The reason

I first heard of lacey Sturm when watching Billy Graham's "My hope for America" special, and immediately fell in love with her music! It was so heart felt and emotionally filled! So when I saw that I would be reviewing a book by this musician I was pretty stoked!
Lacey writes like she sings, with emotion and passion, holding nothing back even when its something that would leave her vulnerable. I love that she put out a book that showed such vulnerbility and gave her journey in a realistic way, bumps, ugliness and everything. She didn't try to put out a book that made her look good, but instead gave us a book that made us look to the one who is truly good.
I love this book, and I think it'll be one that will be well read in our household!


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Playing by heart

This book was one of my favorites, I love that Anne Mateer put together such a strong independant  female character, who wasn't simply simpering away for some guy to sweep her off her feet!
I love that the main character (Lulu) was sure of her self in the way of knowing that she had a place in that time in spite of the views against her gender.
Mateer did a fantastic job of writing a Lulu as a strong character while still keeping her personable and likeable! I also loved that Lulu was written with her flaws showing! I always hate it (and tend to dislike main characters) that are written unrealistically perfect. Mateer wrote her characters with realistic attitudes and lifestyles, the book was very well written and I struggled a lot to put it down!!
I'm already a fan of historic fiction, but I think this book will be well loved by many people regardless of their genre preferences!!

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Your life still counts

This was a great month for great books! Man did I ever love this book too!! I love that in this day and age, the Christian community is finally starting to focus on love and grace, and that past failures do not predict or control our futures!!
Tracie Miles wrote a fantastic book, and one well worth picking up and taking the time to read. I love that her book seemed to have a fantastic formula to it, of healing first of those past failures/mistakes, peace for our present, and the significance of our futures! I think its just fantastic that Tracie Miles didn't just leave things at the healing and peace, but made sure to make sure her readers know that their futures are significant and that their pasts don't have to hinder them!
Again, this will be one book I'll be recommending to our church library and my friends and family.
Its a wonderful, heart felt book that really encompasses the love and grace of God.


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At Bluebonnet Lake

To be perfectly honest, I'm not generally a huge fan of romances, they just don't suit my personality. However with that said, I've over the years found some books that in spite of their romance genre, are actually quite good! This book, "At Bluebonnet Lake" was one of those books, while I didn't think I'd enjoy it much, I was quite surprised to have really enjoyed and engrossed myself in this novel!
Kate (the main character) gets pulled into a trip by her grandmother to visit a place meaningful to her and her late husband. As she (kate) spends time with her grandmother she starts running across Greg, the handyman of the park, and is surprised to find herself attracted to him.
This was a good book, a cute story and a welcome break in the day. If you're into romances, I imagine you'll really love this book. Even the non romance lovers would find this book enjoyable!!

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Breathing room

I highly recommend this book especially if you're in ministry, or the spouse of a minister! I think there's so many of us out there that feel like what we do isn't good enough, that are stuck on our failures, and full of self-condemnation, and this book address that head on, and provides some much needed help and insight!!
Leeana Tankersley appropriately named her book, it was like a breath of fresh air, and just gave (me personally at least) some space to breathe in the midst of it all. But she doesn't leave you there, Tankersley provides some great tools to continually walk in the grace that is so freely given to us by God.
Honestly, I think everyone needs this book, not just ministers and their families, too many people out there are walking in condemnation when they don't have to.  I'll be recommending it for our church library and to anyone I come across. Its an awesome book, and one you won't regret buying!!

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