A Place at Our Table – Not My Favorite Amy Clipston has written some of my favorite Amish-genre novels. Her Kauffman Bakery series was so very entertaining! When I had the opportunity to read her newest release, A Place at Our Table (first in her Amish Homestead series), I jumped at the chance. Unfortunately, it […]
Home All Along – Fantasic End to an Amazing Series, but Trigger Warning! Beth Wiseman’s Amish Secrets series has come to an end with her third and final installment, Home All Along. Finally! It’s not what I expected, but it’s well worth the read. Charlotte Dolinsky’s journey continues. She’s suffered so much already – an […]
Christmas at Carnton – Faith, Fortitude, and Merriment! Having been around the Christian Fiction genre (especially Amish) for a while, there are some wonderful authors out there that I’ve not had the opportunity to read. Tamera Alexander is one of those authors, and I really wondered if her writings were all that they were hyped […]
All She Left Behind – Dr. Quinn with Grit Yep. I’m at it again. I’ve strayed from my Amish-genre fixation and read another non-Amish <gasp!> novel. My latest finding is the Christian historical fiction novel All She Left Behind by Jane Kirkpatrick. Question is: Can a non-Amish novel at over 350 pages hold my interest? […]
The Amish Christmas Candle – Starts with a Bang, Ends with a Whimper I was in the mood for something Amish and something Christmas. When I found The Amish Christmas Candle, a collection of novellas by Kelly Long, Jennifer Beckstrand, and Lisa Jones Baker, I thought perhaps I’d had my fix. Unfortunately it wasn’t all […]
These Healing Hills – A Cozy, Solid Read I love Ann Gabhart’s Plain novels, especially her Shaker series. But last summer I branched out and read The Scent of Lilacs, which put me squarely in the Gabhart fan club. So when I was given the opportunity to read her latest release, These Healing Hills, I […]
An Amish Christmas Love ~ Literary Foursome Strikes Gold! When Beth Wiseman, Amy Clipston, Kelly Irvin, and Ruth Reid get together, you know you’re in for a treat. What a group of stellar authors to collaborate! And these collections are so satisfying – you can read for a while and already have finished a story. […]
The Amish Witness – It’ll Be Over Before You Know It! Diane Burke is a new-to-me author. I did a general search of “Amish” and The Amish Witness came up. With so many authors writing in the Amish fiction genre, would this work be able to hold its own compared to some of the other […]
How different would your belief system be if you grew up in a different culture? Would your faith in God be the same if you were raised in a different family? New York Times best-selling author Cindy Woodsmall poses these questions in the powerful conclusion to the CBA and ECPA bestselling Amish of Summer Grove […]
Cast your book as a movie – who would play your main characters and why? If Bringing Maggie Home appeared on the Big Screen, I would like to see Olympia Dukakis as Hazel. The actress’s appearance and spunk match Hazel perfectly. Margaret Diane would be best played by Sandra Bullock because I think Sandra could […]