and emotional intelligence.

The book includes prompts, as well as photography to go along with those prompts , it also includes a sticker sheet.

If you have a middle grade child in your life that has expressed interest in being able to express themselves in journal form, I highly recommend My 52 Lists Project:  Journaling Inspiration for a kids.

I give My 52 List Project five out of five star!

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Book Review: To Shatter Glass

 

To Shatter Glass

Poems

by Sister Sharon Hunter, CJ

Paraclete Press 

Iron Pen

 Biographies & Memoirs  |  Christian  |  Poetry 

Pub Date 21 Sep 2021 

I am reviewing a copy of To Shatter Glass through Paracalete Press/Iron Pen and Netgalley:

To Shattered Glass is at its essence a memoir in poetic form.  It covers seventy years of struggle and experience. When she was in her early thirties and at the end of an abusive child.see marriage Sister Sharon Hunter entered a modern convent. Neither sheltered nor immune from reality, she confronted demons of the past and trauma brought with her, unresolved and in need of healing. Her collection obliterates a common belief that men and women enter religious orders to escape life. Its fifty-six poems vary in style and capture the heart and imagination of those searching for straight answers to difficult questions.  This collection of poetry touches on the need to know ourselves, to accept our humanity as defined by God, and to strive toward reconciliation through self-examination and forgiveness.

To Shatter Glass is an invitation to wholeness for those scarred by family alcoholism.  It is written for the quiet and sensitive buried by depression, and for those who may be too afraid to expose their wounds. It is for anyone who has experienced betrayal or the loss of a loved one through tragic circumstances.

I give To Shatter  Glass five out of five stars!

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Book Review: In the Lord I Take Refuge

 

In the Lord I Take Refuge

150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms

by

Crossway

Christian

Pub Date 27 Jul 2021

I am reviewing a copy of In the Lord I Take Refuge through Crossway and Netgalley:

If you are looking for a devotional that will allow you to journey through the psalms in a new way, I recommend Inn the Lord I Take refuge.    

In the Lord I Take Refuge you will journey through beauty and delight as well as brokenness and pain.   You will find that joy and sorrow mingle together.  

If you are looking for a Devotional that stays true to the scriptures then look no further than In the Lord We Take Refuge.

I give In the Lord I Take Refuge five out of five stars!

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Book Review: Mother/land

 

Mother/land

by Ananda Lima

BooksGoSocial

OwnVoices  |  Poetry

OwnVoices 

Poetry

Pub Date 15 Oct 2021

I am reviewing a copy of Motherland through BooksGoSocialOwnVoices and Netgalley:

Mother/land was the winner of the 2020 Hudson Prize.  The collection of poetry is focused on the intersection of motherhood and immigration and its effects on a speaker’s relationship to place, others and self.

This book investigates the mutual and compounding complications of these two shifts in identity while examining legacy, history, ancestry, land, home, and language.

Mother/land is heavily focused on the latter, including formal experimentation with hybridity and polyvocality, combining English and Portuguese, interrogating translation and transforming traditional repeating poetic forms.

If you are looking for a collection of poetry written from the perspective of an immigrant Mother of an American child, Mother/land is the book for you.

I give Motherland five out of five stars!

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Book Review: Unknown Threat

 

Unknown Threat

by Lynn H. Blackburn

Revell 

Christian  |  Mystery & Thrillers  |  Romance 

Pub Date 02 Mar 2021 

I am reviewing a copy of Unknown Threat through Revell and Netgalley:

First of all let me say that if you are looking for a book full of action and suspense, one that will keep you on your toes Unknown threat definitely fits that bill., and if you are looking for a taste of romance it has that too.  

Luke Powell is a US Secret Service Special Agent who is lucky to be alive.  He has had three of his special agents die in unusual circumstances in the past ten weeks. Luke is devastated by the loss of his friends and colleagues, and his inability to locate the killer feels like a personal failure.   He's an expert at shielding others, but now the protectors are in need of protection and Luke isn’t used to having to rely on others.

Special agent Faith Malone is an FBI agent who is driven to succeed, she is confident in her ability to solve every case she's assigned. She was put in charge of the investigation into the unprecedented attacks, and with Luke's life in danger, the stakes have never been higher. But it's hard to know how to fight back when you don't know who the enemy is.

As more agents are targeted, Luke and Faith will have to work together to bring a killer to justice and prevent any more names from joining their fallen brothers and sisters on the Secret Service Wall of Honor.

I give Unknown Threat five out of five stars!

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Book Review: A Fine Yellow Dust

 

A Fine Yellow Dust

by Laura Apol

Michigan State University Press 

 Health, Mind & Body  |  Poetry 

Pub Date 01 Aug 2021

I am reviewing a copy of A Fine Yellow Dust through Michigan State University Press and Netgalley:

Late in April of 2017, Laura Apol’s twenty six year old daughter Hanna took her own life on a sunny April Afternoon, afterwards she was shattered.  

In the days and weeks that followed Hanna’s death she began to write.   

Apol had long believed in the therapeutic possibilities of writing, having conducted workshops on writing-for-healing for more than a decade. Yet after Hanna’s death, she had her own therapeutic writing to do, turning her anguish, disbelief, and love into poems that map the first year of loss. This collection is the result of that writing, giving voice to grief as it is lived, moment by moment, memory by memory, event by event.

If you are looking for a heartwarming, as well as heartbreaking collection of poetry dealing with grief and loss from a fresh perspective.  A Mother’s grief told in beautifully written poem.

I give A Fine Yellow Dust five out of five stars!

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