Book Reviews - January 2019

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

My first book of the year is one I've been meaning to read but never got around to.  I even had been on a wait list for it at the library, got the book, and ran out of time before I had to return it.  Well, this book did not disappoint!  It really kept me guessing throughout about who did it and what happened.  

A Million Little Ways by Emily P. Freeman

Run to the library and get this book.  Actually, get your own copy so you can highlight and underline this book.  Just a beautiful book.  So encouraging for those who love God and want to honor Him in their day to day lives.  The emphasis is on how much God loves us and how we are His art.  We are created in Him image with a job to do - to share His love and use the gifts He has given you for His glory.  His gifts are our art.  Art is not art class projects.  We are all artists.

Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan

I knew nothing about CS Lewis and his wife.  This is historical fiction.  They didn't get married until later in life.  She was an American author, divorcee, who came to faith later in life.  She and her husband at the time wrote CS Lewis a letter asking him questions about God.  They had mutual friends in the literary world and he was a prolific letter writer.  They struck up a letter writing pen friendship.  She went to England to research for a book and they met and became real life friends.  Her husband was abusive, alcoholic, and a serial adulterer.  She eventually left him and took their two sons to London.  They worked together on projects, she was his editor, and friend.  He even dedicated one of the Narnia books to her sons.  It was a really good story.