Book Reviews

Book Review: The Common Man

by GK Chesterton This book is a collection of about 44 essays on subjects ranging from the common man to necromancy to Elizabeth Barrett Browning to nudism to match making historical figures and how they're getting together may have changed history. Needless to say, I...

Book Review: The Vikings

by: Elizabeth Janeway             This was a pretty good book.  I read it aloud to my 4th grader for his history and I think we both considered it time well spent.  Probably me more than he but only because he’s a young boy who would rather be up to his armpits in...

Book Review: Confessions (F.J. Sheed translation)

by Saint Augustine of Hippo             I’ve tried a couple of translations of this book over the years and I’m not sure if I’m just in a place where my mind was finally ready for this book or if it was Sheed’s translation, but I really clicked with this book.  I’ve...

Book Review: Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls

by Dr. John Bergsma I got this for Christmas. It was as great as I hoped it would be.Doctor Bergsma is an Old Testament and Dead Sea Scrolls specialist and a teacher at Franciscan University. You can tell how fascinating and exciting he finds all this and his...
The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

by Francis Hodgson Burnett What an excellent book!  A bossy, spoiled girl named Mary is living in India until she is sent to Yorkshire England to live with her very rich uncle in his mansion when her parents die in an epidemic.  The whole place...

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Away Goes Sally

Away Goes Sally

by Elizabeth Coatsworth             Sally is a young orphan that lives with her aunts and uncle in late 18th-century Massachusetts.  After receiving a letter from their cousin that had settled in...

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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

by GK Chesterton             This was a near perfect biography.  If I were Charles Dickens, I would have been waiting for Chesterton at the gates of heaven to hug the stuffing out of him for writing...

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The Magna Charta 

The Magna Charta 

by James Daugherty             This was a well-written book especially considering that with the material it covered, it could have been a snoozefest.  Instead, the story of the Magna Charta was...

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George Washington’s World

George Washington’s World

by Genevieve Foster I read this with my son for his history class. The concept of this book was very cool. It went through the main stages of George Washington's life and told what was going on during those time periods not only in his life but also in the United...

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Saint Isaac and the Indians

Saint Isaac and the Indians

by Milton Lomask This book was about one of the North American martyrs Saint Isaac Jogues. He was a Jesuit that journeyed from France to Quebec in hopes of bringing Christ to the natives of North America. The Hurons agreed to let him live amongst them, so he traveled...

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Emma

Emma

by Jane Austen While trying to decide what to read next, I came across the trivia tidbit that the movie Clueless was based on Jane Austen's Emma. I'm not at all embarrassed to admit that – coming of age in the 90's – I loved the movie Clueless. I am also not at all...

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All One in Christ

All One in Christ

by Edward Feser I bought this book because I had an inkling as to what Critical Race Theory was but I definitely didn't have the knowledge necessary to have any sort of conversation on it. This book has excellent information about where the Church has stood on...

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