Weeding through the stack of read books and deciding that some need to be recycled:
The Return by Sonia Levitin was recommended in Read For Your Life, Turning Teens into reader by Hunt and Hampton.
The style was so stilted and so obviously teaching, rather than story telling, that it was hard to push through it. It describes a portion of Operation Moses, an operation that airlifted Jewish Ethiopians out of refugee camps in Sudan after they suffered persecution in the remote western highlands of Ethiopia. I was interested to read of this group of Jews and of the airlift to take these people to new lives in Israel, but would have preferred a better storytelling style or plain documentary. Going out.
I have read many of the Read For Your Life (RFYL) Recommendations, and they have been really good, so the Return was disappointing.
Gervase Phinn, Out of the Woods but not Over the Hill, more from this retired Yorkshire school inspector. Some wonderfully funny anecdotes, but not as good as his other volumes. Very bitty. Going out.
Madeleine L'Engle, A Severed Wasp. She develops her female characters well. This book centers around a cathedral in upper Manhattan. She does a good job showing how difficult living and working in such a tight community can be. She also made a strong case for the power of unconfessed sin to keep someone in bondage. Not particularly edifying. Going out.
Project Pearl by Brother David, is the true account of how a very small group of men risked smuggling 1,000,000 Bibles into mainland China in 1981. It is a phenomenal story of God's provision and cloaking, but also of how easily the people of God turn on one another. Going out.
Billy Sunday by Lyle Dorset. Well researched biography of the baseball player who became a revival preacher. Sobering reminder to stay humble when God uses us.
The House on Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper was very well written, very disturbing account of her childhood in Liberia. Too hard to read again or recommend to others. Grim.
Kemelmans, Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red, and Saturday the Rabbi went Hungry. Detective stories that will teach much about how reformed Jews view Christianity and about their own theology. Some of the characters are very callous, not as good as the first one, Friday the Rabbi slept Late.
The Return by Sonia Levitin was recommended in Read For Your Life, Turning Teens into reader by Hunt and Hampton.
The style was so stilted and so obviously teaching, rather than story telling, that it was hard to push through it. It describes a portion of Operation Moses, an operation that airlifted Jewish Ethiopians out of refugee camps in Sudan after they suffered persecution in the remote western highlands of Ethiopia. I was interested to read of this group of Jews and of the airlift to take these people to new lives in Israel, but would have preferred a better storytelling style or plain documentary. Going out.
I have read many of the Read For Your Life (RFYL) Recommendations, and they have been really good, so the Return was disappointing.
Gervase Phinn, Out of the Woods but not Over the Hill, more from this retired Yorkshire school inspector. Some wonderfully funny anecdotes, but not as good as his other volumes. Very bitty. Going out.
Madeleine L'Engle, A Severed Wasp. She develops her female characters well. This book centers around a cathedral in upper Manhattan. She does a good job showing how difficult living and working in such a tight community can be. She also made a strong case for the power of unconfessed sin to keep someone in bondage. Not particularly edifying. Going out.
Project Pearl by Brother David, is the true account of how a very small group of men risked smuggling 1,000,000 Bibles into mainland China in 1981. It is a phenomenal story of God's provision and cloaking, but also of how easily the people of God turn on one another. Going out.
Billy Sunday by Lyle Dorset. Well researched biography of the baseball player who became a revival preacher. Sobering reminder to stay humble when God uses us.
The House on Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper was very well written, very disturbing account of her childhood in Liberia. Too hard to read again or recommend to others. Grim.
Kemelmans, Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red, and Saturday the Rabbi went Hungry. Detective stories that will teach much about how reformed Jews view Christianity and about their own theology. Some of the characters are very callous, not as good as the first one, Friday the Rabbi slept Late.
