Literary Chatter 📚 Porch #187
Bookmarks. Dark journals. Titles KSP is not recommending. Overflowing shelves. A compelling summer reading challenge. Plus ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kindle deals & my literary time capsule.
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Hello again, dear weekend companions.
If reading about reading and scooping up deals is your thing, you’ll love this edition of PORCH! Please spread the word by forwarding this to all your book lovin’ people.
And after 17 years of being known as THE BOOKBAG, our mid-monthly book talk will now be known as LITERARY CHATTER. I have no idea why. It just happened. Because every once in a while, it’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind.
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The Simple Joy of a Bookmark
Molly Ella, Slow Scottish Stories
’My collection has now grown beyond what is strictly ‘necessary’ (even I don’t read 10+ books at once!), but I find that this is an area of my life that I’m happy to relax the rules. And I’ll tell you why …’
There Have Always Been Words
Linda Hoye, A Slice of Life
’The journals remain—silent reminders of a dark time. Over the years, I’ve wondered what I should do with them. They’re not the kind of journal I’d want to leave behind for anyone to read after I’m gone, and I’ve never returned to them …’
* you can read what I decided to do with my unwieldy collection in Linda’s comment section.
Books I Cannot Recommend
Karen Swallow Prior, The Priory
“Books I Cannot Recommend to All Readers or Most Readers because I Don’t Know You and You Likely Don’t Have the Same Reading Tastes as Me and even though I Like this Book I Am Not Necessarily Recommending it to You or to Anyone.”
Keep or Toss? My Personal Criteria for Culling a Library
Joel Miller, Millers Book Review
’8 Criteria for Culling … This list won’t work for true collectors, which I’m not, but it might prove useful to other serious readers with limited shelf space.’
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Read Widely, Write Deeply: A Summer Reading Challenge
Alicia Hamilton, The Writer’s Cottage
’A summer reading challenge … Nine books. One summer. Delight in the written word, deepen your craft, and do it all in community.’
* Download Alicia’s whimsical PDF and join me! I’ll be sharing my reads with you at summer’s end.
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ KINDLE DEALS BY AUTHORS I LOVE
* grab ‘em fast, they don’t last long!
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Henry Cloud & John Townsend $1.99
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Finding God
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All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small)
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C. S. Lewis $1.99
Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path
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A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred
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A Jane Austen Devotional
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Joy: Poet, Seeker, & the Woman Who Captivated C. S. Lewis
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The Choice: A Novel
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The Longest Ride: A Novel
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Church Awakening: An Urgent Call for Renewal
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Saying It Well: Touching Others with Your Words
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The Sea Keeper's Daughters
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MY ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ JUNE LITERARY TIME CAPSULE
1 year ago
The Women: A Novel
Kristin Hannah
5 years ago
The Broker: A Novel
John Grisham
10 years ago
The Nesting Place: It Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful
Myquillyn Smith
15 years ago
The Help: A Novel
Kathryn Stockett
20 years ago
The Walk Out Woman: When Your Heart is Empty & Your Dreams are Lost
Steve Stephens & Alice Gray
25 years ago
Encouragement: The Unexpected Power of Building Others Up
Larry Crabb & Dan Allender
30 years ago
Beauty from Ashes (The Georgia Trilogy, 3)
Eugenia Price
What titles are sitting on your night table, filling your TBR list, waiting to be fetched from the library, or not far from where you’re sitting right now? And will you be joining me in The Writer’s Cottage Summer Reading Challenge?
Let’s talk.
Linda
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Thanks for sharing the reading challenge and kindle deals. It’s so fun to see what you were reading in the time capsule up to 30 years ago.
Linda, I am HONORED you are featuring the reading challenge! Thank you!