Adventures of Faith, Hope, and Charity: Finding Patience by Virginia Lieto has all the elements familiar to most children: families in transition, siblings, new classmates, loneliness and puppies! For children, waiting for anything seems endless! Faith Livingstone, age eight, would agree; she has just moved to a new town and is about […]
Testing Liberty, by Theresa Linden
She lies in her darkened cell, alone, cold, hungry and exhausted, awaiting the tortures of the Re-Education Facility. The Regimen Custodia Terra have Liberty 554-062466-84 of Aldonia, exactly where she wants to be. Something of a MacGyver, Liberty becomes more dangerous in captivity than on the loose—always improvising, planning and […]
Return to Paradise – by Tim Speer – YA Review
Return to Paradise relates five critical days in the life of a man named David Martin. In them, his courage, steadfastness and integrity are tried by an unusual experience. Seemingly quite by accident, he finds himself stranded in a small, rural town in Missouri on a trip to visit […]
The synergy of the Catholic Writers Guild
What is it about the Catholic Writers Guild that makes networking so fulfilling? For five years, I have attended the live conferences and learned much from the sessions on how to write better and market better. I gained even more from the relationships formed with Catholic writers across the continent. […]
Rosa, Sola, by Carmela Martino
In Rosa, Sola, Carmela Martino extended an invitation for her readers to meet Rosa Bernardi and share the hospitality of her Italian immigrant household. Martino spiced the text with Italian dialogue and painted her chapters in domestic minutiae that placed a fork in the reader’s right hand and a […]
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes – Teresa Frailey
Some books leave you disappointed, some books you finish with bated breath, and some books you finish with a feeling of satisfaction that it was an enjoyable book which won’t collect dust on the shelf in coming years. My experience with Flowers for Algernon was none of these, however. This […]
Review: Eve’s Apple by Marie Therese Kceif
In Eve’s Apple, Marie Therese Kceif talks about her life as three chances, three careers, three marriages and three apples. “Many times in my life God has had to give me three or more chances in different ways and through different people to hear his guidance in a matter before […]
Saint Magnus, the Last Viking, by Susan Peek
Susan Peek invites her readers to meet Saint Magnus, one of her friends in high places. Although he lived 950 years ago, he speaks, through his heroic example, to modern readers on the most fundamental of current problems. Standard definitions tell us that Vikings were pirates, plunderers, and raiders known […]
Something More: The Professional’s Pursuit of a Meaningful Life, by Randy Hain
Busy? Full time job + writing projects + volunteering + home schooling + committees, oh yes, there’s the family and faith to squeeze in there somewhere while trying to remain sane and healthy. Randy Hain’s been there and found “something more.” Early on, he recognized that we humans can’t […]
The Dead Key, by D. M. Pulley
The author, trained as a structural and forensic engineer, designed her young structural engineer protagonist, Iris, in her likeness. Iris’ boss at Cleveland-based WRE, asked Iris to map the inside of a mothballed 15-story bank building, an edifice with a complex and dark history. Lonely, scared and vulnerable, Iris was […]