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Books About Teddy

Posted by Sherry on Jul 24, 2010 in 20th Century History Project, General, Nonfiction, U.S. Presidents Reading Project, US History Project

Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough. River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris. Theodore Roosevelt is one of my fascinations. I read McCullough’s Mornings on Horseback back in March, but I never got around to reviewing it. It was a lovely narrative biography of the young Teddy [...]

 
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Scratch Beginnings by Adam Shepard

Posted by Sherry on Jun 22, 2010 in Education and Homeschool, General, Nonfiction

Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream by Adam Shepard. I’m going to buy a copy of this book for a young man I know, who in addition to making what I consider very foolish decisions about his spiritual life, is also stuck in a dead end job and not at [...]

 
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Voices of the Faithful, Book 2, compiled by Kim P. Davis

Posted by Sherry on Jun 3, 2010 in Around the World 2006-7, Christian Life, Church, General, Nonfiction

Inspiring Stories of Courage from Christians Serving Around the World When I received a copy of this book of daily devotional stories from Thomas Nelson’s Book Sneeze Program, I planned to use it to read aloud to the urchins each day about missionaries and their service. I had hoped to form a habit for our [...]

 
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Disrupting Grace: A Story of Relinquishment and Healing by Kristen Richburg

Posted by Sherry on Jun 1, 2010 in General, Nonfiction

I have my own share of family, well, not secrets, but things that are too painful and raw to talk about or to blog about. I can’t imagine writing a book about my own wounds, even after they someday, God willing, are healed. Nevertheless, that’s what Kristen Richburg has done in this book, and I [...]

 
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Nonfiction Monday: Pythagorus and the Ratios by Julie Ellis

Posted by Sherry on May 24, 2010 in General, Nonfiction

Today is “Nontraditional Nonfiction Monday,” as declared by host Travis at 100 Scope Notes. Problem is, my reviews are always sort of non-traditional (scroll down to read my musings on writing book reviews). So, how does a non-traditional book reviewer write a review that’s nontraditional for her? I got it: farm out the review to [...]

 
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A Walk With Jane Austen by Lori Smith

Posted by Sherry on Apr 21, 2010 in --December, Birthdays, General, Nonfiction

I’m a Jane Austen fan myself, maybe not quite so much as some others I could name including the author of this book, but I definitely get the attraction. Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy coming out of the water after a swim, check. The whole chemistry between Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy, check. Marianne and [...]

 
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Texas Tuesday: Apparent Danger by David R. Stokes

Posted by Sherry on Apr 20, 2010 in 2010 Projects, General, Nonfiction, Texas, Texas Tuesday

Apparent Danger: The Pastor of America’s First Megachurch and the Texas Murder Trial of the Decade in the 1920′s by David R. Stokes. I get a lot of emails from publicists pitching books that I might want to review here on the blog. Mostly, I don’t respond because a) most of the books just don’t [...]

 
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Semicolon Book Club for March

Posted by Sherry on Mar 1, 2010 in 2010 Projects, History, Nonfiction, Semicolon Book Club, U.S. Presidents Reading Project, US History Project

The theme for the Semicolon Book Club for March is biography/autobiography, and the particular selelction for this month is David McCullough’s Mornings on Horseback, a biography of Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. The subtitle is “the story of an extraordinary family, a vanished way of life, and the unique child who [...]

 
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President’s Day for Kids

Posted by Sherry on Feb 12, 2010 in --February, 2010 Projects, Birthdays, Booklists, Education and Homeschool, General, Nonfiction, U.S. Presidents Reading Project, US History Project

Monday, February 15th is Presidents’ Day, so I thought I’d re-run this list with a few additions. Have a happy holiday! Leetla Giorgio Washeenton by Thomas Augustine Daly. More Washington Poetry. O Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman. White House site with mini-biographies of all 44 U.S. Presidents. More information on the Presidents for President’s [...]

 
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Semicolon’s 12 Best Nonfiction Books I Read in 2009

Posted by Sherry on Dec 28, 2009 in Booklists, General, Nonfiction

I don’t read as much nonfiction as I do fiction. I’d like to balance that out a little more in 2010. Can anyone suggest some excellent nonfiction titles for my TBR list? I’m especially interested in history, British and American, Christian inspiration that is really, really worthwhile, and science titles for dummies. Heaven: Your Real [...]

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