Lent – Cannonball Read 18

The Impact of Seven Words

Seven Words by Susan G. Robb

November 20, 2022 by The Chancellor Leave a Comment

Seven Words by Susan G. Robb My rating: 4 of 5 stars Written as a devotional for Lent, the books is split up into chapters and sections that can be read in small portions for the 40-day period. The focus of the book is literally what the title says; each chapter breaks down the words and phrases Jesus speaks on the cross. Ms. Robb is a pastor and uses her theological background to look at the implications of the last seven words Jesus spoke before […]

Preparing for Easter

Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings from C.S. Lewis by C.S. Lewis

October 11, 2022 by The Chancellor Leave a Comment

Preparing for Easter: Fifty Devotional Readings from C. S. Lewis by C.S. Lewis My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Preparing for Easter” by C.S. Lewis is a thought-a-day for Lent. There’s a theme for each week and each selection from Lewis’s works ties in to this theme. When I first picked up the book, I thought it was actually written by C.S. Lewis. It does not take long to realize that this is not the case. Instead, the publishers have taken short pieces from the […]

The one and only time it might be ok to use first person present tense narration

Lent by Jo Walton

June 21, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I was hesitant to pick this up because it’s written in first person, present tense; I’m not much of a fan of either of those. It didn’t surprise me that I was having a hard time getting into the story. I don’t know what happened, but when I picked it up again the next day, I couldn’t put it down. Jo Walton might be a bit of a miracle worker for that. Lent is basically a fictionalized version of 1492-1498 Florence, Italy. The city was […]

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