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Sunday Salon: Books Read in January, 2010

Posted by Sherry on 1/31/2010 in 2010 Projects, Booklists, General, Sunday Salon

Fire by Kristin Cashore. Semicolon review here. The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien. My birthday post for Tolkien includes thoughts about The Children of Hurin. After the Moment by Garrett Freyman-Weyr. Semicolon mini-review here. Going Bovine by Libba Bray. Semicolon mini-review here. Comfort by Joyce Hostetter. Semicolon mini-review here. The Knife of Never Letting [...]

 
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Many Happy Returns: January 31st

Posted by Sherry on 1/31/2010 in --January, Birthdays, General

(Pearl) Zane Grey, Western author, b. 1875 in Zanesville, Ohio. He dropped his first name later in life. Engineer Husband has an uncle named Horace Pearl; Pearl was an acceptable name for boys around the turn of the century and before. Zane Grey wrote over 90 books, travelled all over the world, and became one [...]

 
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Semicolon Book Club: Esther by Chuck Swindoll

Posted by Sherry on 1/30/2010 in 2010 Projects, Adult Fiction, Christian Life, General, Semicolon Book Club

This post necessarily combines thoughts about the book of Esther in the Bible and about Chuck Swindoll’s commentary on Esther, titled Esther: A Woman of Strength and Dignity. Mr. Swindoll’s book is the January selection for the Semicolon Book Club, and I chose it because the women of my church will be discussing and studying [...]

 
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Many Happy Returns: January 30th

Posted by Sherry on 1/30/2010 in --January, Birthdays, General, Poets and poetry

Walter Savage Landor, b.1775. “I strove with none; for none was worth my strife, Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready to depart.” Ann Taylor (b. 1782) who along with her sister Jane published several books of poems for [...]

 
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Saturday Review of Books: January 30, 2010

Posted by Sherry on 1/29/2010 in Saturday Reviews

“I heard once Winston Churchill read a book every night, even during the Blitz. He said it made him think better. It’s how I like to run things.”~Sawyer from LOST If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually [...]

 
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Trivia Questions for Tomorrow’s Birthday Party

Posted by Sherry on 1/29/2010 in --January, Birthdays, General

Quite a few famous authors and other people have birthdays on January 30th. Can you guess the answers to these trivia questions before tomorrow’s post on the Birthdays of January 30th? What famous children’s song lyrics did Ann Taylor and her sister Jane write? Who wrote the book A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century? [...]

 
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Many Happy Returns: January 28th

Posted by Sherry on 1/28/2010 in --January, Birthdays, General, Picture Book Preschool

Sabine Baring-Gould, b. 1834. Victorian archaeologist, he had fifteen children and wrote the hymn “Onward Christian Soldiers”. More information on his eccentricities here. Vera B. Williams, b. 1927, children’s author and illustrator. She wrote and illustrated two of my favorites, A Chair for My Mother and Two Days on a River in a Red Canoe. [...]

 
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Soundtrack for the Book of Esther

Posted by Sherry on 1/27/2010 in 2010 Projects, General, Music and Hymns, Top 100 Hymn Project

I’ve been reading and studying the book of Esther all month. Here are a few songs that go well with the themes of Esther: courage, trust, God’s sovereignty, our willing obedience. God of Grace and God of Glory by Harry Emerson Fosdick. Grant us the wisdom of a Mordecai and the courage of an Esther. [...]

 
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What Z-Baby Read

Posted by Sherry on 1/27/2010 in Children's Fiction

Z-Baby (age eight) listens to a lot of books, but I think this is the longest one she’s read herself, not by herself, mind you; I slogged through each and every page with her. But she read it and finished it and enjoyed it. Amelia Bedelia, Bookworm by Herman Parish. Illustrated by Lynn Sweat. Z-Baby’s [...]

 
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Heroes for Haiti

Posted by Sherry on 1/27/2010 in Around the World 2006-7, Current Events, General, Haiti

Haitian Doctor Takes 100 Patients into his Home. “The injured sing Christian hymns as they huddle close together beneath sheets strung up as tents, but the earthquake still haunts them. Aftershocks rattled the city as recently as Friday morning.” Couple Donate Wedding Reception Money to Haiti: “Guests at the Bogen-Nicholson wedding in June will have [...]

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