by applewooddollhospital | Sep 19, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews
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...
by applewooddollhospital | Aug 28, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews
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...
by applewooddollhospital | Aug 24, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews
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...
by applewooddollhospital | Aug 18, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews
by Matt Weber It does seem that really young people and really old people have a good handle on their faith/life whereas those of us in the middle are still working on how to Catholic in our post-Christian culture.This book was about one man’s story of searching for...
by applewooddollhospital | Aug 10, 2023 | Blog, Book Reviews
by Elizabeth Yates This book was excellent! One of my favorite things about the curriculum we use is the heavy use of books like this one that do a great job of bringing the historical context to life.So with this book, we were taken from a village in Africa where...
