Porch #144 📚 The Mid-Summer Bookbag
a short + sweet bookish interview (in 8 pictures!), must see ebook deals, July's literary time capsule
you just might hear some late evening fireworks in the background of this edition’s voiceover
We’re back! And in the busy boisterousness of this first week of July, I’m so glad you’re here.
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This weekend’s PORCH partners up with the monthly BOOKBAG. Enjoy the warm and happy interview’s unique format, and have a ball sifting through the ebook deals and literary time capsule’s offerings that span 3 decades.
Let’s go!
LITERARY MEET-’N’-GREET
The lovely Michelle Watson is an avid book lover who pens a light-hearted, resource-packed newsletter for bookish moms who live busy lives. She’s also a superb interviewer of ‘authors, teachers, booksellers, and professional readers—basically, people who have a stack of books on their nightstand that is overflowing onto the carpet and possibly under the bed.’
Honestly, I was rather surprised when she asked if I’d be interested in doing one of her literary meet-’n’-greets since I don’t consider myself an author or a professional reader. But I said yes because why not?! When I signed up I had no idea how introspective this experience would be and how much I’d end up learning about my lifelong passion for reading, libraries, and all things bookish.
Michelle asks the most insightful questions, designs the most delightful graphics, and pulls her presentations together in the most creative, professional way. As she puts it, This is a literary meet ‘n’ greet in 10 pictures or less. Picture interviews. Short and scannable.
Click below and enjoy this unusual interview format! And be sure to say ‘hi’ and tell her Linda sent you.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ EBOOK DEALS
Healing is a Choice: 10 Decisions That Will Transform Your Life & 10 Lies That Can Prevent You From Making Them
Stephen Arterburn
$2.99
9 Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed in Love & Life: A Psychologist Learns from His Patients What Really Works & What Doesn't
Henry Cloud
$3.99
Never Go Back: 10 Things You'll Never Do Again
Henry Cloud
$2.99
Anne of Green Gables: Complete 8 Book Set
L.M. Montgomery
99 cents!
Get Out of That Pit: Straight Talk About God’s Deliverance
Beth Moore
$2.99
Joni & Ken: An Untold Love Story
Ken & Joni Eareckson Tada
$2.99
You're Going to Make It: 50 Morning & Evening Devotions to Unrush Your Mind, Uncomplicate Your Heart, & Experience Healing Today
Lysa Terkeurst
99 cents!
The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
A.W. Tozer
$1.99
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ JULY LITERARY TIME CAPSULE
1 year ago
The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
M.L. Stedman
5 years ago
Does Jesus Really Love Me?: A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America
Jeff Chu
10 years ago
The Art Forger: A Novel
B.A. Shapiro
15 years ago
Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic
Anne Jackson
20 years ago
Where is God When It Hurts?
Philip Yancey
25 years ago
The Runaway Jury: A Novel
John Grisham
30 years ago
Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder
What books are on your nightstand, piled in the corner, or gathering dust under the bed?
Linda
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Oh I have so many books piled in the top drawer of my nightstand waiting to be read.... but I keep setting them aside for the library books I pick up since they have a due date and the ones in my nightstand do not... I keep saying I'm not going to get any more book from the library until I read the ones I have but I never really follow through on that one!
I do love seeing what others are reading. We leave next week for a vacation and I plan this weekend to visit my bookshelves to see what books beg to come along on the trip with me. Let's see who wants to come, right?