Comments on: Friday Free-for-All http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/friday-free-for-all-3/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:16:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jill Eileen Smith http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/friday-free-for-all-3/comment-page-1/#comment-3419 Jill Eileen Smith Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:53:32 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5786#comment-3419 Hey Michelle - thanks so much for the mention of my books! I'm glad you liked them. :) I'm currently reading (my third time through) one of my favorite historical novels. (I rarely reread a book.) It's a YA set in ancient Egypt. I read it to my kids when we homeschooled and it can still capture my attention. Love it! The book is MARA, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw. You can still find it on Amazon. Wonderful story! Hey Michelle – thanks so much for the mention of my books! I’m glad you liked them. :)

I’m currently reading (my third time through) one of my favorite historical novels. (I rarely reread a book.) It’s a YA set in ancient Egypt. I read it to my kids when we homeschooled and it can still capture my attention. Love it! The book is MARA, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw. You can still find it on Amazon. Wonderful story!

]]> By: Michelle Ule http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/friday-free-for-all-3/comment-page-1/#comment-3418 Michelle Ule Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:24:00 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5786#comment-3418 Great suggestions all! I've read Dickson's contemporary novels and thinks he's a fantastic writer. I enjoyed the first book of the <i>First Light </i> series and just haven't gotten back to the rest. I'll look for the others. Right now I'm flipping between a true story of Nazis hunting a Brit in WWII Norway called <i>We Die Alone</i> (a wretched title, the guy survives), Michaelanglo and the Sistine Chapel (we're going to Rome in June) and <i>Tears of Pearl</i> an historical novel circa 19th century Constantinople. Great suggestions all! I’ve read Dickson’s contemporary novels and thinks he’s a fantastic writer. I enjoyed the first book of the First Light series and just haven’t gotten back to the rest. I’ll look for the others.

Right now I’m flipping between a true story of Nazis hunting a Brit in WWII Norway called We Die Alone (a wretched title, the guy survives), Michaelanglo and the Sistine Chapel (we’re going to Rome in June) and Tears of Pearl an historical novel circa 19th century Constantinople.

]]> By: Becky Doughty http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/friday-free-for-all-3/comment-page-1/#comment-3417 Becky Doughty Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:20:55 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5786#comment-3417 Lovely post - sat for a few minutes wtih a silly smile on my face, just flipping through the files of my favorite historical novels. One of my favorite reads is called: A Line A Day, by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins, penned in 1923. A charming girl trying to find her place in life is asked to write a line a day that records the most remarkable thing that happened to her that day. “Just five or six words: Saved a child’s life, made a pudding - whatever it is.” Love it. Lovely post – sat for a few minutes wtih a silly smile on my face, just flipping through the files of my favorite historical novels.

One of my favorite reads is called: A Line A Day, by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins, penned in 1923. A charming girl trying to find her place in life is asked to write a line a day that records the most remarkable thing that happened to her that day. “Just five or six words: Saved a child’s life, made a pudding – whatever it is.” Love it.

]]> By: Lynn Dean http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/friday-free-for-all-3/comment-page-1/#comment-3415 Lynn Dean Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:41:45 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5786#comment-3415 My mom recently read and passed on to me Brodie and Brock Thoene's First Light series and Lynn Austen's series on Hezekiah. I've waded in, but am hoping to have more time to read this summer. My mom recently read and passed on to me Brodie and Brock Thoene’s First Light series and Lynn Austen’s series on Hezekiah. I’ve waded in, but am hoping to have more time to read this summer.

]]> By: Lori Benton http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/friday-free-for-all-3/comment-page-1/#comment-3414 Lori Benton Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:47:52 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5786#comment-3414 I checked my reading list. Have you read Lost Mission by Athol Dickson? That's a blend of historical and contemporary. A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House, and The Red Heart by James Alexander Thom are two historicals I read this year and enjoyed. I checked my reading list. Have you read Lost Mission by Athol Dickson? That’s a blend of historical and contemporary. A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House, and The Red Heart by James Alexander Thom are two historicals I read this year and enjoyed.

]]> By: Lori Benton http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/friday-free-for-all-3/comment-page-1/#comment-3413 Lori Benton Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:44:06 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/?p=5786#comment-3413 Love the title of this post. This Friday really is the Friday Free For All. Grace, Redemption, Life Everlasting. He paid for it all! Can't go wrong with Ann Rinaldi. I'm reading Francine's and Liz's new historicals now. You've probably already read The Help (I'm not being much help!). How about nonfiction? I recently read Martha Washington, An American Life, by Patricia Brady. Highly recommend it. Love the title of this post. This Friday really is the Friday Free For All. Grace, Redemption, Life Everlasting. He paid for it all!

Can’t go wrong with Ann Rinaldi. I’m reading Francine’s and Liz’s new historicals now. You’ve probably already read The Help (I’m not being much help!). How about nonfiction? I recently read Martha Washington, An American Life, by Patricia Brady. Highly recommend it.

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