Booksneeze Review: The MoneySmart Family System, by Steve and Annette Economides
The Economides, hailed as ”America’s Cheapest Family” in another of their books, want to help other families learn to manage their money, and pass that information on to their children. They say their book is for those parents who “define successful children as those who want to be independent and self-sufficient adults, able to stand on their own two feet and look back at their parents with a smile of gratitude for helping them to be autonomous.” Sounds pretty good, right? They go on to detail their…
Booksneeze Review: The Final Summit, by Andy Andrews
I heard Andy Andrews speak at last year’s Women of Faith event in San Antonio. He was an energetic and interesting speaker, and I was curious about his writing. The Final Summit is the sequel to The Traveler’s Gift, which I have not read. However, I suspect few readers would have trouble following the plot or characters. The Final Summit focuses on David Ponder as he travels time to save the world. There are life lessons delivered via cameos by Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln,…
Blogging For Books Review: Sierra Jensen Collection, Vol. 1 by Robin Jones Gunn
This collection of 3 books introduces Sierra Jensen, a fairly typical teenager returning from a mission to Europe. She and the other characters in the books are falling in and out of love, making friends, and trying to see God’s hand in their lives. What I liked: I am not, I think, the target audience here, so as I read I asked myself, “Would I give this book to my daughter?” Well, she’s too young, but you know, when she’s older. And the answer…
Zeitgeisty
When we moved into our house, we brought with us a cabinet that started its life (with me … technically, I suppose it began life as a tree. excuse me while I sob for a moment.) as an installation in the Geology building of campus, full of jars growing rock candy. Then it lived in some apartments and finally our house, where I didn’t really have anywhere to put it. And I kept thinking, I wonder if I’d get in trouble (city ordinance-y wise) if…
Booksneeze Review: A Cure For the Common Life by Max Lucado
I started this book off with an eye roll or thirty, but once I got into it, I liked it. Lucado wants to help you find your “sweet spot in life”, where you feel like you are doing what you’re meant to be doing. The language is a little annoying (“you were born prepacked-for a purpose!”) BUT if you can see past that, the book is probably useful. And I will know more, once I have found the time to sit down and fill out…
30 Day Challenge, Day 13
Today’s prompt: yourself with 13 things.
>Books 19, 20, and 21
>The Girl With the Glass Feet Ali Shaw My dream come true: I walked by the “new books” shelf, and The Girl With the Glass Feet was sitting there, just for me, and I didn’t even have to go to the trouble of requesting it, or waiting, or anything. Huzzah! Fairy tales: they’re controversial (see here, here and here), many of them are violent (see here) and disturbing if you are disturbed by that sort of thing (come on, I know you are), and usually,…
